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See Why Nigerians Don’t Celebrate Halloween

When you haven't finished feeding your family or buying christmas clothes, then you now have to buy halloween clothes and food, We Can't Have It! lol. And even though some of you have started going for Halloween parties, the Halloween spirit has refused to spread across Nigeria and Africa generally. (more…)

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You no longer need a lawyer to register your business

Bello Mahmud, registrar-general of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), on Thursday said the the commission had taken steps to eliminate bottlenecks associated with registering a business. Speaking at the second presidential economic communication workshop in Abuja, Mahmud said this was with a view to creating an enabling environment for businesses to thrive. (more…)

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Taylor Swift tops Forbes’ highest-paid women in music list with $170million in one year

According to Forbes' Highest-Paid Women in Music list for 2016, 26-year-old US Pop star Taylor Swift is the richest female musician. Swift amassed earnings of 170 million US dollars (£137.8m) over the past year. Her earnings are mainly due to her 1989 World Tour raking in a quarter of a billion dollars. She also has lucrative endorsement deals with brands such as Diet Coke, Apple and more. (more…)

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Wole Soyinka says he will tear up his green card if Trump wins

Wole Soyinka, the Nobel literature laureate who currently lives in the US and works as a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs told students at Oxford University that if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States next week, he will leave the country. While giving the seminar to the college students, he said: (more…)