Billionaire Bill Gates’ marriage is ending because he allegedly had an affair with a Microsoft employee — and the tryst was being probed by the company’s board last year when Gates stepped down, the Wall Street Journal reports on Sunday. The company’s board became aware in 2019 that a Microsoft engineer penned a letter alleging that she and Gates had a sexual relationship over the years. The woman demanded changes to her Microsoft job and…
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari is in Paris, and some people seem to think the event the president is there for has been cancelled. Several Twitter influencers took to the platform to mock the president. Reno Omokri, an aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan tweeted an article about a postponed France-Africa summit with the caption “Yet @MBuhari has landed in Paris. And this man is meant to be the leader of 200 million Nigerians. Oh dear!…
Fugitive Yoruba activist, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, had taken his “Yoruba nation” agitation to Osogbo the Osun state capital. Igboho and his supporters defiled the security presence and took the rally to major streets in Osogbo to enlist the support of the people of the state. However, Heavy rain and thunderstorm eventually brought the rally to a premature end on Saturday afternoon. Igboho was addressing rally goers when the scorching sunny…
Nigerians are not smiling after the governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello boasted that some people are begging him to contest in the 2023 presidential election. Speaking during an interview on Channels TV, the governor said: “Nigerians, the youth and women including very objective elites, are asking me to run for President in 2023.” These comment has led to some harsh criticism for the governor. I talk about Nigerian politics a lot and never ever…
The Nigerian currency, the Naira traded at a record low against the dollar at the official NAFEX window on Friday. The naira closed at 411.25 — the last closing rate for the naira, despite hitting N419.75 to a dollar during the intra-trading day. Having traded within a band of 380 and 381 to the dollar since July last year, the naira hit a record low of 419.75 against the dollar on Friday. Why is the…