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PHOTOS: Nigerian man weds male partner in France

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  A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Tosin Ojutalayo, and his lover, Andrew have tied the knot at Castle Bay in Hyères, France. Tosin took to his Twitter page to share photos from their wedding. Reflecting on their journey to getting married, Tosin revealed they both met 10 years ago when Andrew sent him a private message. He tweeted, “He slid into my DMs, whilst I was in a relationship and I shut it down of course #YorubaMenDon’tCheat. Then two months later (now single) – I walked into a dinner party and he was there. 10 years later, we’re getting married in 2 weeks.”

Zuckerberg modifies WhatsApp to let users edit sent-messages

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  Mark Zuckerberg’s social media company, Meta Platforms Inc. has added a new feature to WhatsApp which affords users to edit messages sent within a 15-minute time limit. The company revealed this in a blog post to alert its clients and Zuckerberg also corroborated this on Facebook on Monday. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” Meta said. The company revealed this in a blog post to alert its clients and Zuckerberg also corroborated this on Facebook on Monday. “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” Meta said. “We’re excited that you’ll now have more control over your chats, such as correcting misspellings or adding more context to a message. “For this, within 15 minutes of sending the message, you have to tap and hold that message for a while and then select the option of ‘Edit’ from the menu.” Meta said that the feature is al

VICE CHAIRMAN AGBADO OKEODO ATTACKED AND BRUTALIZED.

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The Vice Chairman of Agbado Okeodo LCDA in Alimosho Local Government, Hon Ajoke Moromoke Aminat Obe popularly called AMA, was attacked by an armed group at the tail end of the third mainland bridge yesterday around 10 pm, according to her, she was coming from the meeting on the island and was about dropping off a friend along the stretch road when some youth about Four in numbers with several dangerous weapons, knife, cutlasses, and gun accosted her, broke her SUV side mirror and made away with her bag that contains valuables goods, while she sustain several bodily injuries from the attack. In her accounts, Hon Ajoke Moromoke Aminat recounted, that the incident happened at about 10 pm, and she was in traffic for about three hours before the attack. "I had dropped off a friend in Oworo, though I would not have passed through that place as the location is becoming notorious for armed groups.  I reported the incident at Alausa police station as it was late but was told to go to Ketu

Good riddance, Buhari: You came, you saw, you failed woefully! ---By Olu Fasan

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  MUHAMMADU Buhari, president of Nigeria since 2015, will leave office on Monday, May 29, after eight disastrous years. The late Chief Bola Ige famously coined the phrase, “good riddance to bad rubbish”. That, truth be told, is the best way to describe the exit of Buhari, his presidency and his government from power. For the past eight years of Buhari’s administration have been an unmitigated failure; a monumental waste of time, of resources, and of the hopes and aspirations of a nation and a people. True stewardship is leaving a place better than one found it. But Buhari is leaving Nigeria far worse than he found it in 2015. On any metric, Nigeria sunk deeper into an abyss under Buhari. Without a doubt, he’s the worst civilian leader Nigeria has, so far, had! No previous civilian president showed such aloofness, such indifference, such arrogance and such utter lack of competence and vision in governing Nigeria. None! Before becoming president in 2015, Buhari had been a military head o