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Drake’s new set Scorpion has become the first album to hit 1 billion streams globally across all streaming platforms in a single week, industry sources have confirmed to Billboard. In all, Scorpion’s tracks accumulated more than 1 billion streams globally in the most recent tracking week (June 29-July 5), the set’s first week available, making it the first album to reach the milestone. Previously, Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys held the global record with just under 700 million streams (April 27-May 3), according to industry insiders. Additionally, Scorpion scored over 750 million streams U.S.-only in its first seven days, according…

Buzzing new kid on the block Teni who recently turned heads with a new single ‘Fake Jersey’ that aptly captures the mood of Nigerians in light of the ongoing world cup competition joins MTV Base’s Ehiz on a new episode of the weekly music countdown show dubbed “Official Naija Top Ten.” This week, Phyno maintained his hold on the 10th spot with the Olamide assisted fan-inspired video for “Onyeoma”. Kizz Daniel also continued to chart with his 2018 debut “4 Dayz” which sat on the ninth spot. Fan favourite and Nigerians preferred world cup theme song “Issa Goal” by Naira…

Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person, further solidifying technology as the most robust creator of wealth. Zuckerberg, who trails only Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, eclipsed Buffett Friday as Facebook shares climbed 2.4 percent, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In official publication of Bloomberg, it is the first time that the three wealthiest people on the ranking made their fortunes from technology. Zuckerberg, 34, is now worth $81.6 billion, about $373 million more than Buffett, the 87-year-old chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway…

The Trump administration on Saturday halted billions of dollars in payments to health insurers under the Obamacare healthcare law, saying that a recent federal court ruling prevents the money from being disbursed. In the report published by CBNC, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers programs under the Affordable Care Act, said the action affects $10.4 billion in risk adjustment payments. President Donald Trump’s administration has used its regulatory powers to undermine Obamacare after the Republican-controlled Congress last year failed to repeal and replace the law. About 20 million Americans have received health insurance coverage through the programme.…

Croatia thought they had won this World Cup quarter-final epic before they actually did. Domagoj Vida will not rate his extra-time header as the most powerful of his career but it was surely the most precious. When he connected with Luka Modric’s corner, the ball had a long way to travel. It got there in the end. The substitute Vedran Corluka had a nibble after it had bounced while another replacement, Russia’s Fedor Smolov, was on the scene. The upshot was that the goalkeeper, Igor Akinfeev, saw it late and it squeezed into the far corner. Game over? Not at…

Does President Muhammadu Buhari respect the independence of courts particularly obey courts’ judgments? This is the question on the lips of many true democrats as Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Publicity and Media who reacted on behalf of President Buhari to Bukola Saraki’s acquittal, observed that courts should be allowed to do their job. The Supreme Court, Friday, cleared Saraki of the false assets declaration charges leveled against him. In his Twitter handle also, Buhari observed “Senate President @bukolasaraki has persevered through what has no doubt been a tortuous judicial process. “In the end, he has…

England reached the World Cup semi-final for the first time since Italia 90 as Harry Maguire and Dele Alli struck either side of the interval to beat Sweden in Samara. Gareth Southgate’s side will now face either Croatia or hosts Russia in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Wednesday after overcoming a stubborn Sweden challenge in this quarter-final, with help from a magnificent display by goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. Maguire, outstanding once more, broke the deadlock on the half-hour when another England set-piece bore fruit – Leicester City’s powerful defender flashing a header past Sweden keeper Robin Olsen from Ashley Young’s corner. Everton…

A one-time Nigerian Minister of Aviation has called on Kemi Adeosun, the nation’s Finance Minister to resign over alleged forgery of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate. PREMIUM TIMES reported Saturday that Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did not participate in the mandatory one-year national youth service scheme. Instead, she forged an exemption certificate many years after graduation. Femi Fani-Kayode, who is also a social media commentator and critic writing in his Twitter handle observed, “Only a primitive and savage cow-loving herdsman can appoint a low class cockney-accented peasant from the slums of East-End London and a barely-educated misfit with…

An ex-Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Saturday, pontificated sanctity of human life albeit with caution, saying “Every Nigerian life should matter.’’ This stands looked contradictory to his purported silence over the loss of thousands of innocent lives particulary women, children and the elderly to inglorious activities of the dreaded Boko Haram and rampaging Fulani herdsmen over the years without him offering concrete solution as a one-time No. 2 citizen in the country. Writing against the background of the missing 12 young Thai footballers in a cave, Abubakar in his Twitter handle declared “I am touched by the manpower and financial…

Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, Friday, saw the Federal Government’s case against him ruled in his favour by Supreme Court as a politically motivated and trumped-up one due to his emergence as the Senate President. The Supreme Court, Friday, cleared him of the false assets declaration charges leveled against him. The federal government had filed 18 counts of false and anticipatory asset declaration charges against Saraki in 2015 but Saraki was cleared by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in 2017. The government appealed the ruling and the Court of Appeal in Abuja upheld 15 of the charges against…