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Rivers: 5 Young Men Go Insane After Intake Of Unknown Drink

January 24, 2020 2:14 pm
Five young men have reportedly gone insane after drinking mixed herbs with gin fondly called ‘Kaikai’ at Omuakwuru community in Igboo-Etche, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The victims, who are young men from the community, committed the act of drugging themselves when they went for the burial of one of their elders, Blessing Wokowa.

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A source in community, who confirmed the incident said, “The boys started misbehaving immediately after the intake of the root mixed with local dry gin which was prepared by one of

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Young Rapper Juice Wrld Dies At 21 After Major Seizure

December 8, 2019 1:24 pm

Young rapper Juice Wrld died at the age of 21 early Sunday after suffering a seizure at a Chicago airport, TMZ reported.

Jarad Anthony Higgins, as he was also known, was walking through Midway Airport when he experienced a “medical emergency,” an official with the Cook County medical examiner’s office told The Associated Press. TMZ reported that he had a seizure.

He had just landed in Chicago.

Police and fire officials confirmed to The Associated Press that a 21-year-old male was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy has not been conducted.

Juice Wrld broke

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De Ligt Wins Young Player Gong At Ballon d’Or Awards

December 2, 2019 4:02 pm

Dutch starlet Matthijs de Ligt succeeded Kylian Mbappe as the winner of the Kopa Trophy for the best player aged under 21 at the Ballon d’Or awards ceremony in Paris on Monday.

The defender, 20, starred in the Ajax side who reached the UEFA Champions League semi-finals and won the Dutch title, before joining Juventus in the close season in a deal worth 85.5 million euros ($94.7 million).

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The award is named after Raymond Kopa, the Real Madrid and France star of the post-war era who won the Ballon …

Young United Talent Gives Solskjaer Food For Thought

November 30, 2019 2:20 pm

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will continue the difficult balancing act of integrating Manchester United’s exciting young talent into a first team still struggling to find consistency when they take on Aston Villa on Sunday.

United faced a marathon trek to play Astana in Kazakhstan on Thursday although, having already qualified from their Europa League group, the United manager was able to rest his entire first team squad.

Striker Jesse Lingard was the only regular first team player to make the trip as Solskjaer kept one eye on the Villa game and an increasingly frustrating domestic campaign.

United are presently nine points …

Plaqad’s Sogbaike Named Among 100 Young Leaders In Tech

November 30, 2019 5:19 am

The CEO of Nigeria’s leading influencer marketing and content trading platform, Plaqad.com, Gbenga Sogbaike, has been named one of Nigeria’s 100 young leaders in Tech.The recognition comes from The Future Project, organisers of the prestigious Future Awards, and the #YTech100.

The #YTech100 is a yearly list compiled by The Future Project to recognize 100 of the brightest and best Nigerian tech entrepreneurs, professionals and stakeholders for their outstanding work in the Nigerian tech space.#YTech100 honours the best young Nigerians in the tech space, thus unleashing their potentials for more creativity to push the boundary of tech in Nigeria.

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Napoleon Scholar Confesses To Dismembering Young Lover

November 10, 2019 4:49 pm

Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received France’s Legion d’Honneur in 2003, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder after he was hauled out of the icy Moika River with a backpack containing a woman’s arms.

“He has admitted his guilt,” Sokolov’s lawyer Alexander Pochuev said, adding he regretted what he had done and was now cooperating with police.

Sokolov was reportedly drunk and fell in as he tried

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This Is Your Chance, Lawal Tells Young Eagles

November 9, 2019 4:10 pm
Former International, Garba Lawal is thrilled by the number of players available to Coach Gernot Rohr for pick, as the Super Eagles set to clash with Benin Republic and Lesotho in next week’s Cameroon 2021 AFCON qualifiers.Despite the absence of some key players in the friendlies against Ukraine and Brazil, some of the players newly invited to hold forth for the established stars in the Eagles did not disappoint.Speaking with The Guardian yesterday, Lawal said that the youngsters who did well against Ukraine and Brazil could hold their own any day.

“It is fantastic that we now have some youngsters

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Young Farouq Osuolale Redesigns Innoson Motors Logo

Young Farouq Osuolale Redesigns Innoson Motors Logo

October 17, 2019 2:41 pm

Social media has got its downside, just like every other thing. But when its power is positively harnessed and put to good use, it can transport a small thought into a big idea and bring an obscure person to prominence.

For Farouq Osuolale, an undergraduate of Nigeria’s premier tertiary institution, University of Ibadan, his talent, foresight and positive use of social media may have just opened a new vista for a career about to blossom.

In less than 48 hours, the young Osuolale who is studying to become a computer scientist became popular for redesigning the logo of a …

Elumelu partners with AFDB to support young entrepreneurs

March 29, 2019 11:47 am
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have announced a new partnership that will expand support for youth entrepreneurship on the continent.
The partnership will create an additional 1,000 places on the flagship Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), bringing the total number of places to 3,050.
Participants in the program, launched by influential Nigerian entrepreneur Tony Elumelu in 2015, will receive access to seed funding, expert mentoring, and a 12-week business training program.
Competition for places has increased in the past year, according to figures from TEF. The Foundation received 216,000 applicants compared to 151,000 for
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Catch them young

March 27, 2019 9:06 pm

By Odumodu Gbulagu

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ proverbs 22:6
The above biblical passage simply highlights the importance of good parental upbringing of the child.

During the first few years of life, children learn a lot about themselves and the world around them, and parents are their first teachers.

The ages of 1-8 years is the period that a child goes through the most rapid phase of growth and development. Their brains develop faster than at any other point in their lives, so …

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