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If Bill Gates knows one thing besides technology, it's books. The Microsoft mogul dedicates at least an hour a day to reading and powers through a whopping  50 books a year .  So when Gates recommends a book to you, you can assume he knows what he's talking about. When he says that millions of people should read one book in particular, well, that's really saying something. What the Fact? How do you give a supremely glowing book review? Probably something like this: "This is one of the most educational books I've ever read," Gates says in a YouTube  video .  "It covers a space that is not easy to go learn about. The world would be better if literally millions of people read the book. I give it my highest recommendation." The book in question here is  "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think,"  and it's clearly one of Gates' new favorite books as of April 2018. The author, ...

BENI, Congo — Congo’s army spokesman says rebels have burned homes and a car in a neighborhood in the east of the country where U.N. peacekeeping forces have a base. The attack late Friday into Saturday comes days after eight U.N. peacekeepers  and at least 12 Congolese soldiers were killed in a joint military operation against the Allied Democratic Forces rebels in their Kididiwe stronghold near Beni. Capt. Mak Hazukay Mongha said Saturday that three houses and a car were burned overnight in the Boikene neighborhood. Congo’s volatile east is home to many armed groups vying for control of the mineral-rich region.  A week of intense fighting has displaced many. The area is also facing a deadly Ebola outbreak. Since October 2014, ADF fighters have killed more than 1,500 people in Beni region.

Ja Rule Laughs Off 50 Cent’s Rumored Plans To Buy All His Masters American rapper, Jeffrey Bruce Atkins, better known by his stage name Ja Rule, has laughed off 50 Cent’s recent attack after the ‘In Da Club’ rapper was rumored to be looking to buy the rights to all of his masters. Rumour had swirled the internet earlier this week that 50 was looking into purchasing the rights to all of Ja Rule’s masters and publishing. This is after 50 Cent had claimed that he bought 200 front-row tickets to a Ja Rule concert on (October 27) just so they would be empty. However, the “Always On Time” rapper took to his verified Twitter page to laugh off the rumour by saying this isn’t going to happen. You 50 trolls are trying waaay to hard hope y’all getting a check and not just a ✔️lmao… Anyway for the ones on the short bus… 🗣 HE CAN’T BUY MY MASTERS I OWN THEM!!! 😂🤣😭 — Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) November 8, 2018 “You 50 trolls are trying waaay to hard hope y’all getting a check and not just a [check] lma...

The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Mr Peter Obi , on Saturday urged Kaduna State governor , Nasir El -Rufai , to stop making inflammatory statements capable of inciting hate among Nigerians . Obi was reacting to a statement credited to El - Rufai in his ( El Rufai ’s) twitter handle , where he called Obi ‘ a tribal bigot . ’ The governor tweeted that Obi stopped him from moving around Anambra State during the governorship election in the state in 2010. But Obi while speaking with journalists on the matter at a youth programme in Nnewi, Anambra State , on Saturday, said he was shocked to read such an outburst of hate from El -Rufai , especially when ‘the statement came unprovoked. ’ He said , “This is suggesting that it was what he sat down to think of rather than thinking about how to solve the many problems plaguing the country . “What Governor Nasir El - Rufai said about me has been brought to my attention . I believe that as we grow older and are saddl...

Gabon ’ s President Ali Bongo , hospitalised in Saudi Arabia on October 24 , is seriously ill but on the mend , the presidency said Sunday . The 59 - year- old leader’s condition “has greatly improved” and he is in the process “of recovering most of his functions ,” Ike Ngouoni , the spokesman for the presidency , said. Lack of official news — along with memories of the secrecy- shrouded death of Bongo ’s father Omar Bongo in office in 2009 after decades at the helm — has set the rumour mill churning about his health . A foreign source close to Bongo and his French - born wife Sylvia told AFP on Wednesday that Bongo had had a stroke . Bongo served as foreign and defence minister during his father ’s rule , and after his death was elected head of state in August 2009. He was narrowly re -elected in 2016 following a presidential poll marred by deadly violence and allegations of fraud. AFP .

Peter Dada, Akure The newly -elected Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr . Olamide George , on Sunday called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector General of Police ,  Mr . Ibrahim Idris , to come to his aid and that of his colleagues , saying their lives were being threatened . He stated this 48 hours after he became the Speaker of the Assembly, following the impeachment of the former Speaker and his deputy, Messrs Bamidele Oloyeloogun and Iroju Ogundeji respectively on Friday . The 18 members of the Assembly had signed and carried out the impeachments, after which George , who represents Akure North State Constituency, became the Speaker ; and Abimbola Fajolu from Ile Oluji /Oke Igbo State Constituency emerged the deputy Speaker. Shortly after the impeachment, members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers Union in the state , led by their chairman , Mr . Jacob Adebo , invaded the Assembly and beat up the lawmakers who were holding a parliamentary meeti...

According to Pat Ugwu, it is only jobless men who spend a whole night having sex with their partners because they want to release all their poverty and frustrations inside the women. While some women lament over their partners’ inability to satisfy them or spend sufficient time making love with them, claiming to be exhausted, a Nollywood actress claims such men are the real men. According to  Pat Ugwu , it is only jobless men who spend a whole night having sex with their partners because they want to release all their poverty and frustrations inside the women. The curvaceous actress resorted to Instagram to say: “Real men do one round and sleep. But the jobless ones will hit it overnight like they are releasing their poverty inside ur hunny pot.” She apparently thought she was attacking men, but some fellow women will vehemently disagree with her. There have been instances where women have sought divorce because their partners could not go beyond one round of sex.