Author: niyidaram

Niyi is a senior data editor at NiyiDaram

A 19-year-old Nigerian mother, Oreoluwa Esther has moved many with her post about her son.Esther who gave birth at 17,took to Facebook to recount how happy she is now,a far cry from her situation when she was deserted and insulted for being pregnant. She wrote

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French businesswoman and billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, whose family founded L’Oreal and still owns the largest stake in the cosmetics giant, has died aged 94, her daughter said on Thursday.Bettencourt, listed by Forbes as the world’s richest woman, was the heiress to the beauty and cosmetics company her father founded a century ago as a maker of hair dye.Bettencourt and her children owned 33 percent of the company. Her daughter Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers said in a statement the family remained committed to L’Oreal and its management team. “My mother left peacefully,” Bettencourt-Meyers said, adding that she had died during Wednesday night at…

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Wizkid has been included in the Guinness Book of records,thanks to Drake’s One Dance which broke the World Record as the most played song on Spotify with over 1 billion streams.The 2018 edition of the Guinness World Record named Wizkid in its most recent book.

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Nigeria’s rating as the second country with highest maternal death rate in the world and its contribution of 15 per cent of annual global death is causing anxiety in health sector.Experts say the worrisome situation calls for concerted efforts of all stakeholders to bail the country out.

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The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has conferred a post-humous promotion on late Assistant Superintendent of Police, Cyril Nwosu, who was killed when suspected members of IPOB attacked and burnt down the police post in Ariaria Aba.

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