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  Canadian singer, The Weeknd has made history as the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify, days after releasing a remix of his track Die for You with Ariana Grande.   The news was confirmed by the digital music service on Monday, and the new milestone puts him way ahead of  Miley Cyrus, who has 82.5 million listeners, Taylor Swift with 80.3 million, and rapper Drake, who has 68.6 million, according to Billboard.   His latest collaboration, which was an instant hit with fans, marks the fourth time that he joined forces with Grande to work on a song.   The latest milestone comes days after releasing his televised concert, Live at SoFi Stadium, which documented one of his sold-out shows in Los Angeles.   Over his career, the Canadian singer has won four Grammy Awards, 20 Billboard Music Awards and has been nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy.   In 2021, the Toronto-based musician's hit Blinding Lights became the first song in the history of the Billboard Ho

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has debunked reports claiming President Buhari has ordered the recirculation of the old N500 and N1000 notes.    A fake circular shared by some Nigerians including the first lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari, claimed the President gave the order on February 20. However, in a tweet shared this morning, the CBN described the report as ‘’Fake News''.

  A woman stormed a hospital in the UK to confront her husband and the side chic he got pregnant.   The husband, named Desmond, was taking his pregnant girlfriend to the antenatal unit of the hospital when his wife confronted them. The wife explained that she used her papers to bring the man to the UK only for him to begin cheating on her.   She added that because his visa is about to expire, he got someone else pregnant so that he can have a child who is a citizen and get a chance to remain in the UK.   As she called out her husband, she also called out the side chic and named multiple other women her husband has allegedly been cheating with.   T he heartbroken wife went on to tell Desmond to divorce her so that he can move on with his pregnant girlfriend.

   young lady identified as Promise Ekong from Boki Local Government Area of Cross River state, has died in an Abuja hotel.   It was gathered that Promise, who concluded her one year compulsory NYSC programme in November 2022, died at Stanzel Grand Resort, 5th Avenue, in Gwarimpa.   The management of the hotel is claiming that Promise drowned in their swimming pool.   However, her death is still shrouded in controversy as the family alleges foul play by the police.  

  The US military has shot down another unidentified object that it says flew near sensitive military sites and could have been used for spying. The object was shot over Lake Huron in Michigan at 2.42pm local time on Sunday, February 12 on President Biden's orders. A US F-16 jet fired a missile at about 20,000ft amid concerns that its altitude and flight path could endanger civilian planes. It is the fourth incident in just over a week and the third in as many days - after objects were shot down in Alaska and Canada on Friday and Saturday.   A Pentagon officials have reportedly described the latest object as having "an octagonal structure with strings hanging off but no discernible payload". On Friday 4 February, the US military downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it said had traversed sensitive military sites across North America. On Friday 10 Friday, a second "car-sized" object was shot down over sea ice near Deadhorse, Alaska.

  Nigerian fintech startup, Bamboo, has received a digital sub-broker licence from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate in its capital market and list securities on its platform. The licence ensures oversight of its relationship with its sponsoring broker, Lambeth Capital, and the ability to form partnerships with multiple brokers. It also allows the company to strengthen its relationships with financial service providers to offer its Application Programming Interface (API) services. Launched in 2019, Bamboo is an online brokerage app that allows Africans to invest in domestic and international asset classes. Users can invest fractional amounts in their favourite publicly traded US companies, including Tesla, Apple, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and fixed-income products, via the app. Bamboo claims it began the application process for the SEC’s digital sub-broker licence in 2021, including a thorough examination of the organisation’s finances

  The management of Chrisland schools on Sunday February 12, has narrated their own side of the incident that led to the death of a 12-year-old student, Whitney Adeniran.    The student died on Thursday, Feb. 9, after she slumped during the school?s inter-house sports activities at Agege Stadium, Lagos State. The girl?s parents, Michael and Blessing Adeniran took to social media on Saturday night, Feb. 11 to demand a probe into the death of their daughter.    Whitney?s mother said her daughter was not ill prior to the inter-house sports day and when she asked the doctor at the hospital the cause of her daughter?s death, the doctor said it appears to be cardiac arrest. Reacting, Chrisland School explained that about two weeks prior, Whitney had complained of ill health and chose not to participate in the school?s march-past.   The statement read, ?The management and staff of Chrisland Schools Limited, with a deep sense of loss, announce the death of our precious student, Whitney Adenira