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Taylor Swift removed all of her music from Spotify days after releasing her fifth album, "1989." "Everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment," she said. "And I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music." The future of the digital music business is still uncertain Taylor Swift recently pulled out of streaming service Spotify Next Big Sound uses social data to predict future hits "Streaming is the way of the future," says Soundcloud co-founder

Less than 24 hours after Nigerian billionaire business mogul, Aliko Dangote, rose to the 23rd position on Forbes Magazine’s ranking of World Richest Person, the President of Dangote Group has dropped 14 places to become the 37th in the world. Dangote was said to be worth $25 billion on Thursday, 6 November, 2014, but in the latest ranking published on Friday, 7 November, 2014, the first black person to be so ranked has seen his wealth dropped to about $21 billion. According to the ranking, Bill Gates still remains the richest person in the world with a net worth of $82 billion. He is closely followed by Carlos Slim Helu & family with a net worth of $82 billion.

Reports say no fewer than 40 soldiers from the United States arrived Nigeria yesterday, to assist in curbing the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect. New Telegraph quoting highly-placed sources at the Army Headquarters (AHQ) reports that the US troops were sighted at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja in combat gear. It could however not be ascertained if they were ground troops or merely security experts and intelligence specialist. “I can confirm to you that about 40 US military personnel, all in combat gear, have arrived in the country. “In fact, they arrived at the DHQ today (yesterday), and I’m sure they met with the military high command, for briefing and other necessary operational issues,” one of the sources said.

The Nigerian government has offered drugs and supplies worth more than $249,000 (about N42million) to Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health said on November 6, 2014, Thursday. According to the health ministry’s spokeswoman, Ayo Adesugba, this offering was made apart from a $3.5m donation promised by PresidentGoodluck Jonathan toward the fight against Ebola scourge in the West Africa sub-region. “Nigeria made the donation at the request of the government of Sierra Leone,” the statement said. Adesugba also noted that Nigeria had already mobilised and trained over 600 health workers as volunteers to support the containment effort in affected countries within the region under the leadership of the Economic Community Of West African States. It would be recalled that Nigeria was recently declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), having recorded no new cases of the highly contagious disease after six weeks since 31 August. Doctors Without Borders medical staff fights Ebola i...

Finding knock-off versions of the latest iPhone is common in China, but it’s not often that big-name manufacturers (especially those looking for credibility and customers in the West) are making them. Not so for Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC manufacturer and fourth or third (it depends how you read it) biggest mobile seller. Their new China-only S90 'Sisley' is a mid-range device which just happens to look near identical to the iPhone 6. It has the same rounded metal case, the same colour options and the same advertising – with Lenovo evenproducing a similar wallpaper to the one used in the iPhone 6 promo shots (this isn’t an insignificant thing to copy – wallpapers are often easier to identify than the phones themselves).

Nollywood actor known for his heroic movie roles, Prince Eke has shown off his gun. Prince Eke Just few months ago Jude Okoye, the brother and producer for Peter & Paul Okoye, shared a picture of his gun collection on Instagram and the post caused an uproar on the social media. This later resulted in Jude Okoye apologizing for posting the photo. However, Nollywood super actor Prince Eke has followed suit by showing his gun on a photo he posted on his Instagram page few hours ago. The actor who is known for his role in Nigerian action movies and his tough persona was pictured with his gun tucked in his pants. However, some of his followers on Instagram have asked him to take down the post, saying it is offensive.

Super Eagles’ duo of Ahmed Musa and Vincent Enyeama are among the 25 nominees for the 2014 African Player of the Year announced by the Confederation of African Football, CAF, on Thursday in Cairo, Egypt. Ejike Uzoenyi of Memolodi Sundowns is the only Nigerian short-listed in the 20-man list of 2014 Africa-based Player of the Year award. Ahmed Musa, who plays for CSKA Moscow, and Vincent Enyeama, who keeps for Lille, in France, were part of the Super Eagles team that won the 2013 African Nations Cup in South Africa. Ahmed Musa of CSKA Moscow. They both participated actively in the Super Eagles’ campaign in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Uzoenyi, on the other hand, made his international debut for Nigeria in 2012. He was called up to Nigeria’s 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and was named to Nigeria’s squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship where he emerged the most valuable player of the tournament. He made the final squad of Nigeria’s world cup squad after Elde...