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While Bill Gates has a schedule that’s planned down to the minute, the entrepreneur-turned-billionaire-humanitarian still gobbles up about a book a week. Aside from a handful of novels, they’re mostly nonfiction books covering his and his foundation’s broad range of interests. A lot of them are about transforming systems: how nations can intelligently develop, how to lead an organization, and how social change can fruitfully happen. We went through the past five years of his book criticism to find the ones that he gave glowing reviews and that changed his perspective. 1. Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 by Carol Loomis Warren Buffett and Gates have a famously epic bromance, what with their recommending books to each other and spearheading philanthropic campaigns together. So it’s no surprise that Gates enjoyed Tap Dancing to Work, a collection of articles and essays about and by Buffett, compiled by Fortune magazine journalist Carol ...

A man was stabbed 100 times, beheaded and had his heart cut out by alleged El Salvadorian gang members in a park near Washington DC, a court reportedly heard on Thursday. Miguel Lopez-Abrego, believed to be a member of the notorious “MS-13” gang, appeared in Montgomery County District Court charged with murder and was remanded in custody, according to Montgomery Community Media. The 19-year-old, who was arrested in North Carolina earlier this month, was one of 10 alleged gang members who planned and took part in the murder at Wheaton Regional Park, just north of the U.S. capital. Police only became aware of the murder in September, when an informant led them to a shallow grave in the park. They have yet to identify the victim, described as a Hispanic male, and believe the murder took place between last December and last March. Prosecutor Kelly McGann told the court that Lopez-Abrego helped dig the grave before the murder, and used a walkie-talkie to inform other gang membe...

The Senate today rejected one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees for Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, Ahmad Bello Mahmud based on the recommendation by the Senate Committee on INEC in its report which was adopted. The Senate, however, approved the nomination of Ambassador Rufus Akeju (Lagos) and Dr. Mahmuda Isah (Kebbi) as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The rejected nominee, Mahmud was alleged not to be an indigene of Zamfara State but Sokoto State.

Facebook on Wednesday said it would let some of its users see whether they liked or followed pages belonging to Russia-linked operatives that sought to sow political divisiveness around the 2016 US presidential election. A new page to be published on Facebook's help center by the end of the year will show whether some accounts interacted with the Russia-linked accounts, Facebook said in a blog post. "This is part of our ongoing effort to protect our platforms and the people who use them from bad actors who try to undermine our democracy," Facebook said. Roughly 150 million Facebook users saw posts shared by pages belonging to the Russian propaganda organization known as the Internet Research Agency, Facebook previously told US investigators. While Facebook will show some users the affiliated pages they liked or followed, the company maintains that technical and privacy reasons keep it from showing whether such propaganda was shown as a paid ad or as a post in...

According to multiple online reports, the Zimbabwean Minister of Finance, Ignatius Chombo, has been arrested by the country's army who recovered a whopping $10 million from him. Chombo is reported to have been arrested after gunfire was exchanged between his security and members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) last night. Chombo is reported to be in custody after the ZDF arrested a number of ministers and senior party officials over allegations of “committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice.“ While speaking on Al Jazeera, Norton MP, Temba Mliswa, backed the military's intervention and says that it was necessary because Grace Mugabe had usurped power from Mugabe.

An engineer, Alex Ephraims from Imo State who became an online sensation after constructing a 'Made-in-Nigeria' combatant vehicle by using locally available materials was recently spotted with his unique engine in Imo state. A Facebook user shared photos of the man explaining to his admirers the functions of the specially made vehicle as it attracted attention in the area Ephraim was trained abroad and returned home to use his talents to impact the society positively. His workshop where he designs vehicles and builds them. This is one of the few automated and mechanized ones in Owerri. See more photos:

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the only thing that will make him sleep well is if PDP returns to power in 2019. . Taking responsibility for the poor performance of the party in the last election, Jonathan said his focus now is to take the PDP to its former position. He spoke when he received Bode George, a chairmanship aspirant of the PDP, at his Otuoke residence in Bayelsa state. . “Whether I like it or not, I must take responsibility for the defeat because I led the party to the election,” the media team of George quoted Jonathan as saying. “My priority now is how to ensure that the PDP regains the presidency in 2019. The only thing that will make me sleep well is to ensure that the PDP comes back to power.”

Work can become boring at times but it is important that you do all you can to lift your spirits as your first hour in the office can go a long way in setting the tone of how the rest of your day at work looks like. If you’re hoping to have a good day at work, here are a number of things you should avoid between the hours of 8 and 10 am to have a fulfilling and interesting day. Getting Late To Work Don’t be tempted to follow the words of your boss when he says you can set your own schedule. No matter how late you stay after your colleagues have gone, there’s a chance that you’d be seen as the guy that arrives an hour late to work. Added to the fact that you will be perceived as less diligent and committed than the other workers, it’s best you do your best to arrive early. As such, the things that stop you from getting to work early, such as cooking, can best be done a night before. You should also consider investing money in an alarm clock that is so loud, that it will jolt...

The House of Representatives has threatened to withdraw the licences of 18 lottery operators in the country for defaulting in payment of taxes and fees to the government. The committee on governmental affairs, chaired by Rep Suleiman Hussaini Kangiwa (APC, Kebbi), on Wednesday, stated that it would not accept a situation where lottery operators make millions of naira but do not meet their financial obligations to the government. In a meeting with the management of the Nigeria Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) and some of the operators, Kangiwa also threatened to issue an arrest warrant against the operators that failed to attend the meeting. “We’re very much aware of the 21 licensed operators in Nigeria, but only two or three remitting something to the government. It’s very unfortunate. “Nigerians and this committee are disappointed in you, because after getting licence and money, you don’t give the government anything”, he said. The committee also requested that all th...

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