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Many of us have had Windows 10 on our PCs for a while now, so we’re pretty used to the new features of the operating system from daily use. However, Microsoft has hidden a few features underneath the hood however that you may find especially useful. Give these tips and tricks a try, and improve your Windows 10 experience. 1. Access a Start Menu for power users Windows 10 has a hidden Start Menu that contains some useful features for Windows power users, such as the task manager, command prompt, device and disk management, and others. To get to this menu, you’ll need to either right click the Windows button or use the Windows key+X shortcut on your keyboard. 2. Sniff out disk space-hoarding apps A useful feature of both iOS and Android is a feature within their settings apps that allow you to monitor the amount of disk space apps are taking up. Microsoft has a similar feature in the new Settings app in Windows 10. To find it, click Settings, then System, then Storage. You’ll be a...

Ace Nigerian comedian Akpororo today Saturday, November 14, 2015, got married his sweetheart Josephine Abraham at Eagle’s Club, Surulere, Lagos. The couple held their traditional marriage Thursday in Oyo state capital city, Ibadan.

The Urhobo nation has disowned the pro-Biafra agitators, saying they are not a part of Biafra. The Urhobo nation demanded that they should be removed from the proposed map of Biafra by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Vanguard reports. This was contained in statement yesterday, November 13, by Alhaji Mumakai-Unagha, the national publicity secretary of the Urhobo Progress Union. The statement read: “IPOB have their rights of agitation for freedom of self-determination as enshrined in the United Nation declaration stressing that other ethnic groups should not be dragged along to avoid the mistake that led to the civil war. “The magnanimity of Urhobos in allowing Igbos celebrate the Igbo Cultural Day should not be taken for granted as we urge IPOB to delist Urhobo from its proposed map.” Mumakai-Unagha warned that Urhobo and its territories should be counted out from any IPOB plan. The Nigerian government has described the pro-Biafrans as an “insignificant number of frustrate...

At least 120 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris on Friday evening.Eight attackers also died, police say, seven of them by detonating explosive suicide belts. Two hundred people were injured, 80 of them seriously. Shootings and explosions were reported in six locations across the city, including the Stade de France in northern Paris, where two suicide attacks and a bombing took place as the national team played Germany in a friendly football match. The majority of victims died after a mass shooting inside the Bataclan concert venue.Shootings also took place in restaurants and other sites in the centre of the city. His spokeswoman said eight assailants had also died, seven of whom had blown themselves up with explosive belts at various locations, while one had been shot dead by police. Police continue to search for accomplices who might still be at large. UK Guardian

The publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, has released photos of cancer-stricken Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the inaugural issue of a brand new tabloid titled Boss magazine. Last week, Mr. Momodu devoted his weekly column in Thisday newspaper to relating his experience meeting with the seriously sick former minister for an interview in the UK. The column engendered significant controversy on social media, with many readers accusing the columnist cum celebrity publisher of helping to launder Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s image. Some of the column’s critics fe lt that Mr. Momodu’s brief was to garner public sympathy for the embattled ex-minister, who is the focus of money laundering investigations in the UK as well as Nigeria. Former Nigerian Oil Minister Ovation Magazine/Boss Newspaper Today, Mr. Momodu released the text of an interview with Mrs. Madueke along with photos of the physically ravaged former minister. The shocking photos are...

Newly appointed Minister for Niger Delta, Pastor Uguru Usani Uguru, allegedly murdered one Mr. Iwara Osuaya, a Chairmanship contestant in May 1996, in Cross River State, according to a petition to the Oputa Panel in 2001. The petition signed by Jenny Iwara Osuaya, wife of the deceased, alleged that Usani and others murdered her husband in 1996. Usani, who allegedly supported another candidate in the election, was said to have promised offsetting Osuaya’s election expenses. But when Osuaya went to collect the promised compensation, a fracas ensued which resulted in his death. The now Minister for Niger Delta appointed by President Mohammadu Buhari and screened by the Senate, with few unnamed persons allegedly killed Osuaya, rolled him up in the blood stained rug carpet in his sitting room, carried the body into his car, drove into the bush, poured acid on the body to conceal evidence. At the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Commission in Port Harcourt, former Chief of General St...

Scientists working in Nigeria have developed a new laser test that can detect malaria in humans within minutes with a simple urine test without drawing blood. Current malaria testing methods requires piecing the with a needle to draw blood but the new urine malaria test (UMT), developed by Fyodor Biotechnologies, doesn’t require use of blood. The fast, non-invasive test can detect malaria in both humans and mosquitoes. It has advantages over current techniques because it does not depend on blood sampling, reagents, facilities or trained personnel. The simplicity – it can be operated by non-medical personnel – and sensitivity of the test mean it could be a low-cost, safe and universal tool for clinical and field diagnoses. Speaking at the launch of UMT in Abuja, Dr Victoria Enwemadu, Fyodor’s global head of projects, said “There are some challenges with adopting that [national malaria testing] guideline mainstream because of the invasiveness of trying to get blood for testing. Now ...