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This week, we learnt that Nigerian superstar Davido holds the keys to the entire Africa. Don’t mind my sarcasm.

It all began last week when Davido released the audio amd video of his latest single titled Wonder Woman. In less than 24 hours, the video already garnered up to 1 million views on YouTube.

Music blogger Ayo Jaguda found this number quite suspicious;

Mostly because in his opinion, the song is “trash”.

On Monday this week, Davido replied Ayo Jaguda’s tweets, threatening him. In his words;

Ayo’s reply and reaction;

Here’s how Nigerians reacted;

https://twitter.com/LarhhLarh/status/1072022612572807168

https://twitter.com/PRODEEGY/status/1072003563394686976

LOL

https://twitter.com/MarvTheOG_/status/1072083262821068801

Other reactions

https://twitter.com/Naijirian/status/1072065579186556928

Read more reactions here. And other trending topics on social media this week.

#EndASuuStrike

On November 5, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) commenced an indefinite strike, demanding adequate funding for universities and payments of lecturers’ salaries and allowances.

The strike action halted all academic activities across all public state and federal universities in Nigeria.

The union has met with the government on several occasions but both parties are still yet to reach a compromise. This week, Nigerian Twitter influencers launched an #EndASuuStrike campaign, calling on the government and ASUU to reach an agreement.

Students joined their voices to the movement

https://twitter.com/suummy__/status/1073300818525384706

https://twitter.com/coolcancraze/status/1073483320300855296

https://twitter.com/TewogbadeHabeeb/status/1072767837633163266

https://twitter.com/Shawnife_/status/1072794633376317440

Other reactions

https://twitter.com/ebuka_akara/status/1072800766560272384

https://twitter.com/Iamfemijoseph/status/1072764741066604544

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) also commenced an indefinite strike action this week. Read all about it here.

Linda Ikeja’s big revelation

Some months ago, we heard that popular Nigerian blogger Linda Ikeji was pregnant. Amidst rumours of the true identity of the baby’s father, no one really knew much about the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy and rumoured engagement until today.

In an article published on her blog, Linda revealed that her on again off again lover named Sholaye Jeremi is here baby’s father. She also revealed that she’s no longer in a relationship with him and adviced young women to work ard and make their own money, among other things. Read the full gist on her blog.

Someone posted screenshots of the post on Twitter;

https://twitter.com/LailaIjeoma/status/1073466888460623872

Reactions

https://twitter.com/ani_nomso/status/1073481284440207360

These…

https://twitter.com/PrinceChi10/status/1073485430300045313

https://twitter.com/OsasCruz/status/1073518914200629248

Other reactions

https://twitter.com/Triumphantell/status/1073482241324564480

https://twitter.com/tescool/status/1073491100436967424

Read more reactions here.

Spotify is trending in Nigeria

I bey you’d never guess that it’s because of Nigerian rapper Ice Prince Zamani. According to reports, Ice Prince is the most streamed African rapper on Spotify.

https://twitter.com/SultanGuliano/status/1072695599357681664

Wow!

Some Nigerians are not convinced

https://twitter.com/SegunAkande_/status/1072755841022025729

Very possible

Other reactions

Read more here.

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