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Kuala Lumpur — An uncle enquired at a private college in Malaysia about the possibility of sending his nephew to the college. But the college informed him that they had closed admission for that year. H owever, an insider told him that was not the true situation; what the college failed to tell him was that they had a new policy of no longer admitting Nigerians. This policy seems to be travelling beyond private colleges and undergraduate degrees. Recently, a Nigerian PhD student had a meeting with his university's registry. At the meeting, he was told that the university would no longer offer places to Nigerians. The PhD student asked if the Nigerians in the university had done something wrong. He was told that on the contrary, they were doing well; however, it's the activities of Nigerians in other places, like Kuala Lumpur, that worried them. Interestingly, Nigerians, of the many Africans in this university, do well compared to others. Three of them (from both North and Sout...

African pop giant and former Mo’hits boss Dapo ‘D’banj’ Oyebanjo has signed with Mercury Records , an imprint in the UK under the  Mercury Records Group  of Universal Music UK . Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the  The Island Def Jam Music Group  in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group . Mercury Records lists D’banj on their  official website  as one of their acts alongside the likes of UK rock singer-songwriter  Elton John , Soft Rock singer  Taylor Swift  Irish rock group  U2 , former  The Beatles  musician  Paul McCartney  and others. Although his publicist and management are yet to respond to E-mails concerning the signing, D’banj seems to have confirmed the news himself as he has updated the bio section profile on his  Twitter page . D’banj has also launched his personal website www.dbanjofficial.com where the Mecury Re...