The NewsWorthy - School Shooting, Hawaii ‘Laze’ & Royal Wedding – Monday, May 21st, 2018

All the news to know for Monday, May 21st, 2018!

Today, we're talking about the school shooting in Texas, the new threat in Hawaii called 'laze' and the new type of drugs meant to prevent migraines.

Plus: the Royal wedding, the Billboard Music Awards and the winner at the Box Office over the weekend.

All that and much more in less than 10 minutes.

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

For links to all the stories referenced in today's episode, visit https://www.theNewsWorthy.com and click Episodes.

African Tech Roundup - Edmund Olotu of TechAdvance on building out digital payments infrastructure in Nigeria

In this conversation with Andile Masuku, TechAdvance CEO, Edmund Olotu, sketches Nigeria's digital payments infrastructure landscape and explains why he feels the time is right for his company to participate more actively in the discourses around the next wave of data analytics-driven tech in Nigeria. Listen in to hear Edmund unpack TechAdvance's ambitions to take the game to competitors like Interswitch and position to be the platform partner of choice for big corporate and government-owned enterprises looking to reduce payments friction, as well as newer fintech startups looking to deliver digitized financial services to the masses.

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Recorded May 17, 2018

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The Gist - Breaking Up Comedy’s Boys Club

On The Gist, our attempt to track the new scoops that affected the Mueller investigation.

We’re not playing “Is That Bulls--t” on the show today, but if we were, comedy writer Nell Scovell would probably say, “Yes.” Yes, the dearth of women in late-night writers’ rooms is bulls--t. Yes, men’s explanations are bulls--t. And, yes, sometimes women themselves willingly succumb to the bulls--t because, as Scovell says, “Look, this s--t is deep.” Her new book is Just the Funny Parts

In the Spiel, denigrating the top 80 books sold on Amazon.  

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