Nominees for the 16th Headies Awards were declared openly on Tuesday, with an interesting lineup of artistes set to battle it out for the award. Established in 2006, the Headies Awards recognise outstanding accomplishments in the Nigerian music industries. Heralded by fanfare and much anticipations and hot takes, the award show features performances from top…
Olalekan Ponle,popularly known as Woodberry, has been sentence to eight years and three months in prison by a United States district court. Woodberry, a close associate of Ramon Abbas, AKA Hushpuppi, was apprehended alongside him on June 10, 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Hushpuppi pleaded guilty in 2022 and received 11-year prison term. Woodberry,…
North Korea has fired a long ranged missile assumed to be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) into Japan’s sea on Wednesday, July 12. This followed after Pyongyang threatened to shoot down recent US spy plane air raiding its territory. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong who made the accusation said if same…
More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s opponent to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday. Threads are the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of…
It was reported that a white substance found in the White House and sparked a brief security alert has been confirmed to be cocaine, the Secret Service said on Wednesday. The found substance seen in the West Wing on Sunday was initially treated as a potential danger, prompting a brief evacuation. An initial test of…
The France Anti-Fraud Office, says the search engine of the United States tech giant lacked information on the ranking criteria of results. French authorities consequentially imposed a €2 million fine on Google on Tuesday over incomplete results in its search engine and app store. According to the checkmate Organization, results for vacation accommodation searches lacked…
The Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Meta is launching its new app to rival Twitter and will go live on Thursday. The emerging app, which is called Threads is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store, and will be linked to Instagram. BBC reports says screengrabs platform shows a dashboard that looks similar to…
Russian council and oil governing body plans to cut oil exports by 500,000BPD in August. The energy official said on Monday that Moscow will voluntarily cut oil exports by 500,000 barrels per day, building on previously announced production cuts. “As part of efforts to ensure that the oil market remains balanced, Russia will voluntarily reduce…
World champion and Nigeria’s world record holder Tobi Amusan displayed her class on Sunday at the 2023 Diamond League athletics series in Stockholm, Sweden, to win the 100m hurdles in a time of 12.52 seconds despite the rainy atmospheric conditions on the track. Amusan outran Pia Skrzyszowska rival from Poland who gave her a tough…
Intense fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition frightened the rising number of displaced. A Khartoum resident said he was shaken from sleep by “violent fighting in which various weapons were used”. Another said he was aroused by warplanes. Battles since mid-April between forces…
American singer Selena Gomez has expressed gratitude for the discovery of the talent she believed holds her joy alongside the rare opportunity to feature in his viral hit Calm Down. Selena, on her Instagram page, shared two photos of her and Rema from the song Calm Down, and thanked him for changing her life forever….
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter Elon Musk on Saturday 1st July, introduced ‘temporary’ limits on the social media platform to help work on “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”. With the new reforms, Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, stating that the unverified accounts and new…
The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló visits Nigeria to meet with President Bola Tinubu Tinubu received his Guinea-Bissau counterpart who is also the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS at his Lagos residence on Saturday. Report of the discussion cannot be ascertained as at the time of filing this report….
At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured in western India when a vehicle crashed and caught fire on an expressway early Saturday. The bus was travelling to the city of Pune when it slam a pole and capsized after midnight, causing its diesel tank to catch fire, senior police officer Baburao Mahamuni…
British Supermodel and public figure Naomi Campbell has welcomed another boy child at the age of 53. The model announced the arrival of her son online on Thursday, two yeasrs after she welcomed her first child saying ‘it’s never too late”. She had not released any update on her expectations of a second child to…
Kyiv has reportedly said to be invades with drones and missile even as delegation of African leaders arrive in Ukraine on a peace mission. Repots from the foreign minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, Putin is sending “more war” with these missiles as a “message to Africa.” The African delegation headed by South African President,…
