This year (2019) is arguably one of the best years for Nigerian Afrobeats musician, Burna Boy, who has made it to the New York Times’ list of Best Songs in 2019 as his song ‘Anybody’ made its way to Number three on ‘The 54 Best Songs of 2019’. Anybody is...
Ten international films, including widely acclaimed offerings from South Korea, Spain and Senegal, are on the shortlist of movies vying for Oscar’s Academy Award nominations. The best international feature shortlist announced Monday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences includes Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” Pedro Almodovar’s semi-autobiographical “Pain...
Popular actor Bolanle Ninalowo has denied saying he found love again. Recall there have been viral speculations of the actor having a romantic affair with actress Damilola Adegbite. This comes in a few months after the thespian announced separation from wife Bunmi. Clarifying himself in a recent interview with TVC, while playing...
American singer, Curtis Jackson, professionally known as 50 Cent, has been honoured with a star on the iconic of Hollywood Walk of Fame. The rap mogul and power star received the star in honour of his work in music, film and television. The renowned singer, who took to his Instagram page...
The Nigerian Navy (NN) has said Instagram Comedian, Cute Abiola, is in its custody for violating Armed Forces of Nigeria social media policy. Cute Abiola was declared missing by his fellow comedian, Mr Macaroni quoting the wife. But the Director of Information, Navy Headquarters, Cdre Suleman Dahun, reacting to the report,...
The President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Mr Emeka Rollas, says that the body has set up a committee to raise funds for its ailing member, Ernest Asuzu. Rollas told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday that other members of the guild had begun to respond...
Nigerian comedian, Bright Okpocha, popularly known as Basketmouth, has revealed that the unpaid N30,000 fee his colleague AY claimed to be the reason for their rift is actually not the issue. Basketmouth revealed this during an interview he had with OAP Nedu on ‘The Honest Bunch’, which was shared on...
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, April 12, 2024, sentenced Idris Okuneye, a.k.a Bobrisky, to six months imprisonment over mutilation of the Naira notes. He was arraigned on Friday, April 5, 2024 on a four-count charge bordering on mutilation of the Naira...
Veteran Nollywood actor, Segun Arinze, has reacted to a viral video of his alleged assault on his security guard in Lagos, on Monday. The actor was seen in a footage presently trending on social media chasing his security guard identified as Isaiah Dauda on the streets of Chevyview Estate, Lekki. However,...
Emmy winning Nigerian-American Uzo Aduba is set to join Lupita Nyong’o on the set of HBO Max’s upcoming series “Americanah”. “Americanah” is a 10-episode limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel of the same name. “Americanah,” tells the story of Ifemelu (Nyong’o), a self-assured young woman raised in Nigeria,...