Ace Nigerian musician, David Adeleke, popularly called Davido, on Saturday pledged $5000 (N1,800,000) to a Rwandan music school. The singer visited the school hours before his concert in Kigali, the country’s capital. “I love Africa, and that’s why I told my boy before I stood up here… that I am going to donate $5000 to […]
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Not often do you see the President of Nigeria, the Senate President and the richest African attend a wedding with not less than 22 governors. The wedding of Idris Ajimobi and Fatima Ganduje is one of the rare weddings that bring men of this calibre together. The couple are children of the governors of Kano […]
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U.S rapper, Rick Ross is presently hospitalised because of a serious medical condition. Reports TMZ suggests that the rapper has been put on life support at a Miami-area hospital, TMZ reports. According to sources close to TMZ, the MMG mogul was hooked up to a machine that is performing the functions of his heart and […]
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Ben Enwonwu’s paint of Ile-Ife princess, Adetutu Ademiluyi, known as Tutu, has fetched in a London auction £1,205,000, four times more than expected. In naira terms, it was sold for N508, 358, 301, an African record. The Nigerian masterpiece, initially declared missing was found in a “modest north London flat” recently. The painting, ranked by […]
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Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has attacked the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Yinka Omorogbe, for saying human trafficking in the state “has deep cultural roots”. But the state government rose to the defence of the commissioner, saying she only told the truth. Ms. Omorogbe was quoted recently by […]
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Researchers have identified a drug that could extend egg viability in worms, which may extend women’s fertility by three to six years in theory. According to Science Daily, an American science news website, Coleen Murphy, who led the study, specialises in using microscopic worms, Caenorhabditis elegans (C.elegans) to study longevity because it has many of […]
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Africa Magic, in association with Multichoice, has announced the call to entry for the 2018 edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, AMVCAs, the prestigious initiative that honours film and TV talents across the continent. Billed to hold on the 1 September, this year’s edition of the AMVCAs is sponsored by Konga and supported […]
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The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has warned that at least one out of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages disappears every two weeks. According to the UN cultural agency, at least 43 per cent of the estimated 6,000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. UNESCO said only a few hundred languages have […]
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Ace pop artiste, Bankole Wellington (aka Banky W), has announced the rebranding of his record label, Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E.). E.M.E. was the starting record label for popular names in the music industry including Wizkid, Skales and Niyola. He said the E.M. E is now a full-fledged Media Agency will focus on creative Marketing, Advertising, […]
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Serena Williams has revealed her near-death experience after giving birth to her daughter Olympia in September, in an article she wrote for CNN. The tennis legend said she lives in fear of blood clots, a condition that surfaced during her harrowing post-natal ordeal. She said she got blood clot in her lungs, blocking one or […]
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