Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia better known as 2Baba has donated an ultra-modern recording studio to the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The singer’s music record label, Hypertek Digital shared photos and videos from the event on their social media pages. The African Queen crooner was well received by the university’s board and students who happily sang their school…
The Africa Centre for Disease Control has appointed Nigerian Afropop star, Yemi Alade, as its Global Ambassador. Yemi Alade is to lead the CDC’s Pan-African campaign to encourage Africans to get vaccinated against Covid-19, which is being done in partnership with a card payment company. In a post on her Twitter handle, the singer said she was…
Singer Davido has made true his promise of donating two hundred and fifty million naira to two hundred and ninety-two orphanages in twenty-seven states. The final disbursement occurred nearly three months after he announced his decision to donate generously to orphanages across Nigeria. In a series of tweets last night, Davido released the full names and locations…
Nigerian Grammy award winner, Burna Boy, has become the first African artiste to hit 200 million streams on Boomplay Music. The music streaming platform disclosed this in a series of posts on its social media pages. Boomplay also accompanied one of the posts with pictures of Burna Boy with a plaque in recognition of the achievement. Burna…
Nominations for this year’s Academy Awards have been released. ‘The Power of the Dog’ by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch , is leading with twelve nominations. It is closely followed by ‘Dune’, which has ten nominations, and ‘Belfast and West Side Story’, which have seven nominations each. Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Garfield are among the…
Anambra-born business mogul, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana has blamed what he described as the get-rich-quick syndrome among young Nigerians on societal and family pressures. Cubana spoke on the topical issues surrounding ritual killings and other wealth-motivated vices among the youth in a post he shared on his Instagram page. The entrepreneur said at a…