Ivan Toney did his case for a call-up to England’s World Cup squad no harm by scoring twice as Brentford beat Brighton 2-0 on Friday. As reported by The Score, Toney’s brilliant backheel opened the scoring midway through the first half before a typically assured finish from the penalty spot ended a three-game winless run…
Talented singer and songwriter Wizkid, never gets tired of setting and breaking new records, as the singer received a total of two nominations at the US-based American Music Awards 2022. The singer received nominations in the Favorite Afrobeats Artist and Favorite R&B Song categories. This is not the first time Big Wiz has been nominated…
Kanye West will need to find a new bank to hold his multi-billion dollar Yeezy brand because the bank where all of his money is kept has kicked him out, as reported by Marca. The prominent conservative figure Candace Owens, who was seen wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt with Ye, posted on Twitter on…
The $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc. by Elon Musk is the subject of a federal inquiry, the social media firm revealed in a court document made available on Thursday. As reported b Marca, Twitter claimed that it had been requesting Musk’s attorneys to reveal their correspondence with federal authorities for months but they had…
The horror movie “M3GAN” might not be coming out until 2023, but based on response to the trailer, released Oct. 11, people are ready to attend — or run away screaming. As reported by Today, “M3GAN” follows the story of eight-year-old Cady (Violet McGraw) girl who moves in with her aunt Gemma (Allison Williams) after…
Fashion enthusiast and social media influencer Enioluwa Adeoluwa has become a European Union ambassador. The popular fashion enthusiast took to Twitter to make the announcement on the 11th of October, 2022. This is another feat to his cap as the fashion and skincare influencer also became the first Nigerian ambassador for Crocs earlier this year….
American heavyweight rapper, Meek Mill, has been billed to perform at a festival happening in Africa in 2022. The award-winning Philadelphia rapper recently reignited his wish to have a tour in Africa after he called upon African heavyweights to make it happen, including Nigerian Afrobeats superstar and music executive Davido. As expected, the rapper has…
Nigerian singers and comedians succeeded in lighting up the ongoing annual celebration of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo, tagged ‘Felabration.’ The show, which usually displays rays of music stars at the Africa Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos, saw top artistes and comedians spice up the event. Felabration, which kicked off with a lecture series, is…
Afrobeat singer, Davido has met with the mothers of Celebrity couple, Simi and Adekunle Gold in London. Adekunle Gold who is currently on tour, had a special performance in London on Sunday October 9th, 2022, at the 4921-capacity O2 Brixton Academy, where he was joined on stage by his wife and ace songstress, Simi, and…
The full list of nominees for the popular award show, the American Music Awards, has been confirmed by the organizers of the 2022 edition. The venue has also been confirmed to be the Microsoft Theater and will take place on the 21st of November 2022 at 2 am West Africa Time. Here are the full…
Shaquille O’neal and Street Fighter II are quite alike in they they both revolutionized their respective fields, as reported on Sneaker News. Shaq redefined the meaning of dominance, while Capcom’s flagship franchise created a blueprint for fighting games that still persists today. In 1992, both Shaq and SFII’s Champion Edition emerged as new players in…
Nigerian heavyweight singer, Davido, has reacted to a sexual post involving him and his lover, Chioma. The music executive, who has rekindled his love life with Chioma, recently confirmed the relationship rumours by stating in a video that he would be getting married to the celebrity chef in 2023. The singer made headlines earlier today,…
Tottenham striker Harry Kane has maintained that his head has not been turned by speculation linking him with a move to Bayern Munich as the England captain prepares for a huge few months for club and country. As reported by The Score, Kane failed to engineer a move to Manchester City last year and has…
Tiwa Savage has positioned herself as a style star to watch in the fashion industry. This cuts across concerts, fashion shows or even on the red carpet as the Afrobeat sensation understands the art of keeping her sartorial choices top-notch. At the Alexander McQueen SS23 fashion show held at Old Royal Naval College in London,…
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk through one of his companies “The Boring Company” has sold nothing less than 10,000 bottles of his newly launched fragrance, the Burnt hair perfume, at $100 each making $1million in the process. The billionaire had in September hinted that the Boring Company, an American infrastructure and tunnel construction services…
Mixed reactions have trailed Nigeria’s popular afrobeat singer, Teni Apata, for neither shaking nor greeting President Muhammadu Buhari while receiving a national award. As reported by Sahara Reporters, President Muhammadu Buhari had conferred the National Honours Award on 447 persons at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. According to the National Honours Award Investiture 2022 Programme,…
As MARCA reported earlier this week, Kylian Mbappe not only wants to leave Paris Saint-Germain as soon as possible, but already tried to do so in July, shortly after penning his renewal. There were several discussions then of the representatives of the 2018 World Cup champion with the higher-ups at the Parc des Princes. Upstairs…
Netflix has signed up to the TV ratings agency Barb, which means its audiences will be measured by an external, independent body for the first time. As reported by BBC, The move makes Barb the first industry-owned ratings service in the world that Netflix has joined. Previously, the streaming giant has only released snapshots of…
Multiple award-winning singer and songwriter, Tems has been confirmed as a nominee for a category at the MTV Europe music awards (EMA) 2022. The singer received a nomination in the Best New Artist category alongside other acts like; Seventeen, Gayle, and Dove Cameron amongst others. The EMAs 2022 would be held on the 13th of…
Dame Angela Lansbury, who won international acclaim as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96, as reported by BBC. The three-time Oscar nominee had a career spanning eight decades, across film, theatre and television. Born in 1925, she was one of the last surviving stars of the…
Mohamed Salah came off the bench to score the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history as Liverpool thrashed Rangers 7-1 on Wednesday to put one foot in the Champions League last 16. Roberto Firmino scored twice, while Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott also struck in a confidence-boosting win for Jurgen Klopp’s men as they moved…
A London dealer sued after selling £4.2million worth of ancient art to a super-rich Qatari sheikh has admitted to a court that at least one of the pieces was fake. John Eskenazi, one of the world’s top dealers in Indian, Gandharan, Himalayan and south-east Asian works of art, is facing claims he ripped off Sheikh…
The Celtics ended last season in the spotlight for all the right reasons. A team seemingly stuck in the mud for multiple years recovered from a slow start to make a surprise run to the NBA Finals led by homegrown talents Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Behind it all was rookie coach Ime Udoka, who…
Nigeria’s new-age Afrobeat ambassadors, who also double as fast-rising global stars, Rema and Fireboy DML, as well as Grammy award-winning megastar, Burna Boy have gotten nominations at France’s NRJ Music Awards. Known in full as Nouvelle Radio des Jeunes, the awarding society is regarded as the highest in France and is presented by the French…
Elizabeth John, the ex-wife of popular Nollywood actor and movie maker, Yomi Black, has declared she is willing to give love a chance once again, one year after her marriage to the thespian crashed. She made the disclosure via a recent post she shared on her Instagram page. According to the mother of one, the…
Survival horror game Do Not Open will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam on November 15, publisher Perp Games and developer Nox Noctis announced. The PlayStation 4 version will follow in early 2023. Additionally, in order to “develop the best possible VR experience,” PlayStation VR support has been removed from the PlayStation 4…
“Oh, they’re probably giving away a watch,” is what one passerby guessed while walking past the line extending around the corner of the Swatch store in Times Square in New York City in the final week of September. But Swatch isn’t giving anything away, in fact, the company is working furiously keep up with demand…
Erling Haaland will be available for €200 million from the summer of 2024 and his release clause will gradually decrease over the ensuing three years of his Manchester City contract, according to The Athletic’s Pol Ballus. However, as reported by The Score, there’s one key restriction to this clause: It doesn’t apply to other English…
American heavyweight disc jockey and record producer, Khaled Mohamed Khaled, popularly known as DJ Khaled, has dropped a hint at working with Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy. DJ Khaled, who is known to be a cultured fan of featuring artists, recently dropped a studio album titled “God Did,” which has been topping several charts across…
Liverpool legend, Jamie Carragher, has highlighted the exceptional atmosphere Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta has brought back to the Emirates Stadium since Arsene Wenger left. Carragher made the remark while analysing Arsenal’s game against his former club on Sky Sports, pointing out the remarkable “energy” that has been present at the Emirates this year. The former…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have severed themselves from the royal family and after a few years, Harry was convinced to publish a book where he will expose deep secrets from the royal family and is set to be published in the fall however, sources say that he may be having cold feet. The Reporter…
Ace Nigerian music star, Tiwa Savage, and reality TV star, Pere Egbi, got tongues wagging on social media after a recent conversation on Twitter. The singer and mother of one had disclosed that some men are flocking to her direct message (DM) box to make romantic advances towards her. Tiwa then dared the men coming…
Just five months after a dramatic transfer saga in which Kylian Mbappe, to the surprise of many, spurned Real Madrid in favor of signing a lucrative new contract with Paris Saint-Germain, the French superstar is reportedly seeking an exit. The 23-year-old forward feels “betrayed” by the Ligue 1 club and wants to leave in January,…
Multimillion-pound plans to redevelop an historic hotel destroyed by fire have been approved. As reported by BBC, Permission was granted unanimously by Exeter City Council’s planning committee on Monday to turn the Grade II-listed Royal Clarence Hotel into 23 luxury flats, with a restaurant and bar. The building has been derelict since it was wrecked…
Nigerian Afro-fusion singer, songwriter and performer, Adekunle Gold recently staged his sold-out headline concert at the prolific O2 Brixton Academy and we have all the highlights for you. The award-winning singer, who is currently on tour, had a special performance in London on Sunday October 9th, 2022, at the 4921-capacity O2 Brixton Academy, where he…
A stunning pink diamond has sold for nearly $60 million, more than twice the expected price. As reported by CNN, the massive rock sold for 453.2 million Hong Kong dollars, or around $58 million, on Friday, according to auction house Sotheby’s. The stone was expected to sell for around $21 million. The 11.15 carat pink…
In the initial days of her career, Sadia Mufti, a young fashion designer in Kashmir, struggled to compete with big businesses selling designer Pakistani suits and Kashmiri pherans. She would gather her friends to explain to them her designs on traditional dresses. Her skill was well-received, Mufti was ambitious. She aspired for a bigger customer…
Mavin Records star girl and the Gen Z Afrobeats ambassador, Ayra Starr has reacted to the leak of the forthcoming deluxe version of her debut album, 19 & Dangerous. Happening 12 days to the slated release date, fans had sounded the alarm on social media platform, Twitter and Ayra Starr herself had soon joined in…
Top Gun: Maverick has been knocked out of the domestic box office Top 10 for the first time in the 20 weeks since its release. The film is a many-years-later sequel to the 1986 hit Top Gun, which starred Tom Cruise as the hotshot pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. The film sees the character, now in…
Liverpool will be without Luis Diaz until after the World Cup due to a serious knee injury the Colombian international sustained against Arsenal on Sunday, according to The Athletic’s James Pearce. A scan of Diaz’s knee reportedly revealed he’ll be sidelined for six-to-eight weeks. However, surgery is currently not being considered, Pearce adds. Diaz is…
Just when you thought the summer of tourists behaving badly was over, another person on vacation wrecks another priceless artifact. This time it’s the turn of an American tourist who smashed no fewer than two ancient Roman sculptures into pieces at the Vatican on Wednesday. The episode took place in the Museo Chiaramonti, part of…
The countdown is now on for Elon Musk and Twitter to close their $44 billion acquisition deal by October 28 or be forced to again prepare for a trial after a judge agreed on Thursday pause the legal proceedings. As reported by CNN, what everyone is now waiting on: Musk needs to actually have the…
Black Adam lead actor, Dwayne Johnson has revealed why he will not run for president, as reported by Screenrant. Johnson, also famously referred to by his former wrestling name “The Rock,” has found fame and success as an action movie star. Since beginning his film career in the early 2000s, Johnson has starred in a…
Nigerian Afro-fusion singer, songwriter, and performer, Adekunle Gold, opened on the role Pheelz played in ensuring he got signed to YBNL. The award-winning singer, who had a headline show on Sunday October 9th, 2022, at the 4921-capacity O2 Brixton Academy in London, took time out to appreciate those that helped him to become who he…
Brighton midfielder Enock Mwepu has been forced to retire at the age of just 24 after he was diagnosed with a hereditary heart condition, the Premier League club announced on Monday. As reported by The Score, the condition, which can worsen over time, would put him at an “extremely high risk of suffering a potentially…
Judging from the writings on the wall, it appears music lovers across the globe might just be getting a sterling collaboration from Burna Boy and Beyonce as the two acts were spotted together at an event held by the multiple Grammy award-winning singer in Paris. Burna who had been on the Lion King soundtrack album…
Apple TV+ said it will release Will Smith’s next big project, “Emancipation,” in theatres 2 December, while streaming will begin 9 December. Smith in a Facebook post Monday described the film as the hardest he ever made. “This was the hardest movie I’ve ever made. Blood, Sweat & Tears… LITERALLY! Shoutout to Apple who doubled…
Multiple award-winning singer and performer Wizkid took to his social media platform to share a short teaser for the music video for the newly released ‘Bad To Me.’ Big Wiz seems to be focused on the release of his album ‘More Love Less Ego’ as the singer is following the release of the audio of…
A new short film titled ‘840 Days’ has been released and some of the prominent names in this brilliant cinematic piece include Blossom Chukwujekwu, Lota Chuckwu, and Ibrahim Suleiman. “840 DAYS” produced by Blessing Nze and directed by Isioma Osaje is a beautiful and thought-provoking short film inspired by a romantic story about love and…
Tony Elumelu is a Nigerian economist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa, Transcorp and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation. The banking tycoon founded The Tony Elumelu Foundation after he retired as chairman of the United Bank for Africa to prove that the African private sector…
