Nigerian highlife singer, Chinedu Okoli, better known as Flavour N’abania, has lost his father. The singer announced the death of Benjamin Onyemaechi Okoli via social media pages on Wednesday. He shared an old video of him playing guitar to serenade his father. In an accompanying caption, he wrote, “My father, papa Ijele rest well”. Flavour, however, did…
Nigerian singer, Augustine Okechukwu, popularly known as Tekno, has partnered with emPawa Africa, the brainchild of his colleague Mr Eazi. Mr Eazi announced the partnership via a statement on X on Wednesday. The singer said the collaboration would see Tekno’s Cartel Music releasing new music via emPawa Africa. In addition, Tekno plans to invest as a shareholder in…
Nigerian-American actress, Ayo Edebiri, has revealed why she took a break from church. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Edebiri spoke about her religious beliefs after moving from Boston to New York City for college. The 28-year-old actress said she was raised Pentecostal and was deeply involved in church life. The film star described the church…
West Ham have confirmed Julen Lopetegui will succeed David Moyes as their head coach. The Spaniard has signed a two-year deal with an option for a third. Moyes has left at the end of his contract after four and a half mostly successful years and Lopetegui is clear to take over having been out of…
An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced a 17-year-old boy, Jibola Fakologbon, to 14 years imprisonment for assaulting and raping a student. The convict was arrested for committing the offence at Ero community in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state in December 2021. He was later charged and…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the former commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, two weeks’ bail after 27 months in detention. Kyari is expected to conclude his mother, Yachilla Kyari’s burial rites. The court subsequently set Friday, May 31, for the determination of his bail application in the…
Rishi Sunak has said that no asylum seekers will be sent to Rwanda before the election under the government’s deportation scheme. It had been thought ministers would try to get the first flight off before polling day, to showcase their flagship policy on countering illegal migration. But the PM has now said they will go…
The tripartite committee on new minimum wage has adjourned till next Tuesday, May 28 to continue deliberation after Wednesday’s meeting in Abuja ended in a deadlock again. The Federal Government, the organised private sector and the organised labour failed to reach a consensus on the new minimum wage at the Wednesday meeting. Sources at the…
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer will kick off their election campaigns on Thursday, six weeks before the country goes to the polls. The prime minister will tour broadcast studios before embarking on a two-day whistle-stop trip taking in all four nations of the UK. Starmer will head to south-east England in a sign he wants to make…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the US rapper, is facing another lawsuit over allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted a model in 2003. In a filing on Tuesday at the federal district court in Manhattan, the former model identified as Crystal McKinney narrated what transpired between her and the rapper. She claimed that she met Diddy when she attended a…
