‘Calm Down’, the hit track by Rema, the Nigerian singer, has broken another remarkable record in the United States. On Sunday, Chart Data disclosed that ‘Calm Down’ has become the first Afrobeats song to secure over one billion on-demand streams in the US. “Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ becomes the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over 1 billion…
Adekunle Gold, the Nigerian singer, has revealed why he started advocating for people with sickle cell anemia. The ‘Sade’ hitmaker had opened up about his struggles with the disease in his 2022 single ‘5 Star’. In a recent interview with CNN’s African Voices Playmakers, Adekunle Gold said he started speaking for people with sickle cell anemia to make them…
A Mongolian opposition politician was beaten to death, his party said on Sunday, ahead of parliamentary elections due this month. The victim was a member of the Democratic Party (DP) and a governor of Sant Sum in central Mongolia, his party said in a statement. The man was killed on Saturday, the party said. Local…
The Presidency, on Sunday, insisted that the N250,000 minimum wage clamour by Organised Labour is unsustainable, warning that the Federal Government cannot channeled all its resources to meet such a demand. The warning comes two days after the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria raised concerns over the N62,000 being proposed by the FG. The…
A troubled NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a series of delays led to him waiting four times longer for an operation than a national cancer target. Before he died in November 2022, Ken Valder, 66, a former tax inspector and voluntary steward at Brighton & Hove Albion football club, complained of…
An Indian man accused of an alleged plot to assassinate an American citizen in New York has been extradited to the US, the Washington Post reports. Nikhil Gupta was charged by the US government last year with trying to hire a hitman to assassinate US-based Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Mr Gupta was arrested by authorities…
Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate in Kemi Badenoch’s constituency has resigned from the party after it emerged he previously urged people to vote for the BNP. Grant StClair-Armstrong, who is standing in North West Essex, also used a blog to post jokes using racial slurs and made a joke about “female hormones”, according to the Times, external. He…
China views the annexation and “elimination” of Taiwan as its great national cause, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday, telling cadets at the military’s premier academy they must know their enemy and not give in to defeatism. Lai has faced sustained personal attacks from China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, since assuming office last month, with Beijing calling…
Following the recent resignation of one of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Trinity Towers’ Senior pastors, Idowu Iluyomade, a church member, Funsho Olufemi, who resides in Lagos has expressed his displeasure towards the development. Speaking with journalists in Lagos, Olufemi noted that the Iluyomades have done so much to build the church of…
Catherine, Princess of Wales has made her much-anticipated first public appearance of the year at the annual Trooping the Colour parade. The princess, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, could be seen smiling and waving from the Buckingham Palace balcony at the end of a ceremony filled with pomp and pageantry. King Charles III,…
