South African singer/songwriiter, Tyla, clinched the 2024 Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance for her song “Water. This is the inaugural year for the category, in which Asake and Olamide (“Amapiano”), Ayra Starr (“Rush”), Burna Boy (“City Boys”), and Davido featuring Musa Keys (“Unavailable”) were also nominated. Best African Music Performance is…
A fire incident at Sango Market in Ibadan has resulted in the destruction of goods worth millions of naira. According to Daily Post, it was gathered that the fire incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday. It was learnt that about twenty shops were affected in the incident. The inferno was said to…
Once again, another national grid collapse in Nigeria has resulted to blackout nationwide, fresh reports have shown. The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, in a statement posted on its X account said power outage being experienced in its franchise areas is as a result of a system failure from the national grid at 11:21…
An Ekiti monarch who recently escaped a deadly attack by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, Alara of Ara-Ekiti, Oba Adebayo Fatoba, has narrated his experience. The assailants killed his two counterparts who were in the vehicle with him during the attack last Monday – Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olusola and Elesun of…
Jasmine Okafor has finally addressed her relationship with John Okafor, the ailing Nigerian actor, who is popularly known as Mr Ibu. It was widely reported that Jasmine and Mr Ibu’s son, Daniel Onyeabuchi, were arrested in Lagos for allegedly defrauding the actor of N55 million. Addressing the allegations in a viral video…
Habeeb Okikiola, the controversial Nigerian artiste, who is popularly known as Portable, has declared himself as the new Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Kuti, regarded as the King of Afrobeat, was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist. He died in 1997. Speaking in the latest episode of the Bae U Barbi show, Portable said his…
Ituah Ighodalo, the senior pastor of Trinity House Church, has stated that church leaders are entitled to receive the first salary of their members. He shared this perspective during an interview with Punch, discussing tithes, harvests, and the concept of first fruits. According to him, the first fruit represents the initial offering obtained when…
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonation has resulted in the destruction of a high-tension electric transmission pole located in the Unguwan Kanawa vicinity near Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi. The explosion was said to have been caused by yet-to-be-identified persons who used explosives to vandalise government property. Although there was no human casualty, however, a high-tension…
The government of Namibia has announced the death of their President, Hage G. Geingob. Geingob died on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at Lady Pohamba Hospital, a private hospital in Windhoek. The Acting President Dr Nangolo Mbumba, who announced the death on Sunday, said the nation had lost its pillar and the chief architect of…
Habeeb Okikiola, the controversial Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Portable, has boasted that his song, ‘Zazu’ blew worldwide before Olamide jumped on the remix in 2021. He noted that Olamide wouldn’t have helped him if he wasn’t popular and his song didn’t go viral. Speaking in the latest episode of the Bae…