Nigeria’s Starboy, Wizkid, has won his second NAACP Image Award for his feature on Brown Skin Girl alongside Beyonce, Saint John, and Blue-Ivy Carter. They were announced as the winners of the “Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album” of the year category for, Brown Skin Girl. This feat comes a few weeks after the Nigerian superstar won a Grammy Award for his collaborative effort on the same project. The award was announced via a tweet by the show organizers on March 26, 2021. Congratulations to the 52nd…
The decay within the Nigerian military has again been highlighted after soldiers in Operation Lafiya Dole – unit charged with fighting Boko Haram terrorists, protested their posting to a location in the Theatre of Operation, Channels TV reports. Nigeria has been fighting Boko Haram Islamist militants since 2009 when the group first asked that Nigeria’s circular constitution be replaced with its extreme version of Sharia law. According to sources at the Maimalari barracks, the soldiers…
The much-awaited $2.5 bn Dangote Fertilizer Plant has successfully completed its test run paving the way for the start of production in the world’s largest fertilizer plant. In a video widely circulated on social media, staffers at the facility were seen the facility congratulating the billionaire on his latest triumph. Baba Dangote congratulating staffers as the $2bn Dangote Fertilizer Plant begins production test run. pic.twitter.com/Ep9YBS9J2V — ᴏᴠɪᴇ ᴀʟɪ ᴏnovwo-ᴏᴍᴀsᴏʀᴏ ™☤🇳🇬 (@OvieNews) March 25, 2021 …
Former JAMB Registrar Professor Dibu Ojerinde has been arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. Professor Ojerinde, who was arrested on 15th March 2021, in Abuja, by operatives of ICPC, is alleged to have committed multiple frauds while heading JAMB and the National Examination Council (NECO). A statement released by the commission says Ojerinde has been detained by the Commission for questioning over allegations of…
Comedy sensation, Emanuella Samuel popularly known as Emanuella has won the Nickelodeon Kid Choice Awards 2021 in the ‘Favorite African Social Media Star’ category. She was nominated alongside Nigerian comedy group, Ikorodu Bois, South African Magician, Wian Van Den Berg; Ugandan Youth Dance Group, Ghetto Kids, Kenyan social media sensation, Elsa Majimbo, and South African media personality, Bonang Matheba. In her appreciation post on Instagram, she wrote: Congratulations to me as I won the Favourite African Social…