YouTube says it has partnered with Raha Fest, a creative industry in Kenya, to host Ayra Starr’s first YouTube live concert in Nairobi. The Head of Music Sub-Saharan Africa at YouTube, Addy Awofisayo, said this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Awofisayo said that YouTube was not just ...

Ace Afrobeat music star, Ahmed Ololade, aka, Asake, says he feels more ‘comfortable’ expressing himself in Yoruba in his songs. The ‘Mr Money With The Vibes’ crooner said this during an Instagram interactive session with fans, adding that although he can sing in English, he prefers Yoruba. ...

Chinese-owned video sharing platform TikTok has legally committed to permanently withdraw the TikTok Lite rewards feature from the European Union, the European Commission announced on Monday. The commission ended its investigation into the rewards feature and closed the first case under ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have called for urgent evacuation of 85 sick and severely injured Palestinians to Abu Dhabi. The evacuations also include cancer patients in need of extensive treatment accompanied by 63 family members from Ramon airport ...

Popular reality TV show, Big Brother Naija, is back for season nine as the winner for this year’s edition will walk away with a grand prize of N100 million and a new SUV. Busola Tejumola, Executive Head, Content and West Africa Channels, MultiChoice, disclosed at a news conference on ...

Sophia Momodu, mother of David Adeleke’s daughter, has told a Lagos State High Court sitting in Sabo, Yaba, not to grant the child’s custody to the musician. Momodu told the court on Friday that the applicant was not fit to be granted custody of their daughter because he is always not ...

The amount of gas flared worldwide in 2023 rose by nine billion cubic meters, bcm, to 148 bcm, its highest level since 2019, a World Bank report has said. This is contained in a statement by the World Bank, on its new satellite data on Global Flaring and Methane Reduction, GFMR, Partnership, ...

Yunusa Tanko, the Chief Spokesperson, Peter Obi/ Datti Baba-Ahmed Presidential Campaign Council for 2023, says reforming the electoral process is much more needed now than the proposed single- tenure rotational presidency, to deepen democracy. Mr Tanko, also a former National Chairman of the ...

Dubai airport, one of the world’s busiest, on Friday said it is limiting the number of arriving flights as disruptions from flood continues at the United Arab Emirates, UAE. The UAE had suffered flooding this week from the heaviest rainfall seen in decades. The airport said it will be ...

Eniola Ajao’s debut cinema production, “Ajakaju (Beast of Two Worlds)”, has grossed N101.2 million within five days of its release. FilmOne Entertainment, disclosed this on Thursday via its instagram handle, @filmoneng. The epic film was released nationwide on Friday, March 29. ...