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Entertainment Lifestyle 

Davido’s ‘Timeless’ shatters multiple Nigerian streaming records

Davido‘s new album ‘Timeless’ has shattered records across Nigerian and international music streaming platforms. On March 31, 2023 Nigerian megastar Davido released his fourth album. The highly anticipated 17-track album came off the back of a rare quite moment from the award-winning artists who has made a name for himself as Africa’s most formidable hitmaker. Sourced From Nigerian Music Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Burna Boy is best musician in Nigeria – BNXN

Afro-fusion artist BNXN, formerly known as Buju, has declared Grammy award-winning singer Burna Boy as the best musician in Nigeria.   The ‘Finesse’ crooner stated this in a recent interview with 3FM.   Buju, however, admitted that Wizkid and Davido are also afrobeats giants, but maintained that his former record label boss, Burna Boy was by far the best.  … Read More
Africa 

East African regional force take control of key town in eastern DRC

East African regional forces have announced that are now in control of Bunagana, a strategic town in eastern DRC previously held by M23 rebels for more than nine months. The spokesman for the Ugandan contingent of the regional force, Captain Kato Ahmad Hassan, confirmed that the M23 rebels had been cooperative during the transition process. The rebels’ departure from Bunagana… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Singer Portable arraigned on six counts of assault-related charges

Apart from resisting arrest and hurting a police officer, Portable was charged with more than six counts to deal with, according to the force’s public relations officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, on Saturday, April 1. “He will be charged to court for beating up a guy in Ota, who filed a petition to CP Ogun, There are many pending cases of assaults… Read More
Africa 

Burkina Faso expels correspondents from French newspapers

The military junta in power in Burkina Faso expelled on Saturday evening the correspondents of two major French daily newspapers, Le Monde and Liberation, a new sign of the deterioration of press freedom and relations with France in this country bruised by jihadist violence. These expulsions of Sophie Douce from Le Monde and Agnès Faivre from Liberation, who arrived in… Read More
Africa 

Journalists in Sahel under pressure from jihadists and authorities

The Sahel’s many crises are becoming increasingly difficult for journalists to cover freely, especially now that the military has taken over in some countries, Reporters Without Borders said in a report released on Monday. The Sahelian strip that crosses the continent from west to east threatens to become “Africa’s largest information blackout zone,” RSF said in the gloomy report. The… Read More
Human Rights 

Celebrate diverse contributions of persons with autism, UN chief says

“Today and every day, let us fully recognize the active and diverse contributions of persons with autism to our societies,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Let us work together with persons with autism to build an inclusive and accessible world for all.” ‘We must do better’ Despite important progress, he said, persons with autism continue to face social and environmental… Read More
Africa 

ICC: Putin’s arrest warrant worries South Africa

Pretoria could be forced to arrest the Russian president in respect of its obligations vis-à-vis international justice, in particular the Rome Statute. The government of Cyril Ramaphosa does not hide its concern. Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on March 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, all eyes have been… Read More
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