Nigerian singers Wizkid and Yemi Alade, have been named ‘African Artiste of the Year’and ‘Best Female Artiste’ respectively at the maiden edition of the Soundcity MVP Awards Festival. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the artistes emerged best winners at the event which held on Thursday night at the Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria […]
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Court and spark: Serena Williams is tying the knot. The tennis great announced her engagement to Alexis Ohanian on Thursday, posting a poem on Reddit that she accepted the proposal of the social news website’s co-founder. Williams’ agent, Jill Smoller, confirmed the engagement in an email to The Associated Press. Ohanian wrote on his Facebook […]
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Debbie Reynolds, the “Singin’ in the Rain” actress who tap-danced her way into American hearts as a star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died, grief-stricken over daughter Carrie Fisher’s death a day earlier. The 84-year-old suffered a stroke at son Todd Fisher’s Beverly Hills home after telling him “I miss her so much, I want […]
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The night before the “Rob & Chyna” baby special premiered on E!, Rob Kardashian announced to his 8.2 million Instagram followers that his fiance and mother of their month-old daughter had abruptly left him and taken the baby with her. A few days later, Kardashian replaced those posts with various images of holiday-themed socks from […]
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Beyonce got a leading nine Grammy nominations on Tuesday, followed by Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West with eight nods each, as pop, R&B and hip hop took center stage in the contest for the music industry’s highest honors. Beyonce’s haul included album, song and record of the year, the top three Grammy accolades, for her […]
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Nigeria musician, Yemi Alade, has taken the lead in spreading Shell’s #makethefuture campaign, which aims to inspire youths and entrepreneurs for bright ideas that can help in the global quest for more and cleaner energy. According to a statement by the oil company, the multiple award nominee and winner of the 2015 MTV African Music […]
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Taylor Alison Swift was born on Dec. 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Thanks to her album and tour named after the year of her birth, the 26-year-old pop superstar banked $170 million in a year, which makes her the top-earning celebrity in the world. Swift’s 1989 tour grossed $200 million in North America, demolishing the […]
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When Shawn Mendes went into the vocal booth to sing “Mercy,” the gravelly, deep, emotional rock song from his latest album, he discovered a new side of himself. He found his voice. “When I sing it, when I perform it, like everything to do with the song is completely, just like my heart races, my […]
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Mavin’s first lady, Tiwa Savage, got so many mouths agape when she got an international deal so many of her colleagues only fantasise about. The singer recently signed an international deal with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Records and some people began to insinuate that the deal might tear Mavin apart just as such deal allegedly […]
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Newly-married actress, Funke Akindele-Bello, in a report by Punchng talks about her acting career and her marriage experience. As an actress, script writer and film producer, Funke Akindele-Bello can’t be considered a small fry in Nollywood. With a career that has spanned almost two decades, the thespian who cut her acting tooth with the role […]
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Osita Iheme, aka Pawpaw, is one half of the popular Nollywood comic pair known as Aki and Pawpaw. Both men have since moved up the creative ladder, from being just comic actors to making their own movies, report according to Punchng. Osita released his fourth movie last April. It is titled Ada my Love. Although […]
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Janet Jackson has confirmed she is pregnant with her first child at the age of 50. The American singer was rumoured to be expecting after postponing the second leg of her world tour earlier this year, telling her fans she was planning for a family. She has now confirmed the news, telling US publication People: […]
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