Through a planned African Tour, International Tennis champions, Serena and Venus Williams are scheduled to visit Lagos from Tuesday 30 October to Friday 2, November 2012 as part of the first leg of recently launched ‘Breaking the Mould’ (BTM) campaign, a women’s empowerment initiative which has already been a source of international support towards Nigeria.…
After the 4-day long Abuja Film Festival which has held every year since September 2003, the winners for the 9th edition of the festival have been announced. The grand jury prize was won by Kunle Afolayan’s movie, Phone Swap, as the film beat 10 other films to emerge winner. Kunle Afolayan also received…
The Big Brother Africa winner for 2011, Karen Igho, has shown an interest to sustain her love for the screen as an actress. Karen Igho was first introduced to the screen when she participated in Next Movie Star, a reality show produced by Sola Fajobi. She has also featured in some video works as…
The premiere edition of Lagos In My Pocket (L.I.P) has been announced to kick off on the 26th of October 2012, and will be hosted by City FM (105.1)’s on-air personality, Westsyde. L.I.P is a new monthly entertainment initiative that is being launched by CapoCapa Entertainment. The idea of this initiative is to…
One of the fast rising stars from the Southern part of Nigeria, Knowledge, has released the songs for his debut Mixtape. The Mixtape features other rap stars from Port Harcourt like Spaceman, M-Trill, Deeteeh (Ijawboiz Entertainment), P.I (Ruudboiz Entertainment), Slim Burna, Nanas, and Danas. Knowledge is currently based in Port Harcourt city…
The Managing Director of M-Net Africa, Biola Alabi, has revealed that AfricaMagic Entertainment would be screening a Nigerian version of an international game show called The Money Drop. The format of the game is described by her as ‘simple but captivating’. In each episode a pair of contestants start off with a USD…
To join in the celebration of Nigeria’s 52nd Independence anniversary, #OneMicNaija would be holding a special edition of the regular OneMicNaija bi-monthly events to showcase artistes and expose music enthusiasts to good music. OneMicNaija released their list of performers for the Independence edition via a Youtube video with six of the seven performers…
In a fast rising trend to do charity, the popular African soul singer and songwriter, Waje, being rumored to have a signing with Chocolate City in the works, has launched her own charity initiative, “Waje’s Safe House”. Aituaje Iruobe, popularly known as Waje, set up the initiative with the aim of supporting Non-Governmental…
Barely two months after been signed off Square Records with the popular rappers, singers, dancers and mega entertainers P Square, May-D is eager to show that he can pull his own weight in the music industry. Akinmayokun Awodumila, or MayD, the artiste that gave the Nigerian audience hits like “Soundtrack”, “Ile Ijo’, and…
It has been a busy year for Kefee: she recently expanded her reach into fashion and hospitality, opening the fast growing Branama Kitchen, she got re-married to the popular radio personality, Don ‘Ted Esosa’ Momoh, and now the Branama Queen is ready with her fourth album that would be a double CD pack. It is…