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One of Nigeria’s favourite veteran actress recently took to social media to announce she was restarting her music career that has been put on hold for years. Omotola Jalade sounded very determined about getting back into music, reminded her fans about when she revealed she was going to do all she wanted to do after the pandemic. The post reads: “Yasss!...

Complete Sports Nigeria recently entered into a partnership with RealFevr to introduce Fantasy Leagues to Nigerians. Football fans can now move to the football fantasy world and enjoy what they might have missed so far. RealFevr is a Portugal based fantasy platform, and its move to partner Complete Sports Nigeria is a major coup for the sports entertainment industry in Nigeria....

23-year-old Mary Cholhok has become the second professional netball player from the east African country Uganda. She hopes her story will inspire other young African girls to pursue their dreams. Mary, originally a native of South Sudan moved to Uganda with her family after the death of her father during the civil war in Sudan. Mary, who grew to a height...

Sony Pictures Entertainment will make strides towards more sustainable productions as it seeks to rid single-use plastic and cut a quarter of its greenhouse gas emissions across business functions by 2025. The newly announced steps add to Sony’s Road to Zero initiative, the company’s plan to reach a zero environmental footprint from business affairs by 2050. Road to Zero will...

The draw for the qualifications for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica was held on Monday, May 10, 2021, at the headquarters of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo. In the first round of the qualifying matches, Tunisia will play against Mauritania and Niger will play against Benin while South Sudan will play against...

Premier League clubs have unanimously voted to resume contact training as four more individuals from three sides have tested positive for coronavirus. A total of 1,008 players and staff were tested in the third round of testing. Phase two of 'Project Restart' will see players "train as a group and engage in tackling while minimising unnecessary close contact", the league said. Discussions...

Somalia will resume its domestic football season tomorrow after a three-month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The return was announced by the president of Somali Football Federation, Abdiqani Said Arab who said that the federal government had permeated the resumption of all sport in the country. As such the Somali Premier League will be the first sport in the...

The world has never been more connected. The coronavirus pandemic has not been all about bad news but there have been more connectivity and teamwork from people in different locations. In the entertainment industry, various stars from different regions have been facetiming and this has made their fans more elated seeing their favourite celebs from different regions connect. Recently on...

Hollywood giants Disney is partnering with FilmOne Entertainment, a Nigerian movie production & distribution company to market its new releases in West Africa. The deal gives FilmOne Entertainment the sole rights to distribute movies owned by the American entertainment conglomerate in Nigeria, Liberia and Ghana. One of the directors at FilmOne Moses Babatope in a statement said, 'It is a major...

Africa’s biggest pay-TV firm, Multichoice Group Ltd, has started streaming live sports including Premier League soccer through an upgraded version of its Showmax service. According to the head of the company’s Connected Video Division, Niclas Ekdahl, Multichoice is offering the new Showmax Pro in Nigeria and Kenya as of Tuesday and will add more sub-Saharan African countries over the next...