Sports & Entertainment

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...

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...

Athletes in Uganda are hopeful in their preparations as they look towards the Tokyo Olympics for which a countdown has begun by the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC). Uganda's Boxing trio of Catherine Nanziri, Shadir Musa and David Ssemujju as well as world 800m champion Halimah Nakaayi, all expressed a high level of enthusiasm and optimism noting that they were putting...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, BET 2020 awards slated for May 20 will now air on Sunday, June 28 (for Africa, Monday, June 9). This year’s nominees have been announced, and the list reflects an abundance of creative expression and black excellence across music, television, film, sports, and philanthropy. The company’s release stated in part, “Using an array of innovative...

22-year-old top female tennis player, Naomi Osaka, is now the highest-paid female athlete in the world. The Japanese-Haitian athlete earned a total of USD 37.4 million from prize money and endorsements between June 2019 and May 2020. Osaka is currently backed by 15 endorsement partners ranging from Nissan Motor, Shiseido and Yonex, with almost all of them worth seven figures every year. On top of...

Born in Ughelli, Delta State, in the South Southern part of Nigeria, Efe Ajagba is in line for a major heavyweight battle. After his ruling success over American fighter Deontay Wilder, ruling WBC champions Tyson Fury is preparing for his United Kingdom homecoming battle on Saturday, December 5, 2020. Fury dominated Wilder before he took out the tough-talking American in the...

Watford Football Club, an English professional football club in Watford, Hertfordshire, now has three confirmed cases of one player and two staff that tested positive to the coronavirus test making a total of six positive confirmed cases across the Premier League.  Premier League players and staff recently underwent coronavirus testing at their bases before returning to training, and six positive...

Reports of progress on the preparations for the 10th edition of the Botswana Music Union (BOMU) awards have emerged with the union has entrusting Total Music Group as their consulting firm for the event. Giving an update on the preparations in Gaborone, the Director of Total Music Group, Seabelo Modibe, disclosed that the awards would hold in Gaborone on July...

Large gatherings at public events, such as sports, could remain banned in Los Angeles until at least 2021. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told a group of high-level staffers Monday that "large gatherings" – including sporting events – might not be approved until next year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times. "It's difficult to imagine...

According to Forbes, Tyler Perry is officially a billionaire. The details of his success are written in a long-form article entitled “From “Poor As Hell” to Billionaire: How Tyler Perry Changed Show Business Forever“. The filmmaker owns the entirety of his creative output, including more than 1,200 episodes of television, 22 feature films and at least two dozen stage plays, as well...