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By Adedapo Adesanya The House of Representatives has summoned controversial singer, Mr Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, to appear before it as part of moves to secure proper compensation and royalties for late singer, Mr Ilerioluwa Aloba (Mohbad) for his musical works. The deceased died on September 12 at the age of 27 over unclear circumstances. Following his death, documented history from the singer showed he had historically been threatened and suffered violence after his split from Mr Fashola’s Marlian Music last year. This sparked outrage, leading to government and security agencies’ involvement. Through its Committee on Justice,

Nollywood has numerous actors and actresses who wear different characters to entertain us in movies. The steady rise of Nollywood talents in recent years is remarkable, and this is down to the investment of platforms like Africa Magic in talent discovery and commissioning/licensing of movies and series that cast budding talents. In celebration of Africa Magic at 20, here is a list of renowned Nollywood telnets who rose to stardom on the Africa Magic platform: Tobi Bakre: He’s no doubt one of the hottest talents around at the moment. Tobi rose to stardom on one of Africa Magic’s reality TV

By Bliss Okperan One of Nigeria’s leading digital retail banks, Polaris Bank, is collaborating with Eventful Limited for the 2023 edition of Fashion Souk 9.0. According to a statement from the lender, the event is scheduled for the Harbour Point in Lagos on Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3. Business Post reports that Fashion Souk is Nigeria’s premier marketplace where smart Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the industry gather to display and market their variety of goods and services to a large audience. “Over 140 established SMEs in Nigeria’s fashion industry, leather and jewellery/accessories sectors, spanning across manufacturers,

By Adedapo Adesanya The Lagos State government has announced plans to construct a $100 million Lagos Film City with a groundbreaking ceremony set for Wednesday, October 18. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Toke Benson-Awoyinka, over the weekend, noting that the approval for the groundbreaking shows that Lagos will witness bigger projects in Mr Sanwo-Olu’s second term. The African continent’s digital economy is projected to grow six-fold to over $700 billion by 2050, with Africa’s film and audiovisual sectors alone having the potential to create 20 million jobs and $20 billion in annual revenue.

By Modupe Gbadeyanka President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the importance of the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation (OAuGF), declaring that with the help of the OAuGF, the country can do much more in audit reforms. Mr Buhari, represented by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, made this declaration at the launch and public presentation of a 5-year Strategic Development Plan for the OAuGF on Thursday, September 21, 2017 Mrs Adeosun, who commended the efforts of the OAuGF at producing quality audit work in spite of limited funding, congratulated the office on its good work of producing a

By Aduragbemi Omiyale Some stakeholders and customers of Fidelity Bank Plc in the export business in Ondo State have been sensitised on the emerging opportunities in non-oil exports. This is in support of the new policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) aimed to ensure that earn about $200 billion in foreign exchange (FX) repatriation from non-oil exports over the next five years. The CBN RT200 FX Policy was introduced on February 10, 2022, by the apex bank as part of measures to reduce the increasing demand for foreign currency by importers. At the workshop for exporters and investors

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A winner has emerged in the 2017 edition of the Big Brother Nigeria (BBNaija) reality TV show taking place in South Africa. At the grand finale of the competition held on Sunday, April 09, 2017, Efe Ejeba was announced winner with a N25 million cash prize. He was said to have garnered 57 percent of total votes cast by Nigerians, leaving the other finalists with the remaining. Apart from the N25 star prize, Efe went home with a brand new Kia Sorento SUV and other mouth-watering prizes. For 90 days, contestants were put in a Big Brother

By Aduragbemi Omiyale On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) after the death of Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru last Friday in a plane crash in Kaduna. Before his appointment, much is not known about the new army chief by the general public and this post is to inform our readers about him. Mr Yahaya was born on January 5, 1966, in Sifawa, Bodinga Local Government Area of Sokoto State. He is a member of the 37 Regular Course of the prestigious Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) and started his cadet

A new and improved platform to assist creatives in Africa has been launched by Publiseer. The platform was unveiled few days ago via its social media pages, including LinkedIn. Although this is a completely new platform, its existing 5,000+ creatives can log in with their email address, while new creatives can register for an account. Both creatives can submit new content for distribution, and find all the content they’ve submitted to Publiseer for distribution on the ‘Your Content’ page. Creatives can update their royalty payout information from the ‘Payout’ page, and see their current payout information on record. This information

By Adedapo Adesanya Third Mainland Bridge will undergo another phase of repair as traffic arrangements are ongoing, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti has revealed. Mr Kuti disclosed this in Lagos stating that the results of investigative tests on the bridge were ready and that contractors would move to site at the completion of the traffic management architecture. “Any moment from now, once I get our traffic plans approved, we may be announcing to the world again that we are now ready to fix Third Mainland Bridge based on investigative tests we had last year. “Meanwhile,

By Adedapo Adesanya A Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) sitting in Lagos has ordered Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of cable television services, DSTV, to pay 50 per cent of the N1.8 trillion tax backlog to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The tax collection agency through its Director of Communications and Liaison Department, Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. FIRS claimed that it discovered the backlog through a forensic audit as it showed that Multichoice Nigeria Limited had failed to pay to the Nigerian government in past assessment years. He said the five-member TAT