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By Adedapo Adesanya  A Nigerian rapper, Oladipupo Olabode Oladimenji, popularly known as Oladips, has died at the age of 28. According to a statement posted on his Instagram page, he passed away at exactly 10:14 pm on Tuesday, November 14, 2023. In the late hours of yesterday, videos made the rounds on social media of the Lalakukulala crooner seeming to have collapsed as his friends surrounded him. Before the video started to circulate, Oladips had taken to his Instagram stories to cry out for help as he mentioned one of his friends, @onlyonelifetime, and asked where he was. The rapper complained

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A New York-based audio streaming platform, Audiomack, has chosen Aleph as its Authorized Sales Partner in Nigeria and Ghana, underlining Aleph’s commitment to enhancing its presence and strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This collaboration will leverage Aleph’s deep expertise in crafting targeted and impactful campaigns and Audiomack’s robust platform teeming with engaged users, creating an unparalleled landscape of opportunity for brands and agencies across the region. Aleph was unveiled on December 5 at a pop-up event dubbed #AudiomackHouseLagos, which brought together key players in the music industry to celebrate the thriving Nigerian and African music scenes. The

In the age of globalisation, there is an inherent risk of cultural dilution, misrepresentation, and possibly extinction. But in this era, the Nigerian entertainment and culture projection is on an upward trajectory. Afrobeats is now a global phenomenon. Nollywood and the Nigerian fashion industry are attracting global attention and investment like never before, and our talents gaining global recognition. This new evolution is not from the blue. It is a result of years of deliberate focus on promoting indigenous content: movies, shows, and programmes that project traditions and narratives that might otherwise be overshadowed by the global mainstream. The broadcast

By Adedapo Adesanya Amid a decline in trading value and volume on Tuesday, the NASD Over-the-Counter (OTC) Securities Exchange closed flat, with the key performance indicators remaining unchanged at the close of transactions. The value of trades dropped 98.7 per cent during the session to N1.3 million from the preceding day’s N100.9 million, while the volume of stocks exchanged by investors went down by 98.8 per cent to 9,322 units from the 767,614 units published on Monday. During the session, market participants executed three deals, 66.7 per cent lower than the nine deals carried on the first trading day of the

Foremost philanthropist and richest man in Africa, Mr Aliko Dangote, has been rated 11th of the 50 World’s Greatest leaders for 2019. The rating carried out by the Fortune Magazine, an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States, was released recently and focused mainly on the businesses run by the men and how they have used it to impact their society positively. The time-tested magazine, which first edition was published in February 1930, said the world’s greatest leaders both men and women are transforming the world and inspiring others to do so in business, government, philanthropy

By Adedapo Adesanya Digital payment entity, Mondia Pay, has announced that it will be onboarding a series of new clients in Nigeria as part of efforts to become the preferred digital payment solutions provider for telecommunications operators on the African continent. It revealed that Mondia Pay registered 5.3 billion transactions on its platform last year with telcos across the continent. A leader in digital platform services, Mondia Pay enjoys partnerships with operators in South Africa, Botswana, Liberia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Sudan, Guinee, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal where it provides telcos with the best billing integration, bundling deals, user engagement and

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Kaduna State government is planning to spend a total of N155 billion for the 2019 fiscal year. The draft budget has over 64.4 billion for recurrent expenditure, representing 41.52 percent and N90.7 billion for capital projects, representing 58.48 percent. On Sunday, Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mr Muhammad Sani-Abdullahi, presented the draft 2019 budget tagged `Budget of Continuity’ to residents of the state at a town hall meeting in Kaduna for their inputs. Mr Sani-Abdullahi explained that the budget was prepared against the macro-economic backdrop of pick up in global growth at 3.8 percent. “We are

By Autofactorng Common signs include the Check Engine Light coming on, engine misfiring, rough idle, a reduction in power, and the car not starting. Ignition coils are electronic engine management components that are a part of the vehicle’s ignition system. The ignition coil functions as an induction coil that converts the vehicle’s 12 volts into the several thousand that are required to jump the spark plug gap and ignite the engine’s air-fuel mixture. Some ignition systems will use one coil to provide the spark for all of the cylinders, however most newer designs use an individual coil for each cylinder.

By Dipo Olowookere On Friday in Cameroon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, launched a multi-million dollar inter-agency appeal to help almost half-a-million people in Niger, Chad and Cameroon affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, including more than 183,000 Nigerian refugees. The 36 partners (UN agencies and NGOs) of the 2017 Nigeria Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) are asking for $241 million for next year to help some 460,000 people – Nigerian refugees, internally displaced people and host community members in the three countries. More than half ($154.29 million) is required for Niger, with the response in Cameroon requiring

By Dipo Olowookere President Muhammadu Buhari has assured India that the Nigeria will continue to strengthen the bilateral relationships between the two populous countries. Mr Buhari gave this assurance on Tuesday when he received the Indian Vice President, Mr Mohammad Hamid Ansari, at the State House in Abuja. The President said Nigeria will continue to expand its relationship with India in the areas of health, education, agriculture, technology and trade. According to him, Nigeria had over the years benefited from the cooperation of the Asian country in trade and investment, agriculture, technology and the fight against terrorism. He welcomed the

By Dipo Olowookere The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) appreciated on Tuesday by 0.19 percent, reducing the year-to-date loss to 19.00 percent. This was made possible by the purchase of stocks presently trading at cheap prices by investors, resulting into 19 shares closing green and 10 equities finishing red. However, the trading activity was lower than the previous session as the volume of shares traded by investors declined 28.91 percent to 330.1 million from 464.4 million, while the value of transacted stocks reduced by 7.67 percent to N3.7 billion from N3.9 billion, with the number of trades going down by 22.47