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2024 Detty December came with several news-making events. From notable celebrity romance influx of international artists, to concert mishaps, these events trended on social media as the festive season brought with it unforgettable dramas. Here are some of the trending news that marked 2024 Detty December. Burna boy and Chloe Bailey the other night pic.twitter.com/9BdZFgBXdV — Tanisha Pop (@PopTanisha) December …

Japanese car makers Nissan and Honda have confirmed they are in discussion about closer collaboration but denied reports they are to merge. ADVERTISEMENT Nissan’s share price soared almost 24% in Tokyo after reports citing unnamed sources said it might merge with Honda to form the world’s third-largest car making group. That is the largest share-price jump for the company in …

BBC Omar el Qataa is a photojournalist operating out of northern Gaza Facebook has severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, according to BBC research. In a comprehensive analysis of Facebook data, we found that newsrooms in the Palestinian territories – in Gaza and the West Bank – had suffered a …

ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with incoming US president, Donald Trump in his defamation suit and will issue an apology to Donald Trump and pay $15 million to a charity.   The settlement was filed publicly on Saturday, December 15! and reveals ABC will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a “presidential foundation and …

Australia’s government says it will create new rules to force big tech companies to pay local publishers for news. The long-awaited decision sets out a successor to a world-first law that Australia passed in 2021, which was designed to make giants like Meta and Google pay for hosting news on their platforms. Earlier this year Meta – which owns Facebook …

Actress Bolaji Ogunmola has expressed her thoughts amid reports suggesting that Netflix might be exiting the Nigerian market. Taking to her social media, Ogunmola highlighted the challenges filmmakers face in relying solely on cinemas for movie releases, describing the move as both expensive and uncertain in terms of returns.   She wrote, “Again… Everyone will be forced to put their …

Peter Obi has reacted to the news of the revamping of the Port Harcourt Refinery.    The refinery resumed operations on Tuesday, November 26, after several failed promises to revamp it. In a post shared on social media today, Obi congratulated NNPC for revamping the refinery, He stated that while he acknowledges these achievements as a step in the right …

Ireland and Argentina have played each other 19 times at Test level, their first encounter coming in 1990. The Irish have won 13 of those, including all 10 at home, the most recent being a resounding 53-7 win in November 2021. Argentina do, however, possess some notable wins against the Irish having prevailed in three out of their four World …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has lamented the incessant collapse of the national grid saying power failures knows no tribe or religion but is suffered by all Nigerians.   The country was on Tuesday plunged into darkness following the collapse of the dilapidated national grid just three weeks after a similar incident, the …

The incident, in which Leclerc ran off track and narrowly avoided the barriers while fighting to control his car, cost him second place in the race to the Briton. The judgement said Leclerc had “used language in response to a somewhat leading question asking him, ‘what did you say to yourself’, in relation to the significant moment towards the end …