Tag Archives: Years

Popular Nigerian Filmmaker Bolanle Austen-Peters has disclosed that she paid  Wizkid, Ice Prince and Wande Coal  N250,000 to perform 13 years ago. The 54-year-old made this known on Monday while speaking at The Covenant Nation’s national development fair; ‘ The Platform.’ She said: “I remember 13 years ago, I had a party and …

Britain’s first digital channel is celebrating 25 years of yellow ties, tickers, graphics, rebrands, renovations, innovation and loud dramatic music. When the idea for a 24-hour sports news channel was initially mooted in the late 90s, people (including the presenters themselves) wondered how on earth they’d fill the time. They …

The two comedians have had a frosty relationship for over a decade now. Legendary Nigerian comedian Bright Okpocha, better known as Basketmouth, seems ready to bury the hatchet with people he has offended, including AY Makun.

The two comedians have had a frosty relationship for over a decade now. Legendary Nigerian comedian Bright Okpocha, better known as Basketmouth, seems ready to bury the hatchet with people he has offended, including AY Makun.

A Nigerian couple, Stanley and Chigozie Fedebagha, have welcomed a set of triplets after 14 years of waiting.   The children, all boys, were dedicated in church on Sunday, September 24, 2023, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.    Friends and family members have taken to social media to celebrate the couple.  …

A 33-year-old Italian, Filippo Ferlazzo, who beat a Nigerian man, Alika Ogorchukwu, to death in Italy has been sentenced to 24 years imprisonment.    The court of Assizes of Macerata sentenced Ferlazzo, from Salerno near Naples, on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, for the aggravated voluntary murder of the 39-year-old Nigerian …

A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for rape, kidnapping and robbery has been declared innocent and freed, Los Angeles County prosecutors have announced.   DNA testing helped exonerate Gerardo Cabanillas in a 1995 attack on a couple sitting in a parked car in the city of South …

A woman has married her former teacher nearly 20 years after she was in her class.   Monica Foster, 32, first met her now-wife, Michelle, 57, in 2004, when she was her science teacher in Big Rapids, Michigan.   Seventeen years later, Monica, a self-confessed “teacher’s pet”, searched on Facebook to see …

29-year-old rapper Mohammed Sylla, also known as MHD, has been sentenced to a 12-year prison term for his involvement in the murder of a young man in Paris. The incident which led do the murder of 23-year-old Loik K took place on July 5, 2018, during a clash between rival …

ASUU warned that many university students may drop out of school due to a recent hike in fees. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed concerns over the recent …