Public voting for the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Committee of All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) commences on Monday. The organisers had released the 2021 nominees list from the 8, 880 songs submitted for adjudication. The AFRIMA Awards is scheduled to hold from November 19-21 in Lagos. Ayodeji …
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AfChix – a network of African women in technology – is enabling women in rural Kenya, Senegal, Namibia, and Morocco to take the lead in connecting their communities to the internet for the first time. The organisation is one of the winners in the third round of the WomenConnect Challenge, …
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The theatre week for the Nigerian Idol Season 6 has come to end as the judges have selected 11 contestants who will battle to become the next Nigerian Idol. Of the 68 contestants selected for the theatre week, after a series of tests and performances, only 11 scaled through. The …
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“I miss the times women had to cook, clean and weren’t allowed to speak” – These were the words I saw on the timeline of a Twitter user and from his avatar, it showed a young man probably in his twenties. It baffled me how a young man of this …
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The Niger Delta, a large area of southern Nigeria and a home to around 30 million people, with core states like Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, and surrounding states of Akwa Ibom, Cross River, and Edo. Sometimes the states of Abia, Imo, and Ondo are also included in the definition of …
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