Lateef Adedimeji is a popular Nigerian actor and filmmaker. He has acted in over 100 Nigerian movies. He is considered one of the best Nollywood actors. On 1 February, he celebrated his 39th birthday. How did he celebrate his birthday? He celebrated his birthday with his wife Mo Bimpe, who is also a famous Nollywood […]
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has issued a warning that as much as half of the drugs that are now for sale in the Sahel region are either of poor quality or have passed their expiration date. The substandard medications are removed from the distribution chain in Europe, as well as, […]
One of the richest men in Asia, Gautam Adani, received an investment from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Royals in a share sale. The Adani Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate founded by Gautam Adani, received a $ 400 million (Rs 3,260 crore) investment from Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Co. Adani has faced losses of $65 […]
A historic drought that began in late 2020 and is forecast to continue for the foreseeable future has put 22 million people in southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Somalia in danger of starvation. This drought is projected to continue over the next few months. Since the beginning of 2022, when there were 13 million people […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk owns five companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, The Boring Company and Neuralink. He reportedly works all day long to run these five companies. He has announced on Twitter that he works all day long. He wrote on Twitter, “I work all day, then go home & play work simulator.” He repeatedly […]
ChatGPT, also known as Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, was launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is fine-tuned with supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. It is making headlines around the world because it can give users instant answers to any questions or queries. A chatbot built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 by California-based OpenAI sparked […]
Two separate attacks by armed assailants in Burkina Faso have resulted in the deaths of at least 28 individuals, including troops and civilians, according to separate statements released by a provincial governor and the army. The army said on Monday that an attack took place on a fighting unit in Falagountou, which is in the […]
During the visit of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Tripoli on Saturday, the Italian energy company Eni signed a gas deal with Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation worth $8 billion. As a result of the invasion of Ukraine, deliveries of Russian gas were cut to less than half of their pre-war levels. This caused […]
According to chairman Andile Ngcaba, the buyout firm Convergence Partners secured $296 million to purchase African technological assets. The capital raise will bring Convergence’s total funds under management to about $600 million, according to Ngcaba, making it one of the first private equity funds obtained for sub-Saharan Africa this year. According to him, the majority […]
Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the United States Treasury, made her final stop in South Africa on Friday when she went to the town of Emalahleni, which is known as a coal mining center and generates the majority of the coal that South Africa uses to fuel its power plants. Emalahleni, whose name means “a […]
Germany issued an apology on Thursday, January 26 for using a leopard emoji in a tweet that referred to the trip that the Russian Foreign Minister was taking through Africa. A number of users on the platform found that particular post to be offensive, and a spokeswoman for the leader of the African Union, Chairman […]
In the first game of their ODI series against South Africa, England fell short by 27 runs despite Jason Roy’s heroic 113 off 91 balls. After winning the toss and deciding to bat first at Manguan Oval, South Africa recovered from being 116-3 to reach 298-7 from their 50 overs because of Rassie van der […]
Albert Arnold Gore Jr, an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist, talked about climate-related issues. However, are his claims about climate action true? Albert Arnold Gore Jr served as the 45th vice president of the United States under President Bill Clinton. During the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, Al Gore slammed the […]
Meta Platforms Inc’s social media applications, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were down for thousands of users in the United States (US) on Wednesday. According to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, thousands of people complained of the outage in the US. Some people also complained about the outage in Canada. In the US, over […]
As a result of a cholera outbreak in Malawi, the country has run out of vaccines, which the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday. More than 1,000 people have died as a result of the outbreak. More than 30,600 individuals have been sick with cholera in the southern African country since the first cases of the […]
Temilade Openiyi, a famous Nigerian singer, has been nominated for the 2023 edition of the Oscars in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing ‘Lift Me Up’, a song from the film ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.’ Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, co-wrote the song with Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, and Ryan Coogler, the director […]
According to the country’s petroleum department, Uganda kicked off its first oil drilling program on Tuesday. This marks a significant step forward for the nation as it works toward its goal of beginning oil production in 2025. The Kingfisher field is a component of a plan that will cost ten billion dollars to develop Uganda’s […]
The Nigerian government and Abubakar Malami, the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, have urged the United Kingdom high court to cancel $11 billion in damages over a failed and allegedly fraudulent gas deal. The lawyers representing Nigeria told London’s High Court that Nigeria was the victim of “a campaign of bribery and […]
South Africa’s limited-overs coach Rob Walter has said that he is ready to welcome Faf du Plessis, former captain of South Africa, back to the South Africa national cricket team. Walter revealed that South Africa needs quality players like Du Plessis for a resurgence after the recent performance of the team. Walter talked about Du […]
The main opposition party in Tanzania recently organized its first big rally since the ban in 2016, which has stoked hopes for increased political freedom in the East African nation. This month, President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on Chadema that was put on the country by her more conservative successor, John Magufuli, who […]