Ola Aina’s Snapchat is a riot on a normal day. During an international break, it’s a different thing entirely. Last week, the internet’s best-rated TV show opened with a scene at London’s Heathrow airport where Aina was joined by a range of teammates: Alex Iwobi, William Troost-Ekong, Ademola Lookman, Calvin Bassey, and Joe Aribo as […]
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Temilade becomes a football club owner
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Shene Gurling has no recollection of her wedding day. The 39-year-old mother from Cape Town was diagnosed with meningioma, a slow-growing brain tumor. In 2023, it pressed against her optic nerve, causing vision loss in her left eye. Pressing against her optic nerve, the tumor caused her to lose vision in her left eye in […]
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The almost 7-foot frame of a revered basketballer walks into the room at the Hennessy office in Lagos. He takes his time to work the room delivering pleasantries and apologies for his lateness. The story is that Nigerian Immigration caused a delay at the airport. Sporting a bucket hat, a linen shirt, and striped pants […]
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I remember the first time I was cognizant of who Ayeni Adekunle was. As a teenager with an interest in media and the music industry, his columns in Punch and Thisday captured my interest and offered something to aspire to. Years later, I would make his acquaintance on Twitter, and he would prove a passive […]
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2022 was a year in which Kizz Daniel reasserted his dominance over the Afro Pop sphere with Buga and Cough (ODO). Leveraging that, Daniel teased his audiences locally and internationally with a snippet of RTID via his Instagram page, which triggered anticipation from his fans. Produced by Reward Beatz and Blaise Beatz, the single offers a sense of […]
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Before there was #NigeriaToTheWorld and the late Dora Akunyili’s ‘Good People, Great Nation’ campaign and all the other artificial attempts designed to capture Nigeria’s importance to the Black nation, there was Paul McCartney and Festac ‘77. Scholars of popular culture would recall that Band on the Run, the most acclaimed of Sir McCartney’s post-Beatles work […]
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