Music talent discovery and grooming competition, MTN Project Fame West Africa, is back for its sixth straight season. Looking for raw talents, the annual show will commence auditions on 25 May till 29 June. The auditions will hold across four West African countries- Sierra Leone, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. Thousands of young talents are expected [...]
Americans by the droves plunked down cold cash Saturday for a chance at fulfilling their most feverish dream: winning the $600 million Powerball lottery jackpot. Millions will be glued to their TV sets when the Powerball numbers are drawn in a live event broadcast just before 11:00 pm eastern time (0300 GMT Sunday). If there [...]
Thousands of youth flew in to Lagos, Nigeria to take part in the four-day open auditions for shortlisted candidates in Nigeria for this year Big Brother Africa which held at the Protea Hotel Leadway, Maryland, Lagos. Some of the participants flew in from United States, United Kingdom and other parts of the country just to [...]
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent A Nigerian journalist shares his experience on Dana’s re-inaugural flight to Abuja Friday 4 January. The airline’s licence was suspended in June last year, following its crash in the suburb of Lagos, killing 159 people. My editor, Mr. David Odey, had on Thursday jokingly cast a tentative headline for my trip to [...]
A solar-powered plane landed in Spain Saturday on its way back home after breaking a record with the first intercontinental flight by an aircraft run on the sun’s energy, organisers said. Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, 54, piloted the experimental plane Solar Impulse on the 17-hour flight from Rabat in Morocco and landed at Madrid’s main [...]
The Saint Valentine’s Day, famously known as Lovers’ Day is around the corner once again. Nigerians, like their counterparts in other parts of the world have been shopping for gift items for their lovers. Some have even booked hotel rooms, while others have been thinking of that posh rendezvous where their partners will be given [...]
As the race to the ultimate prize in the ongoing Gulder Ultimate Search: Celebrity Showdown hots up, the last female celebrity standing in the jungle, rappertainer Adesola Idowu, popularly known as Weird MC now pitched against three men for the ultimate diadem- the Golden Goblet, has thrown up a challenge to the male contenders. Weird [...]
