Universal Music Group partners Boomplay to expand streaming license  across 47 African countries

March 17, 2021

New partnership will see UMG expand from 7 to 47 countries with expanded listening experiences on Boomplay Charles Abuede Leading African streaming platform and download service, Boomplay, has entered into streaming license partnership with the Universal Music Group (UMG), a world leader in music-based entertainment  in a landmark collaboration that will see the global music […]

YouTube to reward creativity at first virtual Black Africa Creators Week

November 24, 2020

By Zainab Iwayemi   In a bid to celebrate Africa creativity, YouTube, the world’s most popular online video community, has dedicated a week to mark the first-ever virtual YouTube Black Africa Creators Week, which stretches through a week for the purpose of engaging, educating, and inspiring African creators to grow on the platform. The one-week […]

Netflix inks multi-title deal with Nigerian producer Mo Abudu

June 12, 2020

Netflix inks multi-title deal with nigerian producer Mo Abudu

Adaptations of Lola Shoneyin’s novel ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’ and Wole Soyinka’s play ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ are among the multi-title parternship. Netflix is reaffirming its commitment to original African content, signing a multi-title deal with prolific Nigerian producer Mo Abudu. Through the partnership, Abudu — via her production company EbonyLife […]

Nigeria’s Onyemihia shines at Pan African Re-insurance journalism awards

May 28, 2020

Nigeria’s Onyemihia shines at Pan African Re-insurance journalism awards

Nigerian broadcast journalist, Destiny Onyemihia of Voice of Nigeria, has been named winner of the 2020 award for Best re-insurance Broadcast Article (English category) at this year’s Pan African Re-insurance Journalism Award sponsored by Continental Reinsurance, the composite private pan-African reinsurer that has been on the continent for more than 30 years writing business in […]

Nigeria auto journalists express shock over Globe Motors CEO’s passing

April 22, 2020

The Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) says it is shocked by the news of the death of William Anumudu, chairman and chief executive of Globe Motors Holdings Limited, one of the largest automobile franchise owners in the country. Globe’s franchise dealerships include Mercedes, Toyota, Hyundai and the Higer brands. Anumudu died in the early hours […]

Dioud replaces Oladokun at AfDB as acting director, communications and external relations 

April 11, 2020

The African Development Bank Group (AFDB)  has appointed Nafissatou N’diaye Dioud as acting director for communications and external relations department, effective April 1, 2020. He replaces Victor Oladokun who recently retired from the organisation. Dioud, a Senegalese national, was until her appointment a division manager in the same department. She has been a dedicated and […]

Taxaide introduces new technology to aid tax compliance, data protection

February 26, 2020

Ahead of the March 30 deadline for personal income tax (PIT) returns, Taxaide, a leading tax management and technology firm, has unveiled technological tools aimed at enhancing a more effective tax administration for Nigerians and tax authorities. Bidemi Olumide, CEO of Taxaide, said the firm, through its technology development subsidiary, Taxtech, produced PITApp® to serve […]

Telecoms investments in Nigeria, SSA face threats

January 20, 2020

By Omobayo Azeez   Investments in the Nigerian telecommunications industry and those of other sub-Saharan African countries are threatened by many challenges, experts have alerted. They also disclosed that due to these threats, investors are losing interest and confidence in the markets, a development that, according to them, portends great dangers for the industry. One […]