Beyoncé got her long-awaited album of the year win at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday: “Cowboy Carter” took the night’s final award, giving the superstar three wins (out of 11 nominations), she became the first Black artist to win best country album. A visibly shocked Beyoncé also won for best country album, saying…
The 67th annual GRAMMYs will be known as Kendrick Lamar’s year. The Compton rapper won all five of the categories he was nominated for to bring his total tally up to 21 wins. He took home the awards for Record of the Year, Best Music Video, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for “Not…
Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Tems won her first individual Grammy award on Sunday at the 67th Recording Academy Awards with her love track, Love Me Jeje. Tems beats her Nigerian Afrobeats compatriots, Burna Boy, Asake, Wizkid, Yemi Alade and the Davido and Lojay assisted ‘Sensational’ by Chris Brown to win the second Grammy in the Best…
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an order on Saturday imposing hefty new tariffs of 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% on imports from China, potentially disrupting more than $2.1 trillion worth of annual trade. Trump, working from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida this weekend, said on Friday that there…
A medevac plane crashed soon after takeoff in Philadelphia on Friday with a child and five others on board, the air ambulance company that operated it said, adding that it had not confirmed any survivors. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, based in Mexico and licensed to operate in the U.S., said its aircraft crashed with four…
Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine on Saturday, killing eight people and damaging dozens of residential buildings as well as energy infrastructure across the country, Ukrainian officials said. The Interior Ministry said that a Russian missile struck a residential building in the central city of Poltava, killing four people and injuring…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum rose from its first 2025 monthly meeting held in Asaba, Delta State capital, on Friday, with a resolution backing the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which pronounced the former National Youth Leader of the party, Hon. S.K.E Udeh-Okoye, as the authentic National Secretary of the PDP and…
CBS says it will turn over an unedited transcript of its interview with Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission, part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with the network over how it handled a story about his opponent. Trump sued CBS for $10 million over the “60 Minutes” interview, claiming it was deceptively edited…
Israel began releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners hours after Hamas freed three hostages as part of the ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip. A bus departed Ofer Military Prison with some 32 prisoners for the West Bank. About 150 other prisoners were being sent to Gaza or…
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday declared it would embark on a nationwide protest against the proposed 50 per cent telecom tariff hike announced by the Nigerian Communications Commission on February 4 in a communiqué signed by its National President, Joe Ajaero. The decision was taken at the National Administrative Council meeting of the NLC…
