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The late afrobeat legend, Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti popularly known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti could be set for a posthumous honour after he was nominated for the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The late musician was nominated…

Shortlists for nine Oscar categories have been unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), an intermediate stage in the thinning-out of films that have qualified for consideration for the Academy Awards. The…

It’s official! #NECLive8 will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021. This year, NECLive – Nigeria’s largest gathering of entertainment industry professionals – returns as a hybrid media event, combining a studio set-up of select speakers with…

The world's largest record label, Universal Music, has removed all of its songs from the video sharing app Triller. The company says Triller has "shamefully withheld payments owed to our artists" and refused to negotiate a licence to use…

MTV Base, organizers of the MTV Africa Music Awards has postponed the event indefinitely. The ceremony was scheduled to hold in Kampala, Uganda on February 2021. In an e-mail sent to The Punch, organizers of the award said that the…

Donald Trump has quit America's Screen Actors Guild after it launched a disciplinary hearing into him, citing the US Capitol attack. "Who cares!" the former US president wrote in a letter, adding that the union had "done nothing for me".…

The President, Entertainment Database and a Nigerian Flutist, Omatshola Iseli, popularly known as “Tee Mac”, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to provide COVID-19 palliatives to Nigerian entertainers. Tee Mac, who made this…

Africa’s bustling and bubbling Dance & Electronic music scene has become a global player over the last few decades and Apple Music is on a mission to spotlight and elevate the work of the DJs, producers and artists in this space.…

Award-winning Nollywood actor Enyinna Nwigwe‘s portrait photograph has been selected for a permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, located on the National Mall of the United States capital,…

Nigeria's Sundance 2021 short film submission, 'Lizard' has made history as the first Nigerian production to win a short film Grand Jury Prize. Directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and shot in Lagos, 'Lizard' follows the story of a 9-year-old…