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Veteran Nollywood actor Pete Edochie has publicly endorsed his son, Yul Edochie, for the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. Yul Edochie, 39, who is also a Nollywood star, shared a video on his social media pages on Thursday night with…

The jazz pioneer Chick Corea has died at the age of 79. According to a post on his Facebook page, the musician died from “a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently”. In his career, Corea won 23 Grammys and was the…

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.…