According to Forbes' Highest-Paid Women in Music list for 2016, 26-year-old US Pop star Taylor Swift is the richest female musician. Swift amassed earnings of 170 million US dollars (£137.8m) over the past year. Her earnings are mainly due to her 1989 World Tour raking in a quarter of a billion dollars. She also has lucrative endorsement deals with brands such as Diet Coke, Apple and more. (more…)
Wole Soyinka, the Nobel literature laureate who currently lives in the US and works as a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs told students at Oxford University that if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States next week, he will leave the country. While giving the seminar to the college students, he said: (more…)
Hackjos is a challenge-driven hackathon that brings together techy-savvy citizens, scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, students, programmers and developers across Nigeria under one roof for 48 hours to get involved and showcase their ingenuity and talents in the pursuit of creating compelling solutions that cut across mobile, desktop, web and hardware (embedded systems) that will help solve problems relevant to the various sectors of the Nigerian economy. Teams will be afforded an opportunity to pitch their completed apps at the end of the Hackathon for a chance to wi
Rapper Will.I.Am launched headphones called IAMPlus which is co-owned by model Kendall Jenner who turned 21 today. Naomi Campbell, Kendall Jenner, India Love and model Shaun Ross are all Ambassadors of the headphones. More photos after the cut... (more…)
The SSA on Information Communication Technology to the Plateau State Government Mr. Daniel D. Dalyop had a brief meeting with various bloggers, content creators and social media strategists on the Plateau about the use of social media/new media to bridge the gap between the people and the government, therefore making the people more updated on the various activities of the government and also to show investors that Plateau State is truly a great place to do business. In attendance, Janet Faden of plateau newsonline, Ponash Fanap, Attah Ferdinard, John David of Jtownclu
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