This Week’s Episode Features a Special Anniversary Look-Back at a Year of Showcasing the Continent’s Biggest Hits – and the Artists Behind Them! Tune in to Africa Now Radio with LootLove this Friday, May 27th at 10a Lagos/London / 11a Johannesburg/Paris / 2a LA / 5a NYC on Apple Music 1 and broadcast on Cool FM in Nigeria every Sunday …

Sunday, 15th May 2022 was an incredible night to remember as the African arm of the leading music distribution company and independent label, EMPIRE, celebrated African excellence with their inaugural intimate series of spring events themed #EMPIREsundown. With DSP partners, media and key stakeholders hosted to an intimate mixer tagged EMPIRE Sundown Lagos, EMPIRE Sundown was the ​​company’s inaugural, intimate …

Here’s what this week’s Spotify Charts have to say about Nigeria’s music scene. Top Artists Kendrick Lamar has been on Top Artists Nigeria the longest, at 14 weeks straight. Sunday Service Choir claims the spot of the highest new entry at #11 while SPINALL is the biggest climber, moving 148 spots to #7. Top Songs Last Last by Burna Boy …

Liverpool Football Club manager, Jürgen Klopp has been named the English Premier League manager for the 2021/2022 season. Jürgen was given the award following his brilliant performance this season, alongside winning the F.A cup, and taking the Reds to the UEFA Champions League final this season. Receiving the award Klopp stated that, “It is a great honour and it was …

The organisers of the prestigious Headies award on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 made a big announcement on the nominees of the 2022 Headies Award. The organisers earlier revealed that the 15th edition of the Headies award will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It was further revealed that the event holds on July 2, 2022, with partnership from the US …

Nigerian superstar singer and songwriter, Davido returned to the music scene with his highly anticipated new song to debut the year titled ”Stand Strong” which featured Amazing Sunday Service choir, The Samples. The song produced by ace beat maker Pheelz, was released on Friday, May 13, 2022 and it debuted on the Apple Music Top 100 Global Songs Chart as well as …

French Ligue 1 club, Paris Saint-Germain have reportedly given up plans of retaining French forward, Kylian Mbappe at the club. According to reports confirmed on Mirror football’s website on Wednesday, May 18, PSG have officially removed the icon for fans to buy Mbappe’s jersey. The 23-year-old is reportedly linked to signing for Real Madrid at the end of the season. …

The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the the suspension of the nation’s basketball team from all international basketball competitions. On Thursday, May 12th, 2022, the country’s minister of sports and youth development, Mr. Sunday Dare announced that the decision was taken by the government because of the ending crisis between the two factions of the Nigerian basketball committee. The …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday announced that it has extended its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. The announcement was disclosed by in a statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke. Osodeke said this was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. According to reports the roll-over strike takes …

The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd of May 2022 as public holidays to mark the 2022 International Workers’ Day and Id-El-Fitr Celebrations respectively. The international workers day falls on a Sunday, hence it’s shift to Monday, May 2nd, 2022. Mr Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, made the declaration on Thursday on behalf of …