Author: Smooth FM
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After being grounded for nearly 20 years, Uganda’s national airline has launched commercial operations with a flight to the Kenyan capital. Uganda Airlines’ inaugural flight to Nairobi on Tuesday carried mostly government and airline officials following a ceremony to re-launch the carrier that collapsed in 2001. Uganda Airlines owns two planes. Four more have been […]
Power couples like Melinda and Bill Gates — who met on the job at Microsoft in 1989 — are proof of the synergies that can come from working with your soulmate. For the past 19 years, the couple has jointly headed a string of multi-billion-dollar philanthropic ventures via their Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As amazing as their story […]
Now in its 7th year, Ake Arts and Book Festival has brought over 400 artists, writers, poets, musicians, dancers and thnkers together in Abeokuta and now in Lagos State, Nigeria. The primary goals of the festival are to promote, develop and celebrate creativity on the African continent through a series of events during the festival. […]
The Lagos State House Assembly has set up a committee to investigate the purchase of 820 buses under former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration. It stated that it was important to investigate the purchase of the 820 of the 5,000 buses since Ambode proposed an estimated N45b for the state’s mass transit project, in spite of […]
After more than 18 months of unfruitful negotiations with the Nigerian government to reduce its high visa fee, the United States Embassy yesterday invoked its reciprocity rule. “The total cost for a U.S. citizen to obtain a visa to Nigeria is currently higher than the total cost for a Nigerian to obtain a comparable visa […]
The fate of several passengers in a boat that left Calabar, the Cross River State capital, with over 100 passengers and crew members for Cameroon was yesterday unknown after the boat capsized on the high sea. Reports said the boat capsized in Gulf of Guinea between Nimunda and Edina, in Cameroon, on Sunday with many […]
It all went down on Saturday, August 24th in lagos when Afro-Jazz superstar Labaja joined Wande Coal and Adekunle Gold for a unique blend of music and flavours at the Johnnie, Jazz & Whisky event in partnership with MTN Music lovers from all works of life were present at the event and they were treated […]
Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $5 million to the emergency Amazon Forest Fund created by Earth Alliance, an organization he formed with Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth last month. That financial commitment will be used towards providing “critical resources for indigenous communities and other local partners working to protect the life-sustaining biodiversity of the Amazon […]
Ready or Not is a 2019 American black comedy horror thriller film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The film stars Samara Weaving as a newlywed who becomes hunted by her spouse’s family as part of their wedding night ritual. Watch Shola’s review below and check out his Instagram channel for more movie reviews […]
