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Sophia Momodu inks E45 body lotion deal

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Fan vs Toke Makinwa

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Ini Edo hosts A Very Dirty Christmas movie 🍿🎥 premiere

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There’s something interesting about a Christmas film called A Very Dirty Christmas making its big entrance — especially when the season is usually associated with peace and tradition.

Ini Edo’s premiere didn’t just bring stars and style such as Phyna,Diiadem , Idia Aiden ,Tolu Bally,Rita Dominic Anosike,IK Ogbonna, Lateef Adedimeji, Nancy Isime, and Wumi Toriola onto the carpet; it brought a kind of contradiction into focus: a story about holiday chaos arriving in a moment when many of us are quietly trying to hold things together.

That tension between expectation and reality is exactly what makes culture feel alive — not the polished version of celebration, but the messy, real one that actually reflects how people live and feel.

Maybe the deeper question beneath the red carpet and the screen is this: why are we drawn to stories that unsettle our ideas of joy as much as they depict it? What does that say about how we understand the holidays — or ourselves — in moments that are supposed to be “perfect”?

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Nelly & Ashanti hosts Black &White Ball 2025

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When you hear “Black & White Ball,” it might sound like another celebrity gala — until you notice how it anchors back to home. What made the 2025 edition feel different wasn’t just the fashion or the lineup, but how the night held two rhythms at once: a celebration of cultural muscle and a reminder of why we gather in the first place.

The Black & White Ball 2025, hosted by Nelly and Ashanti in St. Louis, was a black-tie charity event that combined celebrity presence with community impact. Held at the Four Seasons Hotel, the night raised funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and scholarships at Harris-Stowe State University, including a full scholarship for a student and a Disney World trip for a Make-A-Wish child. The event featured appearances by Busta Rhymes, Doug E. Fresh, Jermaine Dupri, Metro Boomin, Bryan-Michael Cox, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and St. Lunatics, where Nelly also announced a 2026 St. Lunatics album to be executive-produced by Metro Boomin.

From scholarships that open doors for young minds to a child’s wish being fulfilled live on stage, the evening blurred the line between spectacle and substance. And even as elder statesmen of hip-hop like Busta Rhymes took it back to classics, there was this feeling of legacy — of how music, memory, and giving back can converge in a moment meant to lift others, not just impress them.

Maybe that’s the real pulse beneath the black-and-white theme: a contrast between what we wear outwardly and the shares of joy and opportunity we carry inwardly. So what does it say about us when celebration and purpose walk hand in hand?

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Ooni of Ife installs Ghana President Mahama as Aare Atayeto Oodua

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When the Ooni of Ife installed Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama as Aare Atayeto Oodua of the Source, it wasn’t just a ceremony — it was a quiet reminder that some honours speak to shared history more than personal achievement.

In the spiritual cradle of the Yoruba world, where tradition, ancestry, and identity converge, the title bestowed on Mahama — loosely translated as “a president who reorders the world for good” — became less about a single leader and more about the invisible threads that bind nations, people, and legacies across modern borders.

The gathering of dignitaries, traditional rulers, and leaders from both countries at Ile-Ife’s palace reflected not only diplomatic courtesy but a deeper cultural conversation about how old ties can shape new cooperation and how leadership is remembered when it is named not in headlines but in lineage. In a time when political divides seem louder than ever, perhaps the ceremony begs a different question: what part of our shared past are we willing to carry forward into the future?

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Broda Shaggi for Ofadaboy Rice Festival

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Lisa Folawiyo Bola Balogun Steph Busari - Deola Art Alade host Women and Driving Culture event

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When Deola Art Alade convened the Women Driving Culture luncheon in Lagos, the gathering didn’t feel like a checklist of names on a stage — it felt like a quiet claim on a future we’ve only just begun to articulate. At Mr Panther, an intimate group of women at the helm of film, fashion, media, policy and storytelling — from Lisa Idowu Folawiyo’s fashion vision to Stephanie Busari’s journalistic reach, from Bola Balogun’s PR ingenuity to creative voices like Nancy Isime and Funmbi Ogunbanwo — sat together not to celebrate what they’ve done, but to ask what they can build next.

The conversation was not about visibility alone, but about access to capital, authorship of narrative, and shaping the systems that determine who gets to tell our stories. In that space, culture was not a backdrop; it was the very thing being driven — by women who see influence as something you make, not just inherit.

Perhaps the deeper question beneath the clinking glasses and spirited exchange is this: what happens when the people shaping the stories of tomorrow decide, today, that they will define the terms of impact and not wait for permission on Creativity or Expression?

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Kenya Huddah speaks on children

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Achalugo Bamike wins bigas BEST ACTRESS

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Funke Jenifa Akindele Iyabo Ojo Tobi Baker for Behind the Scenes movie London Premiere

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Let's work out with Funke Jenifa Akindele

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Lil Nas X beats Mariah Carey

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In the ever-shifting landscape of popular music, headlines that read “Lil Nas X beats Mariah Carey” can feel like an oversimplification of something deeper. What’s really unfolding is not just a competition between artists but the way songs lodge themselves into cultural memory, cycle after cycle.

Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road once held the record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — a milestone that reshaped what a “hit” could look like in the streaming era — and it stood as a testament to how a young artist’s genre-bending energy could captivate a generation. Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You now looms even larger in the story, securing a record-breaking 20 cumulative weeks at the top and overtaking Old Town Road’s reign as the longest-running No. 1 in the chart’s history.

This isn’t just about one song surpassing another; it’s about how different kinds of music — a viral country-rap fusion and a seasonal love anthem from the ’90s — can both become the soundtrack to many lives at very different moments. Perhaps what this says about us is that our attachments to music aren’t linear — they are layered, recurring, and tied as much to time, ritual, and memory as they are to charts and records.

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Risachi, Didi and Ijeoma. Rest on #DrIjeomaIdaresit #edieamyco.

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Clive Davis enters Miami Kaseya Centerfor Brandy and Monica" The Boy is Mine "Tour

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When Clive Davis entered Miami for Brandy and Monica’s The Boy Is Mine Tour stop, it felt less like a VVVIP sighting and more like a symbolic passing of cultural rhythms from one generation to the next. The tour itself is a living snapshot of music memory and evolution — a first-ever co-headlining journey that draws from a song that defined an era and now resonates across decades of fans and new listeners alike. He was spotted in conversation with Kelly Rowland of Destinys Child fame .

Brandy and Monica — voices that once defined *90s R&B soundtracks and friendships in cultural time — walked onto the stage at Kaseya Center.

On that rainy Miami night, where nostalgia met present-day energy, the stage became a place where past rivalries have softened into shared history and where voices once shaped by youthful tension now harmonised with collective experience.

In the presence of producers, icons, and fans dressed in Y2K aesthetics, the moment asked something simple yet profound: what does it mean to revisit a chapter of culture not just for remembrance, but for reinvention?

Clive Davis enters Miami for Brandy and Monica" The Boy is Mine "Tour

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At least 2 dead at Brown University

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When news broke that a shooting at Brown University’s campus left at least two students dead and nine others wounded, the shock wasn’t just about violence in a place of learning — it was about the disruption of what safety feels like. Brown, an Ivy League institution, is not normally where headlines speak of panic and shelter-in-place alerts during final exams; it is a space where futures are shaped, not fractured.

Young people were inside classrooms, libraries, hallways — pursuing knowledge, uncertain of how quickly their world could shift — and suddenly the familiar became perilous. The victims were more than statistics: classmates, friends, people with plans and promise, names like Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov now spoken with grief across campuses and communities.

When a place meant for growth becomes a site of loss, the question that lingers is less about how this happened and more about how we, as a society, reconcile the idea of education as sanctuary with a reality where even sanctuary can feel unsafe.

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Beyonce is the Co- Chair for 2026 MET GALA

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When figures like Beyoncé and Jeff Bezos step into cultural gatekeeping spaces like the Met Gala, does it signal a real shift in who defines culture — or simply a rebranding of power in more fashionable terms?

Bezos anchored next Met gala is highly anticipated for 2026

Beyoncé’s appointment as Co-Chair for the 2026 Met Gala feels less like a celebrity milestone and more like a cultural signal. Over the years, she has moved beyond fashion as spectacle into fashion as language — using clothing, symbolism, and presentation to tell stories about heritage, power, and self-definition. Her presence in this role suggests a continued shift in how global institutions recognise influence: not just visibility, but intention. When someone whose work consistently blends artistry with cultural memory steps into a curatorial position, the conversation moves from what will be worn to what will be said.

What makes this moment worth pausing over is the expectation it quietly sets. Beyoncé is known for control, depth, and narrative coherence — qualities not always associated with red-carpet culture.

As Co-Chair, will the Met Gala become more reflective, more historically grounded, or more politically aware? Or will it simply absorb her influence without changing its centre? Perhaps the larger question is this: when artists who shape culture from the margins are invited into its most elite spaces, do those spaces evolve — or do they remain unchanged, only better dressed?

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Wale Adefarasin throwback photo

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A throwback image of Guiding light assembly church Wale Adefarasin at the beach with his wife and children offers a quieter counterpoint to the public weight often attached to spiritual leadership. Away from pulpits and titles, the photograph captures something ordinary yet rarely centered — presence, family, and unguarded time.

It reminds us that behind public callings are private lives shaped by the same need for rest, intimacy, and grounding as anyone else. In a culture that often flattens leaders into roles, moments like this invite a softer reading of legacy — one built not only on sermons delivered or influence held, but on relationships nurtured away from view.

Perhaps the question worth sitting with is this: how do we allow public figures the fullness of humanity, without reducing them either to ideals or to symbols?