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The Game Awards is ostensibly the equivalent of the Oscars for the video game industry. The Game Awards have also evolved into a jam-packed news event, with new trailers, game announcements, and other surprises packed in between the night’s slate of prizes. This year was no different, and The Game Awards were home to some big announcements in the gaming industry. The event took place recently in Los Angeles, California, USA with Geoff Keighley as host. If you weren’t able…

Finally, we have a title for the next Avengers film and it is ENDGAME (not Annihilation or Decimation or Aftermath or any other name that have been flying around). With the release of its first official trailer yesterday (which already has more than forty million views on YouTube), fans are left in more confusion as to what will happen in the movie since Infinity war chose to end with the biggest amount of suspense seen in a film (exaggeration intended).…

The 2018 Formula One Championship season ran from 25 March to 25 November 2018 and was the 69th championship held since the inaugural season of the races held in 1950. There were 21 Grands Prix (French for Grand Prizes). Europe, being the traditional base of the championship, hosted 10 races while the remaining 11 held on other continents. Contained in this article are the winners of both the drivers’ and constructors’ prizes for each Grand Prix. World Drivers’ Champion: Lewis…

Nigeria’s tier-2 bank, Diamond Bank Plc, has been granted approval to operate as a national bank from its previous international outlook. With this approval, the bank will cease to operate as an International Bank. As a prelude to this, in 2017, it has disposed its West African Subsidiary and is currently in the final stages of the sale of its United Kingdom subsidiary. The bank will now operate locally (only in Nigeria) with less capital base. Uzoma Dozie, Diamond Bank’s…

A handwritten letter from Albert Einstein about his thoughts on God, religion and his search for meaning sold for almost $3 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday, December 4th, 2018. A brief statement from the auction house said the letter sold for $2,892,500. It gave no details on the identity of the buyer. The one-and-a-half-page letter had been estimated to fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million. Written a year before the legendary physicist died in 1955,…

Nigeria in the last few years, has become a killing field. This year alone, over six thousand people have been killed. From dropping bombs in public places to the slaughtering of defenseless people in cold blood, the death toll in Nigeria has trumped most civil wars in history. Regardless of how we choose to analyze this menace, it is pertinent to know we are just starting to see the devil itself, as those who have dedicated their lives to secure…

The global streaming giant, Netflix, has confirmed its plans to order original series from Africa next year to add to its ever-growing roster. At last week’s Content London conference, Erik Barmack, Netflix’s Vice President of International Originals, said the company is “in the process of looking at opportunities in Africa” and will “definitely” commission series from Africa in 2019. It’s an incredible opportunity because even a small fraction of Netflix’s $8 billion original production budget will be a boon for…

Prinyanka Chopra, one of the highest paid and most popular celebrity in India, recently tied the knot with Nicholas Jerry Jonas, on the 1st of December at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India. Indeed! A celebrity marriage to mark the yuletide. The 26-year old American Singer, Songwriter, Actor and Record Producer, proposed to the 36-year old Indian actress in London, on her birthday on July 18, 2018.The couple celebrated their engagement in Mumbai on August 18, 2018. The actress married…

A news platform, Sahara Reporters, on Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 floored Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki, at a Court of Appeal in Ilorin, Kwara state. The court nullified a Kwara State High Court judgement dated June 28, 2017, by Justice A.S. Oyinloye, that a sum of N4 billion be paid as damages to Saraki in a lawsuit between the Senate president, Sahara Reporters and its founder, Omoyele Sowore. Although the judgment was used to obtain a garnishee order against Sahara…

A woman who used false identities to gain access to Nigeria’s presidential complex to allegedly run business scams has been arrested. The secret service said the woman, who was identified as Amina Mohammed, initially posed as Kogi state’s first lady to gain entry to the presidential villa in the capital, Abuja. She then allegedly invited people to the villa and cajoled them into believing it was at the invitation of the president’s wife. Peter Afunanya, a spokesman for Nigeria’s domestic…