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Tanzanian musician, Diamond Platnumz, has publicly apologised for sharing an indecent video of his baby mama Hamisa Mobetto and another unidentified woman. Earlier this week, Diamond Platnumz was briefly detained and interrogated by police over an indecent post on the social media. The videos have since been pulled down from the...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won an award for Best in Literature at the 10th edition of the Shorty Awards. The writer beat other nominees including Cleo Wade, Jon Ronson, Jonny Sun, Kevin Kwan and Rebecca Traister to clinch the prize. The Awards honour the best content creators and producers on social media: Twitter, Facebook,...

Tanzania singer, Diamond Platnumz has being arrested for posting an indecent video on social media. The Tanzania minister of information, arts, culture and sport confirmed this on Tuesday while speaking to the parliament in Swahili. "We haven't remained idle as we passed as we passed Electoral and Postal Communication Act (EPOCA) Regulations recently....

Media personality, Toke Makinwa took to her Instagram to give us a sneak peak on how to build a social media account In her post, Toke Makinwa reveals that growing a social media account can be tough but she has learnt and is still learning the hang of it. one...

Facebook Inc. has said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consultancy firm, Cambridge Analytica. This number is up from a previous news media estimate of 50 million. Facebook chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, writes in a...

Former Egyptian MP Hamdy al-Fakharany’s son was found dead in his room on Monday night where several notes with scribbled handwriting and unknown symbols referring to the infamous Blue Whale game were found, according to his sister. According to a Wikipedia entry, the Blue Game game or challenge involves an...

Senior special assistant on media and publicity to president Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has expressed his displeasure with the negative influence that social media has on governance in the country. While speaking during an interview on Sunday, the president’s spokesperson lamented that Nigerians fail to give President Buhari enough commendation...

Russian businessman, Sergei Mavrodi, whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack. Reports said the 62-year-old was rushed to a hospital late on March 25, following complaints of chest pain. He died several hours later. According to Moskovsky Komsomolets,...

Nigeria's Gucci-loving internet personality is just learning that human behaviour is vastly reliant on emotion unless of course, you're Sherlock Holmes. So, Hush shared his experience on Instagram describing how he received a lot of negativity from commenters when about six months ago, he opined that people should not buy...

A Facebook user identifying as Engr Dobi Abraham Abe has posted of his severely bruised back, which he says was a result of a soldier flogging him. According to Abe, last Saturday, he had asked the soldier not to urinate in front of his shop; only for the soldier to...