Soaking up the vibrancy of Fela's politically charged genre of music, Afrobeat, I believed that producers, who carried a shovel into the vast cave of Abami Eda's discography, would come back with a treasure chest filled with snares, kicks, horns and guitar riffs and chopped vocals to play with. In December 2010, a Nigerian rapper by the name of Kahli Abdu released 'Ministry of Corruption', a 13-track mixtape that featured a Fela sample on every song.

Coco Chanel and Christian Dior were rival couture designers in the 1950s. But during World War II, they found themselves in the same tragic situation: Both had family members imprisoned by the Nazis and were pulling every kind of string to get them back. That’s the premise of The New Look, out on Apple TV+ on Feb. 14, starring Juliette Binoche as Chanel and Ben Mendelsohn as Dior. Over 10 episodes, The New Look shows them fighting to save their loved ones and then fighting to save their own couture houses in the post-war period.

The employees were laid off this morning. Although no official statement has been given by the media house, Linda Ikeji reports that the mass retrenchment was because of a "bloated workforce and high overhead cost." TVC located in Ikosi, Lagos was created in 2012 and is owned by  Continental Broadcasting Service Nigeria Ltd. TVC is on the DSTV platform in Nigeria and British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSkyB) in the United Kingdom.

January 19, 2017 12:57 PM EST To commemorate President Barack Obama’s final day in office, Ellen DeGeneres spent a few minutes of Thursday’s episode of The Ellen Show saying goodbye to him and First Lady Michelle Obama. DeGeneres began the segment by thanking POTUS for everything he accomplished during his White House tenure, including legalizing gay marriage.”I want to personally thank him for changing my life,” she said. “I am a legally married woman because of him and so is my wife [Portia de Rossi].

When a door-to-door salesman showed up at Christine Palmer’s door in 2022 telling her she could save money by going solar, she and her husband decided to make the investment. Two years later, the panels have never been switched on and the company that installed them—Titan Solar—has abruptly gone out of business, leaving Palmer with a shiny but useless array on her roof.  Even if she could get someone to fix the panels, Titan installed them in a way that doesn’t pass inspection in her town of Lindenhurst, Ill.