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- 7 Oct 2021
Mercy Eke Returns to the World of Reality TV this October
Mercy Eke, Big Brother Nigeria (BBNaija) Season 4 winner, is returning to reality TV this October with the premiere of the sophomore season of her show, Mercy: What Next? While the first season of…
- 17 Dec 2013
Mercy Johnson is Nigeria’s Highest Paid Actress, Earns N2m Per Movie
Mercy Johnson made her acting debut in the movie ‘The Maid’ in which she played the role of a possessed house help. Net reported that Mercy Johnson Okojie is the highest paid actress in Nollywood…
- 4 Jun 2021
Mercy Corps Partners MoMo Agent to Deliver Cash Transfers to Vulnerable Households in North-East Nigeria
Mercy Corps’ has signed a new partnership with Y’ello Digital Financial Services (owners of the MoMoAgent Network), to efficiently deliver automated cash transfers and provide an avenue for programme…
- 6 May 2021
Mercy Corps Partners MoMo Agent to Deliver Cash Transfers to Vulnerable Households in Yobe State, Others
European Union funded Mercy Corps’ ‘Building Resilience in Complex Crisis (BRICC)’ programme has signed a new partnership with Y’ello Digital Financial Services, a subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, to…
- 31 Aug 2021
FCMB Partners Mercy Corps to Uplift 500,000 Farmers, Vulnerable in North East
First City Monument Bank’s (FCMB) and Mercy Corps, have announced a partnership that will ensure that about 500,000 farmers and vulnerable people in Nigeria’s North-East zone can now access farming…
- 3 Oct 2019
BBNaija: Mercy, Last Woman Standing in the Top 5 Housemates
BBNaija Pepper Dem housemate, Mercy aka Lambo shows promise by becoming the last woman standing in the house, competing for the N60million worth of prizes alongside fellow male housemates Frodd,…
- 4 Apr 2025
Glo-sponsored African Voices Changemakers Celebrates Nathaniel Bassey, Mercy Chinwo
CNN International's magazine programme, African Voices Changemakers, sponsored by Globacom, will this week celebrate two of Africa's biggest gospel music stars, Nathaniel Bassey and Mercy Chinwo. The…
- 24 Jul 2023
Adekunle Wins First Head of House Game in The BBNaija All-Stars Season As Mercy Eke Wins Black Envelope Immunity
Big Brother Naija returned yesterday with 20 former housemates accepting his challenge to take one more run in the Biggieverse. As is the show’s tradition, the housemates had to compete in a special…
- 15 Nov 2016
Glo Professor Johnbull TV Drama Features Nollywood Actress Mercy Johnson
One of the disadvantages of the rampant obsession with smart phones is the taking of personal pictures called selfie with the gadgets. This social malady is the thrust of Episode 3 of Season 2 of…
- 26 Jul 2019
P&G Partners Mercy Corps to Empower Young Nigerian Girls on Hygiene Management
Procter and Gamble, makers of the leading Feminine Care brand, Always Sanitary Pads, recently held a close out ceremony for one of its Citizenship programs, the Always Keeping Girls in School (AKGIS)…
- 17 Sept 2019
BBNaija: Fake Nominations Put Cindy, Diane, Frodd and Mercy Up for Possible Eviction
The BBNaija ‘Pepper Dem’ season is at fever pitch with only 10 housemates left in the competition. During last Sunday’s eviction show, BBNaija host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, revealed that there would be no…
- 13 May 2022
New Glo TVCs Feature Mama G, Mercy Johnson, Simi, Teni, Others
Globacom has carved a niche for itself with its incorporation of Nollywood greats into its television commercials, thereby making such productions engaging and interesting. Little wonder therefore…
- 22 Jun 2016
Empowering Young Nigerian Women Via Financial Literacy Training
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) recently acknowledged the impact being made by the global organisation Mercy Corps and MasterCard,…
- 21 Jul 2020
Lady Allegedly Spends N179m Fraud Loot on Sports Betting, Tithe
A Nigerian lady identified as Nkechi Mercy Ikogwe alongside two companies, Elites Finance Investment Limited and Efinc Global Investment Limited, were on Monday arraigned before Justice E.A. Obile of…
- 27 Sept 2019
BBNaija Sacks Tacha for Breaking House Rules
Sequel to breaking one of the house rules regarding violence on Friday, 27 September, Tacha, a Big Brother Naija housemate was Friday night disqualified from the show, while Mercy, a fellow housemate…
- 29 Nov 2019
Unusual Entrepreneur Programme Empowers 251 Entrepreneurs with N40m
The Unusual Entrepreneur, a faith-based entrepreneurship initiative by the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy, has committed 40million naira seed funding for 251 entrepreneurs across different walks of…
- 26 Dec 2023
Tappi Raises $1.5m in Pre-Seed Round to Digitise, Build Online Trust for Africa’s SMEs
Tappi, an end-to-end digital commerce SaaS solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $1.5m in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Mercy Corps Ventures and Chui Ventures.…
- 6 Dec 2023
tappi Raises $1.5M in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Round to Build Online Trust for Africa’s SMEs
tappi, an end-to-end digital commerce SaaS solution tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $1.5M in an oversubscribed Pre-Seed round led by Mercy Corps Ventures and Chui Ventures.…
- 13 Jan 2022
Women in Agile Africa Conference Holds on 27th-29th January 2022
All is now set for the Women in Agile (WiA) Africa Conference 2022, scheduled to hold on 27th-29th January. L-R: Olawale Bakare, National President, Junior Chamber International, Nigeria, Mercy…
- 20 Nov 2019
Unusual Praise 2019: Anticipation Rises for ‘Biggest Praise Concert in Nigeria’
Anticipation is approaching fever-pitch for Unusual Praise 2019, the annual religious praise concert organized by the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy. Widely regarded as the biggest praise concert in…
- 22 Nov 2023
A Narrative of Nigeria’s Cultural Flourish in the Tech Age
By Mercy Tartsea Anshase and Osamuyime Igbinadolor In the delicate choreography of Nigeria’s diverse cultural ballet, technology emerges as an unexpected but graceful partner, twirling tradition into…
- 28 Jul 2013
Nigeria’s Vacillation on Cyber Crime
With effective deterrents to cyber crimes lacking, Nigeria is at the mercy cyber criminals- the gang of unarmed but lethal criminals hiding under the anonymity of the county’s cyber space. The…
- 12 Apr 2016
Boko Haram 'Lures, Traps' Young Nigerians with Loans
Boko Haram has lured young entrepreneurs and business owners in northeast Nigeria to join the Islamist militant group by providing or promising capital and loans to boost their businesses, according…
- 6 Oct 2019
Nigerians Spent N7.2Bn to Vote on BBNaija
Statistics emanating from the final day of the Big Brother Naija Season 4 ‘Pepper Dem Gang’ episode shows that Nigerians spent a whopping N7.2 billion on votes. Announcing the results on…
- 4 Dec 2019
Unusual Praise will be World’s Biggest Catholic Concert by 2022 – Ekeh, Zinox boss
Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman, Zinox Group, has revealed that Unusual Praise will become the world’s biggest Catholic concert, come 2022. Ekeh made the assertion while speaking during the 2019…
- 15 Sept 2016
Rok Studios to Launch New Television Channel
Rok Studios, the Lagos-based film studio, is set to launch a fresh out of the box televison channel on Sky TV in the UK on Thursday, September 29, 2016. followed by a Gala party in London at 8…
- 1 Apr 2015
Abandoned Old Woman, Hapless Youth Rescued by Airtel
The Corporate Social Responsibility of one of the leading telecommunication in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has once again showed the need to help people that face everyday challenges. Passion and outlook…
- 28 Feb 2015
Nollywood Takes Over London
Some of Nollywood’s biggest stars made cinema history at the BFI IMAX, London, last night as they attended the star-studded world premiere of Thy Will Be Done, a ROK Studios film directed by the…
- 19 Feb 2015
Nigerian Idol Judge, Dede Rates Show High
Afro Beat icon and Nigerian Idol season 5 Judge, Dede Mabiaku has described the just concluded auditions of the on-going Nigerian Idol season five reality music show as a significant improvement on…
- 7 Feb 2015
Nigerian Idol Auditions Contestants: Attention Shifts to Lagos
The Dream Studios, venue of the final and Lagos leg of the on-going nationwide auditions of the Nigerian Idol season 5 will this weekend be a beehive of entertainment activities and the centre of…