Here are the top 10 songs for the first quarter of 2024
From the continuous exploration of Amapiano to the infusion of Nigerian indigenous genres, some records have stood out and enjoyed commercial and critical success. Months in consideration: December 1, 2023 - March 1, 2024 Criteria for selection: Chart performances, social media popularity, longevity. ADVERTISEMENT
Here are the top 10 songs of the first three months of the year. 10. Phyno feat Burna Boy - Do I remix Phyno recruited Nigerian Grammy-winning megastar Burna Boy for the remix of his single 'Do I' and the result was a new lease of life that rocketed the song to commercial success.
Hillary Clinton Wears Katy Perry's Shoes
April 12, 2017 12:43 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton made a bold fashion statement recently when she traded in her signature pantsuit for a leather jacket at the Professional Businesswomen of California conference. This week, Clinton supported her friend, pop-star Katy Perry, by wearing one of Perry’s shoes from her collection. The footwear, appropriately, is called The Hillary.
Clinton endorsed the heels by posing for a photo, which Perry posted on Instagram.
How America Gave Up on Overtime for Workers
If it feels like you’re working longer hours for less money than your parents or grandparents did, it’s because you probably are. Adjusted for inflation, average hourly wages have actually fallen since the early 1970s, while average hours worked have steadily climbed. American workers are increasingly underpaid, overworked, and overwhelmed.
What went wrong? In part, overtime pay.
If you’re under the age of 45, you may have no idea that overtime pay is even a thing.
How Breaking Bad's Iconic Pizza Scene Turned Controversial
On the day that Breaking Bad was set to shoot the scene in which Walter White slings an entire unsliced pizza onto the roof of his family home, the show’s prop department reportedly had stacks of pizzas ready to be sacrificed in pursuit of the perfect shot. Miraculously, Bryan Cranston ended up nailing the throw on the first take, and thus, Breaking Bad‘s instantly iconic pizza moment was born.
When the episode in question, season 3’s “Caballo sin Nombre,” aired in March 2010, fans immediately latched onto the hilarity of Walt expressing his familial frustration through an act of pizza destruction.
How Sadio Mane makes and spend his millions
27-year Liverpool star Sadio Mane has been named the 2019 African Player of the Year. This is the first time the Senegalese striker will be clinching the top African footballer award, beating his Liverpool teammate Mohamed Salah of Egypt and Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City). ADVERTISEMENT
The 2019 CAF Awards ceremony took place in Egypt on Tuesday, January 7th, 2020. “I am really happy and at the same time, I am proud to win this award.
IK Ogbonna says 90% of marriages are unhappy and wear fake smiles
The actor made this revelation known on his Instagram page on Wednesday, January 30, 2019. According to IK Ogbonna, the present Nigerian youths should take a different approach to marriage. "Our generation must change their approach to marriage for the sake of the next generation. This is not just for me as an individual but for those who need it. 90% of marriages are unhappy and wear fake smiles and pretend to be happy while depression is the case.
Inside the Modern Slave Trade Trapping African Migrants
By the time his Libyan captors branded his face, Sunday Iabarot had already run away twice and had been sold three times.The gnarled scar that covers most of the left side of his face appears to show a crude number 3. His jailer carved it into his cheek with a fire-heated knife, cutting and cauterizing at the same time.
Iabarot left Nigeria in February 2016 with a plan to head northward and buy passage on a smuggler’s boat destined for Europe, where he had heard from friends on Facebook that jobs were plentiful.
J.J. Watt Reveals That He Eats Over 5,000 Calories A Day
June 30, 2016 2:20 PM EDT
Even though J.J. Watt has an aggressively busy schedule (hosting the CMT awards! Eating a raw egg on Jimmy Fallon! Keeping the Texans afloat!), the most exhausting element of his life might be his daily calorie consumption, the intimate details of which were revealed in an interview with GQ.
The 6’5″, 289-pound defensive lineman has an eating schedule that would make a hobbit envious, clocking in at six meals a day, labeled “first breakfast,” “second breakfast” and so on and so forth.
Jackie Robinson's Moving Testimony on Racism and Communism
By the end of the 1948 season, his second with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was an American hero, a tall tale, the man who integrated baseball. But he still had to live in America. That meant enduring not just the insults hurled at him by fans and opposing players, and not just the segregated hotels in southern cities where the Dodgers played, but life on the sharp edge of the country’s politics.
Joanne Woodward (Actress) - On This Day
Profession: Actress
Biography: Award-winning actress who establish a career during the Golden age of Hollywood but also went on to become an acclaimed TV actress. Her most famous work includes the film "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957) for which she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe, "Rachel, Rachel" (1968) directed and produced by her husband Paul Newman and which won her another Golden Globe. She has other significant role in "