Joshua Samuel, Author at Wakenews Nigeria

September 21, 2024

APC Inherited $550billion Economy from us- PDP

September 1, 2023 Joshua Samuel

According to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in 2015, its administration handed over more than $550 billion in economic resources to the All Progressive Congress, which is currently in power. On its official X account on Thursday, the PDP accused the APC of recklessly accruing N85 trillion in foreign debt […]

False portrayal: Peter Okoye threatens legal action against Access and Polaris banks

August 31, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Mr. P, a well-known online personality and artist from Nigeria, has threatened legal action against Access and Polaris banks. Last year, the music star revealed how online con artists were using his identity to steal from people. According to Wakenews, the musician has been operating a lottery system under his […]

‘Calm Down’ by Rema becomes the first song to stay a year on the US Billboard chart

August 29, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Divine Ikubor, better known as Rema, a Nigerian artist, has made history with his collaboration with Selena Gomez on the song “Calm Down,” which spent a whole year at the top of the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs list. This was announced on Monday by the American data collection business Chart […]

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Users will soon be able to share high-quality images and movies using WhatsApp

August 29, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Users will be able to exchange photographs and videos on WhatsApp in their original, high-definition form once the feature is ready. This planned feature was made known by WABetaInfo, a website that monitors WhatsApp development, in the WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.23.18.12. The option to “select original quality photos […]

Iyanya recounts ordeal of how he was broke and almost committed suicide

August 28, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk, a well-known artist in Nigeria, has talked about how he was broke in 2020 which nearly led to suicide. He claimed he lost his home and was living in a hotel at the time, but eventually found himself unable to pay the expenses. At that time, his old management, Temple […]

My ex wife never married me for the money- Julius Agwu

August 27, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Veteran actor and comedian Julius Agwu has refuted claims that his divorced wife, Ibiere Maclayton, wedded him for financial gain. Recall how several media outlets claimed he had implied in a recent interview that his ex-wife “may have married him primarily for his financial status at the time.” Julius Agwu, […]

Meta to launch AI model that will write computer codes in English

August 27, 2023 Joshua Samuel

The parent company of Facebook, Meta, announced on Thursday that it would publish an artificial intelligence (AI) model to help with coding, stepping up its investment in the emerging field. The business open-sourced Code Llama, a machine learning system that can generate and explain code in natural language, particularly English, […]

Burna boy competes with Davido’s record on US Apple music chart

August 26, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Burna Boy, a Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, has surpassed Davido’s previous mark for the highest-peaking African album on the Apple Music United States chart. ‘Timeless,’ Davido’s fourth studio album, which peaked at Number 2 earlier this year, established the record. The highest-peaking African project in the history of the list was […]

Google, Facebook, and other foreign corporations pay N2 trillion in taxes to the FG

August 26, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Over the course of 15 months, the federal government of Nigeria has amassed taxes from foreign businesses operating in Nigeria, including Google, Netflix, and Facebook, totaling N2 trillion ($2.5 billion). Value Added Tax (VAT) and Company Income Tax (CIT) are both included in this. The Federal Inland Revenue Service states […]

When P-Square debuted their popular song, “Bizzy Body,” I was five years old. Ifeoma, Paul’s girlfriend

August 25, 2023 Joshua Samuel

Ivy Ifeoma, the half of P-Square and a Grammy-winning singer who is Rudeboy’s fiancée, said that she was five years old when the trio debuted their smash song, “Bizzy Body.” The 23-year-old posted a video of herself dancing to “Bizzy Body” on her Tiktok page, which prompted a fan to […]