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The Gambia Convention Center locked down a partnership deal with Egypt's African Businessmen Association through a virtual signing ceremony. Ambassador Yankuba Dibba from BICC and Dr. Yousrey El-Sharkawi from EABA put their names on the agreement to start working together on continental...

Gambia's London embassy is hunting for a young person to carry its flag at the Westminster Commonwealth Day parade. The gig is open to Gambians between 18 and 29 who are down to represent the country at the massive ceremony. Two women already repped Gambia at recent events. Tida Mata Ceesay...

Gambia's ambassador to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta just dropped off her credentials to the Grand Master in Rome. Fatou Bom Bensouda handed over the paperwork and passed along greetings from President Adama Barrow while talking about building stronger ties with the humanitarian group...

Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya had his bodyguards yanked without warning and he's claiming it's straight-up intimidation. The cops pulled his security detail and the officers posted at his Kitale house, even though the guy has been dodging bullets at rallies where gunshots got fired...

Legendary Russian filmmaker Vsevolod Shilovsky died at his theater studio after racking up over 150 credits in movies and TV. The People's Artist kept grinding until the end, teaching students and running what he called his little Moscow Art Theater. Nobody has dropped official details about...

TV host Dmitry Dibrov is apparently seeing nutritionist Katya Guseva after his wife, Polina, left him for some rich younger guy named Roman Tovstik. The weird part is that Guseva was friends with Polina and even belonged to her club before this happened. They started hooking up this fall and...

Actor Ilya Obolonkov from Tolyatti is turning 44 and has been grinding in Russian film and TV for years. He got his break playing cops and military dudes in shows like Platinum, Code of Honor and Molodezhka after starting with bit parts. Dude also did melodramas with actresses like Olga...

Actress Valeria Lanskaya just wrapped her first appearance on the singing competition Duets and said it was wild trying to harmonize when her partner's voice sounded like a cartoon character in her earpiece. The show pairs up celebs who don't find out who they're performing with until the song...

Turkish actress Hande Erçel touched down in Moscow to hype up her new movie, where she plays a lawyer named Bilge who bumps into her old childhood pal Can. She actually helped write the script because she was super invested in getting this story made. The film dropped right around when she...

Some retired teacher in Omsk sold her place for 4 million rubles to Anna Savkina, a single mom with two kids, then immediately claimed she got scammed and refused to leave. The buyer went through a realtor and everything seemed legitimate when they closed the deal at the bank, but the seller...

Anna Sedokova broke down crying on video after getting death threats against her and her kids following another wave of online hate. The artist said she gets attacked daily while trying to protect the memory of her ex-husband, who died a year back, and people keep accusing her of moving on when...

Elena Tovstik threw shade at Polina Dibrova while hyping up Svetlana Silvashi's new women's club launch in Moscow. She basically said Silvashi's spot actually promotes family values instead of teaching people how to wreck marriages and steal husbands like Dibrova allegedly does. Silvashi stays...

Rivers State governor Siminalayi Fubara wants students to get better education and his secretary, Dr Benibo Anabraba, told WAEC reps the state is bankrolling free WASSCE registration for kids at public schools. The gov approved building computer test centers across all three senatorial districts...

A Kaduna federal judge shut down bail for this guy, Bashir Ibrahim Bello, who got hit with fraud charges in three different cases while the EFCC sits on over 400 complaints about him. Justice R. M. Aikawa said the dude would probably bounce if they let him out because the allegations are massive...

Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed says those five cops who got killed in Darazo were caught up in farmer-herder drama and not some bandit ambush like everyone keeps saying. The governor told his council that the whole thing went down in Sabon Sara village when officers tried breaking up a...

Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, says the IPOB leader is holding up fine in that Sokoto prison and compared the whole situation to Nelson Mandela's time locked up on Robben Island. Ejimakor posted after visiting Kanu alongside his wife, Uchechi, and his brother, Prince, that the guy stays...

UBEC boss Aisha Garba wants to beef up partnerships between government agencies and private groups to get quality education out to Nigerian kids, regardless of how broke their families are. She told reporters the commission is revamping its public-private engagement framework to make these...

Tinubu dropped a nationwide security emergency and told the military plus police to bulk up their numbers because things are getting sketchy across Nigeria. The president wants cops to bring in 20,000 more officers on top of the 30,000 already planned, and he said they can use youth service...

The Nigeria National League pushed back a couple of matchday three games from Saturday to Sunday without explaining why. Godswill Akpabio FC versus Calabar Rovers got moved along with the Ranchers Bees against Bichi FC matchup. Godswill Akpabio FC takes on Calabar Rovers at Uyo Township...

CAF tapped Senegalese ref Issa Sy to handle the Champions League group stage clash between Rivers United and RS Berkane at Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo. His fellow countrymen, Djibril Camara and Nouha Bangoura, are running the sidelines while El Hadji Amadou Sy takes fourth official duties...