Nollywood actress, media personality, and radio presenter Omotunde Adebowale David, aka Lolo 1, is calling for stricter regulation of TikTok to curb vulgar content. Lolo 1, who made the call during a recent table talk on News Central TV, said that there should be stricter regulation of the platform in Nigeria to curb s3xually suggestive content. She noted…
Five months after 18-year-old Hamdiyya Sidi Shariff was arrested for expressing her disapproval of Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu’s handling of insecurity, her case is still ongoing. Shariff was detained in November 2024 after posting a TikTok video that criticised government actions in Sabon Birnin Daji and drew attention to the sexual exploitation of displaced…
TikTok rival Triller is once again facing a lawsuit over allegedly unpaid music licensing fees. This time, the music organization suing Triller is Merlin, the digital music licensing group for indie labels, distributors, and other rightsholders. In a complaint filed on Thursday (March 27) in the US District Court for the Southern District of New…
Posted by Naijaloaded. on 30 March, 2025 under Entertainment 0 ….In the battle, the content creator who earns the highest coins is crowned the most influential. Naijaloadites! It’s about to be a mad showdown on TikTok this March 31st as Peller takes on TikTok King for the title of the most influential content creator on…
By Collins Osuji, Owerri 25 February 2025 | 12:24 pm The Imo State Police Command said it has commenced an investigation into the viral TikTok video where one Miss Jennifer Kingsley alleged that she and her baby’s father were assaulted by yet-to-be-identified police officers on patrol in Amakohia, Owerri. The lady in the…
By Krystal Hu DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the Davos event on Thursday. The billionaire declined to share details on…
It’s official: TikTok has switched off its service in the US, for now. The ByteDance-owned app went offline for over 170 million US users late Saturday night (January 18), ahead of the implementation of a law on Sunday (January 19) that effectively bans the app in the market. The Supreme Court upheld a law on…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world President-elect Donald Trump said he would “most likely” extend the deadline for ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to divest the video app which faces a nationwide ban that is set to come…
With just several days left before the US’s “divest-or-ban” law against TikTok comes into force, President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly mulling an executive order to suspend the law temporarily. The suspension – to last 60 or 90 days – would give the Trump administration time to find a buyer for TikTok’s US operations, or to…
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