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  TikTok announced on Thursday, January 22, 2026, that it has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its U.S. business, allowing the company to avoid a ban over its Chinese ownership. The  TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC will serve more than 200 million users and 7.5 million businesses while implementing strict safeguards for data protection, algorithm security, and content moderation, the company said. The new structure responds to a law passed under President Donald Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, that forced Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations or face a ban in its biggest market. Trump welcomed and claimed credit for the deal, but also thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for approving it. “I am so happy to have helped in saving TikTok!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social late Thursday. “It will now be owned by a group of Great American Patriots and Investors, the Biggest in the World, and will be an important Voice.” “I  wo...

N igerian tech entrepreneur and social media personality, Linus Williams Ifejirika, popularly known as Blord, has claimed that his recent online exchanges with social media activist and influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, were deliberately staged. Blord said the controversies and heated back-and-forth between both men were part of a coordinated plan to promote the Ratel app and build online engagement. According to him, the posts, arguments and public tension were not spontaneous but pre-arranged, adding that both sides agreed to work together to create buzz and drive attention to their respective platforms. Blord also stated that the recently announced “Blunt Gadget Rally” was part of the same plan, insisting that the online drama was designed for publicity rather than personal conflict. The revelation follows weeks of intense social media exchanges between Blord and VeryDarkMan, which had drawn heavy reactions from users, with many interpreting the feud ...

  Nigerian music superstar, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido has expressed gratitude to his father, Adedeji Adeleke, for defending him amid the ongoing paternity dispute involving his alleged baby mama, Ayo Labinjoh. Recall that Ayo Labinjoh’s teenager daughter, Aanu Adeleke, had a week ago written an open letter to her alleged father, Davido, demanding a paternity test. While denying ever seeing the lady before, Davido, in a series of posts on X, stated that five DNA tests conducted before now showed that Aanu Adeleke is not his daughter. In response, Ayo Labinjoh, who insisted that Davido is her daughter’s father, tagged the DNA test as fake. Defending his son amid the controversy, Adedeji Adeleke, during a press conference on Wednesday, disclosed that the child’s paternity test was conducted on both Davido and his cousin, singer B-Red. Reacting to the development in a post on his Instagram page on Thursday, Davido thanked his father for the public support Sharing a pictu...

The Lagos State Police Command has discovered a hideout disguised as a shrine, allegedly operated by suspected kidnappers, in the Idimu area of the state. Operatives of the command also arrested no fewer than 13 suspects in connection with the discovery. The Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, who led journalists on a tour of the premises located along Pipeline Road in the community on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 said the suspects were members of a notorious “one-chance” and kidnapping syndicate operating in the state. He said the arrests followed intelligence-led stop-and-search operations carried out by police operatives in the early hours of Sunday. According to the CP, three suspects were initially intercepted at Bode Thomas in the Surulere area of the state while operating in a vehicle allegedly used to pick up unsuspecting members of the public, especially at night and in the early hours of the morning. “The syndicate usually lured victims under the pretence of selling doll...

American streamer, Darren Jason Watkins Jr., popularly known as IShowSpeed, recently visited TikTok creator, Amadou Elizabeth Aminata, popularly known as Jarvis, while reportedly ignoring her ex-boyfriend, Habeeb Hamzat, popularly known as Peller. The streamer has been in Lagos, Nigeria, as part of his ongoing Africa tour. He arrived in the city on Wednesday, which was also his 21st birthday. On the same day, he hit 50 million subscribers on YouTube while live‑streaming from the streets of Lagos. Earlier, Peller, who is also a Tiktoker was seen trying to get IShowSpeed’s attention during the tour. He approached IShowSpeed several times but was repeatedly blocked by the streamer’s security team and did not get a chance to collaborate or speak with him on camera. At  one point, Peller was filmed chasing IShowSpeed’s convoy while riding a horse and calling out to him, but IShowSpeed did not respond. During his visit, IShowSpeed met with local content creators and fans. One of those he...

  A  document posted by Ned Nwoko on his 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) account Wednesday night has added a new dimension to the ongoing marital controversy between the lawmaker and his wife, Regina Daniels. The document, presented as a written statement by a live-in nurse identified as Dora, contains allegations of events she claimed occurred during her employment in the Nwoko household from July 2023. In the statement dated January 9, 2026, Dora alleged that she began to notice changes in Regina Daniels’ behaviour around September 2025. According to her, the actress requested assistance in obtaining prescription-only drugs and, on some occasions, asked questions about what she described as lethal dosages of substances, including morphine and pethidine. The nurse further alleged that she once entered Regina’s room and saw what she described as opioids, anaesthetic substances and cannabis spread across a table. She claimed that Regina emptied a ketamine injection onto a flat plate and ...