Davido Clears Instagram Posts, Deletes Profile Picture

Superstar Davido has deleted the majority of his posts on Instagram, leaving only three.

It was on Wednesday revealed that the singer also deleted his profile picture.

The only posts remaining on his Instagram page of 26.4 million followers are that of his late son, Ifeanyi; the viral post of him and his lover, Chioma, getting ready for his Qatar performance; and pictures from the World Cup performance.

The singer had earlier hinted that he’d be returning to social media

Instagram Restores EFCC’s Account

The account of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been restored by Instagram after it was deactivated for over two weeks.

This was made known via the commission’s Twitter handle on Monday.

Instagram sheds a tear for Twitter as “RIP Twitter” trends amid mass resignations

Many Twitter users are saying their goodbyes to the platform, including Instagram, as “RIP Twitter” trends.

Due to the massive layoffs and other Twitter employees opting to resign rather than face the new working conditions, many fear Twitter is dying.

“Twitter is shutting down” and “RIP Twitter” are trending following reports the platform is running a skeletal crew after many employees quit.

Many fear this signifies the beginning of the end for the platform and they are already saying their goodbyes to friends they made on Twitter.

Even Instagram’s official Twitter account tweeted about the shut down.

IVD changes his Instagram profile photo to that of his wife and children

Popular businessman, Ikechukwu Ogbonna popularly known as IVD has updated his Instagram display photo with a photo of his late wife, Bimbo Ogbonna and his children.

The popular car dealer has been at the center of a domestic violence controversy which reportedly led to the death of his wife.

Asides from changing his display photo, it was also noticed that his followers on Instagram have also increased from 441k on Saturday, to 463k as of this morning.

IVD has also deleted every post on his Instagram page.

Vera Sidika’s old posts where she repeatedly claimed that her b**ty is 100% natural surfaces

Some of Kenyan socialite, Vera Sidika’s old posts where she repeatedly claimed that her butt is 100% natural, have popped up.

The photos surfaced just after she took to social media to reveal that she was forced to undergo reconstrutive surgery on her butt due to health risks.

This came as a shock to many as she had in the past made everyone believe that her huge behind was natural.

In an interactive Questions and Answers (Q&A) in August 2021 before she gave birth to her daughter, Sidika claimed that her huge derrières were 100 percent natural.

She also reassured her fans that her giant backside is 100 percent natural in another Q&A in June 2022.

She also claimed in another Q&A session that she’s had a huge backside since she was a teenager.

I left you and you were stagnant- Actress Nkechi Sunday Blessing fires back at her ex, Opeyemi Falegan

Actress, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has clapped back at her ex, Opeyemi Falegan.

The former love birds re-ignited their fight on social media today September 15, following an interview she granted this morning.

Nkechi in the interview talked about their relationship. She said Opeyemi was not really a man she fancied and that she only dated him to get back at her American ex-boyfriend.

Opeyemi took to his Insagram page to respond to Nkechi, asking her to stop talking about him.

He said she now sounds empty and that attaching his name to hers is dysfunctional. Nkechi has now hit back at him in posts shared on her Instastory.

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Britney Spears wishes sons happy birthday amid strained relationship

Britney Spears has wished her sons Preston and Jayden a happy birthday despite their recent estrangement.

The singer shares the teens, Preston, 17, and Jayden, 16, with her ex Kevin Federline.

Sharing photos of her and her sons which she said were taken last year, she wrote on Instagram:

“Happy birthday Preston and Jayden!!! Love you both so much!!! These photos are from last year !!!”

The birthday wish comes just weeks after Jayden granted an interview corroborating his dad’s claim that he and his brother don’t want to see their mum again.

In his interview, Jayden also took his grandparents’ side after they received heat from Britney for the 13-year conservatorship she blames them for.

After Jayden’s interview, a heartbroken Britney said something in her has “died”.

To further compound matters, neither of Britney’s sons attended her wedding to Sam Asghari.

But Britney put all that behind her to celebrate them on their birthday.

Genevieve Nnaji unfollows everyone on Instagram

Popular Nigerian actress, Genevieve Nnaji has caught the attention of fans after she unfollowed everyone on her Instagram follow list.

The Nollywood star who was following about 100 people, is currently following no one on the video-sharing app and fans are hoping she would reveal why she chose to clear out her follow list.

With 8.4 million followers on the social media app, Genevieve is known to use her account to just post peng pictures occasionally as she hardly interacts with fans.

Her last Instagram post was on January 2, 2022 and it was a video of her enjoying a nice view while wishing people a Happy New Year.

On realising that she was no longer following anybody, some fans said they would unfollow her. as well.
omni_chudda; … She’s classiq .. shes bigger than social media clout n drama…. ??? Any celeb who made money before social media is bigger than Social media

official_fumilola; I will unfollow her too????

amber_venny; Wahala for who follow her ???

eyojulia; Genny is too big please. Most of these celebs should learn from her. She’s really a role model period!!

whumie_thrift_store; Good for her,she kuku no Dey post content b4

thompson15_crown; Me too i just unfollowed her i hate rubbish

tehilla_4; Me sef unfollow join

Annie Idibia goes off Instagram hours after Tubaba’s family declared Pero Adeniyi his ”first wife” (Screenshot)

Nollywood actress and businesswoman, Annie Idibia’s Instagram account has disappeared from the platform, hours after her husband’s family endorsed his baby mama as his first wife.

CorrectNG reported yesterday that Tubaba’s family members paid a courtesy visit to Pero Adeniyi and declared her  his first wife, saying that no other wife can take her place.

Just hours after the video from their meeting went viral, Annie’s has gone off Instagram.

It is however unclear if she deactivated the page herself or if Instagram took it down for rules violation.

A recent check shows Annie Idibia’s IG page is inactive.

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#BBNaija: Instagram verifies Kayvee’s account less than a day after his voluntary exit

Former housemate of Big Brother Naija ‘Shine Ya Eye’ season, Gbolahan Ololade better known as Kayvee’s has been verified on Instagram.

The photographer and videographer voluntarily exited the show on Monday, August 16 due to medical reasons.

Kayvee’s Instagram account handler, announced the verification on Tuesday, while updating fans on his health.

The IG post reads; ”..Thank y’all for the love, calls, prayers, we’re sincerely grateful.

To all #KayveeFc, your fave is fine, smiling and wants you to know he loves you and appreciates the love.

Importantly, we’d like to tell somebody that’s silently struggling that, you are not alone. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You’re powerful, strong, beautiful, you’d make it through stronger.

Let us not loose our conscience for social media likes and engagements. It doesn’t cost anything to be nice and kind to people, because we don’t know what they are going through.

“Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” ~ Erik Erikson

WE ARE VERIFIED GUYS!?????

Fans visited the comment section to congratulate and celebrate with him.

@iamfaithgowon: Yes ooo, we’re VERIFIED, Congratulations.

@wrld_rica: We are strongly behind you Kayvee we love you so much.

@Kwuinemerald: Kayvee to the whole wide world.

@mrkayvvee: Love and light ambassador.

Funke Akindele beats Toyin Abraham, Mercy Aigbe on 2021 Instagram Rich List

Award-winning Nigerian actress, Funke Akindele has topped her colleagues, Toyin Abraham, Mercy Aigbe and others to rank 70th on the 2021 Instagram Rich List as one of the highest-paid Nigerians on the platform.

According to Hopper HQ, Akindele’s Instagram account, which has over 13 million followers, has a cost per post worth N34,408,088.

Other Nigerians on the list include singers, Yemi Alade, 67th (N36,260,198.00) (N34,408,088.00); Tiwa Savage, 74th (N32,350,188.00) and Wizkid, 79th (N31,691,660.00).

Meanwhile, Davido ranked 53rd, the highest Nigerian with 20,408,979 followers and cost per post worth $128,300 (N52,805,714.00).

Juventus player Cristiano Ronaldo is topping the list, with 295,984,958 followers and a cost per post worth $1,604,000.

The Guardian reports that the Portuguese can command $1.6m (£1.2m) to endorse social media products.

Instagram deletes Adamu Garba’s page

Instagram has deleted the page of former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, from its platform.

This comes barely two days after Google deleted his Crowwe app from the Play Store.

A recent check showed that Instagram had taken down the APC Chieftain’s IG account from the popular image and video sharing app, with his page displaying ‘the user not found.’

When contacted on Tuesday for comments on the development, Garba told The Gazette that Instagram took down his account because some users reported him.

“It was reported by some users and was disabled by Instagram,” he said.

The reason for reporting Garba’s account was unclear as of the time of filing this report. But lately, he has received a public backlash regarding his Crowwe app accused of disingenuity.

Instagram is known for banning accounts that violate its policy or reported for spam, fraud, or a fake account.

His deleted Crowwe app had suffered a similar fate when Twitter users criticised the application on various grounds, including its privacy policy.

Adele Shuts down dating rumors.

Adele is rumored to be sending her love to a new lover. 

After a source close to the Grammy award winner confirmed that she was dating fellow musician Joseph Junior Adenuga popularly known as Skepta.

The Grammy Award winning singer has shut down reports that she is dating 38-year-old rapper, Skepta.

One year after the pair were linked together, the singer has seemingly addressed the rumors by putting it to bed.

Alongside a photo from her recent Saturday Night Live appearance, the Hello singer on her instagram page, first praised those who were part of her successful hosting gig, before telling her fans that she’s going back to “my cave now to be the (single) cat lady that I am”.

She wrote:

“Had the best time on SNL! Thank you to the most wonderful cast, crew, writers and producers.

What a sublime bunch of people you are. Lorne thank you for believing in me! Lindsay my sister for life, Maya my comedy and Mama hero! Plus the so up for it audiences at both the dress rehearsal and live show! I did it for the joy of it and I hope you got some from it too! Good luck with the election America I love you so much. Look after each other and go easy on yourselves.

Happy Halloween! I’m going back to my cave now to be the (single) cat lady that I am! Peace out til next year. “

Facebook and Instagram made missteps on Nigeria’s EndSARS protest while Twitter boosted it

The two and a half week-long #EndSARS protests in Nigeria against police brutality has garnered attention and raised awareness far beyond the country’s borders thanks to a savvy well-planned out campaign, boosted by Nigerian and global celebrities. But none of this would have been possible without the sheer reach and immediacy of major social media platforms.

The peaceful protest started online using the #EndSars hashtag before spreading quickly to thousands of people joining protests on the streets of Nigeria’s big cities and then London, Toronto, Houston, and elsewhere, again thanks to social media.

But all social media is not created equal.

The campaign to shut down controversial and brutal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) thrived on Twitter in particular and a series of significant EndSARS hashtags trended globally and had millions of retweets. Even Twitter’s enigmatic founder Jack Dorsey joined young Nigerians in encouraging the global Twitter community to donate to the protest organizers using bitcoin.

Twitter gave the EndSARS hashtag an official emoji and verified the Twitter accounts of several users at the forefront of the protest. This act of support contributed to the credibility of the protest and boosted the protest both online and offline.

But even as the hashtag picked up steam and shared by the likes of Kanye West and Rihanna, over on Facebook and Instagram some of the posts with the #EndSARS hashtag was being incorrectly labeled as “fake news.”

To make things worse, these “fake news” labels by Facebook and Instagram inadvertently helped to promote a self-serving anti-fake news campaign by the Nigerian Army, which has come under intense scrutiny after men in military uniforms opened fire on unarmed peaceful protestors at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos on Tuesday. The Nigerian Army has claimed its soldiers were not involved in what some have labeled a “massacre” despite plenty of video evidence. Many Nigerians now perceive its moves as government propaganda to discredit the #EndSARS protest.

The Nigerian Army had during the EndSARS protest launched “Operation Crocodile Smile” which it claimed is cyber warfare that includes identifying and countering fake news against the Nigerian government. When the Army was accused of shooting at protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos three days ago, they labeled social media and news media reports of these claims as fake news. This is despite circulations of pictures, videos, and eyewitness reports backing claims of soldiers shooting at the protesters.

Instagram and Facebook platforms, which are both owned by Facebook Inc, both flagged posts containing words such as “#EndSARS” and “Pray for Nigeria” and of photos of a blood-stained Nigerian flag and a burning candle as fake news, and users were directed to an unrelated fact check article for explanations.

“It seems clear the social media platform’s algorithms are completely falling to differentiate between genuine posts and fake news, causing harm to users and serving as evidence that those algorithms simply are not up to the job of fact-checking when large scale breaking news event occurs,” explained Ray Walsh, a digital privacy analyst at ProPrivacy based in the UK.

To be clear, there have been dozens of supposedly pro-EndSARS posts and photos shared on the most popular social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook) which have been flagged as false or as misleading by the protest organizers themselves in a bid to avoid the movement’s credibility being tarnished. The open nature of social media means it is difficult to control or manage the sources of information whether it is legitimate or otherwise.

“Instagram and Facebook must make every effort to ensure that genuine posts containing important information about the government’s actions are not being unfairly flagged as fake news,” says Walsh.

Though Instagram’s public relations team has since released a statement of apology on Twitter admitting it incorrectly flag content supporting #EndSARS and marking them as false. It says the issue has now been resolved, but supporters of the protest have slammed Facebook for actively helping the Nigerian government refute allegations about the shooting.

It’s just the latest example of the challenge social media’s executives face in how to make decisions when it comes to preventing the spread of misleading information. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, in particular, is under scrutiny and pressure in the run-up to the US elections on Nov. 3. Twitter has run into major controversy in the US by attempting to block users sharing a news story which it claimed was misleading and it has taken to labeling tweets with fact-check tags.

In Nigeria, Dorsey has even been accusing of inciting violence by actively supporting the funding of the mostly peaceful #EndSARS protests. Adamu Garba, a former presidential candidate tweeted that he has charged Dorsey to a Nigerian court and he is demanding a compensation of $1 billion to be paid to the Nigerian government for the loss of lives, properties & convenience during the EndSARS protest. Garba, a controversial Twitter user is also demanding that a court order is given to stop Twitter from operating in Nigeria.