Microblogging platform, Twitter today, Wednesday February 23, introduced a GOAT emoji for top users of its platform. Asides honouring global celebrities, some Twitter also honoured some Nigerian celebrities with customised goat emoji. G.O.A.T is an acronym for “Greatest Of All Time,” which is commonly used in sports when referring to players who are widely considered the most talented. The celebrities are Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Olamide, Ex-BBNaija stars Whitemoney, Laycon, Erica, Mercy Eke and Tacha. Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari also got the goat symbol. The goat symbol appears when these celebrities are trending on Twitter or when their names are searched with an hashtag symbol. Twitter also honoured other global celebrities like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo the emoji. In other news, popular rapper, Blaqbonez has chosen to investigate who ‘took’ his name on the Video-focused social networking service, TikTok and went ahead to expose him after making his discovery. Read his discovery here
Actress, Nse Ikpe-Etim recently teased fans with a poster of her Hollywood feature ‘The American King’ where she stars alongside singer, Akon.
The film which appeared to have been shot during the year 2020 is getting a Nigerian theatrical release.
Directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Adah Obekpa, the fish-out-of-water comedy follows the story of Sebastian an ex-con who gets an unbelievable offer to escape his woes courtesy of a mysterious high Priestess who seeks to fulfil a 400-year-old prophecy: choose an American who will become King of an ancient African kingdom, and restore it to the global superpower it once was.
This movie which was shot in Nigeria and Los Angeles is set to be distributed by Silverbird Distributions and will premiere on March 4, almost a month after its limited release in the United States.
‘The American King’ also stars Andrew Howard, Nick Moran, Massi Furlan, Eyninna Nwigwe, Nathin Butler, Miguel Nuñez Jr. and is produced by Joan McCarthy and Adah Obekpa who also gets credits for the film’s screenplay.
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