After basking in the spotlight as one of the leading voices of Street-pop music in Africa, prolific hitmaker, Seyi Vibez, consolidates his enduring efforts with his just-released debut album dubbed, “Billion Dollar Baby” Succeeding his earlier works including the widely acclaimed “No Seyi, No Vibes EP”, Seyi Vibez stretches...
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Serial Entrepreneur and Investor, Sam Uduma, recently sat with Chude Jideonwo, host of #WithChude and founder of Joy, Inc., to discuss his struggles with Bipolar Effective Disorder and Multiple Personality Disorder, as well as his journey to recovery. “If I will get the timing right, we had just come...
Members of Germany’s Under 17 women’s team danced with their Nigerian counterparts on Sunday to Nigerian music despite losing their third-place encounter 3-2 on penalties to Nigeria. The Nigerian team had dominated the encounter with a 3 nil deficit, courtesy of goals from the trio of Opeyemi Ajakaye, Amina Bello and Etim...
Ifeanyi Adeleke, son of popular music artiste, Davido, and his fiancée, Chioma Rowland is dead. Details of the circumstances surrounding Ifeanyi’s death were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report. However, unconfirmed reports according to the Punch, hinted that Davido’s first son drowned in a swimming...
Spotify, an online music streaming platform, has released a mini documentary to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Afrobeats label, “YBNL”, founded by Nigerian music icon, Olamide. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music, Sub-Saharan Africa, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. Okumu said to celebrate 10 years of the...
A renowned musician, Thompson Victor Ufuoma, popularly called Victor Thompson, says some youths find it difficult to convert their talents to wealth because they undermine mentorship. Victor Thompson, who said this in an interview with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja, said beyond having talent, there was the need for...
By KEMI BURKOLA, Abuja – DSTV, one of the subsidiaries of Multichoice, this week announced the acquisition of the hit TV show, #WithChude – which has consistently delivered viral interviews over the past two years. The host of the show, Chude Jideonwo, disclosed this in a post of his...
Former first lady, Patience Jonathan, has celebrated her 57th birthday in a grand style on Tuesday, October 25. Her husband, former president Goodluck Jonathan joined their children, family members, and friends to celebrate her at a get-together. Watch the video below…
Kanye West has lost his status as a billionaire after Adidas ended a lucrative Yeezy deal in response to his bizarre anti-Semitic scandal , according to Forbes Of West’s estimated $2 billion fortune, a whopping $1.5 billion was attributable to his relationship with Adidas, Forbes said on Tuesday, October, 25, The loss of...
Timi Dakolo has released a new music video for his hit song ‘There’s a Cry’, produced by Cobhams Asuquo. The song is the official theme music for the film ‘Awaiting Trial’, which has been released exclusively on YouTube for 5 days only. “It was a precious gift for Timi...
Nigerian music icon, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, and Omoniyi Timidayo, whose stage name is Zlatan, both featured as special guests at the children’s party organised by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday in Benin..The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Royal father...
Nigerian artiste, Victony, has released the first-ever Spotify single from Nigeria, a cover of Davido’s music, “Dami Duro”. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music, Sub-Saharan Africa, in a statement on Friday said that the single is currently available exclusively on Spotify. According to Okumu, the single is a disco-inspired...
Globally acclaimed author and speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has praised the viral film, ‘Awaiting Trial’. Speaking to her 1.5 million followers on Instagram days after receiving the highest Harvard W.E.B Du Bois Medal, the highest honour given by Harvard in the field of African and African American Studies, she...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has tied the knot with his fifth wife just five days after marrying his fourth one. The monarch married Olori Princess Aderonke Ademiluyi, in an elaborate royal wedding on Thursday, October 20, at his palace in Ile-Ife, Osun state. The videos from...
The remains of reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya aka Rico Swavey, who died on October 13, has been laid to rest. A funeral mass was held for him at the Methodist Church of the Trinity, Tinubu Square and then his body was moved to the Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi, Lagos, where he...
Singer, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid has welcomed a second child with his manager, Jada Pollock. Pollock broke the news in an Instagram post which showed her cradling her first son and new baby. She accompanied the picture with a captioned that read, “Beyond a blessing. Thank God...
A lady has won a pounded yam eating competition in Ekiti state. The lady who contested against both men and women was the first to finish her food and drink the local liquour. The incident happened in front of many eyewitnesses. Watch video below:
The host of WithChude, Chude Jideonwo, kicked off the free 5-day screening of his first film Awaiting Trial today. The film is the first in the series of factual films produced by his studio ‘Chude Jideonwo presents’, an outfit he unveiled last week. “It’s taken a lifetime of visioning...
Just a day after releasing the trailer for ‘Awaiting Trial’ the first film from the studio Chude Jideonwo Presents, the film has received double recognition from one of Africa’s biggest movie platforms, the Africa Film Festival (AFRIFF). In official communication from the Festival this week, ‘Awaiting Trial’ was announced...
Fans and families of veteran comedian and dramatist, late Moses Olaiya, popularly known as ‘Baba Sala’, on Saturday celebrated the late theatre icon at the maiden edition of the “Baba Sala Festival”. The festival tagged, “LAFTAISM 1.0″, with the theme, “Effects of comedy in a challenged society”, was held...