Former United States President Barrack Obama has picked Tems, Burna Boy, Pheelz, and BNXN as the four Nigerian music stars who made his 2022 summer playlist. Obama annually releases a list of his favourite songs from across the world. For summer 2022, the 44th US president put out his latest song list in a Twitter Read More…
Birmingham, UK was held spellbound when reggae music merged with classical syncopations on Tuesday, 26 July. The show featured Bob Marley’s grandson, Skip and Chineke! Orchestra, led by Nigerian-British double-bassist Professor ChiChi Nwanoku. Three generations of Bob Marley’s family were at the show in Birmingham on Tuesday – 50 years after the singer’s first performance Read More…
‘Last Last’ a hit song by Grammy Award-winning Nigerian, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has climbed up the chart to number 77 on the Billboard Top 100. The song debuted on the chart at number 86, a week ago. The song samples the hit track of Toni Braxton’s song titled “He wasn’t Man Read More…
‘Nigeria jaga jaga’ crooner Eedris Abdulkareem, has shared his GoFundMe account with fans and well-meaning Nigerians, for his medical bill regarding kidney transplant surgery. The veteran rapper, who took to his Instagram page to give details of his GoFundMe account created to aid his medical bill, said he was only waiting for the doctors to Read More…
Singer, Davido has defended Osun State Governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke from a Twitter user who claimed that his uncle would loot the state’s funds. Adeleke emerged victorious in last Saturday’s gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Gboyega Oyetola. Reacting to this, a Twitter user, with the handle Atiyuski, alleged that Read More…
Self-styled ‘wahala’ singer, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable Habeeb Okikiola aka Portable, has backtracked on his claim that he formed two criminal gangs that terrorised Lagos residents during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Portable claimed he was merely”catching a cruise”, a Nigerian euphemism for making a joke. The controversial artiste had in the early hours of Read More…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has ordered an investigation of singer Habeeb Okikiola aka Portable for claiming he formed the One-Million Boys cult group terrorising some parts of Lagos State. Portable was said to have shared a video of himself on social media where he claimed he created the notorious cult group, Read More…
American singer-songwriter, Christopher Maurice Brown, popularly known as ‘Chris Brown’ has congratulated Osun State Governor-elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke. Brown is close to and has worked with Adeleke’s nephew Davido. The US singer and the ‘OBO’ crooner worked on numerous songs together including ‘Blow My Mind’ and ‘Shopping Spree’. The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) declared Adeleke Read More…
Her African Concert Series is a monthly programme of African classical music that she started directing in 2019 at the October Gallery in London at the behest of the cultural organisation, the Institute of Art and Music, AMI5. In the course of her career, Romanian-Nigerian pianist, Rebeca Omordia, has gone into partnerships with various musicians, Read More…
A Nollywood Actor, Femi Adebayo, says his new epic movie, titled ‘King of Thieves’ known as Agesinkole, generated over N170 million in its first three weeks premiere at the cinema. Adebayo disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ilorin. He said the movie, which cost him several Read More…
