Tag: Nigerian Music

Nigerian celebrities Popular Nigerian singer and record label owner, David Adeleke alias Davido, was recently spotted smoking a cigarette on a football pitch. Information Nigeria gathered that the singer joined his colleagues and friends to play a football match on Saturday at the Campos Mini Stadium in Lagos. Celebrities, who were present at the match, include Mayorkun, Peruzzi, May D,… Read More

Ademola Olonilua Two heavyweights in the Nigerian entertainment scene ― veteran musician, Felix Duke, and his colleague, the President of the Performing Musician Association of Nigeria, Pretty Okafor ― are in a battle over the ownership of the Creative Industry Group. The Creative Industry Group is a body that encompasses every creative mind in the Nigerian entertainment industry. In a… Read More

Ade Adefeko is the Vice President and Head, Corporate and Government Relations at OLAM, and he was recently appointed Honorary Consul of Botswana in Nigeria. He speaks to MOBOLA SADIQ about his career, agriculture and other issues You’re 51 and have achieved quite much with your career. How did you manage to get this far? I would say it is… Read More

Jesusegun Alagbe In August 2018, after spending almost three years stuck in Libya en route to Europe, Innocent Imagbeghian was finally evacuated to Nigeria. When he left Nigeria in March 2015, he sought to migrate to Italy for a better life. He said he sold his brother’s piece of land with a building on it in Benin City, Edo State,… Read More

Tofarati Ige Djooky Music Awards, a global music competition that runs four times a year (winter, spring, summer and autumn), has kicked off its winter edition. The competition is open to all genres of music from artistes across Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The Djooky Song Contest backed… Read More

There have been a number of proposal rejections in recent times. A babe’s marriage proposal was rejected by her boyfriend at Ikeja City Mall and became viral gist in January 2018. Few weeks before that, a man had his proposal turned down by his girlfriend because, as it turns out, he was a serial cheat who had slept with her… Read More

Last weekend was truly a celebration of love as Union Bank x BellaNaija Weddings made dreams come true with a free surprise proposal for one couple and an all-expenses-paid wedding for another couple! And just like that Notey Akpotive and Obiora Chibuzor are now one step closer to their happily ever after, thanks to Union Bank x… Read More

Johnny Drille’s debut album, whose title we don’t know yet, is already picking up momentum with the release of yet another single titled Bad Dancer. Bad Dancer follows the sprightly Mystery Girl released year, a sexy, clever, tightly-worded love song that merges Americana tones and RnB, as Drille often does. Honest songwriting has been Drille’s strength. ”I’m a bad dancer… Read More

In High school, music started as an ‘escape from reality’ for Nasir and now, it’s turning into a full-fledged career. On February 19, 2020, he released his EP, Love, Hate & Psychedelics. An experiential six-track project, it explores and documents consumption of psychedelics as a response to societal pressure, troubles in love and societal ills. Importantly, Nasir didn’t make an… Read More

Many songs on Ogranya’s SoundCloud catalogue feels like a slow-alt-pop-jazz universe. The 29-year-old singer-songwriter from Rivers edges around soul but with bedroom pop nuances, vocals calibrated low to a devastating emotive register. His debut EP Eden Evermore, released in 2018, is a genre-blending triumph with high emotional stakes and intimate songwriting. ”I’m going talk to these scars until they speak,”… Read More