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In the last 72 hours, reports emerged about the Nigerian army descending on Orlu, Imo, in an operation believed to stall the activities of the Eastern Security Network (ESN). The ESN are a security outfit in the Southeast similar to the Southwest’s Amotekun, but only that they are an offshoot of the separatist group he... 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... Read More
Released in 2019, Lupita Nyong’o’s children’s Sulwe was well-received and broadened her creative streak from being an actress. A #1 New York Times bestseller at the time, Sulwe is now getting an adaptation by Netflix as an animated musical, the Oscar-winning actress announced via Twitter today. Sulwe is a semi-autobiographical story, meaning it’s partly drawn... Read More
RnB has always been Niniola’s first love, as far back as her stint with reality show Project Fame in 2013 where she belted out RnB songs. Afrohouse became a beautiful departure which produced an abundance of singles and well-received albums in This Is Me (2017) and Colour and Sounds (2020). This Is Me, her debut,... Read More
Yesterday’s announcement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation was a huge feat for the renowned, Harvard-trained economist, who had been in the race since 2020. Since the creation of the WTO, no woman and African has helmed its affairs over regulating global trade, and Dr. Okonjo-Iweala installed has now... Read More
Saturday’s turn of events on the #OccupyLekkiTollGate protests confirmed what we already know: that the government would mount a resistance. The police in anti-protest gear and the army had occupied the area even before protesters arrived, and when they did, harassed, intimidated and threw some into Black Marias. Although the protest turnout was significantly less... Read More
Stefflon Don has enlisted Tiwa Savage and Rema, two of Afrobeats’ homegrown mascots, for the remix of her single Can’t Let You Go released last year October. The song is arguably Stefflon’s best tryout at Nigerian-tinged Afropop, code-switching with Yoruba and pidgin layered on the genre’s most recognisable signatures of percussions and repeating vocals. The... Read More
The state of Oyo has been seized by violent clashes between Hausa and Yoruba residents in Shasha area of Ibadan, the state capital. This has disrupted business for traders in the popular Shasha market, where peppers and tomatoes are sold. After the death of a person that happened on Friday, the violence has spilled into... Read More
As Nigerians peacefully protest the reopening of the Lekki Toll Gate tomorrow with #OccupyLekkiTollGate, it is important we take lessons from the previous wave of protests that led us here. The #ENDSARS movement is one of them, too recent to be forgotten, and has become the face of youth organising in Nigeria. Returning to a... Read More
Blaqblonez has given new life to his salacious single BBC by teaming up with Tiwa Savage for the remix. Released last October, BBC (I will not spell it out), is a bubbly, dancehall song that flexes the rapper’s tale of male sexual prowess. But he finds his match in pop star Savage, who has a... Read More
Desmond Ovbiagele’s insurgency thriller The Milkmaid was easily the best Nollywood film of 2020, having scaled through the Oscars eligibility stage and garnered support from Nigerians and the local film community. Today, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the body responsible for the Oscars, has unveiled shortlists for nine categories (including Best International... Read More
About three months since the Nigerian Army opened fire on peaceful protesters. More than three months since government thought of ways to disperse peaceful protesters and used angry Nigerians (popularly called thugs, hoodlums) to infiltrate the protests and cause mayhem. Three months since some Nigerians and the government called the protests an insurrection. Three months... Read More
Tackling rape via the media can never be exhausting. Women – and men – are using the medium to address how endemic it has become. In Adesuwa Omon’s short film Grapes, which debuted on YouTube early February, Linda (Aiwansosa Itohan) makes a drunken call from a house party to her friend Vera (Obuseh Princess), asking... Read More
No social media platform is currently buzzing right now like Clubhouse, the voice-chatting, invite-only app that has gained huge popularity since launching around April last year. Aside its range of fields, subjects, themes, topics or any other interest marker that might appeal anyone, it has a radio-podcast-type feel. Only difference is that you can get... Read More
Mildred Okwo’s hotly anticipated crime thriller La Femme Anjola has been in limbo for a long time, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic of last year that interfered with its post-production and eventual release. Teasers had previously been shown, a flash of juicy bits, but not enough to meet up the the huge anticipation it has... Read More
In response to the decision to reopen the Lekki Toll Gate by the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the state of Lagos to investigate the Lekki shooting, Nigerians are not only shocked by the announcement but also pushing against it with the #OccupyLekkiTollGate hashtag that sprung in the early hours of today. On... Read More
Nigerians on social media are expressing their displeasure in what they perceive is an attack on their financial autonomy by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Today, a notification from the apex bank circulated on the internet, signed by the Director of Banking Supervision Bello Hassan and the Director of Payments System Management Department Musa I. Jomoh, prohibiting financial... Read More
If 2020 taught us anything, it is that a pandemic can’t stop the release of albums. Everyone and their grandmother dropped music projects last year, from mainstream artistes to indie folks. And with 2021 since underway, having EmPawa star act Joeboy out with his debut album Somewhere Between Beauty and Magic on Thursday, there’s even... Read More
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are persons who have been displaced by natural disaster or conflicts from their homes, and with Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and activities of other terrorism-adjacent groups that have prolonged for years, women and children are usually the demographic adversely impacted. Conflicts arising from militant attacks have led to countless... Read More
Off her sophomore album Colours and Sounds released last October, Niniola has just delivered the Adasa Cookey-directed visuals for Innocent (Fagbo),. Along with her well-established sound of Afrohouse, Niniola makes casual observations about the church and faith, of sinners and their vices for which she confesses to be an exception from them. A modest use... Read More
Tems released her debut EP For Broken Ears last September, an impressive outing that cemented her nascent status as an artiste to watch. Now she has shared the video for The Key, a song off the project which finds Tems singing formidably on a darkened alien planet. Directed by Seyi Akinlade, the visuals continues with... Read More
The Nigerian police has just launched a crime-reporting mobile application called NPF Rescue Me, which will also provide intervention for health emergencies. The app is available on both Android and iOS-enabled devices (I have tried it, it’s there) and hopes to assist the police in its bid to manage and curtail crime nationwide. We will... Read More
On February 4, Joeboy will release his much-anticipated debut album Somewhere Between Beauty and Magic, following the impressive outing of his debut EP Love & Light released last year. Joeboy has been granting interviews about the album, especially to streaming platform Audiomack and revealing that Somewhere Between Beauty and Magic will be different from what... Read More
So much has been written about the inherent bias with which we judge the actions of people based solely on the gender at the receiving end of said judgement. Time and again however, we find ourselves back to it like it is second nature. This is a perfectly human weakness that rather than scorn should... Read More
How does one begin to process the monumental loss of a parent? If you have ever spoken to anyone who experienced that pain, one common truth about that experience is that true healing is always elusive. There may come a calm acceptance in time. What happens when you find out about such loss not through... Read More
There are three constant things in life: rain, tax, and internet challenges. Just fresh from the Buss It Challenge and its equally viral cousin the Big Bank, the latest is an export from TikTok (because where else?) called the #SihouetteChallenge where a person poses in front of a source of light, often in a doorway... Read More
Singer-songwriter, Cobhams Asuquo on growing up blind, and surpassing the odds in the music industry
Singer-songwriter and superstar producer, Cobhams Asuquo has always been the perfect example of grit, hope, and passion. On this week’s episode of #WithChude, he didn’t fail to bring an overabundance of inspiration as he walked us through his ordeal of growing up blind in Nigeria and the power of ignorance on the way to fulfilling... Read More
Amongst many profoundly emotional episodes of #WithChude, this week’s conversation with multi-brand ambassador and award-winning actress, Dakore Egbuson-Akande on her struggle with postnatal depression, battle for her mental health and the road to recovery, was particularly striking. Speaking on how her seemingly perfect life and the recent transition to motherhood deteriorated into postpartum depression, Dakore... Read More
Theatre can be an instrument of positive change in the society through the satirical exposure of unpleasant political situations, social anomalies and social misdemeanor. Employing the potency of theatre to entertain, educate, inform and correct societal problems in Nigeria; Live Theatre Lagos , is partnering with Alliance Française Lagos to present Konkortion. Written by Adebola Ogunshina, a filmmaker, dramatist and actor, Konkortion... Read More
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