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The show is a new show. First of all, it is 20 million Naira instead of 10. There are new aspects of the game. For instance, the host is a lifeline, so they can ask me for my answer to any question. That one already has a whole portal of interest that you can inspire from there…
Between the late 90s and the early 2000s, indigenous content took a major backseat to foreign content. American genres such as Hip-hop, Pop and R&B dominated the airwaves, so to be cool meant being conversant with American music. But a shift began to happen in the early 2000s. Widely regarded as the pioneers of the new-age Afrobeats sound, groups such as Trybesmen, Plantashun Boiz, and The Remedies began to fuse modern western influences from hip-hop and R&B with local melodies…
“Let’s all go to OX and have steak!” was the last thing I expected to hear as I and a few members of Daniel Benson’s team entered the studio, which is located in the Lekki axis of Lagos. He nodded to acknowledge our presence as we entered, but not before the Babcock University graduate sang his final ad-libs into the wellplaced microphone in front of him. However, walking in on “BNXN” (pronounced Benson) in the middle of a session at what was, at the time, the last embers of the day wasn’t on the cards.
Globally, the gender pay gap stands at 16 per cent, meaning women workers earn an average of 84 per cent of what men earn. In racially diverse countries, black women, immigrant women, and women with children are further down the remuneration pecking order.
I think being a mum is the most important thing I’ve done with my life. It’s the most spiritual. I say to my friends that I’d rather be a failed artist than a failed mum. I think that if you choose to do it— this is why I think no one should be forced or coerced into having children because it’s a big responsibility and while people ask for kids, kids don’t ask to be born. And a lot of people take it personally, but it’s true
Every time I sang, everybody at that point felt like Akah was the best singer in school except me. I taught Ayoola Ayolola (MTN Project Fame winner and The Men’s Club actor) how to do riffs and runs back then. Nonso Bassey (of The Voice) in school really looked up to me. All of these people had confidence in me except me who was seen as the number one singer. Because every time I sang, I would ask ‘how was it? Did I do well?’ I was heavy on the feedback…
In other parts of the world, Easter is celebrated as a family holiday with bunnies and eggs serving as props, while people take advantage of the fourday weekend to take a break from some of life’s overwhelming demands. Similar to how Christmas is often made about an old white man with a beer belly in a red and white costume, who goes by the alias ‘Santa Claus,’ Easter has, over the years, been marketed with an animal— bunnies—and an animal byproduct, eggs. But those are not the reasons why we have two days off work.
I feel delighted. I know that I did something that people will always hold on to. When I was doing it, I did it for a long-term purpose like I said before. I did it so that when you see it, you will know that it was planned and I was born to do this. Those things come out naturally when I’m on set…
As one of the poorest nations on earth according to reports, Nigerian youths have made a living off internet fraud since we got introduced to technology. The economy of internet fraud is so vast and intricate that it greatly influences the country positively in some areas. Job and wealth creation for instance is one of the merits (if one could call it that) as internet criminals popularly known as yahoo boys delve into businesses such as setting up supermarkets or buying properties in money laundering schemes.
Funny story, I got the name from my Uber driver. He took me wherever I went and he was the only Uber driver I used whenever I needed to go somewhere. At the time, when people saw me, they assumed he was probably my driver not knowing it was necessary packaging at the time…
