Tag: Music

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ToluSeptember 26, 2017

This is why we blame Jude Okoye for the Psquare saga

Two singing brothers and an older brother who manages them are the talk of town today for all the wrong ...

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ToluSeptember 26, 2017

Psquare Saga: Is Peter Okoye doing something wrong?

You may have seen the “all mighty” video of the Okoye brothers – Paul, Peter and Jude – screaming loudly ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 23, 2017

Reno Omokri: How Nigeria conquered The Seychelles

by Reno Omokri For the past four days, I have been holidaying in The Seychelles, a beautiful Island with beautiful ...

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musicblogSeptember 20, 2017

[The Music Blog] Davido and Orange Culture are crossing new landmarks with the Capsule Collection

It has long been the dream of music industry players to be beneficiaries of the wins of a functioning ecosystem ...

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ToluSeptember 19, 2017

5 reasons we don’t care about Psquare’s rumoured fight

If we all can just start perceiving Paul and Peter Okoye’s constant social media bickering as mere sibling rivalry and ...

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musicblogSeptember 19, 2017

[The Music Blog] Buzz Review: There is a naughty secret on Niniola’s new single “Sicker”

Through sleeper hits and cheeky Afropop that wouldn’t be so distinct if it was any other singer, Niniola has leveled ...

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ToluSeptember 12, 2017

#TheVoiceNigeria: We managed to scrape these five okay performances from the quarterfinals

On Sunday night, we watched The Voice Nigeria contestants battle for a place on the semifinals of the competition while ...

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Op-ed EditorSeptember 11, 2017

Pius Adesanmi: Don Williams – Fragments of memory

by Pius Adesanmi America invaded my formative years in Nigeria through culture, mainly books and music. Indian (Amitabh Bachchan!) and ...

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EzinneSeptember 11, 2017

The Thread: “You will soon unblow and go back to upcoming artiste” | TwitterNG uses Mr Eazi for barbecue

Mr Eazi has been taking flaming Ls on TwitterNG for saying that Nigerian musicians are now copying his style. In ...

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ToluSeptember 9, 2017

Who was Don Williams? | The ‘Gentle Giant’ of country music

On Friday night, news of the death of legendary country music singer, Don Williams spread to our part of the ...

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SponsorSeptember 9, 2017

Get ready Africa! Yemi Alade is back on Coke Studio Africa 5

For the fourth time running, one of Africa’s top female acts and two-time winner of the MTV Africa Music Awards ...

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SponsorAugust 31, 2017

The Beatz Awards call for entry

THE BEATZ AWARDSTM is here again for her annual award event, created to celebrate the creative minds behind music production, ...

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musicblogAugust 31, 2017

[The Music Blog] Buzz Review: Timi Saurse reinvents the ethos of Afropop and RNB for “Tangerine”

With the incursion of UK’s crisply produced Afrobeats, much of what used to be Afropop RNB seems to be evolving ...

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SponsorAugust 18, 2017

Falz reveals beautiful things about Coke Studio Africa 2017

Award-winning Nigerian artist Falz famed for hits like “Jeje”, “Soft Work” and “Soldier” returns to Coke Studio Africa for a ...

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ToluAugust 16, 2017

WO! The streets called and Olamide answered

Won ni won wa wa n’igboro | Won ni won ti miss wa n’igboro  Translation: They say they’ve been searching ...

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AzeezAugust 13, 2017

I am the first rapper to make money off music in Nigeria – Ruggedman

Rapper, Michael Ugochukwu Stephens, popular known as Ruggedman has said many of the things he spoke about in his early ...

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Op-ed EditorAugust 12, 2017

Ezinne Ukoha: Kechi Okwuchi is flawlessly making America great again

by Ezinne Ukoha For the past couple of months — I’ve received consistent updates about a young Nigerian woman — ...

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SponsorAugust 10, 2017

Tee Jewel drops Get Loose

Riding off the positive reception to Control, his recently released single, Tee Jewel, AbOriginal Music’s lover boy, returns with yet ...

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ToluAugust 6, 2017

#TheVoiceNigeria: Ain’t nobody badder than Bada, Wolei toh bad, Glowrie and everyone who stole tonight’s show

Someone must have saved the best for tonight. From six performances, two steals, one indecisive judge, one smart judge and ...

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EditorAugust 3, 2017

20 years after Fela’s death, his music, lifestyle and influence lives on

by Wareez Odunayo 20 years after the demise of Abeokuta born multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer and human rights activist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, ...

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ToluAugust 2, 2017

Insiders: The current generation of artistes are all about money and petty fights so they would never match up to Fela

It’s been twenty years since legendary Nigerian musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti passed on but that his music and the powerful messages ...

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ToluAugust 2, 2017

“My body understood Fela’s music before my head” | Paul McCartney, Talib Kweli, other music icons share thoughts on Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Fela, the irreverent, the maverick, the musical genius, the unfettered, Abami Eda, first of his name. This day in 1997, ...

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Op-ed EditorAugust 2, 2017

Tribute: “A man is not dead until he’s forgotten” | 20 years on, Fela is alive and strong

by Aduratomi Bolade If Fela were still alive, he would have been 79 on October 15, but he’s not: he ...

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ToluJuly 31, 2017

Entertainment Roundup: Wizkid is in Nigeria and is dropping new tracks “every day”; R.Kelly encourages female fan to touch his crotch as he performed on stage | More stories

Missed out on all the entertainment gist from the weekend? We have the biggest ones packed here plus others that ...

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ToluJuly 30, 2017

#TheVoiceNigeria: Watch the contestants who survived tonight’s battle and others who said goodbye

Tonight was the first in the battle stage of The Voice Nigeria singing competition and 12 out of the contestants ...

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RoqeebahJuly 25, 2017

4 reasons we think the EFCC had to let its Twitter handler go

Yesterday, the EFCC let it’s brilliant Twitter handler go and the most interesting thing to come out of the news ...

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ToluJuly 25, 2017

F.Shaw is the musical genius the EFCC held in its custody until yesterday

Forget it! F.Shaw is made. You probably don’t know who that is but that’s the point of this post. Out ...

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ToluJuly 20, 2017

Linkin Park lead singer, Chester Bennington commits suicide

Chester Bennington, lead singer of popular rock band, Linkin Park has died at the age of 41. Police told TMZ ...

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ToluJuly 18, 2017

“Robert is the devil” | All the shocking details of the sexual manipulation allegations against R.Kelly

There’s a damaging allegation making rounds across international news sites involving R&B legend, Robert Sylvester Kelly popularly known as R.Kelly. ...

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AzeezJuly 18, 2017

Arrest PSquare for disrespecting the government | APC youth urge security agencies

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Renaissance Group has fired back at music duo, P-Square for ‘insulting’ the government. The ...

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