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Afremixbank unites Africa through music
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) through its Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) programme has announced the release of the much-anticapted Extended Play (EP), One Drum. Oscar Mdlongwa, popularly known as Oskido, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos. One Drum is a collaborative masterpiece that bridges cultures and genres,…
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Defence
Air chief tasks music professionals, educators on national development
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has urged music professionals and educators to promote professionalism and national development through music. Abubakar made the call at the 19th Annual National Conference of the Society of Music Educators of Nigeria (SOMEN), hosted by the Directorate of Music, Nigeria Air Force, on Tuesday in Abuja. The CAS was…
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NEWS
Davido hosts online global talent competition
Nigerian music star, David Adeleke a.k.a Davido in collaboration with Orbit has organised an online ‘ Global Talent Competition’ for singers and dancers of music globally. According to him, the winner of the competition would go home with a cash prize of 10,000 dollars. The award winning star who is marking his 10th year anniversary in the music industry, took…
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Africa
DigiConverge launches, signs exclusive content distribution partnership with VivaliveTV
Digiconverge, a one-stop digital convergence platform that provides fit-for-purpose services in e-broadcasting and global content syndication has launched operations in Africa, starting with Nigeria. The platform which already enjoys the blessings of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has signed an exclusive content distribution partnership for Africa with the Viva Entertainment Group Inc. US to bridge the gap between Hollywood and…
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Features
Charly Boy at 70: Coming Full Circle
Jubal Kanayo celebrates one of Nigeria’s strongest social voices, Charles Chukwuemeka ‘Charly Boy’ Area Fada’ Oputa, 24 hours after his 7oth birthday… “Solo, why you bring this kind small pikin to come interview me?” Charly Boy asked my Entertainment Editor. He said this looking me over like a toy in a shop. He wanted a thousand reasons to be in…
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Features
Bongos Ikwue at 78: Reflections at Dawn
Jubal Kanayo celebrates the voice from the ‘60s, Bongos Ikwue “You can even hear the sounds from the cock crow at dawn…” Many who remember the soap ‘Cock Crow at Dawn’ (my uncles talk about ‘cokoro adol’ till this day) know the theme song. If you have heard that song, ‘What’s gonna be’s gonna be’, ‘Still searching’ or ‘Otachikpokpo’, then you…
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NEWS
COVID-19: Paris orchestra plays Strauss to empty hall
Renaud Capuçon, a French concert violinist accustomed to playing to rooms of 2,000 people and more, performed on Thursday evening to an empty auditorium, but he said the experience was none the worse for it. “It’s like a return to life,” he said of the performance, his first at the Philharmonie de Paris concert hall since the COVID-19 outbreak forced…
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Cubana Chiefpriest Weighs in on Burna,Davido Twitter Squabble
A major figure of the Nigerian Twitteratti,Cubana Chiefpriest,has weighed in on the Twitter squabble between Davido and Burna Boy. Burna Boy,who christened himself ‘Odogwu’ had made comments suggesting that Davido had leveraged on his father’s fame to make one for himself. Speaking in defence of Davido,the ‘Chiefpriest’ lashed out at Burna via an Instagram post and decided to hand his…
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NEWS
Lagbaja @ 60: Celebrating The Man Who Saw the Future
I met Lagbaja – Bisade Ologunde, as I later came to know him – in the mid-2000s, as a teen. It was through his song ‘Never Far Away’. Of course, I’d heard his songs – ‘Kon Ko Below’ and ‘Gra gra’ – over the airwaves but the lyrics of ‘Never Far Away’ arrested me. I was a starry-eyed youth in…
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NEWS
Ex-Sony Music GM promises to develop Nigeria’s digital music
Mr Michael Ugwu, former General Manager, Sony Music West Africa, has promised that the scope of opportunities of digital music in Nigeria will be developed to boost the industry. Ugwu made the promise in a statement in Lagos on Monday, following his appointment on Jan. 8 into the Board of Merlin Network to represent Africa. The statement was issued by…
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News
Cocaine, gun allegedly found in US Rapper Lil Wayne’s private jet
The United States law enforcement agents have allegedly found illicit drugs and firearm in a private jet, with American rapper Lil Wayne on board. Quoting the law enforcement agents, the Miami Herald reports that Wayne flew into Miami on Monday aboard a private jet that was stopped by federal agents who later found drugs and a firearm on the aircraft.…
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NEWS
Tony Tetuila Sues Wizkid Over Copyright Infringement
Nigerian Afrobeats artiste Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun better known as Wizkid has been slammed with a ₦30 million lawsuit over copyright infringement by music veteran Tony Tetuila. Tetuila whose real name is Anthony Olarenwaju Awotoye revealed in an Instagram post that he and Ghanaian singer Tic are suing Wizkid and DJ Tunez for violation of intellectual property. View this post…
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Arts & Culture
Daddy Showkey returns with single album
Veteran music star and the Galala music messenger, Daddy Showkey, has finally made a return to the music scene with a new single titled: “Showkey Show.” Seven years after his last hit album: “Take 5ive,” the Diana hit maker has decided to delight music fans worldwide with another mind-blowing album under the supervision of Cornerstone Music. And this time, it’s…
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Arts & Culture
US shut down Davido’s concert in New York
The Police in the United States of America on Friday shut down the much anticipated concert in New York, United States of America by David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido. The season artiste, while expressing his displeasure via Tweeter few hours ago, didn’t give reasons why the concert was halted but felt so bad for not performing. Shortly before the…
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