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Nigerian singer, Tems has revealed that before working with American singer, Beyonce, she was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
Tems talked about her experience working with the global superstar on her 2022 album, “Reinassance” in an interview with the New York Times.
“My team just messaged me like, ‘Yo, first of all, I have to send you something to sign. I was losing my mind. Like, What?!” she told New York Times’ Culture Reporter Reggie Ugwu, expressing her excitement.
Tems disclosed in the interview that she received an NDA from her team, which she accepted upon receiving an invitation to work with Beyoncé in Los Angeles.
The single “Move,” which is featured on Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated album “Renaissance,” is the outcome of Tems’ time in the studio with the singer.
In addition to Beyoncé, Tems has collaborated with other international celebrities such as Drake, Rihanna, and Future, who included both Drake and her on his Grammy-winning song “Wait For U.”
Maryanne Ahneeka Iwuchukwu, a former Big Brother Naija housemate, has slammed the Season 7 winner, Phyna, for publicly calling out the organisers of the reality show over incomplete prizes.
Recall that Phyna tearfully called out BBNaija organisers over unpaid 1BTC owed to her by one of the sponsors. According to her, the prize is now worth over N100 million.
Reacting, Ahneeka faulted Phyna for publicly calling out the organisers, saying it wasn’t “a wise idea.”
Featuring on the ‘Terms & Conditions’ podcast, the reality star stated that Phyna and other past winners don’t deserve their prizes to the extent of being entitled.
She said, “The thing about Phyna is, the thing that happens when you come out of Biggie’s house and out of nowhere, from 200 followers, you have millions of people, you think you are invisible.
“It happens to everybody. It takes thoughts and management to continue hustling.
“If truly the organisers are owing Phyna money and that could be a possibility, it’s still a job at the end of the day. She needed to have found an inner counsel. Maybe she has done that and tried to have a civil discussion and it didn’t work out, I don’t know.
“But if she thinks the best way is to blackmail them on social media, I don’t think it is wise. She could have easily not emerged as the winner.
“She could have easily been the runner-up. And people saying she deserves the money, listen to me, nobody deserves that money.”
British monarch King Charles III has invited Nigerian disc jockey, Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, to a reception at Buckingham Palace in celebration of The King’s Trust Awards 2024.
The billionaire heiress shared a copy of the invite via her X (formerly Twitter) handle on Friday.
She captioned her post; “I’m off to Buckingham Palace.”
The invite reads, “The Master of The King’s Household is commanded by His Majesty to invite Ms Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola to a Reception to be given at Buckingham Palace by The King in celebration of The King’s Trust Awards 2024.”
Temilade Openiyi, the world-famous Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Tems, has revealed how a “serious illness” (she declined to specify) forced her to delay the release of her debut album.
Tems, who hit the global reckoning in 2020 after appearing on Wizkid’s summer hit ‘Essence,’ disclosed in a recent interview with the New York Times that her debut album was scheduled for release in 2021 but got postponed due to an illness that forced her into surgery and six months of recovery.
The Oscar-nominated diva explained that she released her sophomore extended play, ‘If Orange Was a Place’ instead.
Fighting her way back to health partly inspired her new music, which she said was about embracing life as a warrior.
“Being a warrior is about not giving up,” she said. “Even if they cut your leg, you walk on your knees, you fight on your knees using what you have — and that’s good enough.”
Tems’ much-anticipated and long-awaited debut album, ‘Born In The Wild’ will arrive June 7.
She is also kicking off her first headline world tour in June.
Abosede Olumiyi, the mother of late Afrobeats star, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, also known as Mohbad, has petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Lagos State Police Command, over threat to life by her ex-husband, Joseph Aloba.
According to the petition filed by her lawyer, Kabir Akingbolu from Salawu, Akingbolu & Co. law firm, Abosede accused her ex-husband of threatening her life because she refused to participate in fabricating lies against Mohbad’s wife, Omowunmi, about the late singer’s death.
Abosede stated in the petition that she had to relocate to another house in a different area due to unbearable threats and intimidation from her ex-husband, but Joseph Aloba continued to threaten her.
Mohbad’s mother claimed that Aloba shared her new address on social media and boasted that he would eventually find her and take action against her, no matter where she went.
The petition partly read: “This act has made our client to be living in fear with an unsettled mind.
“Our Client is not dragging anything with Mr Joseph Aloba than how the body of her deceased son will be laid to rest peacefully to enable her to get over the trauma of losing such a promising child to the cold hands of death, untimely.
“Sequel to the foregoing, we humbly request that the authority should step in to save our client from this imminent danger from the sinister man so as to prevent our client from being sent to an early grave.
“We, therefore, hope that you will employ the power of your good office to get justice for our client by stepping in to save her life.”
She called upon Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene and save her, her daughter-in-law, and her grandson from harm.
Popular singer, Spyro has revealed that a lady made him dislike Canada.