The immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC on winning the gubernatorial polls in Imo and Kogi states.
He also thanked the people of the two states for reaffirming their confidence in the nation’s biggest political party.
Buhari also appreciated the party leaders and the workers who laboured tirelessly to ensure the reemergence of Sen Hope Uzodimma for his second term in Imo and Alhaji Usman Ododo as the new governor of Kogi state.
“My best wishes to them for their next tenure.”
The Recording Academy, organisers of the Grammy Awards, have asserted that there is no Afrobeats star or African artist who is “bigger” than Damini Ogulu, the Nigerian singer, who is also known as Burna Boy.
The Academy made the assertion in a statement published on its website on Saturday, congratulating Burna Boy and other nominees for the newly created Best African Music Performance category at the 2024 Grammys.
The Grammys said Burna Boy is “firmly in his imperial era” havimg collaborated with “global stars such as Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber,” and also earned his first UK No. 1 album this year with “the classic hip-hop influenced I Told Them…, featuring appearances from 21 Savage, J. Cole, RZA, and GZA.”
The Academy said, “There’s not a bigger star in Afrobeats, or even the whole of Africa itself, than Burna Boy. He nabbed two consecutive Best Global Album GRAMMY nods for his albums Twice as Tall and African Giant, and he’s also collaborated with global stars such as Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber.”
Recall that Burna Boy’s ‘City Boys’ was nominated in the maiden Best African Music Performance category at the 66th Grammys.
‘City Boys’ will contest the award with Davido and Musa Keys’ ‘Unavailable,’ Ayra Starr’s ‘Rush,’ Asake and Olamide’s ‘Amapiano, and Tyla’s ‘Water.’
Burna Boy also bagged nominations in three other categories; ‘Sitting On Top of the World’ featuring 21 Savage – Best Melodic Rap, ‘I Told Them’ – Best Global Music Album, and ‘Alone’ – Best Global Music Performance.
Chukwuebuka Emmanuel Amuzie, the popular Nigerian skit maker, better known as Brain Jotter, has refuted the claims that his fast-rising colleague, Micheal Charles, aka OGB Recent, is copying his comedy style.
In the latest episode of the Real Life Talk podcast, the host Ivie Naomi asked Brain Jotter what his opinion was on the speculations that OGB was copying him, and he rebuffed that his colleague wasn’t copying him.
He, however, admitted that OGB sounds like him in his skits but added that getting inspiration from someone’s work doesn’t necessarily mean copying the person.
Brain Jotter said, “OGB is not copying me. I know him personally. He is my man to an extent. But I don’t know what you guys mean by copying me.
“I’ve never actually come out to say he’s copying me. I feel like he has my kind of voice but I don’t really think he’s copying me.”
Ayodeji Balogun, the Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, who is popularly known as Wizkid, shone at this year’s British Photography Awards, BPA, held in London at the weekend.
The Starboy’s performance picture at Glastonbury Festival earlier this year won the Event Category Award at the 2023 British Photography Awards.
The iconic picture was taken by London-based freelance photographer and graphic designer Nick Haill.
Wizkid has now become the first Nigerian celebrity whose image won a British Photography Award.
Alex Iwobi, the Fulham midfielder, has said popular singer, Wizkid showed him “love” when he was still scratching the surface of his career.
The former Arsenal star said Wizkid was “nice” to him when they first met “even though he didn’t know who I was at the time.”
Speaking in a recent interview with Oma Sports TV, Iwobi said Wizkid’s concert at Tottenham stadium earlier this year “is my favourite Nigerian show, I really enjoyed myself.”
He described Wizkid as a “nice and very humble guy.”
The Super Eagles midfield maestro said, “Wizkid’s show at Tottenham stadium is my favorite Nigerian show, I really enjoyed myself. I didn’t get to meet him that day. But I’ve met him previous times and he’s a very nice and very humble guy.
“The first time I met him, he showed me love when he first met me even though he didn’t know who I was at the time. I’ve seen him in stores and even in the club as well, and he has always showed me so much love. He is someone that I really respect.”
Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, Phyna has asked a rather curious question.
The reality TV star took to Twitter to question her female Big Brother Naija colleagues as their male colleagues get married.
Recall that Leo B DaSilva and Chizzy Francis, both male Big Brother Naija stars, had their traditional wedding this weekend.
Chizzy used to be close to Doyin David when they were in the Big Brother Naija house so her name has been brought up a lot as people discuss Chizzy marrying someone else.
Phyna has now gone on Twitter to blame her female colleagues for the bed they laid.
Phyna wrote: “Bbn boys are getting married…… Bbn girls Afa. The bed wey Una lay eh……….
“The reggae dy spoil other people blues oo #thinkingoutloud.”
A Nigerian woman who is yet to be identified, has been arrested in Lagos state for her alleged reckless behavior.
In a video making the rounds, a man who filmed alleged that the young lady destroyed the windshield of the Uber driver’s car and also destroyed his driver’s side window.
The lady could be seen on the ground holding the security agents who came in to intervene. When asked to get into the vehicle so they could take her to the Maroko police station where she would file her complaint, the lady refused and was practically forced into the vehicle by the security agents.
The man who recorded the video alleged the young lady was under the influence of drugs.
Watch the video below:
Daily Post reports that the Social Democratic Party, (SDP) in Kogi State has made some serious demands.
The party has called for the cancellation of results of the November 11th governorship election in the state.
SDP made this call at the gubernatorial election collation centre where the party’s collation agent, David Edibu submitted a petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission, calling for the cancellation of results in Okene, Okehi, Ogori Magongo, Adavi, Ajaokuta Local Government Areas as well as some parts of Lokoja, alleging corrupt practices, vote buying and over voting.
He added that agents of the Social Democratic Party were not allowed to get close to the polling units in the local government areas.
The state returning officer, Prof. Johnson Urame received the petitions on behalf of the commission and assured the Social Democratic Party that the petition would be reviewed.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party had said it would key into the petition of the Social Democratic Party.
The Collation agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, Abubakar Mahmood added that the number of malpractices in the said Local Government Areas was alarming.
However, the All Progressives Congress while reacting to the call for cancellation, said the Peoples Democratic Party cannot blame anyone for not bringing agents to the polling units.
Chizzy Francis, a former Big Brother Naija season 7 housemate, has gotten married to his lover.
The traditional wedding of the reality star took place on Saturday in Anambra State.
In a viral video on social media, Chizzy’s wife could be seen kneeling to offer him a drink as part of their tradition.
Chizzy, who is yet to announce the news, shared a picture of himself via his Instagram page.
He captioned it, “it is not how far, but how well”.
Some of his colleagues who congratulated him include Doyin, Groovy, Phyna, Amaka, Christy O, Allyson and Modella.
Watch the video below:
It seems like Chizzy from BBNaija is off the market. That’s a huge congratulations pic.twitter.com/DJTSF6BFzd
— Lagos Magazine (@thelagosmag) November 11, 2023
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