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Superstar Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor aka Rema has penned a thoughtful note to help a fan battling with depression.

Last night, the singer engaged in an interactive session with his fans via Instagram.

Rema answered questions regarding his age, work, and turn-offs.

One of Rema’s fans asked him how he would help someone dealing with depression. Without hesitation, Rema penned lengthy soothing words to him, sharing insights on how to deal with the situation.

Rema Wrote:

“Sometimes it’s just your soul not resonating with your current personality, it’s like a conflict within you. It needs you to change or evolve.

Sometimes you’ve dwelled in an environment that has dampened your energy and state of mind for too long.

Sometimes your mind has nothing to ponder upon to orate a view of the future for you, so try new things. Read, watch videos and educate your mind. If it creates an illusion for you, it just wants to be busy

Sometimes you just needs to vent, most times you’ll answer your own questions when you vent.

Hopefully, this helps, stay strong brother”

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Sensational Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor popularly known as Rema, marks four years anniversary in the Nigerian music industry.

Rema became a music sensation after releasing his hit single Dumebi after he signed a contract with Jonzing World, an offshoot of Mavin Records in 2019, and has since then been releasing hit tracks on a steady.

The talented music artist took to his Twitter page to reveal that it’s the fourth year since he hit the spot light in the Nigerian music space.

He thanked his fans for sticking with him through the four years and listening to his songs.

Sharing his photo, he wrote:

“4 years in the game, so many records to my name, catalogue insane, thanks for sticking w my crazy ass now let’s go AGAIN! 👊🏾💥”

Superstar Nigerian singer, Rema keeps soaring in his career after his song, ‘Calm Down’ featuring Selena Gomez charted at Number 8 in Billboard’s Hot 100 this week.

The song has been on a steady climb-up from 109 on Billboard’s 200.

For the Nigerian music industry, this is a new hight as this is the first ever Nigerian song to chart at Top 10 in Billboard Hot 100’s history.

The song also keeps making waves on other platforms, most notably Youtube where it has gathered over 400M views.

The artist’s album, Rave & Roses, has also stayed as the longest running number Nigerian album on Billboard’s Heatseekes Album Charts.

While it is Rema’s first ever Billboard entry, this will be Selena Gomez’s 9th top 10 hit.

A group of Iranian teen girls have been detained for dancing to a song.

The girls who shared a video dancing to Nigerian singer, Divine Ikubor aka Rema’s ‘Calm Down’, were reported to have been detained and pressured into apologising for the act.

A tweet from the Twitter account Shahrak Ekbatan said the five girls were first brought in and given a warning, then called again and detained for two days before being compelled to make a coerced confession.

According to Fox News, security forces last week started looking for the five girls soon after the video, which was filmed near Ekbatan, west of Tehran, gained popularity online. They weren’t wearing headscarves, which are required for women in Iran, as the video was shared on the International Women’s Day.

The dance video was released last Wednesday, March 8, which was the International Women’s Day.

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari said the video would be considered ordinary in most cities around the world but in Iran, “it’s an act of defiance.”

“I wonder if @heisrema knows that his song #CalmDown is the backdrop of an incredibly courageous act of defiance by young Iranian women?” tweeted a Canadian journalist, Nahayat Tizhoosh. “It started when five girls danced to his music in @shahrak_ekbatan- risking persecution by a regime that has murdered women for simply protesting.”

Another handle, @IranIntl_En tweeted, “This video of Iranian girls in Tehran’s Ekbatan neighborhood dancing unveiled to the song Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez has gone viral. Women are banned from dancing in public in Iran.”

Reacting to the news, Rema via his official Twitter account, said, “To all the beautiful women who are fighting for a better world, I’m inspired by you, I sing for you, and I dream with you.”

An Ekbatan Twitter account which posts events in the neighborhood, warned on Friday that the girls faced possible arrest and detention.

The account said Iranian security forces were reviewing CCTV footage at the tower block to identify the girls and were questioning the guards.

The PUNCH reports that Iran witnessed protests in 2022, which were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Iranian woman died on September 22, 2022 while in police custody, following her arrest for not wearing her headscarf properly.

Many Iranian women then took to streets to protest the development with some taking off their headscarves and throwing into fire.

“No to the headscarf … yes to freedom and equality!” protesters in Tehran chanted in a rally that was echoed by solidarity protests abroad.

Fox News said officials in Iran’s theocracy initially dismissed the reports, but later described them as intentional attacks involving some 30 schools, with some speculating they could be aimed at trying to close schools for girls in this country of over 80 million people.

Nigerian singer, Rema is on the lips of everyone on social media, after reaching 400 million views on YouTube with his song, Calm Down.

It will be recalled that in December 2022, Gistreel reported that Calm Down had almost reached 300 million views.

Rema, who released the song, “Calm down” about 10 months ago scored another impressive feat after the song garnered 400 million views on youtube. The song, “Calm Down” is off Rema’s debut studio album, Rave and Rose, which was released earlier in the year 2022.

This is the first ever African song to record this milestone.

The Mavin record singer also released a remix with American singer, Selena Gomez, which is already the most streamed Afro-beat song in the year 2022.