He headlined the Afro Plus Fest and marked fifteen years in music. Almost nobody in Nigerian pop lasts that long, and the reasons he has are more interesting than the anniversary.
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He headlined the Afro Plus Fest and marked fifteen years in music. Almost nobody in Nigerian pop lasts that long, and the reasons he has are more interesting than the anniversary.
Dai Dai is the first song released in 2026 to pass a billion YouTube views. The number is enormous, the collaboration is global, and the mechanism behind it is not really the song.
One artist posted a bank balance. Another asked publicly how that was possible. It is a small feud with a real subject underneath it: nobody in Nigerian music has to prove what they earn.
The streamer credits Olamide's early support with taking him to his first 100,000 livestream views. Nigerian creator careers are still decided by whether an established artist decides to point at you.
A viral moment with Jide Awobona at the Mama Deola premiere produced days of speculation. Her answer was that her husband is a secure man, which should have been the end of it.
A comedian, a critic, a prophet and a relative have all commented on her rumoured return to Ned Nwoko. The two people involved have said comparatively little, which has not slowed anything down.
The family have confirmed 10 September, after an earlier postponement. The actress died following a battle with breast cancer, and the gap between diagnosis and outcome in Nigeria is the story nobody writes.
She receives royalties from Hollywood work and nothing from three decades of Nigerian film. That is not a complaint about pay rates. It is a description of a missing piece of infrastructure.
Abuja is paying between N1,299 and N1,345 a litre. The decision that produced that number was not taken at a filling station, and not by NNPC either.
Refinery owners are asking the federal government to intervene and formalise a naira-for-crude framework. It would help domestic refining and quietly move a foreign exchange cost onto the federation.
The party's secretariat in Emohua was attacked and campaign materials destroyed. Election violence in Nigeria does not begin on election day, and Rivers has a longer history of it than most.
Nigeria's democracy is at risk without political party reform, according to Senator Arise. Donald Duke went further in the same week and called the whole thing a facade. The diagnosis is converging.
The APC Consensus Aspirants Forum says it will set aside personal ambitions and turn its structures over to the 2027 campaign. Consensus arrangements buy peace at a price that is usually paid later.
Reporting has collected statements from senior ruling-party figures described as threatening or intimidating toward voters. INEC has just published the penalties. The two stories belong together.
The Nigerian Diaspora Movement Group says lobbying against President Tinubu in Washington misrepresents Nigeria abroad. Foreign lobbying by Nigerian politicians is old, bipartisan and almost never disclosed at home.
The 2023 Labour Party running mate says Obi and Atiku cannot replace Tinubu. Peter Obi's new party answered with a personal insult rather than an argument, which tells you where the opposition actually is.
The SDP candidate has promised petrol, cooking gas and Jet A1 at N200 per litre within twelve months of taking office. Abuja is currently paying between N1,299 and N1,345.
Real estate, finance, hospitality and youth work under one group. The interesting thing is not that a famous footballer has businesses. It is how few Nigerian players manage the transition at all.
A 1-1 draw with AS Sobemap in Abeokuta leaves the Flying Antelopes needing a result in Benin. Nigerian clubs keep arriving at continental competition and leaving it early, and the reason is rarely the football.
Matchday two of the NPFL delivered 3-2 at the Sani Abacha Stadium. The domestic league gets a fraction of the coverage the diaspora players get, and it is where the next ones come from.