From Peller's N400 million wedding gift to Broda Shaggi's per-show fees, brand deals — not AdSense — now drive Nigeria's skit economy, an industry BusinessDay values collectively at more than N50 billion.
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From Peller's N400 million wedding gift to Broda Shaggi's per-show fees, brand deals — not AdSense — now drive Nigeria's skit economy, an industry BusinessDay values collectively at more than N50 billion.
A fake claim that The Four's director had died, paired with an old crying clip of Funke Akindele, went viral this week — until she called out the account chasing engagement.
As Colours of Fire lands on Netflix after a cinema run, Nigeria's streaming map is quietly redrawn — licensing over originals, and new local platforms like Kava and NolliStream stepping into the gap.
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde revealed she kept just N22 million of the N103 million A Mother's Love grossed in cinemas — then gave every naira of it to the Slum to School NGO.
Lateef Adedimeji and Mo Bimpe marked their triplet sons' arrival with a burgundy-themed thanksgiving in Lekki, where K1 De Ultimate handed over bundles of cash onstage and much of Yoruba Nollywood's A-list turned out in style.
Colleagues gathered at LTV 8 with candles, songs and prayers for Tope Osoba. But a thin front row of A-listers, and a burial postponed days later, tell an uneven story of goodbye.
A nightclub confrontation, an eyewitness account and a stage confession delivered in pidgin: inside the weekend that turned 2Baba's marriage to Edo lawmaker Natasha Osawaru into very public, unmistakable trouble.
A N400 million mansion. A N38 million Camry for a toddler godson. Peller and King Ochacho's gift exchange looks like generosity — but the economics underneath look a lot like advertising.
May Yul-Edochie is suing for N1.5 billion over alleged online harassment, Judy Austin wants N1 billion from her ex-husband and Rita Edochie, and Rita has already picked a side: "Queen May."
Head of House Neche vetoed the housemates' own pick to save Gerard, leaving sixteen nominees for Sunday's live eviction. As backlash builds over the season's "Gambit" twist, BBNaija Season 11 heads into its biggest vote yet.
While Afrobeats fights over August release dates, Nigerian gospel has quietly built its own stadium-scale economy this year — free mega-concerts, Spotify Africa top-ten spots and TikTok dance challenges all its own.
"Chanel" gave Blaqbonez his first Nigerian No. 1 and Asake his nineteenth. Months later, the numbers behind that single make the case that Nigerian rap just had its most commercially serious year yet.
Fireboy DML teamed with Jamaican dancehall star Masicka on "CLAAT!," the lead single from his upcoming fifth album "Zuko" — a black, white and red statement that Lagos and Kingston are talking again.
Asake's fourth album "M$NEY" landed August 7 with DJ Snake and Kabza De Small on the credits and a 13-date arena tour already booked — a bet that street-pop's spiritual core travels.
Rema's "Tea" landed a week ago as his first solo single of 2026 — produced by Mustard, arriving hot off a Hot 100 feature and a World Cup stage, and pointed straight at album three.
Twelve songs from Davido's Oriadé landed on Billboard's U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart at once — a career-best haul that reveals what fifteen years in music can do, and where its limits still show.
Davido wrote to Donald Trump asking him to watch Saturday's Osun election, days after the EFCC froze the state's accounts. An opinion on what a pop star's global platform can and can't do.
Peter Okoye's royalty allegations against brothers Jude and Paul have pulled a 2013 Michael Jackson tribute video, shot by Jude himself, back into the story of who controls P-Square's catalogue.
Nigerian artists earned over ₦60 billion in Spotify royalties in 2025 — about ₦2 per stream. As five A-list albums drop in one August window, that brutal payout math decides who actually wins the season.
Ayra Starr's third album, Starrgirl, is out today — sixteen tracks featuring Wizkid, Rema and ZAYN, released while she recovered from surgery and her mother worked Lagos streets to promote it in her place.