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Osita Osadebe

Entertainment – Music, History – Social, Media – TV & Radio, Music – Old, Music – Others, People

Stephen Osadebe Osita; musician credited with contributions to the growth and development of highife as well as re-inventing the music. Osadebe was the first highlife musician to bring in a Cuban sound, mixing it with meringue and rumba. By so doing, Osadebe kept his style of highlife totally different from other higlife musicians. His music…
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Afrobeat

Arts, Entertainment – Media, Entertainment – Music, music, Music – Afro-Hip-Hop, Music – Pop, Music – Rap, Social – Relaxation

There is no denying that Nigerian Afrobeat is fashioned after American popular music. When Majek Fashek, a musician from the old bloc came back to Nigeria after a while, he confessed to “watch TV and see his younger brothers in music playing American kind of music.” He was very impressed they were doing American kind…
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Innocent Idibia

Entertainment – Music, Entertainment – Pop Culture, Music – Pop, People

Innocent Idibia; Popular Nigerian musician. Born September 8, 1975 in Jos into a middle-class family in which he is second of four boys, Innocent Idibia had a modest upbringing, Michael Idibia, his father, was a career civil servant who retired as an assistant director in the Benue State Ministry of Agriculture. Rose Idibia, his mother…
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Lagos (City)

Culture – Others, Entertainment – Nollywood, Entertainment – Pop Culture, Environment – Others, Geography – Land, Geography – Others, Lifestyle – Properties, Music – Afro-Hip-Hop, Social – Relaxation, Towns/Cities

LAGOS refers to the urban area called Metropolitan Lagos, which includes both the islands of the former municipality of Lagos and the main surburbs. On December 12, 1991, the city of Lagos seized to be Nigeria’s capital when federal administrative structure was relocated to Abuja. Before this time, the island municipality served both the federal,…
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Ojuelegba

Entertainment – Pop Culture, Environment – Others, Towns/Cities

Ojuelegba; situated at the crossroads in the entrance of Lawanson Road in Yaba, Lagos. The never sleeping downtown is the sight of the ubiquitous yellow buses with two black stripes merge with other -commuter vehicles at link routes leading to Lagos Island, Victoria Island, Ikoyi and the Lekki Extension to the south-east; Ikeja and its…
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Mike Bamiloye

Media – TV & Radio, Music – Gospel, People, Religion

Mike Bamiloye; evangelist, producer and film director, is Nigeria’s best known maker of Christian- themed films. A graduate of the Osun State College of Education, Bamiloye has thrived in movie-making despite lacking formal training in the art. The ministry started in 1985 with its first drama presentation; Hell In Conference coming in July 1986, but…
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Wasiu Ayinde

Entertainment – Music, Music – Juju & Fuji, People, Social – Relaxation

Wasiu Ayinde; born in 1957, the episodic odyssey of his career began in 1966 at the age of nine as a small-time amateur singer in Agarawu area of Lagos Island. He dropped out of secondary school to face professional music in 1973. From waking Muslims up with songs during Ramadan to being a packer boy…
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Calabar

Culture – Others, Entertainment – Dance, Entertainment – Pop Culture, Geography – Map, History – Civil War, History – Political, Sports, Tourism, Towns/Cities, Tradition – Customs

Calabar; is the administrative capital of Cross Rivers State known for tourism and attractions popular in the region; the Obudu Cattle Ranch and the once promising Tinapa, a world-class business and leisure resort[i]. Traditionally, when one wants to say something is beautiful in local dialect, they say it is so beautiful like Efik. Literally that…
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Murtala Sule

Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General, Nollywood – Yoruba, People

Murtala Sule: Film maker and presenter of NTA 7 popular Sunday television programme, Lagbo Video. Murtala left secondary school in 1973 and joined LatdaFilms to learn film making. Murtala Sule went to University of Nigeria Nsukka from where he passed out with a Mass Communication degree, had worked with the Information Ministry for five years…
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Comedy

Entertainment – Comedy, Entertainment – Pop Culture, Nollywood – General

Pre-1990s Comedians though inclined to borrow jokes unofficially from each other, never cease to amaze their audience with new jokes. It is believed by the professionals that comedy is even more challenging than singing because a musician can decide to be singing his hit tune, which people want to hear, for as long as…
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