Category: Entertainment – Pop Culture
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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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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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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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Jude Abaga, fondly called Mr Incredible or simply MI, brought enormous creativity to rap music in 2006. MI grew up in Jos where he lived with his father who was a pastor and mother who made gospel music. He had a fulfilled childhood and read a lot of books because the family had no television…
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Benedict Murray-Bruce; Entertainment entrepreneur, music promoter and director-general of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA under President Obasanjo. A man of tremendous style and charisma, Ben Murray-Bruce’s era witnessed a flurry of unprecedented activities. For example, the authority’s growth policies resulted in the birth of over 65 stations around the nation. The authority also introduced digital…
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Elesin Tayo; British-Nigerian TV star who has starred in widely acclaimed television soaps such as Law and Order UK, Holby City [BBC], Doctors [BBC]. Born in 1988, she became at 25 one of the very few black young people making strong incursion into the Hollywood and European TV film scenes. Tayo Elesin have acted professionally…
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Ayorinde Aina; Nigerian scriptwriter, Ayorinde began writing for the Nigerian Television Authority in the late 1970’s while still in school. When he finished in 1984, he was contracted by the station as a producer, a position he combined with script writing. Ayorinde produced some of the programmes that interested and kept a generation glued to…