Category: Entertainment
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Ajibola Ojesola; Popular television presenter and actor, started acting as a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. Ajibola joined a drama society at the University of Ibadan. Then, he would leave my school and join them to act on stage. Before he was admitted into the Polytechnic of Ibadan, he was offered admission into the…
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Ashimi Olawale; songwriter and rapper, known as Brymo. An only child, Brymo grew up in Okokomaiko, Lagos, a fairly nice neighbourhood and a mixed environment of peoples in different economic ladder. He spent whole days on the streets playing football, like in the ghetto. He dropped out of the Lagos State University, Ojo, where he…
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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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Adetoyese Laoye; Timi of Ede. Before he ascended the throne in the 1940s, he was a church organist, a great dancer, a good singer, a lover of culture, and a historian. He was so culturally minded that he turned Ede to one of the nation’s cultural shrines to which people from far and near made…
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Zebulun Ejiro; Filmmaker who held sway in the Nollywood from the late 1980s to the next two decades. Ejiro brought about the renaissance of cinema in Nigeria when in 1997, he made Domitila, a movie about Ajegunle, which became a huge success for cinema exhibition. Ejiro is also known for 1998 movie Sakobi the Snake…
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Eyo is a visitor from the world of the spirit. It speaks in funny nasal sound which usually is the ventriloqual language of the dead. Attired in white flowing robes with an artfully decorated head gear, called the Aga and a face mask made of transparent lace or the traditional Aso Oke material, the Eyo…
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Adesanya Afolabi; Filmmaker and critic. In 2005, Adesanya Afolabi was appointed Managing Director of Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC). Adesanya Afolabi was born on July 5,1959 in the ancient Kano, Nigeria, to David Akinsanya Adesanya and Chief (Mrs) Aurora Omowasola Adesanya (nee Epega). He had his primary school education at Holy Trinity (Anglican) Primary School, Sabon-Gari,…
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Majek Fashek; real name, Maekodunmi Fasheke was the Nigerian Reggae musician and rastafarian who rode the musical scene in early 1990s. Majek Fashek, born in Benin City in 1963 took motivation from the legendary Aswad and Jimmy Cliff . He was drawn to reggae in the 1980s at a point when highlife and juju were…