Category: Entertainment
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Funlola Aofiyebi is an actress, recognizable by her fine diction, and tall headdresses. Dark and tall Aofiyebi has a certificate in Drama and Theatre Arts from the Westminster College, England. In 1996, as a student of the University of Lagos, she auditioned for and got the part of Ese in hit Nigerian movie ‘Violated’, in…
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Josiah Jesse Ransome Kuti; Hymnist and 19th Century African missionary in the Yoruba country. He is the patriarch of the Ransome-Kuti family of Nigeria, which produced distinguished personalities like his son, Israel Oludotun Ransome Kuti and his grandsons: Olikoye, Beko, and the celebrated Afrobeat performer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti was among the pioneers…
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Kemi Adetiba is a film maker and television personality. She is also the host of MNet’s Studio 53, and Temptation Nigeria, Soundcity’s many shows, and for three years; the nationally syndicated reality show, Maltina Dance All. Kemi Adetiba was born 8 January 1980 in Lagos to Dele Atiba who was a veteran in the advertising…
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Dayo Adeneye is the music producer and entertainment entrepreneur who founded the record label, Kennis Music with Kenny Ogungbe in 2000. Dayo Adeneye had his secondary education at the Federal School of Arts and Science in Victoria Island, Lagos. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Southern University, Illinois, and a Master’s…
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Kenny Ogungbe is a media entrepreneur whose foray into the music industry, together with friend, Dayo Adeneye, vivified the Nigerian urban culture from the early 2000s. Kenny had his secondary education at Federal School of Arts and Science at Ogoja in Cross River State. He studied Accounting at the Southern University, New Orleans and a…
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Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, the Afro Hip hop singer called Wizkid or Wizzy was born 16 July 1990 in Lagos into a large family of three wives and six children. Being the last and only boy, his father frowned at music, but his journey into music started early on, when he, a church choir boy, led…
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is a Nigerian R&B artist born 27 March, 1981 to migrant parents in United States who returned to Nigeria in 1986. After secondary education in Nigeria, he moved back to the United States on a college scholarship, where he earned a degree in Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His music career started with a…
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Asa, real name, Bukola Elemide, was born 1st September 1982, in Paris France to her Nigerian Parents. The Nigerian French singer and song writer has been able to fuse the Nigerian Yoruba language and English together perfectly, bringing out a wonderful style that falls between pop and soul. After being born in 1982, she spent…
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Adewale Ayuba, the popular fuji musician was born 1966 as last child into a close knit family, in Ikenne Remo Ogun State. Closing his eyes to the examples of his well-read older siblings, Ayuba prioritized music which he started at the age of seven. Soon, he got discovered by Mr. Sunday Olojuanu, a man who…
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Adebayo Salami popularly known as Oga Bello was born 9 May 1953 in Agege to parents from Kwara State. Growing up in Okepopo of Lagos Island, he attended Ansarudeen school Okepopo, Adebodun Commercial School and later, Lagos Drama School which was then affiliated to University of Lagos. All the time Adebayo Salami was schooling he…