In a shocking twist at the Sunday night live eviction, JMK a law graduate was introduced as a new housemate to compete for the 90 Million Naira grand prize.
She described herself as the life of the party who would be bringing entertainment like never before to the house. See more of her photos below
This is coming after organizers gave viewers the first big shock of the season with the introduction of a new housemate on Eviction sunday.
Big Brother Naija Season 6 will kick off in July 2021 at Bbaija house in Ilupeju, Lagos State Nigeria.
The organizer of the show Multichoice Nigeria had announced that Big brother Naija Season 6 will be held in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Big Brother Naija House was formally located in
South Africa where Season 2 and 3 were previously
The official date for the new bbnaija season 6 has finally been announced and the long wait is over.
This announcement was made in a meeting held by the organizers of the show. This time around, the show will have two launch, on Saturday ( 24th of July) and on Sunday ( 25th of July).
According to the organizers of the show, the duration for this season will be for 72 days and the people in diaspora will have access to voting and also watching the show online.
Before now the people in diaspora have no access to watching the show and can’t even vote to support their fav online as you are required to have a Nigerian number for voting registration.
The winning prize still remains 90 million naira and the opening of the show will air on DSTV channel channel 198.
Tonto Dikeh is in love again and she’s going all out to celebrate her lover, Prince Kpokpogri, as he turns a new age, today, June 27 she presented the key to a gift to him as birthday present. Looks like she’s pregnant.
She gave minor details about the present as she shared the photo of the key and wrote;
Happy birthday to the man that ROCKS MY WORLD
Burna Boy finally takes delivery of his Grammy-award “trophy”, speaks:
“Early Morning deliveries from across the pond! My parents prayed for excellent children, not houses, cars or “things”.”
“They asked my sisters for stellar degrees; one got a first class in Finance, the other got a Distinction in Engineering.”
“They asked me for a Grammy, and here we are. I am a product of sacrifice! Thank God and thank you all again! ❤️”
Wonder they say will never end. A lady has taken to courage to tell a marriage counselor about how confused she is about about the father of her unborn child. According to her, she has been sleeping with her husband father hence she can’t truly tell if her child belongs to her husband or his father.
One of the biggest advantages a musician can have in an industry that is highly competitive is the gift of versatility, being able to switch amidst different genre of music is a rare ability many music artistes do not possess which thereby makes their relevance and stay in the industry short-lived.
There are a few Nigerian musicians who are versatile and can leave their comfort zone to perform excellently doing another genre of music.
Popular for this are Nigerian rappers, there are a lot of rappers in the music industry who show their versatile side by doubling as rappers and singers. These rappers rap extremely well and can at the same time sing excellently well too.
Infact, there is always a serious argument when trying to select which their greatest song is as you are left confused because songs in which they sang in are vying for the position with their rap tracks.
The piece written above has led to making a list below of 5 Nigerian rappers who are excellent rappers and at the same time great singers.
Ice Prince
He is one of Nigeria’s foremost rappers, stormed the industry with his hit single, “Oleku” featuring former label mate; Brymo in 2011. Although he is widely known as a rapper, but most of Ice Prince’s most loved songs are tracks in which he sang in.
Tracks like “Aboki,” “Superstar” are popular tracks he exercised his singing ability. Aside these tracks, Ice Prince has shown his side as a great singer even on other people’s songs. For Instance, in 2017, Ice took the hook to Major Lazer’s African hit single, “Particular” and infact he took it so well that it is one of the factors that made people fall so much in love with the song.
Olamide
Definitely one of the most versatile musicians the Nigerian music industry have ever produced, Olamide is an awesome rapper and a great singer at the same time.
He came into the industry as a rapper, infact as a hardcore rapper but gradually metamorphosed into a skilled singer, taking hooks for even rappers and given actual singers a run for their money on their own records.
Some of the famous songs that Olamide sang on that became huge records are, “Bobo,” “Lagos Boys,” “Illegal,” “Melo Melo” and many more. He has become a great singer that even the newest generation kids might never know Olamide to be a rapper.
Skales
He had a great potential as a rapper and even expressed his ambition to bring home a Grammy award, but as soon as it looked like the industry was fast moving away from Hip-Hop, Skales quickly re-adjusted and took to singing.
Skales is known to have several hit songs in the music industry and there is none that has him on as a rapper. He is now a fully blown Afrobeats singer and many don’t even know he used to be a rapper. He has left no traces at all.
Phyno
He is the Igbo version of his close friend and colleague, Olamide. Phyno is a rapper by birth and a fantastic one at that.
Known majorly to always rap in his indigenous language of Igbo, Phyno got noticed for his singing ability with his popular hit single; “Connect” and since then, after noticing the great reception it had, he resulted to doing singing alongside his rap.
Infact, Phyno’s biggest ever song is “Fada Fada” in which he featured Olamide on. The song from start to finish had no single rap and it was all a show of versatility as both artistes sang well to put the song on a majestic status.
Dremo
A rapper with great skill and delivery is who Dremo is. He made his debut in the music industry with a cover to American rapper; Designer’s “Panda,” a track that made him popular and kick-started his career at DMW.
Dremo apart from being a fantastic rapper, is also a good singer. He showed a bit part of his singing ability on DJ Ecool’s record, “Kilode” where he delivered well as a singer.
Dremo’s biggest record till date is his 2018 hit song, “Kpa” with his label boss; Davido. In this record he didn’t rap but sang all through and it was really nice. His E.P also has several songs in which had him as a singer and they are all great songs.
Dr Chidia Maduekwe, Managing Director, Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), has pledged the corporation’s commitment to support filmmakers in the production of documentaries that promote peaceful co-existence among Nigerians.
Maduekwe disclosed this in his speech at the “Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Campaign” held on Wednesday in Abuja.
According to Maduekwe, the Nigerian motion picture industry is a veritable tool that can be used to drive nationalism, build values of love, peace and tolerance among Nigerians irrespective of tribal and religious divide.
He expressed the corporation’s willingness to provide funding and technical support for scripts that drive positive narratives towards stimulating national peace and security.
“The NFC is determined to assist filmmakers with the necessary support to produce films that continuously encourage peaceful coexistence because we strongly believe that motion picture has the power to defuse tension before they snowball into crisis.
“We have resolved to use part of the money appropriated to us by the national Assembly for film production and documentary that will tell our stories in a manner that unite us as a country.
“Film should and must be used to sustain our conversations on issues that bind us together, so we are going to use our mandate as Nigerian Film Corporation to build bridges of peace and conflict resolution.
“We are interested in looking for Nigerians who have scripts that focus on what unite us than what divide us and they will collaborate with the corporation to promote peace in Nigeria,” he said.
Maduekwe explained that the ‘Peace Campaign was organised to ignite the consciousness of Nigerians that the consequences and cost of conflicts far outweighs the processes of peace building.
He said there was need to stimulate continuous change in the perception and behavioral pattern of Nigerians through peace campaigns and engagements.
“Wrong perception capable of causing threat to internal security must be confronted head – on because we must utilise our pluralistic structure to our advantage, as good people of a great nation.
“Sustainable social campaigns and engagements provide the platform for resolution of conflicts, and all across our communities and societies we must ensure that our people imbibe the culture of consultation and engagement in the resolution of conflicts.
“We must protect the fundamental human rights of all our people, irrespective of the colour, creed or state of origin.
“This should be followed by the promotion of equity and justice in our daily lifestyle, as fair participation in all spheres of our human activities should and must be assured,” he said.
In his Keynote address, Sen. Philip Aduda , commended the NFC for the collaboration, adding that peace was the foundation for meaningful development in any society.
He urged the residents of FCT to ensure that the pursuit of peace and tolerance was given serious attention.
“First, FCT is the miniature Nigeria where every shade of individuals are represented from every community and from every society and from every state of the federation.
“One among two people have either their cousins, fathers, brothers, even grand fathers in the FCT, so we must continue to preach peace because FCT is a conglomeration of different people,”he said.
The peace summit was attended by civil society groups, women and youth leaders, delegates from the security agencies, as well as top government functionaries, including a representative of the FCT minister.(NAN)
Media mogul, Mo Abudu has become the first African to chair the International Emmy Awards Gala.
Abudu performed the role at the recently concluded 47th International Emmy Awards in New York City.
In June, The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences had appointed the Chief Executive Officer of EbonyLife Media to chair the gala.
This followed her appointment as the first African director of the Academy, signalling a change in the opportunities opening up for television content producers on the continent.
Sharing the moment on her Instagram page on Wednesday. Abudu wrote @moabudu, “Chairing the International Emmys Gala was such an incredible opportunity for me personally, for EBONYLIFE and for Nigerian TV Producers.
“Now we have our foot in the door which will gradually open wider. Let’s get going with our global stories.”
Speaking at the gala, she said, “These partnerships are the first of their kind between Hollywood studios and a Nigerian television company.
“We are happy to be at the forefront of forging these new partnerships because it is truly about sharing our local stories with a global audience – stories that are historical, authentic and progressive.”
Stand-up comedian and actor Ronny Chieng, a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and star of Crazy Rich Asians, hosted the gala.
Businesswoman, philanthropist, author and former model Iman presented the Directorate Award to CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour.
Actor Conleth Hill, known worldwide for his role as Lord Varys in Game of Thrones, presented the Founders Award to the show’s creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Abudu launched EbonyLIfe TV in 2013, with a mission to change the narrative about Africa.
In 2014, she started EbonyLife Films, which has created the three highest-grossing films in the history of Nollywood.
In 2018, EbonyLife announced a three-series scripted deal with Sony Pictures Television, followed by an agreement with another major US studio to develop an African science-fiction TV series.
In April, Abudu became the first African to be honoured with the MIPTV Médailles d’Honneur. (NAN)
Stakeholders in the music industry on Friday urged musicians to utilise available digital platforms to distribute their works.
The stakeholders disclosed this at the African Music Business Summit themed ‘Music Business in Africa: Connecting Borderless Talents.’
The summit which is one of the events lined up for the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) had the stakeholders discussing African Music and Digital Influemce.
Mr Yoel Kenan, CEO AFRICORI, said digital distribution connects independent artistes directly with the audience and the world at large.
“Digital platform enables artistes to reach new targets around the world. If more artistes can key into this, I see a lot of opportunity happening in Nigeria music industry.
“Today, you can be independent as an artiste. A number of artists do not need a record label because music distribution is now easier and you can have your songs available all over the world through digital platforms.” he said.
Mr Eric Bellamy, Associate Director, YUMA Productions, said a lot of artistes could utilise the digital platform to the extent that one or two good songs can earn them a tour.
“With digital distribution of music, the rules have now changed. The audience are on all social media platforms, just log in and connect with them.
“It is also important for artistes to choose where they intend to focus their strategy, Burna Boy chose UK and it worked for him,” he said.
The founder, Society for the Performing Arts in Nigeria (SPAN), Sarah Boulos, said the digital way is the only way a musician’s message can go further.
She added that the digital platform is also having a negative effect on the life act as consumers now easily enjoy music at their comfort zones without stepping out.
Boulos said the digital platform had given opportunity to women in the music industry to sell their music and urged popular artistes to also support young talents.
Mr Seidu Iddrisu, a music publisher, however, said that artistes needed to be enlightened on royalty payment, which is a continental problem in music distribution.
“Artistes should come out with a split immediately a song is made. This split will be among all those that contributed to the production of the song.
“This will put an end to dispute over royalty payments. A lot of artistes have their royalty payments hanging somewhere because they had no understanding of this which is sad,” he said.
Mr Sipho Diamini, Managing Director Universal Music, who was the moderator further encouraged both up and coming and A list artistes to utilise digital platforms effectively.
He emphasised the importance of consistency and advised them to study successful artistes with the intention of learning from their strategy. (NAN)