Nigeria’s vibrant youth culture is driving a linguistic revolution, with fresh slangs emerging from music, social media, movies, and street culture every year. In 2025, several phrases have gone viral, capturing the nation’s humour, creativity, and mood, reports The Nation. Phrases like Ganusi, Achalugo, and Labubu have become ubiquitous, refl...
Every December, Lagos and Accra transform into vibrant magnets pulling in the African diaspora from London to Atlanta, Nairobi to Berlin. What started as a party season has grown into a cultural, emotional, and economic engine, driving tourism, shaping pop culture, and influencing spending patterns across West Africa, reports Vanguard. But thi...
YouTube has announced that ‘No Turning Back II’ by gospel artiste Akinade Ibuoye, popularly known as Gaise Baba, featuring Lawrence Oyor, is officially Nigeria’s most-watched music video of 2025. The worship anthem, released on May 16, dominated the Christian music space and went on to enjoy widespread mainstream acceptance. Within six months,...
•Detty December The hotels are booked, and final preparations for the festivals and concerts are underway, as Lagos prepares for “Detty December”, Nigeria’s end-of-year frenzy. Nigerians and tourists alike, especially members of the country’s massive diaspora, descend on the megacity annually to visit family and friends and observe the holiday...
•Shallipopi Nigerian Afrobeats musician, Crown Uzama, popularly known as Shallipopi, has been named TikTok’s 2025 Artiste of the Year. This is contained in a statement by TikTok and made available today in Lagos. The TikTok Awards for Sub-Saharan Africa, which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was with the theme: ‘New Era, New Icons’. Ac...
Detty December in Nigeria has always been a season of movement: airports buzzing, events fully booked, and city centres filled with returning diaspora and holiday seekers. But this year, something seems to have shifted as the once-thriving shortlet apartment sector, especially in Lagos and Abuja, is losing its shine as travellers are in utter ...
Streaming giant Netflix said today it will buy film and television studio Warner Bros. Discovery for nearly $83 billion, the entertainment industry’s biggest consolidation deal this decade. The acquisition gives Netflix access to a vast film catalog as well as the prestigious streaming service HBO Max, reports AFP. Over the decades, Warner Bro...
•Peter Okoye Award-winning singer Peter Okoye popularly known as Mr P, has revealed his biggest fear is poverty and being broke. In a recent interview on Nancy Isime show, the other star of the defunct popular music group, P-square, stated he’s not afraid of death, but the thought of returning to a life of poverty […]
•Mohbad Team Justice for Mohbad in Nigeria and the Diaspora has criticised the attempt to exclude Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, in a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test, noting that the person who contests paternity and requests a DNA test controls the process. The group was reacting to the December 2 court sitting in Lagos, which set […]...
•Tuface and Natasha Nigeria’s musical idol Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba or 2face, has commented on the public reaction to his recent cry for help, noting that the outcry is putting his wife, Natasha, in danger. He claimed the matter, as it is, has been blown out of proportion and pleaded with his fans […]
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