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Wale Waves, hip hop musician, is set to relaunch his career with the help of friends such as Brymo, Gabriel Afolayan and Dre Sticks. The favourite of Ibadan music fans, Wale trended with “Ibadan Lawa”, “Fo Puuli” six years ago and has gone into songwriting, event promotion since. Now, he wants to get back […]
With his debut single released on April 3, SIL has set his eyes on a popular musician he said he would love to duet with very soon. He would not reveal the musician though. His first single, entitled “Body”, was released online on Friday after futile efforts to get a record deal, a major […]
The Federal High Court, presided over by Honourable Justice SaliuSaidu of the Lagos Division, on Wednesday, 25th March 2020 struck down the Copyright Society of Nigeria Limited by Guarantee (COSON), as a company registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Limited by Guarantee […]
In its capacity as the trade union responsible for the welfare of musicians in Nigeria, Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN) has stated its position on the long-drawn COSON crisis. “While Nigerian right holders continue to suffer losses, COSON has deployed myriad tactics in a desperate attempt to dodge the independent audit mandated by […]
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has been honoured with a Merit Award by the World Customs Organisation (WCO) “for rendering exceptional service to the international Customs community”. The WCO also honoured two other agencies, the United States Department of Justice (USDoJ) and the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA). Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. […]
As part of its strategic interventions towards enhanced copyright protection, the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has inaugurated a corps of Special Copyright Inspectors (SCIs) to check the menace of copyright piracy in the country. Director-General of NCC, Mr. John O. Asein, disclosed this in Abuja at the weekend during the investiture of the chairman […]
The popular Felabration Music Festival, conceived to commemorate his life and celebrate Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s legacy is coming to the UK on Friday, August 30, spearheaded by Fela’s daughter Shalewa Kuti, and supported by DLA World. With music being an integral aspect of African culture, Felabration is one of the longest standing, most attended […]
Obesere’s installation, a sham! As it is well known that controversy always accompanies anything that Fuji musician, Abass Akande Obesere, does, his recent installation as the Agbaakin Abobagunwa has not been an exception. For now, no one even knows if he was installed as the Agbaakin Abobagunwa of Owu Kuta, or the Agbaakin […]
Ope Alabi, business associate with Mr Bimbo Ojugbele, the CEO of EBVande nightclub, has disclosed reason for the club’s love for organising talent hunts: “it is our contribution to discovering talents in the country”. The club recently held it’s maiden edition of a hunt that threw up a 20-year-old medical laboratory student, Emmanuella Bagudu. […]
Emerging from its first quarter NEC meeting held at the Wyndham Garden Hotel, North Dallas, Texas, the Egbe Omo Yoruba North America (National Association of Yoruba Descendants in North America), Dallas Forth Worth, Texas, between March 22 and 24, 2019, the association has, among other deliberations, approved the commencement of a programme for its youth […]