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Timi  Timi Adegoke is the organizer of Nigeria’s biggest gospel music awards ceremony, Crystal Awards. As this year’s edition gears up to hold next month, he told OSEYIZA OOGBODO BLOG how Crystal Awards began, the challenges he’s facing and especially about this year’s highly anticipated edition.

Africa’s first global black entertainment and lifestyle network, EbonyLife TV, hosted young leaders and professionals to an exclusive meeting with Professor Attahiru Jega, ex-Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), last Saturday, and the event lived up to all expectations. The venue brimmed over with invited guests drawn from a pool of leading young professionals from various occupational sectors who came to converse with the respected professor about his experience as Nigeria's most powerful electoral official. The master of ceremony was Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, aco-host of the highly rated The Spot on EbonyLife TV and host of Nigeria's most-watched youth-oriented television show, Rubbin’ Minds. Nikki Laoye, recording artiste and project manager at Wahala Media Entertainment, did a sonorous rendition of the Nigerian national anthem, to set the stage for what, characteristic of EbonyLife TV activations, turned out to be an amazing and rewarding event. Executive Ch...

Saying that Crazy singer Seyi Shay is flying really high at the moment is not an understatement. On the back of being nominated for two categories of the MTV Africa Music Awards, she has disclosed that she has signed a recording deal with Island Universal Records. The signing took place in London and she was so excited by it that she announced it to the whole world through Instagram, saying, “this is what most of us work so hard for. We spend most of our lives chasing this one opportunity to reach the world through a giant platform like this.” Even as it’s understandable that Shay is very excited by the deal, one cannot but wonder that her excitement is so much, considering that this isn’t supposed to be her first international deal, since she was a member of Girls Aloud before, and it was a group that was believed to be managed by the great Beyonce’s father who plotted Beyonce’s rise to stardom. Also, it has to be questioned if the deal is truly substantial and not superficial like th...

Morgan Making headway in the entertainment industry is not an easy task.

Promising singer, Simi, is doing quite well presently with her song, JAMB Question, which has opened more doors for her since its release. And capitalizing on its success, she has released its video, and she ensured that the video would live up to the song’s success so far by shooting captivating visuals that will only enhance the song further. She also had promising rapper, Falz, in it as her co-star, making it obvious that she wasn’t ready to take any risk with the video’s chances of being successful. And considering that the videos of many songs that became popular before their videos were released receive lethal criticism because people would say the videos were not what they expected, Simi’s JAMB Question scales that hurdle quite easily. Kudos, girl.

There’s no doubt that A-list actress, Stephanie Okereke, is presently feeling an euphoria like no other. She hasn’t really trended in quite some time, but she’s trending presently she’s pregnant. And since no woman feels really complete until she’s had a child or two or more, Stephanie must definitely be happy that she’s finally treading the path many other women have trod before her. Disclosure of her pregnancy therefore increases the number of female celebrities who are expecting the fruit of the womb. Prominent on this list are of course Tiwa Savage and Omawumi. Savage, in her own case, as per her usual style, has capitalized on her pregnancy to attract publicity to herself, and she held her baby shower recently with massive fanfare on billionaire Femi Otedola’s yacht. In her own case, Omawumi is not making much noise about her condition, and has in fact been a bit silent of late.

DJ Cuppy is back with the second edition of her well-known compilation, House Of Cuppy. House Of Cuppy II, which is inspired by Africa, features songs from artists that include Olamide, Seyi Shay, AKA, P- Square, Yemi Alade, and the voice of actress Funke Akindele. Differing from last year’s House Of Cuppy which was inspired by the Dauphine of France Marie Antoinette, this year’s HOC testifies to Cuppy's ability to concoct a compilation with a rich and unique African tone. So if you are one of those who really want to know whether Cuppy is worth all the hype surrounding her as a superstar DJ, just get HOC 11 so you can properly access if she acquitted herself appropriately on the wheels of steel.

As part of activities to commemorate the 2015 World Sickle Cell Day, the Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria, in collaboration with Channels TV, Silverbird Group and Mainframe Productions, has organized free screenings of the epic movie, Dazzling Mirage, in Lagos and Abuja. According to SCFN, the movie is a different and more creative means of raising awareness and educating people about sickle cell disorder as what better way is there to educate people than through story telling? The 2014 drama film, produced and directed by Tunde Kelani, is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare. It weaves the story of a young lady with sickle cell disorder around the various medical, social and emotional challenges with which she is faced, anchored on a message of hope. Speaking further, SCFN said, “Nigerians need to know more about sickle cell because Nigeria is the country with the highest number of people with the condition in the world. Note that persons with sickle...

Celebrated TV producer-presenter, Mursty Adinoyi, whose programme, Hitlist N Cruzin, is one of the most popular presently, has insisted to E-News that HNC is all about celebrating Nigerians. “I came up with Hitlist N Cruzin to celebrate Nigerians, and that’s what I’ll keep doing with it. Right now, we celebrate at least one Nigerian every week by taking the lucky winner of our weekly quiz on a shopping cruise where he or she buys whatever he likes at our expense. “That’s what we do, and it’s what we’ll keep doing, by celebrating more and more Nigerians wherever they might be in the world, and we’re making plans every day so we can achieve that objective. So if you’re a Nigerian, we want to celebrate you, so participate in our weekly quiz so we can celebrate you.”

It’s said that the Nigerian entertainment industry is growing on a consistent basis. Proof of this includes the number of Nigerian entertainers signing endorsements, Nigerian entertainers dominating continental and international awards, massive improvement in the technical aspects of the industry, and many other suchlike achievements. Now, the very latest proof is that Aries Entertainment and Promotions which has its headquarters in London, and is owned by a Nigerian, Adebisi Osungboun, has decided to contribute directly to the Nigerian entertainment industry by holding its annual awards, and a beauty pageant too, in the country. Aries has however been promoting Nigerian entertainers and entertainment in Europe through shows and its magazine, Aries International. And now in Nigeria to put finishing touches to the holding of its 2015 awards and beauty pageant in Nigeria, Osungboun, Aries’ founder, boasted to E-News that its two-in-one Nigeria event will be the talk of the town. “I hereb...