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Fast-rising Nigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, better known as Portable, has welcomed another son with his baby mama, Omobewaji Feranmi.
The 27-year-old Sango Ota-based singer shared videos of the newborn on his Instagram page. In the video, he held the newborn closely to his chest.
The leader of the Zen nation movement referred to his son as ‘Zazu son’. He also revealed the child’s name as Opeyemi.
Portable wrote, “Aliamdlulilai. Izza bouncing baby boy. Opeyemi Ølüwa mi Eazy ZAZUU son”.
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has directed the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Abiodun Alabi, to investigate the shooting by personnel attached to Grammy Award winner Burna Boy at Club Cubana on Wednesday in Lagos.
A prominent intellectual property rights lawyer, Rockson Igelige, has described the use of Timi Dakolo’s song at the recently held presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress as an infringement of copyright laws.
The renowned lawyer made this statement during an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday.
Mr Igelige said the public use of an artist’s body of work without the artist’s permission is a copyright infringement, as stated in the Copyright act 2004.
July 31 will end up as a sweet pay day for artistes, with the two newest events on the National Cultural Foundation’s (NCF) Crop Over calendar. It starts out as the People’s Choice Competition which will see the public voting for their favourite artistes in two stages. At the end of that contest, 20 people will then perform at what is billed as Soca Rukshun with each going home with $7,000 overall.
The decision by the National Cultural Foundation ( NCF) to have three separate categories judged in the 2022 Junior Monarch Competition meets with approval from Head of the Barbados Association of Creatives and Artistes (BACA) Sean Apache Carter… The gospel artiste, under his NGO hat, described the move to add soca and bashment soca to the traditional calypso category as a progressive step...
For the first time ever the National Cultural Foundation will crown a junior soca and bashment soca monarch along with the traditional calypso monarch. The three-tier show, which was previously categorised by age, will now be done according to genre: calypso, soca and bashment soca. Three separate competitions with three different genre monarchs. The preliminaries will be conducted by video...