Nigerian musicians earned more than N60bn from Spotify in 2025, highlighting the country’s rapidly expanding music streaming market and the growing global reach of its artists, according to the ...

Nigerian artists generated over ₦60 billion in revenue from Spotify alone in 2025, marking a massive 140% increase over the last two years, according to the streaming platform's annual Loud & Clear ...

Juju music legend Ebenezer Obey will celebrate his 84th birthday with a two-day crusade themed “Thy Kingdom Come” in Abeokuta ...

When former US secretary of state Colin Powell took to a London stage alongside Nigerian artist Olu Maintain in 2008 and danced to a song called Yahoozee, he almost certainly didn't know that the ...

The analogy of death and gun even further reinforce the thesis. He must have felt like the world was in his pocket. Or like a ...

Global Afrobeats star Tiwa Savage, 46, is deepening her investment in the future of African music. She’s launching the Tiwa Savage Music Foundation and partnering with Berklee College of Music to ...

Dipo Faloyin is a journalist and the author of “Africa Is Not a Country,” a book about the continent’s history, diversity and persistent stereotypes. Feb. 5, 2026 Heaving with coordinated chaos, Lagos ...

SOKOTO, Nigeria — Armed extremists killed 162 people during attacks on two villages in western Nigeria, a lawmaker said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest assaults in recent months. The attacks ...

A Nigerian soldier loads his machine gun during training at the Multinational Joint Task Force military base, Sector 3 Headquarters, in Monguno, Borno state, Nigeria, July 5, 2025. (Joris Bolomey/AFP ...

Ifunanya Nwangene, a rising star on The Voice Nigeria in 2021, has sadly passed away. She suffered a snake bite while resting in her apartment. And now, her loved ones are paying tribute to the ...

Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi is also known as one of the great founders of Juju music in Nigeria. Simply known as Ebenezer Obey on stage, he has used his music renditions, both juju and gospel, to rule the ...