Adele said hello to millions of dollars in 2017. The 30-year-old Grammy winner hasn’t released an album in three years, but she’s still making tons of money during her time out of the spotlight. Adele, whose last album 25 debuted in Nov. 2015, earned over $11 million last year, according to the accounts of her two companies. Reports have obtained documents of Adele’s companies Melted Stone Publishing and Melted Stone Ltd, which take care of her album sales and royalties. The documents show that Adele earned about $11.2 million last year, after taxes. So, if you break it down, that…
Author: David Folami
Earlier this week, fans began speculating that former Destiny’s Child bandmates Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland were teasing a collaborative project. Now there’s more fuel to the fire, with fans noticing that Tidal’s official Instagram account has followed the mysterious Insta believed to be teasing a release. In fact, the Instagram account, which goes by the name Rose IV You, has just shared a new post with a picture featuring a silhouette that looks suspiciously like Bey. At first, the posts looked dubious and started to look like another case of fans creating hype where there isn’t any, but now it’s…
Travis Scott has revealed the video for “Sicko Mode”, his standout Drake collaboration appearing on his latest album, ASTROWORLD. Director Dave Meyers turns Scott’s hometown of Houston into a psychedelic wonderland, wherein Scott can be found trotting around on horseback, serenading half-naked women by the train tracks, and moonlighting as a math teacher. All the while, a girl twerks in Drake’s eyeball; later, Drizzy’s face literally cracks into pieces. Needless to say, there’s a lot going on here.
Wizkid’s former girlfriend, Tania Omotayo, and also a fashion entrepreneur, is reportedly engaged to buzzbar co-owner, Sumbo. She was pictured with an engagement ring, and have reportedly been dating the co-owner of popular Lagos lounge and restaurant, Buzzbar for some time now. Tania dated the superstar singer, Wizkid for a time but left him after he welcomed a second child.
“He’s a really good guy. We’ve had some dope, deep conversations” Joyner Lucas has confirmed that Eminem will feature on his upcoming album.Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Beats 1, the rapper confirmed that he’ll team up with Eminem on ‘ADHD’, effectively returning the favour after he appeared on ‘Kamikaze’ last month.“Eminem has been someone that I’ve always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it”, Lucas explained. “You can hear it in my music that I’m heavily influenced by that.” Confirming their ‘Lucky You’ follow-up, he explained: ‘Eminem is definitely on ADHD. We have another record coming out.’ “We’re…
Davido has literally told Kemi Olunloyo to put a zipper on her lip after her comments concerning his relationship with girlfriend Chioma. In previous weeks there were rumours that their romance was hitting the rocks but it appeared only hearsay based on the cool vibe between them. Olunloyo however has her own thoughts in a tweet she posted on Friday. She alleged that Davido is dealing with the heartbreak of a bad relationship with his girlfriend and has been posting old pictures of both of them together. She reportedly got the information from a source close to the singer. “Close…
Teebillz feels embarrassed about the status of being a co-parent but he believes he feels he is up for the challenge. He made an observation concerning this status in a post he shared on IG today. Having to tell his parents that he ended up being a father to many children with different mothers is not a conversation he is looking forward to. In the post the music exec shared pictures of moments with his kids. He was quite the cuddler. The relationship between Tiwa Savage and her ex has improved in recent months. Teebillz has been caught cheering up…
Ini Edo thinks some men need to step up in their roles instead of dating a woman for money. She thinks attention should be brought to this problem and that has motivated a collaboration with Uche Jombo in a movie reportedly hitting the cinemas in December. In an article on Saturday, October 20, 2018, she made sure to point out that not all men are guilty of this. “Men of these days are not what they used to be. But the issues are not addressed. Nobody is talking about it. That’s why Uche Jombo and I took that up and…
Olamide has announced plans to release a mixtape by the members of his YBNL record label. In a message on his social media accounts – Twitter and Instagram – on Thursday, October 18, 2018, Olamide hinted that he’s working with other artists signed on his record label for a mixtape. “Murder everything moving ! Who’s ready for that ybnlmafiafamily mixtape,” he wrote on his Twitter and Instagram pages. To further confirm his announcement, the singer and record label boss released a video of some of newly signed music acts working in a recording studio. The video was captioned, “Road to…
Chimamanda Adichie was a guest at the Esquire Townhouse, United Kingdom where she touched on racism though she feels more comfortable talking about it than when sexism is the topic. The author in a chat with Esquire’s Editor-In-Chief Alex Bilmes explains when her host said, “You say that you are angrier about sexism than you are about racism.” She mentioned that having to give obvious reasons why women are disadvantaged can be a bit of a stress. But she does not get this reaction when talking about racism. “I said that because in my very own personal space, the people…
Nigeria’s social media is buzzing with pictures of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who’s been missing for over a year, and widely believed to be held by the Nigerian government. Kanu has not been seen in public since an alleged attack on his father’s compound by soldiers on September 14, 2017, and has missed court appearances since then. His parents, HRH Eze Israel Kanu and Lolo Sally, have also been missing in the same period. However, if pictures that have now surfaced on social media on Friday, October 19, 2018, are to be believed,…
Lai Muhammad has said he reason president Buhari engages more with foreign media is to allow them to see the achievements of his administration which are downplayed. The minister stated this in London on Friday, October 19, while speaking with Royal African Society. Lai Muhammed who arrived London on Sunday, 14, engaged with Commonwealth Official as well as, All parliamentary Groups and was featured on Aljazeera News Hour. “The whole idea of the trip is to engage foreign media organisations, networks, and think tanks to actually explain the activities of government,” he said. He said the platform has given the…
Babatunde Raji Fashola has said only a magician can fix Nigeria’s perennial electricity problem overnight. Fashola made the remarks on Thursday, October 18, 2018 during the inauguration of the 2x100MVA, 132/33kV power transformers at the Ejigbo Transmission Substation, Lagos. Nigeria’s electricity supply to homes hasn’t gone past the 7,000megawatts mark at the best of times. Commending the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) for the ongoing projects across the country, Fashola said: “we have come to hand over this expanded transmission substation, the Ejigbo Transmission Substation, to the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company. “This substation was built in 1970; the capacity was…
Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday night reassured that the brutal activities of the Boko Haram sect would soon become history. The president gave the assurance when he hosted members of the Kannywood entertainment industry to a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that the Federal Government would not allow any group hiding under religion to unleash terror on innocent citizens. Buhari, who spoke in local language, said, “It’s totally wrong for any believer in God to kill innocent people either in the Mosque, Church or the market place. “You can’t be shouting Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great), Allahu Akbar,…
Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Thursday asked security agencies in the state to fish out killers of the Treasurer of the state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Moses Adeoye, who was killed by gunmen at his Otun Ekiti residence on Tuesday night. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that late Adeoye, who was until recently chairman of the party in Moba Local Government, was allegedly trailed to his residence by the gunmen and shot dead in the presence of his family members. The governor had upon hearing the sad news, after his return from a trip to Abuja,…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate reconstitution of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday in Abuja, said that further delay would jeopardise the course of justice in the matter. Ologbondiyan frowned at the disbanding of the panel by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachwa, saying it was a development which, if not quickly addressed, would send a very bad signal on the integrity of the judiciary. He said that PDP’s submission was predicated on reports that the…
Bukola Saraki is set to seek re-elelection in the National Assembly as his name was submitted by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the party’s candidate to contest for the seat of Kwara Central senatorial district in the 2019 general elections. Saraki had contested for the PDP’s presidential ticket but came a distant third to second-placed Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, and winner, Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, at the party’s national convention that concluded on October 7, 2018. Before his loss two weeks ago, there had been a rumour making the rounds that the former Kwara governor was…
Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his everlasting admiration for former president, Goodluck Jonathan, for conceding defeat after losing the 2015 presidential election. Buhari made history in 2015 when he became the first opposition candidate to defeat an incumbent president in a democratic election. Jonathan conceded defeat to the former military Head of State in a phone call before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officially declared him the winner. His act of conceding defeat was widely hailed for having prevented post-election violence in the country as experienced after the 2011 presidential election. While speaking during a dinner event at the Presidential…
Did former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, tell a bare-faced lie when he told the nation that he has no other house outside of his property in Onitsha? This question has dominated social media chatter for days on end. Recall that PDP presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, recently named Peter Obi his running mate for the 2019 general elections. Soon after the announcement was made, a lot of folks on social media embarked on a digging spree of some sort and came up with the following allegations: a) That Obi has been exaggerating a lot of his prudence and frugal…
Ben Murray-Bruce has urged Nigerians to vote for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as Nigeria’s next president to arrest the nation’s current slide into chaos under President Muhammadu Buhari. The lawmaker took to his Twitter account (@benmurraybruce) on Friday, October 19, 2018, to preach restructuring as being pushed by Atiku, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election. Senator Murray-Bruce said Nigeria is on life support due to all the borrowings being made by the Federal Government and urged Nigerians to make a wise decision at the polls next year. He posted, “Nigeria needs restructuring.…