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He said he would have given the songs more live and vocals as he is capable of doing so.

The 26-year-old said he wished he sang ‘You’ by Omah Lay and ‘King’ by Fireboy DML.

Oxlade made this known in a recent interview with Beat 99.9 FM, Lagos.

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He said: “The song I wish I sang that I really wish I sang… They are two actually. There is ‘You’ by Omah Lay. I feel like I would murder that song with vocals.

“And then there is ‘King’ by Fireboy. That song… For the first time in my life, I really wanted to be the person that sang ‘King.’ Fireboy is my best friend. We are pretty close”.

Actor Temisan Emmanuel Ahwieh aka Taymesan, has narrated the trauma he suffered from bullying while growing up.

The thespian recounted how bad it was to the point where his self-esteem was reduced to nothing.

He, however, said the trolling made him decide to work consistently on himself and become who he is today.

Taymesan appeared on the latest episode of The Nancy Isime Show alongside popular influencer, Enioluwa.

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He said: “One of the things I have done over time, is to do a lot of work on myself. I don’t think I have ever said this anywhere; but growing up, I was really trolled. I was trolled to the point where my self-esteem was on the floor.

“So, this is me coming into UNILAG as one of the most talented persons back in my school in Warri. And when I got into school, I didn’t understand why they were trolling me. I really wanted to be a popular-jingo, be everybody’s guy. But that didn’t happen. So, I was doing only church and just my school works.

“But, you know, one of the things I’m very grateful for, is that those things happen. Because it inspired me to do more. If I were working on a scale of 100, I did 200. I had too much to prove.

“But my turning point was… UNILAG changed me, I cannot even lie. And this is the first time I’m saying it anywhere”.

Popular skit maker, Marym Apaokagi- Greene aka Taaooma has disclosed that she never planned to end up as a comedian.

Famous for her skits on Instagram and TikTok, Taaooma said she only had interest in video editing but later ended up making humorous skits.

She revealed that she wasn’t social media savvy when she started but eventually found herself entertaining millions of people on social media.

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“I didn’t start out to become a comedian, so I wasn’t really looking up to anybody like that, Instagram was not my thing, Facebook was not my thing so I wasn’t in this space or I didn’t know anything about it, I only wanted to learn how to edit. So this comedy just came along the line for me so I didn’t really look up to anybody that much,” said Taaooma.

On her advice for other creatives, she said: “number one is you really have to do your stuff yourself. Secondly, invest in yourself, if you do, it’s going to be very easy- you don’t have to do a lot of stuff editing. If you use your good light and good microphone, all you have to do is put the thing on your timeline, you don’t have to start adjusting colour or whatever.”

She further revealed that her dream is to produce top quality movies someday.

Michael ‘Don Jazzy’ Ajereh, the Chief Executive Officer of Mavin Records has listed some of the criteria he considers before signing any artist on his rising record label.

The music executive, who many have described as a great leader with eyes for raw talent, spoke on his six expectations in signing any talent from a creative perspective.

“Once upon a time I wouldn’t think of signing an artist that is social media savvy but now I kind of want to put it at the beginning of my list,” he began. “Talent, due diligence, mannerism, character, age at the moment is kind of important as well.”

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Continuing, he said, “the people that move the market are the young ones because the older guys are busy making money for the family and are worried about their family. They don’t care about helping you to go and stream or watching your social media to know when you post but the young guys are still much into the whole culture.”

The former Vice President of the defunct Mo’Hits records, further described his definition of a successful artist as one who has or can make an impact on his immediate or extended family.

“As for me, if your life is better than you were yesterday. As long as we can make life better for you and you can in turn impact your own immediate or extended family, that’s beautiful.”

Rising film director, Samuel ‘Bigsam’ Olatunji has outdone himself with the completion of his recent production entitled ‘Plan C.’

Bigsam recently concluded the feature film, which features over 15 major Nollywood stars such as Nkem Owoh, Akin Lewis, Yvonne Jegede, Lizzy Jay, Bimbo Akintola, Faithia Balogun, Uzor Arukwe, Frank Donga, Kelechi Udegbe, Bianca Ugowanne, Greg Ojeifua, Ayo Badmus, Jigan Babaoja, Mama No Network, Westy Baba, Lydia Lawrence Nze, Maryjane Ogu, Alariya and others.

The film is produced by Bigsam’s usual collaborators, Wale Osagie Muraina, others are Adebola Adeyela, Bianca Ugowanne and Olukanmi Abayomi.

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Speaking on his achievement, Bigsam said it’s an ambitious project that cost an arm and a leg.

“Plan C is the kind of story Nollywood would be proud of. It’s a comedy told with depth of story, technical deftness, and notable performers that will grip you from the opening scene to the last. We took our time to weave it layer upon layer because the scale of the story has prompted us to have a sequel planned.”

In a move considered by many as major, Bigsam collaborated with a number of production studios to  make ‘Plan C’ on Sony Venice 2 camera. This will be the first time Sony Venice 2 will be used in Africa. Sony Venice 2 is a recent camera that was used in filming major Hollywood movies such as Avatar, Black Panther and Maverick.

Nollywood actresses, Annie Idibia and Nancy Iheme have shown solidarity with one of their colleagues, Angela Okorie, who decided to go all out against other colleagues that she referred to as frenemies.

In a series of videos, Okorie, who doubles as actress and singer, claimed that one of her colleagues and former friend, Uche Elendu, had recorded her in her low state after an assassination attempt on her life in 2019.

In her claims, Okorie said, “Everybody knows that I don’t drag people but when they concoct lies against me, I have to defend myself. Uche Elendu came to my house after I was shot at and saw me in a bad state where they were removing gun pellets from my face and she made a video of the process only to go and share the video with a blogger, who concocted lies about my person saying I slept with a married man and married woman and that was why they were after me.”

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Continuing, she said, “90% of my friends and none of them will tell you I snatched their husband because I am not on that level and I choose my level. I was practically trying to survive. I was getting four injections everyday just to revive me and stabilise me, I took over 200 injection and you had the effrontery to send those videos to a blogger who concocted the story that I slept with someone’s husband, which you know it’s a lie and none of my friends or people I know that are married and none of them will ever tell you that I did something like that or drag me.”

In another video, Okorie claimed that another colleague, Anita, mocked her situation claiming it was karma and she dared her to come out and explain how karma was working in her plight.

“I am not part of them, I am not part of what they do but my anger is why would you want to do that to me. Anita was saying it was karma but karma for what? Have I done anything bad to you, come out and tell the world what I have done and why you all gang up against me.

“The point is why were they trying to assassinate my character, I was coming back from a show and was going back home at Orile and they shot me, about 10 people at Orile and my friend came and was videoing me at home when she saw I was at home and removing pellets and she sent to bloggers, who claimed I was sleeping with a married man and a married woman and those are the people trying to kill me but I ask again, why are they trying to assasinate my character so bad?”