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Comedian Mr Jollof shares adorable photo with singer, D'Banj.

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Fly boy boss, Kizz Daniel who is currently trending with his hit single challenge, 'Fvck You', shares adorable picture with his younger brother.

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It was an unforgettable moment at a recent event anchored by comedian, Deacon Famous after he instructed the Igbo women to join him do the Zanku leg work trend dance.

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Female gospel musician, Nike Akilapa was filled with gratitude as she shared some of the challenges that came with her dream of becoming a gospel singer. Despite the fact that she believed that she was called by God to propagate His gospel through her voice, she told Saturday Beats that she was shocked when some ministers of God tried to discourage her at the early stage of her career.

“I was discouraged when I started my career in the music industry. Some ministers of God did not encourage me; they used to allocate time to gospel artistes based on their level of fame. When we performed in churches, we ween’t getting paid despite the fact that we had to spend money on logistics. Also, some of my family members were not in support of my dream, but when I started attaining fame, they gave me their full support. Being a gospel artiste has opened doors for me, I have had the opportunity to eat and dine with important people in the country.

“My recent album was to celebrate how God has saved me; he rescued me from financial challenges. I was surprised because he sent divine helpers my way,” she told Saturday Beats.

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Ezeani Chinaza, popularly known as Miss Ezeani, is a 21-year-old online content creator with a following of over 76,000 on Instagram. She told Timileyin Akinkahunsi how the ideas behind her viral skits are conceived including the challenges she has faced so far

Your following on Instagram grew so fast, how did your journey into comedy start?

I never really thought I was funny at first. I just started recording myself while talking and posted them on Instagram; I never expected that it will take me this far.

I used to post videos a few years ago but I stopped during the last strike by university lecturers because I was supposed to proceed with my final clearance in school. But when the strike action lingered, I had to resume posting videos to keep myself busy. The strike gave me enough time to explore and develop my skills in this area.

When I started performing skits a few years back, my friends used to encourage me to stay consistent because I used to procrastinate a lot. Making a good skit can take close to eight to 12 hours. That is how tedious it is.

How would you describe your childhood?

I was a very curious and inquisitive child. I would read books beyond my age and go to places I wasn’t supposed to go to as a child. I was the only child of my parents for 14 years before my mother had my younger brother.

What inspires the content of your skits?

I am very observant, so when things happen around me, most of the time, I end up performing a skit out of them.

For example, there was a skit I made about different types of secretaries you meet in an office. That skit was inspired by the treatment I got from a woman I met in my lecturer’s office in school on a particular day. She complained about my nails and hair, so in my mind, I was just smiling because I knew I was going to make a joke out of it on my Instagram page.


Many people have similar content as yours; have you ever been accused of plagiarism?

Yes, several times. When I started initially, people were accusing me of trying to copy a popular female comedian on Instagram. I am aware of the fact that she is very talented but I never had any intention to be like her.

Your skits are usually centred on the character of an African mother, Mummy Chinasa, is this character a reflection of your biological mother?

My mother is actually a very cool woman. African mothers have similar character traits, so I just exaggerate some of their traits for humour sake.

When I was growing up, my mother was very strict with me as an only child. I think she didn’t want to pamper me. When I grew older, she changed and became lenient. She is like my sister and friend now.

How does she react when she sees your skits?

She laughs over them and she is very proud of me. Her friends always tell her they see my skits all over the social media. Hearing this makes her very happy.

Which of your videos shot you into prominence?

That would be my skit about how Nigerian movies portray grass to grace stories. The video was reposted by most of the major blogs on the social media.

When my posts went viral on famous platforms I almost ran mad, I couldn’t believe it.

What kind of doors has the social media opened for you?

I have had the opportunity of meeting people I wouldn’t have met if I was not a content creator. Many celebrities in the entertainment industry have reached out to me personally to tell me they like what I am doing. These feedbacks are encouraging and make me very happy.

Some people have described you as the “Mercy Johnson” of comedy skits, has she ever been your role model in any way?

She has always been my role model. While I was in secondary school, people used to call me by her name. I was referred to as a drama queen and subconsciously this made me look up to her. I just love the way she handles everything about her career and family.

Would you say you have made impact on people’s lives through your videos?

Yes, I get that every day; people always thank me for helping them out of depression and making them smile.

There was a social gathering I attended recently, I was overwhelmed by the kind of love I received from the people I met there. It was a very emotional moment for me.

Have you ever been a victim of online bullying?

There are cyber bullies everywhere. There was this particular man that used to insult me for not being original when I just started. I took his insults as a challenge to push me further. The irony is that currently he is always begging me to repost his videos on my page to gain more traffic. He doesn’t know I can remember him, but I do.

Some people even go to the extent of calling me ugly, but it doesn’t get to me.

What has been your worst experience on the social media?

When I started, it was discouraging because I used to have low number of views and comments on my page, but it has improved now.

What are some of the efforts you put into shooting your skits?

Sometimes, I have to move out of my comfort zone to make some of my skits. I use my phone to record my videos with the aid of a tripod. I am always indoors, so it gives me enough time to shoot. I use my mother’s clothes when I need to act as a mother in my skits.

There are many comedians on the social media, what makes you different?

I am not trying to compete with anyone. I was just doing this for fun when I started, I didn’t begin with the aim of gaining a huge following on the social media.

What kind of feedbacks do you get from your family and friends?

They are always proud of me, even though when I started some of them didn’t support me. They would always watch my videos without dropping a comment.

However, when it was obvious that I was going somewhere, they came around me.

Have you ever had any reason to block anyone?

Yes, I have done this a few times. There was a time someone dropped a very harsh comment on one of my posts. The annoying aspect was that another person went directly to that same comment and started laughing. I had to block that person immediately.

What has been your most controversial post so far?

There was a post I made about different types of people having their bath during the Harmattan season. I was wearing a black sleeveless while I was shooting and when I posted the video, people thought I was actually naked. I tried to explain to them that I wasn’t but they didn’t believe, so I had to leave them to their thoughts.

Have you ever considered quitting the social media?

No.

In some of your videos, you usually use the Igbo and Yoruba accent in a humorous way; have you ever being lambasted for doing this?

Yes, there was a time a lady told me my Igbo accent was deep, I replied her that I am Igbo and can’t have a British accent.

Everybody has an accent; I am Igbo, so I should have the accent.

There was a skit you made about failing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Senior School Certificate Examination, was that from a personal experience?

No, it was from a friend’s experience.

There was another video you did about African mothers sending WhatsApp broadcast messages, was that from your personal experience.

Yes, my mother believes most of the broadcast messages she reads on WhatsApp. She still believes that if I answer phone calls in the kitchen, something bad might happen.

How much do you spend on data and do you edit your videos yourself?

I spend a lot of money on data but I have made a reasonable amount of profit from my contents.

Yes, I edit my skits on my phone and laptop.

Have you ever wished your popularity on the social media was the same in real life?

Indeed, I used to wish I was popular in real life as I am on the social media. Even at that, it is getting difficult to handle the little fame the Internet has given us.

How has fame changed your lifestyle?

There are some things I can’t do anymore because I am scared of being recorded by someone else and being put on the Internet. If I get angry with someone in public for example, I can’t just react anyhow.

Do you get funny request from men?

Yes, a lot. Some of them tell me they want to pay for me to come over to their place and have sex. A few of them even clearly state it that they want to get me pregnant.

There was skit you did about the struggle to lose weight, have you ever had to battle with staying fit?

I can be a fitness enthusiast but anytime I stop, it is always difficult getting back to full fitness.

You are currently waiting to undergo the compulsory one year National Youth Service Corps programme, do you have plans of getting a job after that or intend to expand on what you currently do?

I don’t have plans to dump my Instagram page; I started it because it was fun for me. I actually wanted to act in Nollywood at some point but things didn’t go as planned for me.

For now, I am happy with what I am doing and we’ll see about the future.

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It is often said that when it comes to creativity, there are no borders or boundaries. As a result, it comes as no surprise that most Nigerian artistes either wear dreadlocks, have tattoos or both. Recently, spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Bala Elkana, was reported to have said that tattoos and dreadlocks were strange to our culture. Following the statement credited to Elkana, Saturday Beats sampled the opinion of some Nigerian celebrities and below were their reaction

The police ought to be our friend –Femi Kuti

The police have to be reformed. The orientation and the mindset of the police have to be erased and changed if possible. The police must work for the people.

You cannot say that they should cancel or scrap the police because there would always be crime. Sadly, today, the police are the ones committing crimes. My father talked about these things but some people felt that because he smoked Indian hemp, he did not know what he was talking about.

I remember that there was a law in those days that a policeman or soldier could bring you out of the car and beat you on the spot if you commit an offense. This was when Olusegun Obasanjo was the Head of State in 1976. My father preached against that law. At the time, everybody thought it was normal except my father.

I also remember during my days in school, military men were deployed in schools so that they could beat erring students.

So, the mentality of the Nigerian police needs to be overhauled totally. The police have to be our friends. The police in our country do not know more than to demand money on the road from citizens. Our police would be wearing slippers; it is so bad that a lot of people do not even know if the police uniform is black, black and blue or even plain blue.

Our police do not have cars and even if you give them a car today, they would destroy it because they do not understand that it was bought with tax payers’ money and that they ought to protect the cars with their lives.

In those days, when a policeman shoots a bullet, he would go back to the station to account for that bullet but now the situation has changed. Now, a policeman can just shoot into the air for no reason.

Nigerian police now commit crime –Ruggedman

I never wore dreadlocks but people always thought I had one. It is actually sad that a police officer can open his mouth and say such a thing. It is either he is unenlightened or he is looking for a way to justify the unlawful arrest, extortion and torture of people that wear dreadlocks and have tattoos.


It is wrong that such a statement is coming from an officer that is supposed to defend and protect the citizens of this country. The trend of people wearing dreadlocks did not begin today neither did it start with musicians. In fact, that means that the Nigerian police should be ready to arrest all reggae artistes in Nigeria.

We also know that when it comes to tattoos, in the past, our mothers used to inscribe their names and other wordings on their skin. At the end of the day, it is sad that the Nigerian police are discussing tattoos and dreadlocks when some of their officers are the ones committing a lot of crimes in Nigeria today. You don’t hear about carjacking, bank robbery or any other form of crime as much as you hear about police brutality today.

We don’t have police in Nigeria –Sola Fosudo

I do not think we have police in Nigeria. The Force needs to be restructured. The calibre of people who are employed in the Force needs to be reviewed. The methods of training our policemen should be reviewed.

It is common knowledge that the number of policemen we have in this country cannot adequately provide the security required for our population. State police could be a solution in that respect.

Even if they need to arrest someone, there is a way to do that instead of taking laws into their hands. There are so many factors responsible for this, such as ignorance, illiteracy and incivility. If we need to get expatriates to train the men of the police, then we should do the needful. We should not be too proud to take that step.

Any policeman that kills people unjustly should be made to face the law. However, as we all know, every system in Nigeria has its own issues; it is a vicious problem. There are many incidents that have happened that are not even known to the public.

My advice to the youths is that they should be careful and conscious of the fact that the policemen on the street are not qualified. If you meet a mad man on the street, the sensible thing to do is to run away because you don’t know if they would harm you. I am not describing our policemen as madmen but we know many of them are not adequately trained for the job they are doing. I think some of them operate under pressure as well.

There are many young men around who are into fraud; who also deal with these policemen. We need to examine ourselves as a people and look for new ways to administer ourselves. We need fundamental solutions to these problems. Graduates should be the ones in the force, not some rehabilitated touts.

Nobody feels safe anymore –Foluke Daramola-Salako

I can’t fathom what dreadlocks have to do with people using their arms and ammunitions anyhow. These people are supposed to protect us, what has that got to do with anything. It doesn’t mean they should infringe on people’s rights. That statement is so inhumane and wicked, not even at this time.

In the past, women used to inscribe things on their body like, my mum had her name written on her hands, it was part of fashion then. I do not understand the correlation with someone talking about culture and a policeman killing a man with the gun they are supposed to use to protect citizens of the country. They should be remorseful, I am highly disappointed by that statement, and it is unprofessional and unpatriotic.

Nobody feels safe anymore; we should actually watch our backs. Even when I’m driving, I am careful.

The wrong people are in power –Yul Edochie

What happened will still happen again if it is not checked, this is because the wrong people are in power. Their problem is not to fix the country but to win election and remain there.

When this happened, I felt so bad and heartbroken. Every sector in Nigeria has its issues. Tattoos and dreadlocks should not be a yardstick to arrest someone. These things can only stop when we have the right people in power to stop them.

Policemen should get formal training – Peter Fatomilola

Parents need to teach their children how to respect law and order in the country. The idle mind is the devil’s workshop. The rate of unemployment is also a contributing factor to this problem.

Also, most of the policemen do not have formal training. They need to be educated and tutored on how to handle guns when it comes to civilians. If they see armed robbers, they run. They can’t even face Boko Haram insurgents but they are ready to face anybody on the street; it is bad.

Our government has a lot of work to do as regards unemployment. The government should pass a law that would control the police. They shouldn’t judge people by their appearance.

Policemen need reorientation –Adebayo Salami

There should be proper orientation among the police force on how to deal with the public. There must be a proper and thorough investigation before recruiting people into the force. To the public, they need to be enlightened on how to relate with policemen.

Some of them do not know how to respond to the officers by respecting their uniform. The officers should never be provoked to the point of killing anyone.

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A student at the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Balkis Adeniyi, has died in an accident that occurred on Mokola-Oyo Road in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday.

Eyewitnesses told City Round that the accident also left two other victims seriously injured as a tricycle popularly called Keke Napep, rammed into a waste disposal truck at Leventis area of Sango in the metropolis.

The accident occurred around 9:30am while the student was returning from a bank where she had gone to pay her school fees.

The police gave the number plate of the tricycle as RU 152 UP and described the truck as ‘MARC LAMMERTYN’.

An eyewitness, Bamgbose Omobola, blamed the crash on speeding on the part of the tricycle driver, adding that the victim (Adeniyi) died immediately after the accident.

The eyewitness said, “The lady was coming from a bank at Ajibade where she had gone to pay her school fees.

“Her phone and bag were recovered. When the bag was searched, her school identity card was found there. She was a student of UI. We contacted her parents.

“The two other victims who had injuries in the heads and legs had been taken to a hospital for treatment.”

Confirming the tragedy, the Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, Olugbenga Fadeyi, said, “Yes, it was true.

“The Divisional Police Officer, Mokola Police Station, confirmed it to me and we have commenced investigation into the matter.”

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