The Nigeria International Gospel Music Awards (NIGMA) 2026 will hold on Sunday, August 9, 2026, at the prestigious Agip Recital Hall, MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos.The announcement was made by the ...

Afrobeats continued its remarkable global expansion in the first half of 2026, with digital streaming cementing its position ...

Mr Eazi, the singer who first had to conquer Ghana before returning to Nigeria his country of origin had a phenomenal 2016. He is Nigeria’s only breakout star for the year, with a handful of personal ...

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020 shut down nearly all physical and social human activities. For musical practice this meant near death. Performing music is, ...

Nigerian highlife music has played an important role in the country's cultural scene since it became one of the most popular music genres in the 1960s. One characteristic of the music of this era was ...

By Ayo Onikoyi Fifteen years after her death, the memory of Nigeria’s legendary singer and actress, Christy Uduak ...

Nigeria has a long history of protest music, and the fire to sing against the ills of Nigeria did not end in the 1970s. Towing the path of older musicians before them — who sang against military ...

The global appreciation of West Africa’s Afrobeats music has grown significantly in the last decade. Afrobeats stars are touring the world, racking up record sales, winning awards and collaborating ...

Seyi Vibez and Shallipopi both appeared on the fast-rising list and the list is not the only thing they have in common. Seyi Vibez is a Street Hop act delivering a modern take on Apala which he blends ...

A seismic shift is underway in Nigerian music as Afrobeats keeps getting platforms to groom the next set of shining stars that will take over from the current crop of Afrobeat crooners. One of such ...

In 2013, Bianca Okorocha, a Nigerian artist who performs as ClayRocksU, received a DM from one of her Twitter followers. It was an invitation to Metal and Romance, a party in Lagos focusing on rock ...

For all of its notoriety as a charmingly extroverted city, Lagos has turned Bloody Civilian into an introvert. In Abuja, the hilly, verdant capital city of Nigeria where the Afropop artist grew up, ...