On October 23, 2024, Burna Boy packed up the Peacock Centre in Los Angeles as he thrilled fans with a collection of his hit singles.

The 2-day concert tagged Headliners Only saw Burna Boy team up with American-Senegalese music icon Akon.

The audience got a peek at one of the unreleased songs from Burna Boy’s next album, which he previewed to the excited crowd.

This is the second song Burna Boy will be previewing after earlier teasing the song ‘Empty Chairs’ off his next album which is expected to be released in 2025.

Jumoke George, the ace actress, has spoken out about her 14-year absence from the film industry.

In a recent episode of Oyinmomo TV, the actress revealed that her dark skin tone and refusal to exchange sex for roles led to her prolonged hiatus.

Jumoke, who returned to acting some years ago, disclosed that movie directors often complained about her dark skin tone, suggesting she bleach her skin.

She also recalled an incident where a director told her she was being blacklisted for refusing to sleep with them.

“My skin tone was not the only setback I encountered in this business. The other reason why I did not get any roles or see the back of a lens for 14 years is because I refused to sleep around. For my skin tone, they complained that I was too dark and I would tell them to add my lightning to the scene to make me look lighter,” she said.

“You cannot push me into something I do not want to do. I will glow with this skin till old age and do not forget, black does not crack. I started having issues with getting roles when the executives wanted a relationship in exchange for it. The pressure was getting immense and it was more than 20 to 30 people.

“Another thing was that if you dated one of them, broke up, and went ahead to date someone else, they would discuss you among themselves. I said to myself that as long as God exists, I would not find myself in such a space. I had to do so to avoid becoming a pass-around among them.

“I did not get any acting roles for about three years, I did not understand what was happening. One day I was at Feminine Cafe at LTV 8, and I met one of our directors, I would not mention his name. I asked him what happened that he did not call me for roles, and he asked me ‘Jummy, you want to feature in movies?’.

“He then told me that their group of directors decided not to call me roles and I was like why? He said it was because I was refusing to sleep with them… he also asked me what was the benefit of my refusing their advances. I just started crying and he walked out. When I got home, I prayed to God to take control. “

Nigerian comedian Ali Baba has recounted a dramatic encounter with former military leader Sani Abacha that he describes as a ‘near-death experience.’

He reflected on an incident during his recent appearance on the Leadership Podcast, recalling the tense atmosphere surrounding a particular performance during Abacha’s presidency.

At the event in Abuja, the Akwa Ibom cultural group was set to perform, and he had been tasked with introducing them.

Ali Baba narrated, “The first close encounter I had with death was with Sani Abacha. When Abacha was president, Ernest Shonekan had been removed so I went to do an event in Abuja and it was time for the Akwa ibom cultural group to perform. At the time, Abacha was wearing one of those sunglasses that could be folded.”

The comedian recalled his audacious move to address Abacha directly to ask him to remove his sunglasses.

“So then they started dancing I stopped them and faced Abacha, saying, ‘your excellency, sir, it’s almost 10; why are you wearing Dark shades? Don’t you want to see their performance? Remove this shade na,'” he narrated.

“He then removed the glasses and was talking to someone and when he kept the glasses I told the troupe to continue. As soon as they started, I saw the DSS officers going backstage to wait for god knows who o.”

Alibaba recalled how, in a moment of fear, he sat next to the iron-fisted president instead of going backstage, where the DSS operatives were.

“I went down the stage to where Abacha was and sat on the ground next to him. He made jokes of me and asked why I refused to go backstage and I said , ‘Don’t worry, sir, they can come and arrest me here.”

In an interesting turn of events, Abacha gave him the sunglasses as a gift.

See the full interview below: