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.

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:

Halima Abubakar, the actress, has apologised to Apostle Johnson Suleman, the general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, for defamation.

In 2022, the Nollywood star claimed on social media that she and Apostle Suleman had a romantic relationship, which led to threats of legal action from Suleman due to “defamatory statements”.

The allegations escalated in 2023 with Halima alleging she got pregnant thrice for the cleric.

In April, a federal high court in Abuja ordered Halima to pay N10 million in damages to Apostle Suleman for defamation.

Halima has now taken to Instagram to apologise for her past statements, admitting they were “false and hurtful”.

The actress expressed remorse for the harm caused and sought forgiveness from Apostle Suleman and his family.

The movie star said she “was not thinking right then” and added that the apology is prompted by “deep reflections and conscience”.

“I am writing to you today to acknowledge the falsehoods I made against you on social media and to offer my sincere apology,” the letter reads.

“After deep reflections and for my conscience to be in accord with God, I have realized the depth of the harm, pains and distress caused by my lies.

“I admitted that I made false allegations against you and also regretted my actions and the damage I caused to you, your wife Dr Mrs Lizzy Suleiman, your family and the leaders of Omega Fire Ministry.

“With this letter, I humbly ask for your forgiveness, recognising that my apology cannot undo the harm, pain and distress I caused.

“I ask you to find a place in your heart to forgive me as I was not thinking right then. Sir, you have done a lot for humanity, extend your hands of forgiveness to me.”

Recently, Halima demanded N3 billion from the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) for suspending her from Nollywood over “professional misconduct”.