Nigerian artiste Tems has opened up about how fame has drastically changed her daily routine, impacting even little areas of her life like being able to drive herself around Lagos.

Speaking during her recent guest appearance on Big Boy TV, the singer spoke about her journey into fame and the challenge of adjusting to it and having to let go of the solitude she once had.

When asked if she’s well known in Nigeria, Tems responded, “I am very famous at home, so I can’t really go anywhere.”

She continued, “And we have area boys, and they know who I am, so I can’t drive anywhere. I used to try to drive before but I almost got mobbed last year because I attempted to drive myself. Now I have to have police cars in front and at the back, and if I want to drive myself, there must be police diving behind me. If in trying to live a normal life again and feel normal, I have to have police escorts in front and at the back if I’m in Nigeria. If I say I want to be behind the wheel and feel like the normal girl, I can’t.”

The Afrobeat star also opened up about her personal journey adapting to fame, admitting it hasn’t always been easy, especially because of her introverted nature.

She admitted, “I didn’t take it well at first, the fame. After some time I just wanted some alone time and wanted to go back to my room and be alone. Even with my team, adapting to having to talk and have conversations was strange because I never had to do that before so I didn’t take it well at all. I was very blunt, rude… I wouldn’t say rude, but I’d say things that were obvious, but I wasn’t meant to say them.”

Tems explained how she even used to confront people who said wrong things about her, not knowing that she was not supposed to do things like that anymore as a famous person.

“When I hear someone say something about me, I would go to them and be like, ‘do we have a problem? are we okay?’ and then I was told that I wasn’t supposed to confront people,” she said.

The Afrobeat star also opened up about her personal journey adapting to fame, admitting it hasn’t always been easy, especially because of her introverted nature.

She admitted, “I didn’t take it well at first, the fame. After some time I just wanted some alone time and wanted to go back to my room and be alone. Even with my team, adapting to having to talk and have conversations was strange because I never had to do that before so I didn’t take it well at all. I was very blunt, rude… I wouldn’t say rude, but I’d say things that were obvious, but I wasn’t meant to say them.”

Tems explained how she even used to confront people who said wrong things about her, not knowing that she was not supposed to do things like that anymore as a famous person.

“When I hear someone say something about me, I would go to them and be like, ‘do we have a problem? are we okay?’ and then I was told that I wasn’t supposed to confront people,” she said.

She added, “I’m a quiet person, but because someone was spreading rumours about me, I just wanted to know why. Some of these people were like big in the industry, so I couldn’t walk up to them. I had to learn everything from the beginning.”

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Zicsaloma, the Nigerian skit maker, has expressed gratitude to God for protecting him and his team from a potentially disastrous incident.

On Friday, the online comedian shared footage on Instagram showing the aftermath of his POP ceiling collapse in his home’s sitting room.

POP, also called plaster of Paris, is one of the most preferred materials used to make a false ceiling.

According to Zicsaloma, the incident occurred shortly after some members of his team, who had been camping at his residence for three days, left the room.

The skit maker added that no one was injured, except for the ceiling fan which was damaged in the incident.

“Na God dey save person. I was sleeping upstairs I just heard a sound in my sleep. I woke up, confused about what was happening. I was even scared to go down thinking my building was collapsing,” he said.

“Coming down, see what I saw. The sitting room Pop ceiling collapsed. I just finished a shoot where people were sleeping in the sitting room. Just imagine they were here.

“They just left and they have been camping for three days. Thank God it is just the fan that broke. All the Pop just came down.

“That is why it is good to get good artisans to build your house. They will tell you they are trained so try to verify.”

Paul ‘Rudeboy’ Okoye, the Nigerian singer, and his wife Ivy Ifeoma have welcomed their first child together.

In an Instagram post on Friday, the ‘Reason With Me’ hitmaker shared a video of his kids from his previous marriage playing with the newborn.

He expressed his joy over the childbirth describing the period as “the most joyous and overwhelming sweetest”.

“This past month and few days have been the most joyous and overwhelming sweetest ever period of our lives,” he wrote.

The singer, however, did not reveal the newborn’s name and gender.

Paul unveiled Ivy as his partner in December 2022. Their relationship stirred backlash on social media, with some users criticising him for ending his 8-year-old marriage with Anita Isama.

In May, the couple held their traditional marriage rites in Abia state.