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Veteran highlife musician Orlando Julius dies at 79

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A famous Nigerian highlife musician, Orlando Julius, has died at 79.

Managing Director of Evergreen Music, Bimbo Esho, confirmed this, saying the wife of the deceased, Latoya, had reached her in the early hours of Friday, April 15 about his death.

Esho wrote, “Bimbo, Daddy has passed On… This was the message I stumbled on waking up at exactly 3 am to peruse my WhatsApp page… It was a message sent to me by Orlando Julius’ beautiful and supportive wife Lady Latoya.

“Orlando Julius a native of Ijebu Ijesha succumbed to the cold hands of death and breathed his last few hours ago at the age of 79. We shall miss one of Nigeria’s fathers of Afro/Highlife Music, a gentleman and a fine Saxophonist. May daddy Orlando Julius’ soul journey well. To the entire Ekemode family may God give you the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss.”

Julius was born in 1943 in Ikole, Nigeria to a merchant family during British colonialism. Julius’ first music teacher was his mother, who would sing and dance while he played the drums.

In 1957, after dropping out of school and the death of his father, he left for Ibadan to pursue a career as a musician.

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‘Tiwa Savage paid IT expert to wipe sextape off internet’

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‘Tiwa Savage paid IT expert to wipe sextape off internet’

Nigerian singer, songwriter, and actress, Tiwatope Omolara Savage, popularly called Tiwa Savage, has spoken up about her leaked sextape and the fears she faced during the period it rocked the internet.

Recall that in October 2021, the renowned Afrobeats queen revealed that she was being blackmailed over a sex tape.

The Nigerian singer stated this during an interview with Power 105.1 host Angie Martins in New York.

Tiwa Savage disclosed that the sex tape was one she did with someone with whom she is currently in a relationship.

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She said that her manager had sent her the video that had been sent to him by the blackmailer.

However, few weeks later, a video clip of her and her lover in compromising positions hit the internet.

Speaking on the issue three years after the incident, the ‘Kelekele love’ crooner noted that her biggest fear at the time was her son Jamil seeing the clip.

However, she noted that she paid an IT expert to wipe the clip off the internet and everybody’s phone.

“My biggest fear about my sex tape leaking was that my son might one day see it,” she said. “But I got in touch with an IT expert who hacked the video from the internet and everyone’s mobile device. Right now, you can’t find it anywhere. Even if you had it stored on your phone,” she added.

The Afrobeats queen is set to premiere her debut Nollywood movie, Water & Garri, on May 10, 2024.

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Nollywood actor Zulu Adigwe is dead

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Nollywood actor Zulu Adigwe is dead

Another Nollywood actor, Zulu Adigwe has been reported dead.

Zulu Adigwe, actor and singer most recently featured in the 2019 blockbuster Living in Bondage: Breaking Free.

Adigwe was born in Enugu where he spent most of his childhood, but moved to Austria where he attended primary and secondary school.

Prior to acting he studied French and German, worked as a teacher, and briefly studied Medicine before returning to Nigeria after his father’s death.

He enrolled with the University of Ibadan where he studied Theatre Arts, graduating with First Class Honours.
Adigwe’s interest in acting started when he was seven.

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His earliest appearance on Nigerian television was in Basi and Company where he played the lead character Mr. B, replacing former actor Albert Egbe who left the series after a dispute with the show’s creator Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Adigwe’s introduction to the cast saw Mr. B re-invented as a guitar-strumming layabout composing and singing get-rich-quick ditties.

He also performed Basi and Company’s new theme song, and an album coinciding with the series – Mr. B Makes His Millions – was released under Polygram Nigeria in 1990.

In 1991, Adigwe was among the original cast of Checkmate, playing lecherous university lecturer Monday Edem in the pilot episode, but the role was recast after production moved from Enugu to Lagos. His first movie was Blood of the Orphan, which earned him acclamation and recognition.

In 2004, he also starred in Living Abroad, directed by Elvis Chuks and also starring Ernest Asuzu, Emeka Enyiocha, and Anne Njemanze.

In 2019, Adigwe featured as Pascal Nworie in Living in Bondage: Breaking Free.

Nollywood actor Zulu Adigwe is dead

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JUST IN: Yoruba actor Baba Ijesha appeals conviction

Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has asked the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, to set aside his conviction by a Lagos State High Court over the sexual assault of a minor.

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo (retd.) of the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, on Thursday, July 14, 2022, sentenced Baba Ijesha to five years imprisonment over the sexual assault of a minor.

But dissatisfied with the judgment, Baba Ijesha approached the appeal court to challenge his five-year jail term.

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Baba Ijesha through his counsel, Kayode Olabiran on Tuesday, April 23, told the appeal court that his client was set up and that he acted according to a script that he was invited to act on by his colleague.

“The Appellant was set up. The Appellant is an actor. He acted in a script that he was invited to act by his colleague (PW1), Damilola Adekoya,” he said.

But the Director of Public Prosecution, Dr Babajide Martins, urged the court to dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit and also a misconception.

He urged the court to affirm the judgment of the lower court.

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