After listening to so many love songs from Nigeria artists I realise that no Nigeria artist know what love is they just sing what look like what everybody will like.
Is it that the more religious we become, the poorer we stay?
1. Hand of God Cathedral - 120,000 seats
2. The Ark - 109,000 seats
3. Glory Dome - 100,000 seats
4. Champions Royal Assembly - 80,000 seats
Billions poured into world class worship centres.
Meanwhile:
1. 63% of Nigerians (140 million) live below the poverty line 2. 79% are poor or vulnerable 3. Manufacturing stuck at 9–10% of GDP 4. Learning poverty so severe that 70–92% of 10-year-olds cannot read a simple text 5. Millions of young people leave school with no globally competitive skill.
Nigeria is a nation that keeps directing its biggest private capital into ever-larger auditoriums while its industrial base stays weak, its factories few, and its youth unskilled is not being spiritual but it is being strategically shortsighted.
Faith is powerful but faith without factories, skills, and productive capacity is just expensive hope.
I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.
My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.
Betting is a scourge of society. Betting has destroyed many lives, from Osakwe pool to modern day sport betting. My wife once gave someone money to pay for their son’s school fees and they used it to play “pool.” It is a scourge!