"Life is generally easier for female than it is for male. It's not that Nollywood doesn't pay, but actors have a lot of bills to settle. It pained me when John Okafor (Mr Ibu) fell ill before he eventually passed away. While we were trying to raise funds for his treatment, some people on social media kept asking, 'Where is all the money he made from acting?' They didn't understand the realities of the profession. I didn't even know he had married more than one wife then."
— Veteran Nollywood actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu.
“I am friends with a few basketball players. I can reassure you, Nigerian musicians don’t have half of the money NBA players have🤯
I’m so close to Jaylen Brown, I can link you both together but you’d have to know the type of questions you ask him”
—Buju tells Ojo🫂🤍
“ The crazi thing is people think I'm rich now, I'm not. But before the end of this year, they will understand what money is all about. I can tell you confidently that there is no Igbo billionaire who is richer than me. My company is worth more than $180 million”
- Blord .
“I act unserious in movies and online because we’re in a country going through an olodo uprising😭
When I tried to be intellectual at the start of my career, I struggled.
I realized you have to tone your intellect down a lot to succeed here.”
— Deyemi Okanlawon
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Burna Boy (45.79M) officially breaks the all-time record for highest peak monthly listeners by a Nigerian artist in Spotify history, surpassing Tems (45.58M). 👏🏾
“TikTok has made it easier for people to become artistes. A sound goes viral, and the next thing they call themselves an artiste.
Executives with power and funding no longer focus only on talent—they’re now chasing virality.”
— YCee
“You will see people online calling me a nepo baby, but even Fela Kuti, if he wasn’t Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti’s son, he wouldn’t have being FELA 😳”
— Seun Kuti