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[00:00:00] presidente nabu
[00:00:02] of a has it recommended the prosecution
[00:00:02] of the agency director general
[00:00:04] atme
[00:01:02] It's entertainment news o'clock and you're just on time to catch the
[00:01:05] top stories in the show
[00:01:13] rapper Drake splashes over million dollars on women at annual event
[00:01:17] in Canada. Charles Oyab reimagines his
[00:01:20] father's 1995 classic when the
[00:01:23] a going is good, plus nollywood actress or bridge calls
[00:01:27] of self imposed screen retirement.
[00:01:39] the show today from outside the local Nigerian
[00:01:41] of Shelby space as multiple grammy winning rapper drake splashes
[00:01:45] over a million
[00:01:46] of dollars and women at annual strong women strong drinks event in
[00:01:50] Toronto. The invite only celebration sought the certified
[00:01:54] lover boy surprise attendees with major giveaways
[00:01:58] including gift bags containing. each, 10
[00:02:01] women were gifted, $50,000 each, amounting
[00:02:05] to total of $500,00 dollars cash
[00:02:08] giveaway,
[00:02:13] and that wasn't all, select guests also received luxury brand new
[00:02:17] vehicles in raffle win as part
[00:02:20] of the celebration, the event which honors women for their achievements,
[00:02:24] resilience and contributions to their communities has become one
[00:02:27] of great signature annual gathering. creating memorable experience
[00:02:31] for his fans and supporters.
[00:02:35] i started this event based on
[00:02:38] event back in the
[00:02:39] in day, i don't want to age
[00:02:41] in myself, but back in like 2007-8 uh, there was an
[00:02:45] event by a lovely woman, her name was Shane
[00:02:49] of Engelton, and okay, yeah, if you remember she,
[00:02:53] um, and she used to do event called what women want, yeah, yeah,
[00:02:57] yeah, shanan remembers for sure, um and at what
[00:03:01] women
[00:03:01] a want it was essentially uh women gathering you know to
[00:03:05] network to socialize and to be a man at the
[00:03:09] event you had to work and always loved that aspect of it so we would
[00:03:13] show up in black and we would work the event and we would make sure that
[00:03:16] everybody's taking care of because that's what the night was about so
[00:03:20] okay let's come back home maybe not home
[00:03:23] of home but hey so italian-based nigerian musician Charles
[00:03:27] Oyabo the son of legendary William Onyabo. when they
[00:03:30] going is good and smooth, yes, that's William Oyabor, so his
[00:03:34] son Charles has officially released a contemporary reimagination
[00:03:38] of
[00:03:39] a classic Electro Funk track originally created by his
[00:03:42] father. The release bridges decades of musical heritage blending
[00:03:46] the iconic analog synthesizer growth
[00:03:49] of the original 1985 classic with modern afrobit
[00:03:53] production and contemporary sonic elements and it's
[00:03:56] off is newly released 18 track legacy continent.
[00:04:35] of
[00:04:37] of
[00:04:48] of
[00:04:54] been joined all the way from Florence in Italy by the son of a legend
[00:04:58] Charles Onjabon. Charles, congratulations on the
[00:05:02] release of your new album Legacy Continua. That is a
[00:05:05] bold statement and it's quite easy to deduce where the title is derived from
[00:05:09] saying that you are the son
[00:05:11] of the legendary William. able and with title like that,
[00:05:14] you have left us with no choice than to start with the legacy
[00:05:18] you hope to continue. what is the single biggest statement you're making
[00:05:22] with that album and what legacy are you
[00:05:24] continuing? well um, guess
[00:05:28] a lot of people know him with his
[00:05:31] music, so let me just let me just let me start off by
[00:05:34] saying that i am continuing his musical
[00:05:37] legacy um, because when he
[00:05:41] died lot of people. we are like uh, how far, is
[00:05:44] there nobody from the family is going to continue
[00:05:46] with this legacy, they love
[00:05:49] this music, so many people w saying that uh, i remember listening to bbc
[00:05:53] and heard this couple saying that they got married with William
[00:05:56] Mayabo's music, so that really touched me and was
[00:06:00] okay, i think it's high time i continue what he
[00:06:04] started, because people can
[00:06:07] now relate to, you know, people are beginning to talk
[00:06:11] about my father. again because we not doing anything
[00:06:15] about him and the fact that he stopped doing
[00:06:18] music, everything started declining like people stopped
[00:06:22] talking about him and so so when i when i started the whole thing
[00:06:26] started again now people are talking about him, people are not going back to listen to his songs
[00:06:29] and the love i'm getting from it is really massive, i thank god for
[00:06:33] that and you have also created refined version of your
[00:06:37] father's biggest song, were you worried about touching that song
[00:06:41] and what kind of reaction? have you gotten? okay,
[00:06:44] well um, yeah, on the 26th of
[00:06:48] um of July,
[00:06:51] 2026, I released an afro
[00:06:54] highlight version of one of his hit songs, when you go in the smooth and
[00:06:58] good, so um,
[00:07:01] that's just a version, because we i have the intentions of
[00:07:05] releasing other versions a more than
[00:07:08] version, you
[00:07:09] know, um, maybe an piano version or everything. but I'm not
[00:07:13] going to lie to you, releasing this song was so
[00:07:17] difficult for me because I was kind of scared, I don't want to spoil what
[00:07:21] my father did,
[00:07:23] you know, so I had to contact a lot of
[00:07:26] people that are musically inclined to ask them, what do you think,
[00:07:29] what do you think about this song, and they all really liked it, so
[00:07:33] now that I dropped it, I got a lot of positive reviews from
[00:07:37] people, they love the five, the message is still there, when you go
[00:07:41] in smooth and good, you have so... many friends, when comes bad, they all run
[00:07:45] away, and that's what's going to you today, so uh,
[00:07:49] people like it, and I hope more people listen to it and share
[00:07:52] it. so let's talk about the album proper now, you
[00:07:55] seamlessly blended afro beats with highlight and
[00:07:59] contemporary R&B across all the 18 tracks, I
[00:08:03] guess, how would you describe the evolution of your sound from your
[00:08:06] early singles to this full body of
[00:08:09] work? okay, um, thank you
[00:08:13] for this question, it's a combination of everything, so if you check out the album
[00:08:17] cover, you see my son, my second son, he loves music so
[00:08:21] much, um, then on the corner you
[00:08:24] see myself and my
[00:08:27] father, you see how how how
[00:08:31] you the level of creativity on on the art artwork, then at
[00:08:35] the back the album you see my father's face, my
[00:08:39] face and then my son's face, so That's why the
[00:08:43] album is titled legacy continua, continua, which means continuous, that's an
[00:08:47] Italian word, so in this album, it's a
[00:08:50] combination of me and my
[00:08:53] father, I'm also trying to show
[00:08:57] myself for people to understand and know what I can do, but
[00:09:01] at the same time I'm also trying to let the world know that this thing started
[00:09:04] from this man, William Mon, so you
[00:09:08] see children of legends often struggle to step out the giant shadow.
[00:09:13] um the appearance um was there ever point in making this album where
[00:09:17] you feel the heavy presence the family name or have you
[00:09:20] fully really adjusted to the fact that people will always say hey
[00:09:24] this is william's son
[00:09:28] yeah i've always felt this pressure but that was in the beginning
[00:09:32] like um when i started my career
[00:09:35] 2020 oh boy you
[00:09:39] think the like will be big shoot? you have father
[00:09:43] with that kind of name and you're trying to do
[00:09:47] something that wouldn't you know um lear
[00:09:51] the reputation of what he has already done so you are trying to
[00:09:55] be careful and you get so many critics even your friends
[00:09:58] trying to make you believe that you're not doing the right thing
[00:10:02] or you're nothing and everything so it got to point whereby decided
[00:10:06] to let go to just be myself and forget what anybody
[00:10:09] saying you initially whenever i want to release a song, i just send
[00:10:13] to all my friends, let them listen, and everybody has
[00:10:17] something to say, everybody has something to say, they will say be like,
[00:10:21] um, it's not good though, but guy, um, um,
[00:10:25] make you do it like this, make
[00:10:26] you do it like this, and some them don't even know anything about music, so but
[00:10:30] the moment i started doing my own things without even asking for their
[00:10:33] permission and i'll just release whatever i want to release, the same people that
[00:10:37] criticize you will beat one that song too sweet that
[00:10:40] song, so everybody would just say whatever they
[00:10:44] want to say and my um the best
[00:10:48] people that would let you know how much how good
[00:10:52] your songs are are strangers people you don't even know real people,
[00:10:56] they will listen, they will comment, they will save your songs and they
[00:11:00] will share,
[00:11:02] so for now and no send, i just did do my own
[00:11:05] things.
[00:11:06] all right, just two more questions before
[00:11:08] i let you go, you spent significant time based in Europe while of course you
[00:11:11] maintain um your deep roots in Nigeria, how does living between two
[00:11:15] continents shape the story you're telling in this um album and your
[00:11:19] songwriting generally?
[00:11:22] um, i'm gonna say is here, you see, I've been here
[00:11:26] for more than two
[00:11:28] decades, um, Italy is
[00:11:32] really nice country, nice people, yeah,
[00:11:36] you know, there are so many flaws here as well, it's a black
[00:11:39] man, I'm not going to like to you,
[00:11:41] um, I get lot of support from these
[00:11:45] folks, no,
[00:11:47] like, I, I really
[00:11:51] have, I'm trying to write a song to talk about this,
[00:11:55] because there's something i noticed
[00:11:58] that our people would
[00:12:02] prefer to support you when you already big or
[00:12:05] famous, these white
[00:12:08] people when they don't know
[00:12:11] you, they get curious, they want to know you who is this
[00:12:14] guy, they all be quiet and be listening to
[00:12:18] you and watch you and then they will go and check you
[00:12:22] out, but our people... if they don't know
[00:12:25] you, they don't care, let me let me give you a scenario,
[00:12:29] like you as an artist comes out to
[00:12:33] to perform somewhere where nobody knows you, the white people sit down and watch
[00:12:37] you and cl, because they they admire the
[00:12:41] fact that you had the courage to come on stage to do whatever you want to do,
[00:12:45] but when you go to your
[00:12:48] people, africans,
[00:12:52] they will be having their own discussions at one corner, they don't even care. if you are there,
[00:12:56] you will just the they sing or whatever or they talk, they will not care,
[00:13:00] and that's really really bad. you have all these promoters, they they
[00:13:04] bring, they bring a lot of um, they bring a lot of
[00:13:07] nigerian artists to come here to perform, but is very unfortunate
[00:13:11] that they don't respect the european
[00:13:14] artist like, they don't send you, okay, they don't give it them about
[00:13:18] you, and when the promoters done, some of not all, when they don't
[00:13:22] respect you, how do you expect the artist coming?
[00:13:27] to respect, they don't respect you, so no matter how talented you are, they
[00:13:31] don't care, so um, the big
[00:13:34] artist will come from Nigeria and so on and so
[00:13:37] forth,
[00:13:41] um, you might, you might be giving the opportunity to
[00:13:44] to um open the floor for this big artist and
[00:13:48] everything, so there are so
[00:13:52] many, there are some things going on in the industry, I did to... start my own
[00:13:55] show
[00:13:56] so last year i started the charles show the
[00:14:00] iconic hard cafe influence italy and it
[00:14:03] was wonderful at
[00:14:06] was there
[00:14:08] every afro duploma was
[00:14:12] there dj ob man was crazy like
[00:14:16] it was really really nice it was so successful that
[00:14:19] even um got an interview from um rollingstone
[00:14:23] uk and some and so so many other media
[00:14:26] outlets, so this
[00:14:29] year had
[00:14:31] cafe reached out and they wanted
[00:14:33] me to go for another one this year, so on October 3rd I'm
[00:14:36] having the ch show 2026, I'm also
[00:14:40] going to have other artists who are going to perform there,
[00:14:44] people will come from different places to watch people,
[00:14:47] like that is what I want us to be doing, showing love,
[00:14:51] let's all be united and...
[00:14:56] make things
[00:15:08] the convener of AI for Africa, popularly known as AI
[00:15:11] wonder woman is called on African governments, policy makakers
[00:15:15] and educational leaders to make artificial intelligence
[00:15:19] literacy, a foundational subject in primary and
[00:15:22] secondary schools, speaking, during an official AI for
[00:15:26] Africa press conference, it can emphasize that AI
[00:15:30] literacy must be treated as an essential life
[00:15:33] skill alongside core subjects like mathematics,
[00:15:37] English and science to ensure African children are creators of
[00:15:41] technology rather than passive
[00:15:43] consumers. To breach the early
[00:15:47] tech education gap, AI for Africa announced it flagship
[00:15:51] initiative 100 kids in 10,000 schools
[00:15:55] designed to integrate practical AI training
[00:15:58] directly into classrooms across Nigeria and the wider
[00:16:02] continent. The convener also
[00:16:05] announces the 100% 20 days to transform a continent
[00:16:09] campaign, nationwide mobilization drive aimed at
[00:16:13] creating public awareness, building tech momentum
[00:16:17] and setting an official guinness world records title to
[00:16:21] highlight africa's readiness for the global AI
[00:16:24] economy, we're set
[00:16:27] to want to break the guinness world record and like i said
[00:16:31] not just one or two but 10 records in 24
[00:16:35] hours um in... and we're
[00:16:39] set to do a 120 days ai revolution
[00:16:43] where we are going to be showing up um for
[00:16:47] 120 days to train people in AI
[00:16:51] help to fix businesses life so on all social
[00:16:55] media
[00:16:55] partners
[00:17:04] hello and a warm welcome to art house i'minda coming
[00:17:08] up today's episode the program: it's time
[00:17:12] to discover, connect and be inspired on art
[00:17:15] house, where
[00:17:18] creativity knows no bounds,
[00:17:22] dive into the heart of Nigeria by exploring its rich
[00:17:26] tapestry of arts and
[00:17:27] culture.
[00:17:36] see the... stories, creative, colorful and
[00:17:40] vibrant on
[00:17:41] arthouse,
[00:17:45] and remember, art is not just what we create, it's who we
[00:17:49] are. on arthouse, life is
[00:17:52] art.
[00:17:58] welcome back,
[00:17:59] if you're just joining us, this is entertainment news on channels television,
[00:18:02] now let's shift gears into an hollywood where Nigerian actress and
[00:18:06] filmmaker. popularly known as Omar Brish is
[00:18:10] making a return to the screens after many years of his self
[00:18:13] imposed holiday. The actress has recruited some of our old
[00:18:17] colleagues to join her on her comeback advocacy project
[00:18:21] Silent Blue Light which premiered in Legos Southwest Nigeria a
[00:18:25] birthday. Take a look.
[00:18:29] The energy here is unmatched as Nollywood actress Tosinabiola
[00:18:33] popularly known as Armor Brish danced her way into her exclusive
[00:18:37] Legos. premiere surrounded by close n circle of
[00:18:40] celebrating friends, the glamorous double celebration
[00:18:44] marking both a grand return to acting and her birthday set the
[00:18:47] stage for the unveiling of her new feature film, silent blue
[00:18:51] light.
[00:18:55] the grand entrance kept off a longerwaited comeback for the UK based
[00:18:59] Nigerian star who stepped back into the spotlight with electrifying
[00:19:03] presents.
[00:19:11] "i am here telling stories about life
[00:19:14] itself, i am back into the, mean in the industry, i've
[00:19:18] been away for very long time, and now i am back
[00:19:22] better telling fantastic
[00:19:25] real life stories, and that's why we're here today, so we're not just
[00:19:29] celebrating my birthday, we are
[00:19:32] promoting and making people
[00:19:34] aware of what our children." go
[00:19:37] through um the trauma both in school at
[00:19:41] home and um the safegarding concern that we
[00:19:45] have that has not been really spoken about
[00:19:49] for a long
[00:20:53] you're watching another one and you see that you're seeing like almost the
[00:20:57] same thing just different actors, we don't
[00:20:59] have stories about life
[00:21:03] itself, and i thought to myself, i've been away
[00:21:06] for a time, this is
[00:21:07] my my kids
[00:21:08] are grown, this is the right time for
[00:21:11] me to step you know back into
[00:21:14] the industry and give our people things they can go back home or
[00:21:18] relax and talk about. you now, it's not just comic,
[00:21:22] yes we want to see comedy, but we want to
[00:21:26] talk about real life issues as well, and um,
[00:21:30] that's why i thought, social worker in the
[00:21:33] UK, i know the system, lived my
[00:21:37] whole life in Nigeria as baby, as young
[00:21:40] adult i know the system here, i know the difference
[00:21:44] between the systemic, mean the system
[00:21:48] both in both count so and i thought okay why not come back and you
[00:21:52] know let people
[00:21:54] know i just need my parents in silent blue
[00:21:58] night abiola delivers a compelling performance opposite veteran
[00:22:01] actor yemi sholade speaking at the premiere sholade
[00:22:05] expressed particular excitement about the project powerful advocacy message
[00:22:09] noting that the movie uses high stakes dramatic storytelling to tackle
[00:22:13] critical societal issues that demand public dialogue begging
[00:22:16] me to forgive them or something that is because they
[00:22:20] they didn't want to have a rebellious daughter, no it's it's
[00:22:24] important, need money, need like 300k,
[00:22:28] everyone now is on social media, but more the
[00:22:32] youth, and you know that the youth form the
[00:22:36] 60% the population of this country, let me now that to
[00:22:39] nigeria, so you can imagine when
[00:22:42] children suffer emotional
[00:22:45] neglect as we have in salen blue light,
[00:22:49] it's very... It's dangerous for the individual, it's
[00:22:53] dangerous for the family and dangerous for the society, such
[00:22:57] child or children get exposed and
[00:23:01] the they become vulnerable, they become gollible to
[00:23:04] external forces,
[00:23:06] you know a child has neglected within the family unit, the
[00:23:10] circuit
[00:23:11] is just not there apart from providing the material
[00:23:14] needs and what have you, but there's no attention, you're not
[00:23:18] talking to your world, you're not. talking to you just oh that okay, he's in
[00:23:22] the room, she's in her room, and you think everything is okay, what
[00:23:26] happens in the room, do you know, most parents
[00:23:29] don't, the film's director, bestudwa, comments
[00:23:32] abiola praising her discipline in getting straight back into peak acting
[00:23:36] shape despite her extended absence from the screen, well true
[00:23:40] she's be gone, she's been gone a little while, but then there
[00:23:44] is this thing that
[00:23:45] you say, will say that
[00:23:48] um ability so when it's
[00:23:52] inborn, when it's in it, it would most likely
[00:23:55] find its head out when you need it, it's just like a monster that lives within you,
[00:23:59] and if you have the magic call like
[00:24:03] thor and the hammer, call the hammer, the hammer comes, you know,
[00:24:07] or like
[00:24:07] the hulk,
[00:24:07] you know, when he wants to get hungry, the green you no monster, just what it is,
[00:24:11] if you have it in you when you need it, it literally just comes out, and i think for
[00:24:15] her that was the case, because i can't remember doing much work, um,
[00:24:19] she's just literally slowly walk
[00:24:22] into the character and um yeah
[00:24:26] she was also able to mute the
[00:24:30] emotions
[00:24:37] following its high energy lagos premiere silent blue night is set for
[00:24:40] wider distribution across digital platforms and select cinema
[00:24:44] networks.
[00:24:51] And finally, on the show, today we'll make final in
[00:24:54] Nollywood with yet a quick update on the top
[00:25:10] Coming of age drama, sweet 16 follows Sassie a
[00:25:14] privilege teenager whose dream of an extra vegan 16th birthday
[00:25:17] is up-ended when she discovered. the truth about family's
[00:25:21] financial status. We're off to the Philippines this
[00:25:23] summer.
[00:25:34] Exploring love, trust and personal growth. The film
[00:25:37] also features one the late Alexa Kuber's screen
[00:25:40] performance.
[00:25:52] The cast also includes Daisy Eugene, Julus Augu, Uche
[00:25:55] Jumbo, Messi Igbe, Brother Shaggi and Chief
[00:26:56] the backdrop of foreign pressure, internal ravaries and resistance
[00:27:00] to colonial influence in the ancient
[00:27:25] The historical drama stars femi adibio odun ladi adikola
[00:27:29] Gabriel afolayan Tina mba. Fẹmi Branch.
[00:27:49] blood death follows a high stakes investigation that pulls a
[00:27:53] young woman into a complex web of long buried family
[00:27:56] secrets and decades old vengeance as a mystery
[00:28:00] unfolds she is forced to confront. dangerous truths they could threaten both a
[00:28:04] safety and
[00:28:28] stars.
[00:30:37] one the most urgent public concerns in Nigeria today,
[00:30:41] with rapid urban growth, aging
[00:30:44] infrastructure and rising industrial activity, the
[00:30:48] risks of fire outbreaks has become more
[00:30:51] complex and far reaching. Too often we wake up to news of
[00:30:55] markets and buildings and golfed in flames, leaving behind
[00:30:59] tragic.