LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video of Nigerians celebrating their football team’s victory over South Africa in the Africa Cup of Nations has gone viral on social media. In the clip, the Super Eagles fans taunt their rivals by pouring liquid over their bodies while singing the hit Water by South African singer Tyla. On Sunday,…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Beninese singer-songwriter, actress, and activist, Angelique Kidjo, has beaten the likes of Wizkid, Femi Kuti, Made Kuti, Rocky Dawuni, and Daniel Ho & Friends to clinch her fifth Grammy Award. Kidjo’s ‘Mother Nature’ won in the Best Global Music album category at the 2022 Grammys awards. While receiving her plaque, the singer…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-VIRAL posts on Sunday, March 14, 2021, claimed that Nigerian artistes Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, and Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, otherwise called Wizkid, were the first Nigerians to bag Grammy Awards. A Twitter user, Ibe, with the username @meettheRichard, tweeted that Burna Boy was the first Nigerian artiste ever…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Already an Afrobeat superstar and this year a leading voice of his country’s youth protests, Nigeria’s Burna Boy is now hoping to add a Grammy to his growing list of accomplishments. Burna Boy has been nominated in the Best Global Music Album category at Sunday’s awards for his 2020 album “Twice as…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian music sensation, Burna Boy lost his chance at a Grammy award during the 62nd Grammy Awards which held at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. Burna Boy lost to veteran singer Angelique Kidjo. The other nominees in the category were Altin Gün, Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley, and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-AFROBEATS artist Seun Kuti pulled a thrilling performance at the premiere ceremony of the 61st Grammy Awards. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Seun, the youngest son of the legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, failed to snag a win in the ‘World Music Award’ category in which he was nominated. He, however, was…