Davido and Trey Song's Collaboration!!

Davido

Davido has collaborated with Trey Songz on a new track titled “Wetin U Say”

Estranged Yoruba music couple, Kollington, Salawa finally back...After years of bitter war

Kollington and Salawa

For those in tune with Fuji music in the 1980s, the names, Sir Kollinton Ayinla and Queen Salawa Abeni would be remembered as among the names that dominated the scene, not only through their music but also through the tempestuous relationship that existed between them.

FJ the King drops hot single, Oh my lover...Features Timaya

FJ the King

By AZUH AMATUS

After a long break from the industry that gave him fame and fortune, Prince Jeff Ejike Chukwuanuka famously known as FJ the King, is back again with a big bang.

Drugs video: Davido in trouble as NDLEA set to probe him

Davido

Trouble currently looms for music star, Davido as the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency has set up a panel to investigate a music video released by him, in which he displayed a substance suspected to be hard drugs.

O’Jez boss clocks 50, holds Xmas concert

O'Jez boss, Odobeatu

On Sunday, December 28, entertainment entrepreneur and boss of O'Jez celebrity restaurants, Joseph Odobeatu will clock 50 years on earth.

SHOWBIZPLUSng gathered that several events have been lined up to celebrate the business mogul as he clocks the golden age. A family get together will hold at his home in Anthony on December 26, Boxing Day, while the D-Day, 28 will begin with a thanksgiving mass at St’ Dominic Catholic Church, Yaba, Lagos.

The birthday party will begin immediately at his Anthony home till late into the night.

Also, this year’s O’Jez Xmas Blast concert, scheduled to hold on January 4 at the celebrity restaurant, inside the National Stadium premises from 7pm, will be a continuation of the birthday celebration.

AFRIMA 2014: Channel O supports, endorses Best R n B Song of the Year Category

Tuface, one of the contenders

In aligning with the vision and objectives of All Africa Music Award,
AFRIMA, Africa’s leading urban music channel, Channel O, has thrown its
weight behind AFRIMA by endorsing one of the categories of AFRIMA, the
Best R n B Song of the Year. 

A statement sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng said that in line with the agreement signed between
Electric Media Network (PTY) owner of Multichoice and AFRIMA Awards
Limited, the category will now be known as Best R n B Song in Africa
brought to you by Channel O.

Veteran musician, Mandators recounts how police tortured, detained him ... Demands N1bn compensation

Veteran musician and international artiste, Victor Essiet of the Mandators Group, has narrated how operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad allegedly tortured him while he was preparing for a concert at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

He said during his ordeal, his private parts were pulled by four of the 20 man squad, who also cut through his fingers and legs with shackles.

The singer said the harassment and torture cost him his November music festival which he said he invested about N200m in.

Copyright infringement: Lagos Oriental Hotel in trouble as COSON tells musicians, stakeholders to boycott them

Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole government approved copyright collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings, has asked all musicians, music industry operatives and stakeholders in the creative sector to begin an immediate boycott of Lagos Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island. The decision to begin the boycott was unanimously ratified by the hundreds of COSON members who thronged Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja recently for the Extra-Ordinary General Meeting of COSON at which a royalty distribution of N90 million to musicians in the country was approved.

COSON set to dole out millions to member musicians

Nigerian musicians

Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has announced that its Extra-Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) will take place on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at the Oranmiyan Hall, Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. The main agenda of the meeting is for members to pass a resolution to approve this year’s distribution of music copyright royalties after which distribution shall commence immediately.

Real reasons COSON boycotted British Council's Creative Industries Expo

COSON boss, Okoroji

More facts have emerged on why the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) boycotted the British Council Creative Industries Expo that held at Westown Hotel, Ikeja on Monday, December 8 and Tuesday December 9, 2014. The decision to boycott the event was taken by the full Board of COSON which met in Lagos recently.

Victor Uwaifo endorsed Joromi’s remix - JC

 

JC

After months of hard work, Jeremiah Uzeh Blandmosh who goes by the moniker JC, has sensationally revealed why he remixed and turned Joromi, the evergreen song of legendary musician Sir Victor Uwaifo into a club banger.

N1.04bn copyright suit: COSON intensifies battle with Sheraton Hotel

Okoroji

Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to grant judgment to the society in the 1.04 Billion Naira law suit filed by COSON on September 29, 2014 against Ikeja Hotels Plc., owners of Sheraton Lagos.

Shame: East, Southern Africa acts floor Nigerian stars at Channel O Music Video Awards

Burna boy, lost at Channel O Awards

Africa’s biggest night in music, the 2014 Channel O Africa Music Video Awards, was once more a massive celebration of the crème de la crème of the music industry.

 East and Southern Africa reigned supreme in the form of Tanzania’s Diamond and South Africa’s Cassper Nyovest and who scooped the most awards on the night.

MEGA holds amid glitz and razzmatazz...Authentic winners, nominees list inside

Gospel acts performimg at MEGA

The uncanny revolution for the awakening of the Nigerian music industry instituted by the organisers of Nigeria's premier gospel awards, 'Music and Entertainment Gospel Awards' (MEGA) was courageously  taken to greater heights with the second edition of the pace-setting project which took place in Lagos on Friday, November 14, 2014. The award night tagged the 'MEGA Show' by the Main Organising Committee (MOC), was held at the Haven Event Centre, Ikeja GRA, Lagos with glitz, glamour and paparazzi.

Copyright war: How federal high court sealed MCSN’s fate

COSON boss, Okoroji

Any hope of the unapproved Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) that it will be allowed to operate legally in Nigeria as a copyright Collective Management Organization (CMO) has been buried by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

In a landmark ruling by Hon Justice O.E. Abang on October 24, 2014, the court threw out the case filed by MCSN in which it had sought an order of the Federal High Court restraining Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) from parading itself as Nigeria’s sole collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings.   

Tiwa Savage, others fete students as MTN surprise train hits campuses

Savage

 The ‘Pleasant Surprises’ fever, that has hit the country in the last two weeks, has gradually found its way into some higher institutions of learning in Nigeria. Students of two higher institutions in Lagos; University of Lagos and Federal College of Education, Akoka, Lagos, were treated to pleasant surprise moments recently, as delectable songstress and MTN ambassador, Tiwa Savage, paid a surprise visit to some students of the two schools.

Revealed! The real story of how Tuface, mum escaped being lynched by angry villagers

Tuface

What would have become a national tragedy was recently averted in Amafu community, Okpowu LGA of Benue State when Mrs. Rose Idibia, the mother of famous singer, Innocent Idibia famously known as Tuface narrowly escaped death in the hands of her people.

SHOWBIZPLUSng gathered that she was attacked by her late husband’s kinsmen for allegedly turning her famous son against his people.

Imo to host 2014 Igbo Music Award

Ekwe plaques

It is no longer news that the annual Igbo Music Award famously known as Ekwe Award has become an important event in the cultural calendar of the Igbo nation.
Inaugurated in 2013 by the Ogbakoro Theatre Company led by Ugo Stevenson, Ekwe Award is the promotion and the recognition of the finest in Igbo music, with Igbo language as vehicle of such rendition and composition.

Copyright tussle: Okoroji says he’s contesting Ayilaran's judgment

Okoroji

The Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Chief Tony Okoroji has reacted to the reported court judgment in a case filed twelve years ago by Mr. Mayo Ayilaran against him.

Copyright infringement: COSON drags StarTimes/NTA to court

L-R: Okoroji and Tuface

Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings has filed an application at the Federal High Court, Lagos requesting the court to issue an order of interlocutory injunction restraining NTA-Star TV Network Ltd, owners of Startimes, the pay TV platform, whether by itself or its officials, privies, servants, agents or howsoever called from broadcasting, rebroadcasting or communicating to the public on any channel on its platform any musical work and/or sound recording belonging to COSON, its members or affiliates pending the determination of the issues in Suit No. FHC/CS/1149/14.