Wizkid #wizkidayo is the first Afrobeats artist to be certified in the US & Canada
🔘He’s the first African artiste to get a Riaa 🇺🇸 Diamond certification
🔘He’s the first African artist to achieve a Riaa certified album
🔘He’s the first African artist to debut on billboard hot100 (as feature & as lead)
🔘He’s the first African artist to go #1 on billboard hot 100
🔘He’s the first afrobeats artist to debut on Billboard artist chart.
🔘He’s the first African artist to receive a certification in Poland,Portugal,Sweden,Italy,Mexico,France, Germany ,Denmark,Spain,New Zealand,Australia,Brazil & Greece.
🔘The first African artist to receive 1 billion streams with only one song on Spotify.
🔘He’s the first Afrobeats artist to debut on US,UK,France,Belgium,Canada,Ireland & Netherlands album chart.
🔘He’s the first African artist to win an Ascap award
🔘He’s the first African artist to win over 150 career awards
🔘He’s the first African artist to win 37 awards in a calendar year.
🔘He’s the first African artist to appear on the Guinness world book of records
🔘He’s the fastest African artist to sell out the O2 or any show in history (2 mins)
🔘He’s the first African artist to host an Arena show.
🔘He’s the first African artist to win Billboard award
🔘He’s the first African artist to win AMA award
🔘He’s the first African artist to win a MOBO Award (international act)
🔘He’s the first African artist to surpass 1 billion to 8 billion streams on Spotify
🔘He’s the first and only African artist to win an Apple Music award
🔘He’s the first African artist to spend 2 years on the billboard with a project (MIL)
🔘He’s the first artist to give Nigeria over 1m streams with a song on Spotify
🔘He’s the first Nigeria artist to win IHeart radio awards
🔘He’s the first African artist to receive BMI awards
🔘He’s the first African artist to win a song writer award
🔘He’s the first African artist to sell out a stadium show
🔘He’s the first African artist to record 16m streams for an album in a single day,52m in a single week
🔘He’s the first African artist to receive over 20m streams in a single day.

Dumb South Africans are hating on Nigeria yet Nigeria supplies them with $2,3 billion worth of oil😂

On the other hand South Africa supplies Nigeria with a few millions of various items like plastics, beverages etc.

The average South African is dumb. Stupid to be precise.

🚨‼️ Breaking News

🇿🇦 South African singer Tyla’s debut album #Tyla has crossed 1.5 billion streams, surpassing Beyoncé’s latest album #Cowboy Carter to become the most-streamed album by a Black female artist in 2024. 🥶

Tyla has earned over $8 million in royalties from digital streaming in 2024 alone!

She’s truly on a different level. 💪🔥

South Africa to the world!
#musicbase #musictrend #fyp #mokwofyp #mokwo #viral #music

Lmao South Africa of all countries ? The last South African airplane left #Lagos almost empty . With this record of chronic xenophobia, their embassy in #Nigeria better find a means of paying their staff coz nobody goes there again . #mokwonews #southafrica #nigerianews #viralnews

• All the 16 tracks on Wizkid’s “Morayo” album are charting in the Top 20 on Billboard US Afrobeats chart.

— Wizkid becomes the first African artiste to chart all the songs on an album in the top 20 on the chart.

Another Banger #bardgirls #mokwo #mokwoviral #mokwopremium #beautifulladies #africanbeauty #mokwonews #nigeria

I’m Scared Of Returning Home, Nigeria’s Failed Heathcare Killed My Mum– US-Based

I’m scared of returning home, Nigeria’s failed heathcare killed my mum – US-based


President of the Bini Club of Houston, United States, Lydia Aguebor, speaks with BIODUN BUSARI on her struggles in search for greener pastures, community leadership in Houston, and why she is scared of returning to Nigeria because of the way her mother died

How will you describe your stay in the US?

I’m a mother of three beautiful children in the US. I relocated to America in 2005. When I first settled here, it was quite challenging because I left my comfort zone to come to a land where I knew nobody. Settling here came with its challenges. I came here to start from scratch. It was a lot of battles. Basically, it was tough for me in terms of job search and career. I studied Law at the University of Benin. And being in the US requires you to have licences for the things you do.

What kind of challenges did you experience?


There were only menial jobs to do in the beginning. Even, there were jobs that I didn’t get because of overqualification. When I submitted copies of my resume to some places, they would tell me I was overqualified for the job. They called it a college degree here, and I was asked to lower my qualifications. I had to do it because I needed jobs to make money. After all, bills were mounting. I started working with a fast food outlet where chickens were sold. I did that for a year. Then I worked for the State of Texas for eight years. Then, I began working on my papers. I wasn’t really happy with what I was doing. Later, I decided to start my business.

You said you didn’t like some of the things you did at scratch. What were they?

When I worked as a cashier or more or less of an attendant at a fast-food outlet, I would pass the money to another person in the inner lobby who would bring the order for me to give to the customers. I also worked as a cashier at a place called Target like a grocery store. It could be likened to ShopRite in Nigeria.

Why did you leave Nigeria in 2005?

I never worked before leaving Nigeria. I was a full-time housewife. I started coming to the US in 2002 when I was a law student at the University of Benin. Anytime I came to the US, I just loved it and dreamed of settling there. So, I came here in search of greener pastures.

What kind of business did you venture into?

I started a legal business. It started in my living room. The company was about helping people file their travel and immigration documents. When my client base was increasing, I moved on to get a place. I still couldn’t afford an office for myself. I had to pair up with someone. I only just had a chair, desk, and printer in that office. I started my business in June 2014.

What factors contributed to your business growth in the US?

The whole factor was narrowed down to the clients in my community. I knew the people I wanted to render services to. I did the feasibility study to know the kind of people to attract to my business. I started giving out fliers. My clients were mostly Nigerians, Africans, and Hispanic communities like Mexicans. Basically, I targeted the immigrants. They were the markets I was looking at. These people needed the services I offered. Apart from that, I gave them good service. I had a passion for helping and serving people. This made my business grow because I began to get referrals. When immigrants came to the US looking for a way to stabilise themselves and get their papers, people referred them to me based on the good services I rendered to them or their relatives. If I wasn’t doing good jobs, I wouldn’t get those referrals. These helped my company.

Whizkid #Morayo has set the new record for the Biggest Opening Week for an #African album on #Spotify with 52.8 million streams.

Congratulations to Ayodeji Ibrahim, AKA #Wizkid, for setting a new record of the most streamed #album by an #African artiste on Spotify for its first week with Morayo, which has achieved 48 million streams in six days. This achievement has broken the previous record held by South Africa's Tyla, at 46.4 million streams in a week.

It is no surprise that he is also a Grammy winner. When you raise your country's image, you are also likely to raise a #Grammy.

An Omoluabi atata. May God continue to promote Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun as he promotes #Nigeria.

NEW RECORD 🚨🦅

With just 6 days of tracking, #Wizkid breaks the record for the biggest first-week streams globally for any #African #album on Spotify.

“#Morayo” has recorded 48M streams in 6 days, surpassing the full week streams for “Tyla” (46.4M).

Petrol: 58% Price Difference Fuels Smuggling To Neighbouring Countries

Despite the recent subsidy removal, Nigeria’s Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, is still 58 per cent cheaper than what is obtained in neighbouring countries, with smuggling of the product persisting across the borders.

A random sampling of prices in some West African nations – Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, showed average price of N1.671 per litre, which is 58 percent higher than the N1,060 per litre in Lagos.

Data obtained from the domestic markets of the selected nations, indicated that in the Republic of Benin, the product costs Ceffa 600 per litre, an equivalent of $0.97 or N1.649 per litre.

The data also indicated that in Ghana, the product attracts Ghc 14.35 per litre (Super xp), an equivalent of $0.90 or N1, 530 while it costs D77.89 per litre in The Gambia, an equivalent of $1.09 or N1, 853 per litre.

Checks by Vanguard revealed that smugglers use waterways, borders, bottles, cans, and porous land borders to conduct large numbers of illegal business.

The checks showed that the operators, including children and women also retail the product freely in cans and bottles across the borders.


Speaking on condition of anonymity, a trader, who claimed to be involved in taking Nigeria’s petrol to Niger, said the business is very profitable.

He said: “I have been doing this for decades. It is a good business because many people in Niger and beyond depend on petrol from Nigeria. The product is always cheaper in Nigeria than in Niger. At the current price of N1,060 per litre in Lagos, it would not be less than N1,400 per litre in Niger Republic.

We observed a lot of smuggling activities — Customs
Confirming to Financial Vanguard, the continued boom in fuel smuggling, the Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Maiwada, said petrol smuggling has continued, adding that more than 10 trucks were seized between June 2024 and the present through the efforts of Operation Whirlwind, “established to combat petroleum product smuggling and diversion in Nigeria.

According to the report on the Operation Whirlwind obtained by Vanguard, the Customs said it intercepted numerous shipments of smuggled petrol, and “disrupted several organised smuggling networks, leading to the detection of smuggling methods and the arrest of key players involved in these illicit activities.”


It maintained that the Customs enhanced border security measures, adding that “all the cases of diversion, aiding and abetting smuggling by the marketers have been handed over to NMDPRA for appropriate sanctions.”

The Customs, which identified complex smuggling networks, limited resources, corruption and threats to lives as major problems, stated: “Between June 2024 and now, we have seized over 650,000 litres of PMS which include more than 10 trucks about to be smuggled to neighbouring countries. We have sealed 17 retail outlets that were involved in aiding and abetting PMS smuggling.

“In terms of the value of seizures, the duty paid value is estimated to be around N700 million. The seizure was recorded across the border areas of Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Kebbi, Lagos, Ogun and Sokoto states respectively.

“We observed a lot of smuggling activities, product diversion, smuggling of refined products and illegal bunkering around Zone C axis which covers South-South and South-East due to the nature of the terrain, limited manpower and logistics challenges.”

According to Customs, recently more patrol vehicles were added to the Operations Whirlwind thereby opening more areas, including Kwara/Niger, Katsina/Jigawa/Kano and Oyo/Ogun axis for effective operations.

It added: “Operation Whirlwind has made significant strides in combating petroleum product smuggling and diversion in Nigeria. Special Operations continues to face challenges and requires support from stakeholders. By strengthening collaboration, improving intelligence sharing, and enhancing enforcement efforts, Operation Whirlwind can contribute to a more secure and sustainable energy sector in Nigeria.”

We discourage smuggling — NNPCL
Reacting, the spokesman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye, said the organisation remains opposed to smuggling.

He said: “We have repeatedly condemned the smuggling of petrol and other products through various ways and means. We have enriched policy formulation, done advocacy and given support to agencies directly involved in tackling smuggling.

“This is not our direct responsibility. NNPC will continue to support measures, targeted at tackling smuggling.”

#Wizkid #Morayo” recorded 8.3M streams on Spotify in its 2nd day of release.

— It is the biggest 2nd day streams for any #African album.