They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

To talk about the Igbo Highlife Music, we have to draw years back after the civil war from 1967-1970, the period which greatly influenced the music genre. It was a period when everybody believed the ...

Nigerian highlife music has played an important role in the country's cultural scene since it became one of the most popular music genres in the 1960s. One characteristic of the music of this era was ...

Nigerian singer Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, has appeared to take a swipe at his feuding twin brother, Peter Okoye, over his controversial remarks about Nigerian languages.Rudeboy on ...

Emerging from the bustling commercial city of Onitsha, the vibrant music scene embraces rich indigenous Igbo music in offering a different variant of Afrobeats. One of the artists leading this charge ...

What was growing up like? I was born in the streets of Onitsha, at its roughest times. Somehow, God put me on the right path always; life made it almost impossible for me to get to this point, but God ...

It initially struck as one of those fake stories that inundate the social media space. Those conversant with proceedings in the Catholic Church would have found difficult to believe that one of its ...

But it had less significance for urbanized Igbos, who were already exposed to different genres of music like hip-hop, R&B, blues and pop. Similarly, highlife was not the common music played at ...

Footage shows the moment Rev. Fr. James Anelu, the Parish Priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Ewu-Owa Gberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, banned Igbo songs in his parish. Father Anelu has been suspended ...