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I’m a one-woman type of guy – Adekunle Gold opens up

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  Popular Nigerian singer and songwriter, Adekunle Kosoko, popularly known as Adekunle Gold has revealed that he is a “one-woman type of guy” while celebrating the ‘few’ faithful men in the world.   AG Baby as he is fondly called made this known in a recent interview with Famous TV. The singer said that he is a shameless lover man, and that faithful men like him are scarce in the world.  He said, “I just want to talk about how I’m a one-woman type of guy and a shameless lover man. And I feel like there are still a few of us left in this world. So, yeah let’s celebrate it.” The singer who is happily married to his songstress, Simi also shared how he manages his family and musical career. “It is crazy. I mean, I’m still in the early stages, yea. But I’m learning every day to prioritize, like, family more. And when it’s time to work, I mean we work, right? Like, I’m on a work trip now, I don’t feel the need to check in all the time, you know? I know when they will be up. So, I make sure I

Executive of the Week, Asa Aika

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Executive of the Week, Asa Aika: How Davido’s ’Timeless’ Rewrote the History Books and Soared to the Top of the Charts “Every time we’ve dropped an album, we’ve always set new records,” says TurnTable Executive of the Week – Asa Asika. For the past few months, albums from heavyweight Afrobeats artistes have consistently raised the bar for the biggest debut weeks on several streaming platforms in Nigeria. Burna Boy’s ‘Love, Damini’ held the biggest debut for both Spotify and YouTube in Nigeria while Asake’s ‘Mr. Money With The Vibe’ held records for Apple Music, Audiomack, and Boomplay. But Davido’s ‘Timeless’ didn’t just break these records, it took the bar to a different stratosphere. For the Spotify debut week record, it took the album only 24 hours to surpass it. For the Boomplay debut week record, it took only four days to shatter it. It took longer to break the records for the remaining platforms but it inevitably did before the end of its first seven days of release. In the en

Meet the OPay Mafia

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Some OPay staff. Source: Twitter  The African tech ecosystem is slowly maturing. Older startups are  investing in new ones,  and employees at these older startups are leaving to start their startups. Last year, TechCabal covered the  former employees of Paystack (Paystack Mafia) who left the payments fintech to start their businesses. This year, we discovered that several alumni of  OPay  (OPay Mafia), the Chinese-backed fintech, have also gone on to start companies that are currently building tech-enabled solutions for Africa.  Some of these companies have either raised funding or have been accepted into global accelerators like Techstars, validating the problems they are trying to solve. OPay landed in Nigeria in August 2018 after paying  an undisclosed fee to acquire  a controlling stake in PayCom, a fintech company founded by Telnet Nigeria. In less than five years, OPay has established itself as a dominant player in the Nigerian fintech space and has produced several founders and

Hakimi: Don’t expect independence when you marry a teenager – Actress, Mary Njoku

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  Nollywood actress, Mary Remmy Njoku has reacted to the divorce saga between Moroccan footballer Achraf Hakimi, 24, and his ex-wife, Hiba Abouk, 36 Recall that news recently broke on social media about how Hakimi dribbled his ex-wife, Hiba Abouk in their divorce process by putting all his assets in his mother’s name to deny the mother of his two kids a juicy divorce settlement. Reacting via her Instagram page, the thespian faulted Hakimi’s wife for marrying a teenager and expecting him to be independent of his par rents. She said the contracts putting Hakimi’s fortune in his mother’s name were probably signed when he was still a teenager. She wrote, “How do you marry a teenager and expect him to be independent of his parents? An African teenager. “There is no sane African mum who will let go completely of her teenage child.” In another post, Mary Njoku said a teenager is his mother’s son while a man is his wife’s husband. She wrote, “Every successful teenage athlete, there is a mum, d