#WithChude

Peace Lotus says she was with Bimbo the late wife of popular car seller, IK “IVD” Ogbonna on the day when she was set on fire - leading to her death.  She shared the exclusive videos to the blogs that went viral and called the attention of the public to the plight of her friend.  For the first time ever, she tells me the story of what she saw and experienced on that terrible day.  S...

The ‘Super Story’ song is one of the most viral tunes our country has seen. The singer, Essence (Okoro Uwale) has one of the most beautiful voices you have ever had.  But for some time, she disappeared from the mainstream and I wanted to know what exactly was going on with her.  For her first interview in a very long time, we had one of the most wholesome conversations you will watch - a...

I did something I try never to do and I asked AbimBola Craig directly: Why are you not married? She had done a video a while ago saying ‘marriage is a scam’, amd as we talked about that video I knew that this was a question she was going to tackle with flair. Of course, she delivered. Right moment. Right person. bold question. Perfect answer.  We talk about marriage, and we talk about the bea...

This was such an emotional interview. Ashmusy has seen hell from the media and the comment section - they have questioned her talent, questioned her source of income, questioned her wealth, questioned her morals… and just thinking about all of the attacks she has had to endure, she broke down in tears on our set.  She had to consciously change her dress sense, she tells me, because that was o...

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Kemz Mama, or Mummy Wa as many know her, may be buzzing because of her first movie - Nigeria’s first Korean drama - but her journey here was an almost impossible one.  First, her father didn’t support her, calling her career ‘irrelevant irrelevancies’. Then Mr Macaroni didn’t call her back after her first appearance as ‘Mummy Wa’ on his channel. THEN, when she finally got a small role on Tins...

They own perhaps the biggest web series in Nigeria and Africa - and the biggest Gen Z series ever.  Without making any noise about it and with no media campaigns, their videos rack up millions of views. One of them has over 11 million views!  Jesi, Jemima and Jeiel Damina are YouTube OGs, and the youngest is barely out of her 20s.  They are also fantastic singers.  First I was...

First, she lost her younger brother to chronic kidney disease. Then last year, Ufuoma McDermott was also diagnosed of Stage 3 kidney disease - after battling with it for 12 years.  She was told to slow down at work and rest. But she thought she had more time and negotiated with her doctors.  That delay turned out to be costly.  She was shortly diagnosed of Stage 4 kidney diseas...

For 6 months last year, Oluwadolarz suffered from depression - and no one knew about it. He couldn’t function. He couldn’t create. He couldn’t even leave his room.  He finally opens up about this in this exclusive interview.  What caused the depression? He suddenly saw his career crater and felt he was ‘un-blowing’ while watching his colleagues grow in leaps and bounds.  It’s a fami...

For speaking up against what he considered injustice in school, Mr Macaroni was expelled just before convocation.  It was the fight of his life. How did that transform his life? Why did that radicalize him?  What did his journalist father say about all of it? How did that prepare him for that time when the Nigerian Police stripped him naked? And how long can he keep fighting while still...

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He was arrested by a battalion of Nigerian police men at his home for leading protests at #EndSARS - tortured in the system long after the protests ended.  Then began an ordeal that lasted more than one year - as the Nigerian government stormed his house, took him away in his boxers, slept in a prison cell without a roof, passed from location to location at night, locked underground and then...

How did Falz become so iconic?  Was it inevitable that the son of the great Femi Falana would bring help bring the Nigerian government to its knees years ago?  And how has he managed to do that while still maintain his place as a singer actor and a mover of the culture?  We go deep in this conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vector says he has paid a very steep price for insisting on being himself in a country like Nigeria - he has been shadow banned, he says.  But he insists on being himself, making his art, and speaking his mind, telling me he has no fear of any man who owns a mic.  From studying witchcraft at the University of Lagos to teaching his daughters how to box and defend themselves, this ‘song of...

When Rico Swavey - #BBNaija contestant and singer - died in a motor accident in October 2022, the nation was in shock. He was well loved. His mother, Halima Hassan watched him die in her own arms in a Lekki hospital - asking the doctors to leave her with his corpse as she begged him to come back to her.  Months after, as friends and family watched her walk the streets aimlessly, unable to cop...

in February, we re-launched #ChudesBookClub with Jay Shetty’s incredible book ‘The 8 rules of love’ which, literally, changed my life. It upended everything I thought I knew about the practical matters of intimacy and relationships - and helped me rebuild the foundations of how I approach love, attraction and relationships.  After seeing how it transformed so many of the participants long aft...

In February, we re-launched #ChudesBookClub with Jay Shetty’s incredible book ‘The 8 rules of love’ which, literally, changed my life. It upended everything I thought I knew about the practical matters of intimacy and relationships - and helped me rebuild the foundations of how I approach love, attraction and relationships.  After seeing how it transformed so many of the participants long aft...

In February, we re-launched #ChudesBookClub with Jay Shetty’s incredible book ‘The 8 rules of love’ which, literally, changed my life. It upended everything I thought I knew about the practical matters of intimacy and relationships - and helped me rebuild the foundations of how I approach love, attraction and relationships.  After seeing how it transformed so many of the participants long aft...

I’ve had so many A-list guests come on the show to talk very honestly - and often for the first time - about divorce.  The comments and emails we have seen after these interviews showed me how deeply those truths have resonated.  So we decide to do a special episode that combines the greatest, deepest, most powerful things my guests have shared about confronting and surviving the end of...

How exactly did MKO Abiola die?  How exactly did former head of state, Sani Abacha die?  What role did Wole Soyinka, IBB’s late son, Femi Falana, Bola Tinubu, RMD’s late wife MEE, Shehu Sani, Kudirat Abiola and others play in this macabre story? And why exactly should you be grateful? I go way back - through my narration, a panel of Nigerians remembering that terrible period Gen Z may be...

How exactly did MKO Abiola die?  How exactly did former head of state, Sani Abacha die?  What role did Wole Soyinka, IBB’s late son, Femi Falana, Bola Tinubu, RMD’s late wife MEE, Shehu Sani, Kudirat Abiola and others play in this macabre story? And why exactly should you be grateful? I go way back - through my narration, a panel of Nigerians remembering that terrible period Gen Z may be...

Chude: You need to know in life, the things that you can do and you cannot do.  Many years ago, I received another invitation to join the government in Nigeria at the highest levels, and I called my second mother, Obiageli Ezekwesili. I said, ‘Aunty, he’s putting me under pressure; he wants me to join this government’.  So she asked me a question: “In your deepest of hearts, do you think...

Saidi Balogun says he almost died after this accident - nobody thought he was going to survive. He was bed ridden for three months. And then, many years later, he confronted the worst business decision he ever made - he invested N25,000,000 in a movie, the movie was pirated and he only made N800,000  For the first time ever, he reveals that - already a celebrity - he was penniless and ho...

How exactly did Obasanjo change AliBaba’s life?  Why did people doubt for years that he was making millions as a comedian - and insist his first wife was funding his lifestyle?  What does he feel about not having a national award - when he essentially built the comedy industry?  What does he think about the public battles between Basketmouth, AY and others?  And what has learnt...

Bed ridden for three months after his car somersaulted and he almost died, Saheed Balogun learnt the greatest lesson of his life - that he can survive anything.  A few years later, he invested N25 million in a film, pirates ravaged the film and he only made N800,000 in return.  He says he has never said this anywhere; he ended up homeless, penniless and wanting to end his life.  His...