#WithChude

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...

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