MTV Base congratulates Oscar winner, Lupita Nyong’o

Music channel MTV Base  has congratulated Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o after she won an Oscar for  Best Supporting Actress, reports NewsWireNigeria

The actress who won the statuette   for her role as  Patsey in “12 Years a Slave”,  started her acting career in 2008 in MTV Base’s   HIV and AIDS awareness drama, Shuga.

Nyong’o  is the director, writer and producer for documentary In My Genes which put a spotlight on the  treatment of Kenya's albino population,[9] the documentary  won first prize at the 2008 Five College Film Festiva

Anti-gay laws: Whoopi Goldberg tackles Jonathan

Artist, actress and humanitarian Whoopi Goldberg has told the Presidents of Nigeria and Uganda that they are on the wrong side of history for signing anti-gay laws.

The comedian released a video with the Human Rights Campaign as a message to President Goodluck Jonathan and  President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.

The Nigerian anti-gay law bans gays from showing public affection. It also prohibits homosexuals from meeting in groups of two or more.

The law bans marriage or civil unions between people of the same sex, and criminalizes gay clubs and events. In the video, Goldberg told the two presidents that it isn't right to imprison a person for who they love.

Abacha’s daughter calls Soyinka’s statement “stupid”

Gumsu Sani Abacha, daughter of late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has blasted Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka for his statement against her father, reports Daily Post

Gumsu is angry that Soyinka refused to be part of the Centenary award because her father was given the same award as the writer.

Reacting to the statement, Gumsu wrote on her Facebook wall that the statement was stupid, foolish and insignificant.

In his statement titled The Canonization of Terror, Wole Soyinka said that he wondered why the goverment of Goodluck Jonathan was recognizing an alleged psycopath, who caused part of the trauma experienced in Nigeria.

Jesse Jagz to drop third album in March

Musician, Jesse Jagz has revealed that he would be releasing his third studio album in March,making it two albums in two years.

He dropped Jagz Nation Volume 1:Thy album come  only last year, which is still making waves.

The artist who switches between rapping and ragga, told HipTV that the  album's release date was set in February, but has been shifted to the second week of March.

He said the 10 track album was originally done as a mixtape, but was more suited as an album, and also  features the voices of  Tupac and Fela Anikulapo Kuti.