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Move Afrika: Lagos adds Simi and Dj Consequence to line up alongside John Legend

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Global Citizen’s Move Afrika, the pioneering pan-African touring circuit headlined by international artists, to create jobs in the continent’s creative economies and drive citizen-led advocacy campaign to enhance health systems across the continent.

WHAT: Singer, songwriter, and actor Simi and DJ Consequence have been added to the lineup for Global Citizen’s Move Afrika: Lagos, taking place on February 25, at The Palms in Lagos, Nigeria. They join EGOT-winning, critically acclaimed, multiplatinum artist and producer John Legend, who will headline the 2025 edition of Global Citizen’s Move Afrika, as this year’s tour expands from East to West Africa, with Nigeria joining Rwanda as a host country.

Global Citizen’s Move Afrika is a long-term, large-scale effort to pioneer the music touring circuit across Africa, driving economic investment, job creation and supporting entrepreneurship opportunities in each host country.

The 2025 edition of the tour will drive a citizen-led advocacy campaign championing sustainable development and economic growth, with a dedicated focus on strengthening health systems across Africa.

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Together with campaign partners, Global Citizen will urge African nations to increase domestic health financing, prioritize primary care and sexual and reproductive health and rights, boost global investments in health resilience, and alleviate financial burdens on nations to strengthen public health. 

WHEN: February 25, 2025

WHERE: The Palms, Lagos, Nigeria

HOW TO GET TICKETS: Tickets for Move Afrika: Lagos are available for purchase at moveafrika.org and free tickets can be earned by joining the Global Citizen movement and taking action on the Global Citizen app, or the Global Citizen website. Music fans can also take action by sending a message on WhatsApp to +234 901 398 2743. 

More information can be found at moveafrika.org.

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Move Afrika is Global Citizen’s initiative to address the world’s inequities by creating job and entrepreneurship opportunities for the continent’s emerging generations through an annual series of live music events.

Showcasing the best of Africa to the world, these events will drive transformative investments within local communities, engage local artists, vendors, agencies and crews, and provide opportunities for on-the-job skill development and training.

Producing a world-class experience for fans and artists alike, Move Afrika will set a new gold-standard for entertainment touring events, increasing demand from international and regional artists to tour in the region and building local capacity within host cities across the continent.

Each year, additional countries will be added to the Move Afrika tour circuit, which will further expand across the continent over the next five years. 

The 2025 edition of Move Afrika will build on Global Citizen’s previous campaigns and events across Africa, including Move Afrika: Rwanda, held at the BK Arena in 2023; Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, which featured Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran, Usher, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Martin of Coldplay in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2018; Global Citizen Live: Lagos, with performances by Davido, Femi Kuti, and Tiwa Savage at Fela Kuti’s New Afrika Shrine in 2021; and Global Citizen Festival: Accra, which brought Usher, SZA, Stormzy, and TEMS to the Black Star Square in 2022.

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Partners of Move Afrika include pgLang, Glenfiddich and Pepsi.  Global Citizen is grateful for the support of leading media companies including: AIM Group, Bella Naija, News Central TV, TV Continental, TimesLive, Vanguard Media and Zikoko. 

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‘She’s dying’ – Zicsaloma accuses LUTH of medical negligence towards his cancer-stricken mother

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Nigerian comedian and content creator, Zicsaloma, has publicly condemned the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) over gross mistreatment and neglect of his mother, who is currently battling cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.

In a distressed Instagram video, the skit maker, real name Aloma Isaac Junior, detailed a harrowing ordeal, claiming that hospital personnel at LUTH refused to admit his critically ill mother despite the urgency of her condition.

According to him, she had recently developed severe post-chemotherapy complications that prompted a desperate dash to the hospital. But rather than receiving emergency care, she was allegedly denied access at the gate and left unattended.

“She’s a skeleton of herself,” he said emotionally. He revealed that when they arrived at LUTH, she was not only turned away but also made to wait for hours outside the gate. “Do you know when we took my mum to LUTH, the hospital refused to let her in?” he said. “They now pointed us to a test centre beside LUTH, where we should go and do it. We now took the result back to the hospital. They refused to let my mum in.”

According to him, the hospital claimed only a doctor could authorise entry. But when one was finally called to assess the situation, he “literally walked out,” refusing to assist. “She cannot even stand. I literally backed my mum.”

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Zicsaloma slammed what he described as a lack of compassion in Nigeria’s medical system. “Our medical team, the doctors of Nigeria, are terrible.” He added, “If you see my mum, she is a skeleton of herself.”

Frustrated and heartbroken, the skit maker painted a grim picture of the situation. “If somebody is ill in this country, the person can just die. You are seeing a lifeless woman. That cannot stand.”

He concluded his emotional outcry with a strong criticism of the healthcare system, saying, “These hospitals, they need to be checked.”

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‘There is no forgiveness’: Seyi Law on why he can never support Peter Obi

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Nigerian stand-up comedian, Oluwaseyitan Lawrence Aletile, popularly known as Seyi Law, has said he can never support Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections.

The funnyman made the revelation in a recent interview on the Teju Babyface show, saying the former Anambra State Governor can never have his forgiveness.

Seyi Law pinpointed the actions of Peter Obi’s supporters, the Obidients, as the reason why he holds a grudge against him.

He claimed Obidients insulted his wife and children because he backed President Bola Tinubu while Peter Obi stood by and refused to call them to order while also failing to admit that his supporters attacked those who did not support him.

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He argued that the former Anambra governor’s “failure” to condemn the actions of his supporters makes him “unfit” for his support.

Furthermore, Seyi Law likened the Obidient movement to a “cult” that doesn’t “support free thinking”.

He added that Obidients crossed personal boundaries by going after his family and it is one thing he finds “unforgivable”.

“The moment you cross that boundary from me to my children, mother, and wife, there is no forgiveness. That is why there is nothing on earth that Peter Obi can do that will make me support him,” Seyi Law declared.

“They attacked my children and my wife. As long as Peter Obi does not call them to order and he keeps denying that they are doing that, he will never get my support. Let Peter Obi wear the garment of Jesus Christ today, he will never get my support.

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“Hate or love me, my personal way of life is between me and God. Any organisation that does not support free thinking is a cult. I do not feel down at all because when you talk too much, I swear to you.

“One of the good things that God has done for me is that my anger does not last long. Personal anger for me does not last long. The only place it lasts long is when you leave me and attack my children, mother, and wife.”


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Portable turns trial into music, teases new single following Saheed Osupa ordeal

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After his recent release from detention. Street hop star Portable is back to doing what he loves which is making music that documents his reality.

The singer has teased a new song just days after being released from detention following his arrest over a criminal defamation petition filed by Fuji icon King Saheed Osupa.

In a post on his Instagram page, Portable teased the song titled ‘Oni Reason’ on which he alluded to his recent legal ordeal in Kwara state and claimed the journey of his life is divinely orchestrated.

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The song follows his trend of making music from his legal trials and ordeals. Following his arrest by the Ogun State Police, who declared him wanted for assaulting government officials, Portable announced the EP ‘Most Wanted’.

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