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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 April 2021 Legendary Nigerian guitarist and highlife musician, Oliver De Coque, has been honoured with Google Doodle on his 74th posthumous birthday. The illustration for the doodle was made by Lagos-based Ohab TBJ. The artiste shared the image of his work via his Instagram handle as he stated that working on the project is a dream come true. He wrote in the caption section, “Ayyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Darling, I illustrated a @google Doodle. It’s a doodle...

Views: Visits 7 Late Nigerian music icon and highlife maestro, Oliver de Coque, has been honoured with a Google doodle to celebrate his 74th posthumous birthday. Google doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages to mark important festivals, holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures. King (Dr.) Chief Oliver De Coque whose real name was Oliver Sunday Akanite was crowned the “Highlife King of Africa.” Born on April 14, 1947, in t...

    Tech giants, Google on Wednesday created a doodle to celebrate the 74th posthumous birthday of one of Nigeria’s finest highlife musicians, Oliver De Coque.  Oliver De Coque whose real name is Oliver Sunday Akanite was largely regarded as the “Highlife King of Africa” and one of the continent’s most revered recording artistes. He died on June 20, 2008, at the age of 66. “It’s a doodle to commemorate the late Oliver De Coque, a Nigerian guitarist and one of Africa’s prolific ...

The Doodle pays tribute to the highlife maestro who died in June 2008 at the age of 61.

Vanguard News Military Presence: No cause for alarm in Orlu – OYC On Kindly Share This Story: The youth body of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) ably led by Comrade Igboayaka O Igboayaka as the national President, can authoritatively confirm, that contrary to viral media reports that the military deployed their jets and other hardware for an aerial bombardment in Orlu, there was no such incident today in the Imo state town. Although military jets were s...

Those issues are; Is Nigeria obliged to consume Cameroonian music? Given that Nigeria is Africas leading entertainment nation, is her market and media open enough to embracing other African music? This comes after Pancho C.Y International, a Cameroonian comedian and actor, accused Nigerians of refusing to open our market and media space to embrace music from other African nations. In a nationalist action with subtle xenophobic hints, he called for a ban on Nigerian music. He felt Nigerian arti...

TODAY January 17, 2021 Twenty seven Kano traders, who were abducted on their way to Aba town in Abia State, have regained their freedom, according to the management of Kantinkwari Textiles Market. Their abduction of the traders took place on January 10th, somewhere near Okene town, Kogi State while the traders while they on their to supply fabrics in Aba, but was largely reported to have taken place on Kaduna – Abuja Express way. Speaking to journalists, Sunday, in Kano, the spokesman of th...

To match their efforts, streaming platforms are making inroads into the nation and wanted figures throughout the ecosystem are taking form to resolve structural issues. However amidst all of it, there was music – nice music. Music that made moms get off their units, that made girls fall in love, that made grown males cry, that mended damaged hearts, served as confederate for spliff moments, soundtracked protests and set golf equipment on hearth. Some artists have been extra constant than othe...

The year of our lord 2020 wasn’t particularly appealing, with the world battling a pandemic that shut countries down for more than two quarters, and an uprising in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria over police brutality.  In 2020, entertainment – especially music – was a beam of light that shone through doom and gloom, urging us to look at the brighter side of life despite the issues of the world and social media turning scary. And surely, in this same year, Burna Boy continued on his str...

Isima, Oliver De Coque and Room 202 On By Emeka Obasi Ndubuisi Luis Isima may not be as capped as his elder brother, Okey, but he proved his mettle even when the duo played together at Standard of Jos. The younger Isima who later moved to Asabatex and Julius Berger respectively before relocating to the United States got chatting with our Columnist, Emeka Obasi, from Durban, South Africa, recently. We know so much about Okey Emmanuel Isima. There was and is still his brother, Ndu. Both of you w...