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Dec 28, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 75
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Dec 14, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 72
''My dad denied me and ran away, and I just realised my mother was a maid to survive” — Blaqbonez
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a ‘hard guy’ get vulnerable and open hearted. Blaqbonez (Emeka Akumefule) is one of Nigeria’s brightest rappers and he has often been called controversial. But this interview we see a side we have never seen before, as this ‘hard guy’ gets vulnerable and open hearted. We start from his dad who simply disappeared from the house while he was young and hasn’t apologised or explained since then. He tells me about how his mother survived the stigma of being...
Dec 07, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 71
“At night, I felt this man pulling me, he put his heavy weight on me and I heard two blows” —Titi
Titi Oyinsan (known then as ‘Titi Fanta’) was famous as one of hottest models in Nigeria. But while she was working hard as a model, there were the rumours that her trips and lifestyle were being funded by men. Titi says she didn’t care - she was focused on building a life for herself and her family, who had been duped by the man who they sent money to while they were in the UK. They were so badly duped that when they returned to Nigeria, they could only afford a place in Mushin, Lagos. That foc...
Dec 04, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 70
“Even as a pastor’s wife, it took us time before we learned to communicate to each other” — Laju Iren
Pastors Emmanuel and Laju Iren are a gospel power couple. They are one of the most influential pastors for the Gen Z generation and one of Nigeria’s most influential gospel figures today. And this year marks 10 years of their marriage. Laju says she is a fan of our work here at #WithChude, but I told her I am a bigger fan of hers. She is a pioneer - pushing the boundaries of gospel content from Nigeria. Her films have been on Amazon Prime, she has built a solid community on YouTube, and she has ...
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Exclusive: Peace Bob finally speaks about day IVD wife was set on fire and 4 hospitals rejected her
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Nov 27, 2024•14 min•Season 6Ep. 68
“I didn’t sign contract for Super Story song and I am ashamed to tell you what they paid me”
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 - about loss, self-love, and learning to be at peace with yourself even if things don’t go the way you want it. In ...
Nov 23, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 67
AbimBola Craig talks about the brain tumor that made her think she was going to die
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 beautiful relationship she had with her father, who was also her role model, and whose passing shook her to h...
Nov 20, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 66
Ashmusy breaks down in tears as she responds to the people who accuse her of being a ‘runs girl’
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 one of the reasons she was being stereotyped. Yet Amarachi Amusi is one strong woman - and she continues to...
Nov 16, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 65
“I left him because I realised this was not the marriage for me and I wanted to be equals with my husband” —Simi Drey
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Nov 13, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 64
“My father broke my heart, and the mean words still hurt me till this day” — Mummy Wa
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Abel Damina daughters: “Our sister was kidnapped, and she hated our father because of it”
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 their fan, and THEN I discovered that they are the daughters of Abel Damina, a man whose teachings in 2017 saved my faith, a...
Nov 06, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 62
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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 disease. Stage 4. That’s the final stage. And she says it was a result of drug abuse - ingesting too many painkillers. Thus began...
Nov 02, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 61
“I apologised to my wife publicly because I was tested as a man and I failed the test woefully” — Oluwadolarz
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Oct 30, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 60
“It is after I was arrested and stripped naked by the police that all my fear disappeared” - Macaroni
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Where is Chijioke? | The man kidnapped by SARS for 12 years is still missing (Full Film)
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Oct 23, 2024•12 min•Season 6Ep. 58
“Because of EndSARs, police arrested me in my boxers, locked me underground and denied they took me”
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 taken to court in secret. The police denied that they arrested him or knew him. They wanted him to disappe...
Oct 19, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 57
“We are existing in such nonsense in this Nigeria, but everyone is used to keeping quiet”
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.
Oct 16, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 56
“I taught my young daughters how to box and they showered me with love and tenderness” — Vector
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 a gun’ tells me about growing up amidst the violence of Lagos Island, being detached without being inhuman, how...
Oct 12, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 55
I still talk to him everyday even though he is dead - Rico Swavey’s mom
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 cope with the loss of her son, she had to check into a mental facility. He was the second son of hers to die ...
Oct 09, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 54
What are the 8 rules of love? | Masterclass from #ChudesBookClub Part 3
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 after the event, we decided to make it into a 3-part special that you can access. If you’ve been struggling w...
Oct 04, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 53
What are the 8 rules of love? | Masterclass from #ChudesBookClub Part 2
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 after the event, we decided to make it into a 3-part special that you can access. If you’ve been struggling w...
Oct 04, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 53
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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 after the event, we decided to make it into a 3-part special that you can access. If you’ve been struggling w...
Oct 04, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 53
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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 a marriage over the past four years. We have Shaffy Bello, Jim Iyke, Tonto Dike, Damilola Adegbite, Stanley Okor...
Oct 01, 2024•13 min•Season 6Ep. 52
Abiola vs Abacha: How they died and why they died (Part 2)
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 unaware of, and exclusive interviews with Abiola’s son Abdulmumuni, activist Dapo Thomas who fought alongside A...
Oct 01, 2024•10 min
Abiola vs Abacha: How they died and why they died (Part 1)
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 unaware of, and exclusive interviews with Abiola’s son Abdulmumuni, activist Dapo Thomas who fought alongside A...
Oct 01, 2024•10 min
Don’t take a promotion that will destroy your destiny | What I learnt from Ali Baba
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 that you could truly make a difference in that position at this time and will it give you joy?” I thank God she...
Sep 29, 2024•3 min
Even if you are almost lifeless in a hospital, there is still hope | What I learnt from Saheed Balogun
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 homeless. So, his mother asked him to come back to Nigeria and to visit her in Lagos Island - where she had some ...
Sep 29, 2024•2 min
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