Celebrities. Sometimes you look at them and it seems like they’re heavenly beings but that’s not true. They’e just like us. They mess up and embarrass themselves just like everybody else. To prove this, here is a list of 5 times Nigerian celebrities messed up on social media.
1. That time Oge Okoye stole dogs from Instagram and did naming ceremony for them.
We all remember this. Oge Okoye stole a picture of American reality show star, Kenya Moore’s dogs and claimed them as hers. She even gave them different names! A Kenya Moore fan page on Instagram discovered Oge Okoye’s lie and exposed her to the world (i.e Nigeria) and in the process, referred to her as “some lady in Africa”. Nigerians went on social media and mercilessly dragged Oge Okoye by her weave and even started the #OgeOkoyeChallenge where people posted pictures of stuff that was obviously not theirs and then claimed to own it. One question remains on the minds of Nigerians tho, Just how many times has Oge Okoye done stuff like this in the past?
2. That time Tuface lied about collaborating with R.Kelly
The year was 2009. Tuface Idibia had just released the “Unstoppable” album. Tuface announced that he had a song coming out that he had done with American R&B superstar, R.Kelly and Nigeria collectively freaked out. We couldn’t wait for the song to drop. When it finally did, people were disappointed because something about the song was off. The beat used in the song had already been used in an old R.Kelly song and this made people question its authenticity. A few months after this, R.Kelly came to Nigeria for the ThisDay music festival and inside sources revealed that R.Kelly claimed to have never heard of Tuface before and laughed at the song they had supposedly recorded together. The inside sources also revealed that R.Kelly said to have made that beat a long time ago and Tuface probably found it somewhere on the internet. Tuface’s manager insisted that the song was legit and that R.Kelly recorded his part and sent it in. A classic case of lying to cover up more lies. Tuface and R.Kelly (with a bunch of other African artists) eventually recorded a song together named “Hands Across The World” so I guess you could say this was a case of Tuface predicting the future. LOL
3. That time Skiibii faked his death as a publicity stunt
There is a high chance that you don’t know who Skiibii is. Let us tell you why.
Skiibii (whose name sounds like an STD) is a Five Star Music music artiste that debuted in 2015 and in an attempt to quickly raise his popularity levels, decided it would be a good idea to fake his death and eventual resurrection in what eventually became known as the worst publicity stunt in Nigerian entertainment history. Five Star Music lied about him dying (releasing the picture above), lied about him ‘defeating death’ and then when Nigerians figured out that the whole thing was a hoax, they released obviously staged hospital pictures. Nigerians can’t be deceived tho so they dragged Skiibii and the entire record label on social media. The funny thing about this is that after the whole thing, Skiibii still did not blow. LOL!
4. That time Lizzy Anjorin destroyed us with her English
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BORgtEvWNDQ
It was supposed to be a cute video of her playing with her dogs. Things went wrong when one dog (named ‘Pretty’) got pissed at the other dog (named ‘Terror’) for some reason and began to attack him. Lizzy decided to step in and separate the fight and in the process screamed, “Pretty stop it! Stop JEALOUS!” when she should’ve said, “Stop being jealous”. Nigerians had a field day with this one on social media.
5. That time Denrele fell off the stage while dancing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UIJ4KZmdy5Y
In 2015, the manic TV presenter that we know and love, Denrele Edun, was dancing violently on stage at an event in Port Harcourt when he tripped on his trademark insanely long braids and fell off the stage. It was freaking hilarious. It was funny until we found out that the accident resulted in him breaking his neck. That made it funnier. I swear we are not terrible people.
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1. Once you wake up, the first thing you do is check your phone for Twitter and Instagram
Smh, when your friends are firing prayer!
2. You have at least one profile picture with this filter:
3. Your face when you drop a funny status/tweet and nobody comments on it:
Why is life so #?
4. When you put a post on Instagram and it gets 100 likes in the first twenty minutes
Izz not easy abeg!
5. When you put up a post on Instagram and you’re struggling to pass 15 likes after two days
You;ll now be wondering: ‘abi I’m not fine again?’
6. If your house is burning, Twitter must hear it first before anybody else
Because, priorities!
7. You can’t even count how many times you almost entered gutter because you were pressing phone
Lol, don’t lie, this is you!
8. Once bae annoys you, you’ll find all the posts to sub his life so he’ll see it on his Facebook/Twitter
He has to feel your pain too after all.
9. Did you even go for that party if your Snapchat friends don’t have updates every 5 minutes?
If you don’t carry them along, who will?
10. When you put a fire selfie on Snapchat and your crush finally views it
Mission accomplished!
1. So I joined social media out of boredom and to feel among.
2. Everyday I would just go there, make noise, do amebo and jump on trending topics.
3. That’s how one day someone I always had banter with entered my DM’s.
4. First of all I thought it was just normal jokes and games oh!
5. Then he asked for my number! Ghen ghen.
6. Before I knew it we were talking all day, everyday.
7. Then one day he asked if I would like to go out for diner, as per a date!
8. I tried not to get too excited but I was like:
9. Then we finally went on the date and it was better than I imagined.
10. Then there was another date.
11. And another one.
12. Before I knew what was happening my heart was going jiggi-jiggi bam bam whenever I saw his name and number.
13. My friends had even started using him to make fun of me online!
14. Then one day I woke up to a text from a number I hadn’t saved.
15. The first line was “I know you don’t know me but I come to you as a woman”.
16. Ah! Look at life oh!
17. So apparently the love of my life was wedded in holy matrimony to another woman.
18. Whats even more fabulous is that he met her on social media as well.
19. And had even used some of the same lines he used on her to toast me.
20. And had taken us to the same restaurants.
21. Since that day whenever anyone tries to greet me too much on any social media I’m like:
1. When everybody in the group chat is cracking jokes and making fun of each other.
Fun times!
2. When the annoying person in the group chat leaves!
Carry your wahala and go thank you!
3. When your boss thinks you’re working but you’re using the chat’s “for web” app.
You wish!
4. When you can abuse your co workers and boss in the chat without any stress.
Nobody can report me to HR or sack me here!
5. When you see “hayyyy you people can you imagine” and you know the group chat is about to be popping!
Time for some epic gist!
1. When people try to be friendly but you are too busy talking to your online friends.
I already have friends!
2. When you have to buy more data because you finish gigabytes in mere hours.
What is this life?
3. When you realise all the new friends you’ve made are from social media.
Look at that!
4. When your parents say “you press phone too much.”
You people better leave me alone!
5. When someone not on social media tries to show you a joke you already saw weeks ago.
Latecomer!
6. When someone you just met says they don’t like social media.
Better get out!
7. When you have to do other things and don’t have time to check your phone.
Life is happening without me!
What would you do if the Nigerian government blocked all social media apps for days because of some troublemakers?
Well, in Ethiopia, the most embarrassing exam leak happened when questions to an end-of-year exam which was to be taken by 254,000 university students leaked all over the internet in May.
And like typical Nigerian parents, the Ethiopian government blocked all the popular social media sites for few days, as per the students like pressing their phones too much.
Na wa o! Instead of them to tackle the exam malpractice problem directly.
Technology didn’t kuku stop people from cheating in exams before Twitter and Instagram were created.
But sha, can you imagine the Nigerian government taking this sort of ‘disciplinary action’ on its citizens? Very possible, right?
Nigerian students when they see leaked questions on the internet…
However, Ethiopians aren’t keeping quiet, the ones who currently have access to social media outside the country have condemned this action.
This is nothing but an unconstitutional State of Emergency. The Ethiopian government have no legal basis or… https://t.co/ISMZTd9v8U
But the people that leaked the questions didn’t try sha. Let’s hope the Ethiopian government properly gets to the root of the problem.
1. When you slide into the DMs of a girl you really like.
Hellurrrr!
2. When someone starts using not-so-coded tweets to say they like you… but you’ve only been on one date.
I’m sorry I don’t know how to read.
3. How she messages you when you are still in the dating phase.
“Before somebody will come and break my head.”
4. When you’re asking one girl out but there’s another girl uploading a pictures of you and her.
Because you can eat gala while beans is on fire.
5. When you guys finally claim each other on social media.
So cute.
6. Two minutes after you claim your girlfriend on social media and she gets a message saying “I come to you as a fellow woman…”
Wait small now.
7. How girls enter your DMs now that they know you are taken.
One after the other please. No need to rush.
8. When people want to start tweeting at your new bae to spill details of your past relationships.
Ahan! Must you talk?!
9. When your girlfriend is on social media…stalking your every move.
If she catches me.
10. How her friends comment on your post when another woman says she misses you.
Hmm. Edible catering!
11. When you do something wrong and you’re still together but she puts up this picture:
HAY GOD!
12. When your girl puts up another guy as her WCW.
I kent unsten.
13. When she likes another guy’s picture.
It didn’t mean anything…
14. When your girlfriend posts subliminal tweets when you guys are in a fight.
Someone cannot even offend again?
15. How you start to slide into someone’s DMs but you realize that she knows your girlfriend.
RETREAT!!!
16. How you handle all the enemies of progress that want to expose you to bae.
How to get away with…
1. When someone dies and people start writing “tell me it’s not true” on their wall.
You want them to reply you?
2. When you see someone’s name written like this:
WHY?
3. When someone thanks you for accepting their friend request.
I’m not a celebrity na.
4. When someone tags you in a photo you’re not in.
What is it?
5. You, when you get a notification and see it’s a candy crush invitation.
Nonsense.
6. When one of your aunties comes to drop a comment on your picture.
“Who is that girl with you?”
7. When someone without any mutual friends sends you a friend request.
From where, biko?
8. When your parents send you a friend request.
God forbid.
9. When someone tells you to like a picture so they can win a competition.
Will you give me out of the money?
10. When people start chatting in the comments section of your post and you keep getting notifications.
Better leave this place.
11. When someone you haven’t talked to since secondary school sends you “hi”.
This one wants something.
12. When someone who isn’t your friend messages you saying they want to “get to know you.”
Go and know Jesus, biko.
13. When you see “works at student” on someone’s profile.
I don’t understand.
14. When someone tries to tell you that “Facebook is outdated”
Shut up, abeg.
15. When it’s your birthday and someone writes “HBD” on your wall.
You cannot type the full “Happy Birthday” abi?
16. When friends that have your phone number decide to message you on Facebook.
Do you think I sleep here?
17. When you see all those “Like if you love Jesus, Ignore if you don’t” posts
Is it by that one?
18. When you see people post nonsense like this:
This one is not serious.
19. When someone adds you to a group that does not concern you.
BYE!
DJ Khaled’s keys to success made a lot of people join Snapchat, However, the brains behind the app have blessed the world with more awesome filters and Nigerians couldn’t be more pleased. Here are 13 types of Nigerians you’ll recognise on the Snapchat app:
1. The black girl magic filter people
These ones want to sha glo up by force. They have stopped using any other filter since they discovered the glory of this flower crown filter that makes everybody look extremely gorgeous.
2. The people that won’t let us hear word with this dog filter
Almost every Nigerian on Snapchat has used this filter. No need to be ashamed, we have all tried to look cute with this filter and stick out our tongues shamelessly.
3. The Amebo people
They’re always the ones with all the receipts. They never post anything but are always the first to view everybody’s snaps and take screenshots.
4. The cool kid
These ones don’t have anybody’s time, they just post their snaps and leave. They don’t care about other people’s snaps so far everybody else is viewing theirs.
5. The money bag
These ones like to pose with money and tell us how their money grows like grass. Even if the money is not their own, they’re sha doing it for Snapchat.
6. The video vixen
These ones just record themselves trying to be sexy in front of the camera while music is playing in the background. Nobody knows what they want to achieve with that sha.
7. The foodie
These ones sha want everyone to know they eat only fine and assorted food. They like to tension people with what’s on their plate and how well they can cook.
8. The attention whore
These ones just post the most ridiculous things for attention. They’re the reason why you don’t open your Snapchat in public because their nudes can just pop on your feed at any time.
9. The commentator
They do the biggest oversabi and would comment on anything and everything in this life. They always have something to say about other people’s snaps.
10. The ones that love to DM
These ones send DMs of their pictures to everyone on their Snapchat feed. Maybe they’re trying to seize the bae at all costs sha.
11. The reality TV wannabe
You could list the names of everybody in their families, the date their bae broke up with them and their underwear sizes through their snaps.
12. The turn up kings/queens
These ones are just there to make you tired of your really boring life. They’re always turning up at Owambes every Saturday and lit events every other day of the week.
13. The driver
If you can’t drive or own a car, these ones are there to make you feel bad about your keke Marwa and Danfo life. How they manage to Snapchat and drive “safe” is still a mystery.
Although we live in a democratic country, it appears the ruling government might try to encroach on our freedom of speech.
A new social media bill that could potentially censor free speech on social media platforms has been proposed by the House of Senate.
According to the bill, anyone who writes anything negative against somebody else (most probably politicians) will face jail time – two years to be exact.
How dare they? Can someone please tell them that it is not allowed.
Nigerians on Twitter have expressed their thoughts on the issue via #NoToSocialMediaBill. Here are some of them:
On fighting for our rights:
Everyone who values his or her right must express a resounding #NoToSocialMediaBill
