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#WithChude

Always going viral, #WithChude hosts films, series, podcasts, documentaries, interviews, events and blogs from Africa - that strengthen the mind, the heart, and the spirit. It has become the safest, warmest space for Africa’s celebrities and leaders to talk about things publicly for the first time.For full episodes of all our content, please subscribe on withchude.com. Become part of our community supporting life-changing content.For enquiries or issues with the platform, please call +2348094321111

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12:53

“The guy who sang ‘Sweet Mother’ was hit by an okada...

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2024/12/21

When Shopsydoo’s (Adesope Olajide) father came to visit him in the UK he couldn’t believe the life his son was living. He asked him - “You left a life as a prince to come and live like a pauper here?”But he stuck with his dreams for himself and his family.Now, no major Afrobeats concert in Europe and the United Kingdom is complete without Adesope. He is of the country’s biggest hype men and MCs.We talk about how that industry and that sound has changed over the years - from 2face and Psquare to Rema

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13:01

“She stole our ovaries!” | Full story of Nigerian...

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2024/12/14

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12:53

''My dad denied me and ran away, and I just realised...

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2024/12/07

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 a

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12:56

“At night, I felt this man pulling me, he put his...

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2024/12/04

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 focus has

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12:56

“Even as a pastor’s wife, it took us time before we...

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2024/11/30

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 built

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13:53

Exclusive: Peace Bob finally speaks about day IVD...

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2024/11/27

Peace Lotus says she was with Bimbo the late wife of popular car seller, IK “IVD” Ogbonna on the day when she was set on fire - leading to her death.She shared the exclusive videos to the blogs that went viral and called the attention of the public to the plight of her friend.For the first time ever, she tells me the story of what she saw and experienced on that terrible day.She says she saw Bimbo after she was set on fire and then she drove Bimbo - with her body incinerated - from her home to four

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12:48

“I didn’t sign contract for Super Story song and I am...

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2024/11/23

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

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12:58

AbimBola Craig talks about the brain tumor that made...

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2024/11/20

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 her

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12:59

Ashmusy breaks down in tears as she responds to the...

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2024/11/16

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

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12:57

“I left him because I realised this was not the...

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2024/11/13

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2:50

“My father broke my heart, and the mean words still...

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2024/11/09

Kemz Mama, or Mummy Wa as many know her, may be buzzing because of her first movie - Nigeria’s first Korean drama - but her journey here was an almost impossible one.First, her father didn’t support her, calling her career ‘irrelevant irrelevancies’. Then Mr Macaroni didn’t call her back after her first appearance as ‘Mummy Wa’ on his channel. THEN, when she finally got a small role on Tinsel, her character was killed off, without the producers even informing her!In between all of this, she was

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12:55

Abel Damina daughters: “Our sister was kidnapped, and...

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2024/11/06

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, and

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12:48

“No one knew I battled stage 4 chronic kidney...

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2024/11/02

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 a battle for

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12:58

“I apologised to my wife publicly because I was...

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2024/10/30

For 6 months last year, Oluwadolarz suffered from depression - and no one knew about it. He couldn’t function. He couldn’t create. He couldn’t even leave his room.He finally opens up about this in this exclusive interview.What caused the depression? He suddenly saw his career crater and felt he was ‘un-blowing’ while watching his colleagues grow in leaps and bounds.It’s a familiar story, isn’t it?One day his mother finally had enough, and he tells me what she did that finally made him find a way out

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12:58

“It is after I was arrested and stripped naked by the...

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2024/10/26

For speaking up against what he considered injustice in school, Mr Macaroni was expelled just before convocation.It was the fight of his life.How did that transform his life?Why did that radicalize him?What did his journalist father say about all of it?How did that prepare him for that time when the Nigerian Police stripped him naked?And how long can he keep fighting while still remaining a pop culture brand?“Any brand that is not happy with my activism - bye bye!” he says.This interview goes deep

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12:18

Where is Chijioke? | The man kidnapped by SARS for 12...

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2024/10/23

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12:59

“Because of EndSARs, police arrested me in my boxers,...

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2024/10/19

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 disappear

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12:58

“We are existing in such nonsense in this Nigeria,...

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2024/10/16

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. Exclusive Patron-only Content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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12:59

“I taught my young daughters how to box and they...

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2024/10/12

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 his

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12:56

I still talk to him everyday even though he is dead -...

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2024/10/09

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 while

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