Saturday 23 February 2013

Read: Check Republic meets @Yomicasuals Mr Fit!



A deluge of top gunners in fashion branding in Nigeria will end in clustered forms without a high shot for the one and only "Yomi Casual" whose brand has grown to become a crackerjack. Known for clothing celebrities, YomiCasual has carved a nitch for himself by creating designs "cut to fit" as though it were another slash from ones' second skin. In an exhilarating interview granted to us in his state- of-
the-art office and show room located at Bode Thomas, Lagos; Yomi explains how an unfamiliar fluff made him a fashion design BigWig.



Can we meet you please?
My name is Makun Omoniyi Olorunyomi
I'm a fashion designer I make people look good for a living.

Monday 28 January 2013

Celebrity on Check with @Elphlex in London


2012 is a year noted for many things in the Nigerian industry, from DBANJ, DON JAZZY and the Mo Hits split to revelation of many promising acts such as Chidinma, which has led to her winning the KORA Awards. Amongst others, 2012 also marks the year for the UK Tour of one of Nigeria's fast rising talented Ibadan grown Nigerian artiste duo: ELPHLEX.

They, speaking with the producer of Check Republic and My Funky Birthday, said it had gotten to that stage where they needed to expand their horizon, especially for the fact that their fans in London had been demanding their presence.

Amidst the chill of London in November, the duo said they had lots of fun and welcome has they were hosted to a media tour around African media and also BBC1. The core reason however for their tour was to hold the launch of their album:
SCHOOL OF THOUGHTS which they purposely launched in London before going back to launch it in Nigeria.

Enjoy the interview we had with them...


cant see the link on your mobile? click here: Elphlex in London

Thursday 27 December 2012

P Square's Funky Birthday

2007, the world famous brothers celebrated their 1st Big birthday in grand style
Part 1 of 5

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Celebrity on Check: Iyanya! From Project Fame to London


From winning the Project fame, Iyanya who came out with Kukere his latest single has been going places. The single which dropped after his first album has been a blessing to the Artiste who currently has been in London for a couple of days now, performed at the prestigious and biggest Africans Abroad' show : Africans Unplugged, MFB blog caught up with the talented "LL Cool J" looking,  fly artiste and this is what he has to say about his career so far, upcoming projects and yes: TWITTER!

How is the 2012 Iyanya, different from the 2008 Iyanya?

2008, I was fresh, being young in the industry, a new comer. 2012 is a lot of time to change, improve. Have learnt from then till now and making use of all have learnt and winning the Project Fame (West Africa).

Iyanya
Did it propel your career?

Celebrity on Check- May7ven "Davido to win Next Rated"


Welcome guys, been a while i updated our exclusive interviews on celebrity on check, its because we've been working on ways to serve you better. We met with Ace Nigerian-International Artiste, May7ven, in the UK to discuss what makes her tick, her brand and the year 2012 in general and unlike the usual trend here, we've upgraded to bringing you video of the interview as Check_Republic on TV (TV arm of Celebrity on Check) sets to debut on TV stations in the UK and Nigeria by November, so consider this a taste of what is yet to come.

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Celebrity on Check: Tipsy - Don Jazzy is the Most Relevant/Popular celebrity on twitter



Tipsy who's birth name is Yewande Abiodun, is currently signed to Big-Boyz Entertainment, she is one of the fast-rising female acts currently making ripples in the Nigerian music industry. Her first track which she says is like the whole crews single, is “Se N Gbomi”, featured Ice Prince and Big-boyz All-Stars. She hails from AKure in Ondo State, where she grew up.


As she informed us JJC, influenced her to make a career U-turn from dancing to singing.

She was a dancer back then, a church drummer and when she moved to the UK, she started singing and rapping.