WYRE SCOOPS NIGERIA’S SOUND CITY AWARD IN ABSENTIA

Wyre and Tu Face at a past event

Wyre the Love Child was awarded the Best East African act late last month in the Sound City awards held in Nigeria.
The awards, which are meant to bridge the gap in African music to the rest of the world, took place on November 20 in Lagos. “I'm really excited about clinching the award. There was some stiff competition in my category, but I thank God for coming through,” he told Hot Secrets.
The Sina Makosa star did not attend the ceremony saying, “I was scheduled to attend a music workshop prior to my invitation, but my agent in Nigeria attended the awards and accepted it on my behalf.”
Another Kenyan who was nominated for the awards has a bone to pick with the organisers. Yvonne Darcq who was nominated in the best RnB category said, “The event organizers have been avoiding us and cut contacts with us yet they claim we are part of the awards,” adding that, the organizers failed to send flight tickets to facilitate for their travel to Lagos for the ceremony.



Anyhow, Wyre believes his win validates his entry into the West African market. “I think doors are definitely opening up for me in the Nigerian market. Winning this award leaves me no doubt about it. I've done a collaboration album with a number of Nigerian artists scheduled for release this December. It features P-Square, Banky W, MI, Kel, Faze and Malam Spicey. I'm sure this will help me solidify my market there.”

P SQUARE BROTHERS DATED THE SAME GIRL?

Laughable ha! Well it is not. The cocky Nigerian twin “broda’s” Peter and Paul Okoye are said to have dated the same girl - a Guinness World Record holder.
Kafayat Oluwatoyin Shafau, 29, is the lady in the middle of the love triangle. She danced her way into a Guinness World Record in 2006 at the Nokia Silverbird Danceathon.
Word of the love triangle emerged last month when close sources alleged the P Square duo first meet Kafayat on the set of their music video Roll It.
Both were immensely attracted to her. Paul went ahead and had a ‘secret amorous affair’ with her, according to reports.
At the same time, Peter harboured romantic feelings for the dancer. Interestingly, the Okoye twins, for the first time, did not share their feelings of their newfound ‘love’.
Nigerian media reports, Kafayat had a ‘swell time with Paul who was at that time lonely because his brother, Peter was already having an affair with Lola Omotayo, the then Celtel Telecommunications big gal who eventually had a son with him’, reported.
The affair later ended when Kafayat was caught in an uncompromising position with Peter in one of her visits to their house and Jude, their eldest brother intervened to protect the P Square brand name and make sure word of the love triangle did not get out. Well the truth is hard to suppress, better luck next time Jude.