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Twitter NG tears into UK radio that called Wizkid “Rising Nigerian star”

January 13,2017
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By Patricia Uyeh

Twitter has been buzzing for the past few days following the UK Radio station – Beats1 calling singer, Wizkid, a ”Rising Nigerian star”.

The radio station Twitter handle tweeted urging people to groove to Wizkid’s “Daddy Yo” song but introduced him called him as a rising Nigerian star.

This did not go well with Nigerians who wondered why ”Ojuelegba” crooner should be so under-recognised. With memes, tweets and gifs, Nigerians put the heat on  the UK Radio.

See tweets below:

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Photo credit: Buzz Nigeria, BellaNaija

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