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"Skilzar Digital is a web marketing agency conceived with the mindset of satisfying the web marketing needs of brands and businesses whilst ensuring they have the best experience working with a web marketing company"

"At Skilzar Digital we provide businesses with a variety of digital solutions to promote products or services online and help clients hit their online marketing goals whilst growing their business. We typically work with each company to understand their business goals, all while providing recommendations and services tailored to each unique needs."

"That is precisely why i decided that we would form Skilzar Digital Agency around the principles of outstanding customer service and a very thought-out product"

"(better known by his stage name Skilzar) is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, tech entrepreneur and tech-startup founder."

"It has been challenging running a business as a startup considering the epileptic electricity supply we have to constantly battle with in the country we have to rely on generator and inverter to stay online 24 hours of the day which takes up a huge portion of expenses in terms of fueling, servicing and maintaining the generators and inverters"

"I'm not religious but I believe in the spirit. I mean, the spiritual is more real than the physical."

"I have learnt consistency, originality and professionalism. Talent is not enough to make a great artiste. There is a need for character, discipline, good public relations, social capital, and good relationship with fans."

"I think it is important to have people who can help you stay grounded. That is one key thing – when you don’t have yes men all around you, boosting your ego and telling you, you are God."

"Music is the passion and you know sometimes passion doesn’t pay the bills. I just have to get busy because I have to put food on the table for my family and I have like 100 members of staff too who would do the same."

"I mean, nobody has a solution to the problem at the moment. But I believe, in everything that is challenging in life, humans find a way to adapt."

"Getting married is one thing, staying married is another. It takes work, perseverance, you have to be selfless, and you have to be tolerant."

"Staying true to oneself is extremely important in the music game."

"At the same time, nobody can be at 100 per cent all the time."

"I learned a lot by being inspired by others, either officially or unofficially. You just gain from other people’s experiences. It’s been an interesting journey so far."

"You can cure madness by just playing music. If you were to play music to an unborn baby, there’s a way it reacts in the tummy. So no genre is called good music. As long as it speaks to you, that’s it."

"Right now I regret not having baby mamas. I really regret it. Because I’m like the only one in my bloodline alive right now."

"Even if you don’t like a song, it should be your personal opinion."

"We would appreciate if there are opportunities that will enable performers grow and get to the next level just like it is in most cities around the world."

"No, it's actually tougher when you're a woman. How many people want to sleep with a man before they help him"

"Largely, because, corporate Ghana is highly affected, and when corporate Ghana is affected, it affects sponsorships, it affects the fact that comedians cannot walk into corporate organizations and seek sponsorships and just get it like that."

"I think it's funny when people say that ‘because you are a woman is easier for you in the industry"

"I always knew that I would be great but I think I didn’t know how tough it would be. Nothing ever prepares you for how tough the journey gets, it’s like a new level, a new devil"

"The higher you go, the more things you have to battle with, the fact that you have to be better than the last, nothing prepares you for that but it has been an amazing journey"

"I think I have been around long enough to know that I need to ignore a lot of things. So I have learnt to ignore a lot of things. Either I’m cracking jokes about them or I’m ignoring them"

"I've turned out offers before because I know that you're paying others way more I am aware that you're paying others way more whatever it is"

""My first album was released in 1976 and I was 16 years old then""

""Well, it has been tough, rough and beautiful""

""I have so many achievements""

""Secret Of Marriage? Don’t Love Your Man –""

""My aspirations in the next years to come is to see Nigeria improve for the better, to see good things happening in the country and for our youths to eschew violence and embrace good values and principles that will develop them and the nation at large. I also intend to continue to touch lives positively through my music and my life.""

""I’m a prophetess, I see angels""

"I thank God for it and all the experience as it has helped shape me to the powerful force that I am today in the music industry and personal life."

"Am I a feminist? Yes , you can say that but I am also a great lover of human beings, freedom, justice, economic well being and human rights."

"It is a mans world, so they like to say and think but we all know that really isn’t the case – for me women just need to work together a lot more"

"Let us sow the seeds of credit to others when it's due, or else, we may never reap the harvest of ours when we should."

"Music is my life, music is something I love doing, like I said earlier, I grow up in a family where music runs through us, music is my passion and it’s what I love doing, can’t stop doing music, I have to keep doing it because I love to do it and isn’t that I don’t have other things doing but basically I can’t leave music and music can’t leave me because it’s my passion and I love doing it."

"Whatever happens in this life, our faith in Him, my salvation in Him, our belief and trust in Him, will always help us to overcome."

"I can never act nude for anything. There are several ways of seducing a man in a movie without completely going nude."

"I find solace in acting than singing, that was the reason I stopped singing. For me, once I get a script, I feel God has answered my prayers"

"I made ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ with the aim to draw public attention in a world-class standard to the challenges that children face in this part of the world, especially in a standard that meets the objectives of the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF)."

"Children are born daily and they all have different abilities and selling points. In other words, great talents emerge every day. Just like there are many stars in the sky, but some stars do shine brighter than others without stress."

"I don’t believe in a lead role all the time, once you are good you will stand out. Funny enough, some minor characters stand you out to the extent that they mistake them to be major characters depending on how you handle the role"

"I can’t go into the BBA house because I am already an ambassador of The Next Movie Star. Moreover, Big Brother Africa is not a career booster but a reality show that showcases how people cope living with strangers in the same house for as long as it lasts. I am a very professional person and I do not have that kind of time to waste. Though the money is cool, I cannot be confined to a particular house for 90 days without being productive."

"I am a very simple person. I do not believe in what’s in vogue, but when I see something that is beautiful, I do not hesitate to grab it."

"I am somebody who believes so much in love. So, I started writing love songs and all that. I also developed the art of dancing."

"My opinion about Nigerian justice system is that it doesn’t actually work. Often, people say that there is a problem of access to justice but in my own limited experience of the Nigerian justice system, it is not about the access to justice, but about justice been rendered."

"It’s not all about just getting married. To me marriage is worthless."

"It’s kind of makes it like someone is trying to choke me. I need my space, I don’t want nobody choking my life."

"“When people ask me, ‘what is it that you have,’ I tell them it is contentment. My spirit as a Christian fills me in with contentment. We are here for a purpose. Find that purpose and work towards realizing it. The challenges will come. I mean you can’t run away from them. In life there must be issues. It is only when you’re six feet deep that you don’t get them anymore. If you can put all that together and put your faith and trust in God who sent you here, you’re fulfilled.”"

"“The example of her life was a teaching tool because she showed that she could stand as a woman on her own…be a contributing member of the community.”"