Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:37 am


Wizkid: Twitter agog for Wizkid at 29

Nigeria’s international, multiple award winning singer Wizkid, a.k.a Starboy is the toast of Twitterati today as he clocks 29.

Not surprisingly #Wizkid29 is trending as number one with many posts celebrating him on his birthday. Other Wizkid hashtags, such as #Wizkidday and #Wizkidfc are also trending on Tuesday morning in Nigeria.

Owoseni Samuel Seyi penned a birthday salutation on behalf of Wizkidfc: Dear Wizkid,You have healed millions of people around the world with your music & on countless occasions you succeeded pushing the African culture to the world. “Happy Birthday Wizkid”.

‘Happy birthday to the King of Afrobeat’, wrote Flame @Udoflamedozer.

Another Wizkid fan urged government to declare today a public holiday to celebrate Wizkid: “This wizkid thing na blood thing 💉, Happy starboy day to you all, today should be a public holiday, i Stan a legend!”, said Mr Lekan @Legendary_LA.

Fadehan @Fadehan is however not waiting for any formal declaration as he said the day is “World Wizkid Day’.
“It’s world WIZKID Day!!!! An absolute fave! Greatly and highly favoured! Omo ologo, the original omoolope! The only starboy! The greatest! An inspiration, my motivation! I Stan a true king! We don’t deserve you! Long live the king!