{"id":41186,"date":"2024-07-30T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41186"},"modified":"2024-07-30T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:29:45","slug":"burna-boy-claims-non-political-wealth-in-nigeria-leads-to-victimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/30\/burna-boy-claims-non-political-wealth-in-nigeria-leads-to-victimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy Claims Non-Political Wealth in Nigeria Leads to Victimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oratokhai Jesusemen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a preview of his upcoming track &#8220;Empty Chairs&#8221; from his seventh studio album, <em>No Sign Of Weakness<\/em>, Grammy-winning artist Burna Boy (Damini Ogulu) reflects on the challenges faced by wealthy Nigerians who achieve success without engaging in politics.<\/p>\n<p>In the snippet shared on X, Burna Boy asserts that those who amass wealth outside the political sphere often become targets in a flawed society. He also notes a shift in his adversaries&#8217; tactics, revealing that his critics have moved from physical confrontations to online attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re not a politician and you manage to get rich, they\u2019ll turn you into a victim of society,\u201d he sings. \u201cMy enemies are no longer on the streets but now they\u2019re on the internet and blogs,\u201d he added, capturing the sentiment of his lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen In a preview of his upcoming track &#8220;Empty Chairs&#8221; from his seventh studio album, No Sign Of Weakness, Grammy-winning artist Burna Boy (Damini Ogulu) reflects on the challenges faced by wealthy Nigerians who achieve success without engaging in politics. In the snippet shared on X, Burna Boy asserts that those who amass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41188,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41186\/revisions\/41188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}