Nosa Afolabi, better known as Lasisi Elenu, is a Nigerian

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, compere from

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in Nigeria. One of Africa's most popular influencers, he is known for his skits with a 'wide mouth' disguise filter during performances and on social media. Elenu was recently featured in

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''. In 2018, he was nominated for

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Prize for Comedy. In March 2020, he was named one of Nigeria's Top 25 Under-30 Nigerian Superstars. and he was one of the winners of the second edition of the Trendupp Awards.

Career

The comedian is one of the continent's most popular social media influencers with 75,000 followers on TikTok and over 3.4 million followers on

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. His skits focus on varying themes from law to cybercrime, the economy, insecurity and philosophy, started out as a musician before diverting to the business of comedy. He performed at the Mama Tobi Homecoming concert. His most recent project, Mama & Papa Gods power, is a series of 16-minute episodes focusing on a low-income household in Nigeria.

Personal life

In 2022, Lasisi Elenu proposed to his girlfriend Nonso Adika and the couple welcomed a baby girl October of the same year.

Filmography

* ''

'' (2018) * ''Made in Heaven'' * ''Sylva'' * ''

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'' * ''African Messiah''

Awards and nominations

Controversy

Controversy struck in July 2020 when Elenu was warned by members of the Nigerian Bar Association, who claimed his jokes were misrepresenting the legal profession and threatened to sue him.

References

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