Gospel musician Yinka Ayefele has broken his silence following public copyright infringement claims leveled against him by veteran folk artist Beautiful Nubia.
The controversy erupted last week when Beautiful Nubia took to social media to accuse Ayefele and up-and-coming artist Bakare Boluwatife Oluwatobi, known as BBO, of lifting the melody from his 1997 classic “Seven Lifes” without any form of credit or acknowledgment.
Nubia specifically pointed fingers at Ayefele’s 2012 recording “My Faith in God (Igbagbo Ireti)” and BBO’s freshly released 2026 single “Amin,” alleging both tracks borrowed directly from his original composition.
The folk singer went further, framing the incident as symptomatic of a deeper cultural problem within the Nigerian gospel music scene, suggesting that artists routinely appropriate the creative works of others without recognition.
“When will Nigerians, especially the so-called gospel musicians, learn to respect copyright?” he wrote on X, calling out what he described as a pattern of uncredited borrowing.
Ayefele has since responded to the accusations, though the dispute has already ignited fresh debate around intellectual property rights and artistic integrity in the Nigerian music industry.
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