Founder
Emmanuel
Founder and CEO · 4 years on the brand
Started Chief's House in a 30-person living room in Maitama. Picks the music, the room, the guests, the cover stories, and the gameshow questions.
About, est. 2022
Started in a
living room.
Stayed there.
Chief's House began in 2022 as a thirty-person living room night in Maitama. Today it's also a magazine, a podcast slate, a couple of gameshows, the skits, and a small members club. Same hand on the wheel.
Emmanuel
Founder and CEO
12
Editions run
1,840
Regulars on the list
240+
Hours of audio
6
Surfaces, one room
The first night was thirty people.
One DJ, a soundsystem too loud for the apartment, and a guest list typed in a WhatsApp note. The next one was fifty. The next, eighty. Twelve editions later, we still cap the room on purpose.
“The energy of a night comes from who is in the room, not how many.”
Every event is curated. Every RSVP is reviewed. The waitlist is a feature, not a failure of the funnel.
Then we started writing about the nights. Then taping them. Then handing the cameras to friends. Chief's House grew sideways: the magazine, the podcasts, the gameshows. Still one room.
House rules.
Four things we will not compromise on, no matter how big the brand gets.
01
The room is the product.
Headcount has a ceiling for a reason. We protect the energy in the room before we chase the size of it.
02
Real music, every time.
Resident DJs and curated guests. No pre-packaged sets, no algorithm playlists. The vibe shifts with the night.
03
Show up like you mean it.
Dress code is a feeling, not a uniform. The night reads back what you bring to it.
04
Repeat is the goal.
We are building a series, not a one-off. Regulars get the room first.
The room runners.
A small team, mostly people who've been to enough Chief's House nights to know how the night should feel.
Building the site since 2026
Abiodun Osagie
Developer and platform
Builds the website and the back of house. Keeps the RSVP flow honest, the magazine fast, and the door queue moving.
Since the first season
Dede
Co-host, AFTER HOURS
Chief's co-podcaster on AFTER HOURS. Music journalist by day, late-night opinion machine by night. Writes the room before the room writes itself.
3 years on the door
Tunde A.
Operations and the door
Door, guest list, plus-ones, last-minute capacity tetris. If you got in on time, it was likely Tunde.
2 years on the brand
Aisha B.
Creative direction and social
Shoots the cover images. Posts the Instagram. Decides the dress code for half the Specials, then pretends she didn't.
Across 12 editions
Femi O.
Resident DJ
Resident DJ. Afrobeats, Amapiano, the bootlegs you only get in this room. Sets the opener and closes the night.
How we got here.
Five turning points. None of them planned, all of them logged.
2022
Living room, vol. 1
Thirty people, one DJ, a guest list typed in a WhatsApp note.
2023
The magazine
First long-form piece on the series. Print edition one drops in November.
2024
AFTER HOURS
Chief and Dede start taping the room. Spotify. Five episodes the first season.
2025
The inner circle
Yearly membership opens. Subsidised entry, backstage, WhatsApp with Chief.
2026
Gameshows and the site
Chief vs. the room ships on YouTube. The website pulls every surface together.
Ready when you are