Day: 25 March 2018

Azeez March 25, 2018

The Late 5: Dapchi girls reunite with families, Atiku pledges 40 per cent appointments to the youth, and other top stories

These are the top five Nigerian stories that drove conversation today. The released Dapchi girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents were reunited with their families on Sunday. The girls arrived aboard five…

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MTV Shuga
Bernard Dayo March 25, 2018

Young people are watching “MTV Shuga Naija” and you should too

Do young people watch TV? This was the question I asked myself during the press cycle for the sixth season of MTV Shuga Naija. The show was making a return…

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Okey Bakassi
Bernard Dayo March 25, 2018

Is Okey Bakassi’s “The Other News” on Channels TV too political?

On July 20, 2017, The Other News made its debut on Channels Television, introducing the concept of late-night comedy to independent TV, and fashioned after archetypes like Jimmy Fallon's The…

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Dapchi
Alexander Onukwue March 25, 2018

“I am jubilating because my daughter did not renounce Christ” | Read our top 10 quotes from last week

Joy and relief, puzzles and subsisting fear were the emotions with which we began the past week following the Dapchi girls’ return. That event and others gave us the top…

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Headies
Alexander Onukwue March 25, 2018

Dangote’s UNshakeable table; the Nigerian woman who invented bomb detectors | See the top viral tweets from last week

Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…

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Mummy Dearest
Wilfred Okiche March 25, 2018

Film Review: Mummy Dearest – The Wedding is the sequel you didn’t ask for

Willie Ikedum’s first feature, Mummy Dearest released in 2015 is notable mostly for handing a plum role to Liz Ameye, whose career trajectory lately has been stuck in the comeback…

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Shaffy Bello
Bernard Dayo March 25, 2018

Judith Audu, Omowunmi Dada, Afeez Oyetoro, Shaffy Bello Star in New Romantic Drama, “Just Before I Do”

From the bestselling cinema movies to the low selling ones, Nollywood movies have always been accused of bad storylines. And this is what stands Just Before I Do out. A…

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Omoleye Omoruyi March 25, 2018

The Big 5: Nigerian Senate endorses 3 new federal higher institutions, British authorities raid Cambridge Analytica offices and other top stories

These are the stories you should be monitoring today. The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, had confirmed that the last known Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, who was held back…

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