Toyin Abraham is starring in ‘Two Weeks In Lagos’

Award winning actor Toyin Abraham is well known for her dramatic and comedic roles in previous movies. However, the popular star asked her fans to expect a different version of her in Kathryn Fashega’s upcoming film ‘Two Weeks in Lagos’ In ‘Two weeks in Lagos, Toyin plays Beverly Naya’s cool calm and collected best friend... Read More

The Film Blog

November 2, 2018

You can finally watch the full trailer for Ebony Life Films’ ‘Chief Daddy’

Since production of Chief Daddy commenced, EbonyLife Films has kept fans excited; releasing captivating content from the movie including behind-the-scenes visuals, five amusing teasers and, finally, the long-awaited full-length trailer. RELATED: Ini Edo wants you all to know she doesn’t like money like that This trailer takes audiences through three primary stages in the movie,... Read More

The Film Blog

Chief Daddy, Ebony life

October 31, 2018

Aftermath of the Aba Women’s Riot: Where are the women?

It’s 1929. Just after the Aba Women’s War, the women of Oloko are riding the waves of rebellion and victory to take charge of their lives after fighting the British. Sparked by a dispute that occurred November 18, 1929, between one woman, Nwanyereuwa and Emereuwa, a man who worked for the Warrant Chiefs on imposing tax on the women of Olokowhich was traditionally wrong. The Women’s... Read More

Featured

Aba Women's riot

October 30, 2018

CRPressXYNaija at Ake: Ayesha Haruna Attah’s diary Day 4

Editors Note: The Ake Book and Arts Festival finished last sunday with quite the bang. Panels by Diana Evans, Nnedi Okorafor and Mona El-hathawy, fantastic discussions of the future and a poetry night that saw prodigies and veterans thrill a captive audience. Ayesha Haruna Attah had the unique opportunity to experience this both as an... Read More

The Media Blog

Ayesha

October 29, 2018

#CRPressXAke2018: Day one; Ayesha Haruna Attah

Editors Note: As part of our coverage at the 2018 Ake Books and Arts Festival, we have collaborated with authors under the Cassava Republic Press to give you a first hand look at what the festival is like for a writer. Ghanaian writer Ayesha HarunaAttah, whose new novel ‘The 100 Wells of Salaga‘ was released... Read More

The Media Blog

Ake, Ayesha Haruna Attah, Cassava Republic Press

October 26, 2018

ACPN unveils official party logo, launches #SquirrelGang social media campaign

The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has officially unveiled its party logo just as it launched #SquirrelGang, a robust social media campaign to highlight the party’s core ethos of vision, resilience, and innovation. The official party logo has as its symbol a green squirrel image on white background, with loyalty, service, and unity as its motto. RELATED:... Read More

The News Blog

October 25, 2018

Meet the cohorts of the British Council Future Leaders Connect

On 1 August this year, six Nigerians were selected as winners of the 2018 British Council Future Leaders Connect cohort. A global fellowship where exceptional young people from around the world will come together for a number of days and link to the UK Houses of Parliament, meet with inspiring leaders and policy makers and discuss the... Read More

Featured

October 18, 2018

Dotts Media House emerges winner of Africa’s most outstanding quality digital marketing Company of The Year 2018

DottsMediaHouse (est, 2014), a leading digital marketing agency based in Lagos Nigeria, has been announced as the 2018 winner of Africa’s Most Outstanding Quality Digital Marketing Company of The Year 2018.. This announcement was made at the 6th edition event ceremony of the AFRICAN QUALITY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD that took place in Sheraton Lagos on Friday... Read More

The News Blog

October 18, 2018

Oby Ezekwesili’s presidential bid is a game changer – Oluremi Sonaiya

Former KOWA Party (KP) Presidential candidate, Oluremi Sonaiya has thrown her support behind the #Hope2019 campaign of Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili. According to Sonaiya, Ezekwesili’s foray into politics is one of the best things that has happened to Nigeria owing to her pedigree. “When a person like Oby throws in her hat into this whole contest, for me,... Read More

Featured, The News Blog

ACPN, Oby Ezekwesili, Oluremi Sonaiya

October 16, 2018

2019 is not a race for Vice President, #BuhariComeAndDebate now – Oby Ezekwesili challenges #APCPDP

Frontline presidential contender, Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili has called for a televised presidential debate with President Muhammadu Buhari and other party flag-bearers participating in the lead up to the February 2019 elections. Ezekwesili who is running on the platform of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) said it is imperative that all candidates vying for the... Read More

The News Blog

October 15, 2018

Friendly reminder: Long term friendships are no guarantee against sexual assault

This morning, an article surfaced on gossip blog Instablog9ja. On it a lady named The Whiskey Lady put out an extensive statement about how a long time friend of hers, tried to take advantage of her drunkeness and performed acts that clearly fall into sexual assault territory. She goes into sordid, yet familiar detail about... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Sexual assault

October 12, 2018

Quramo Writers’ Prize 2018 Top 5 unveiled

Quramo Publishing has unveiled the Top 5 finalists of the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2018, two weeks after announcing the Top 10 finalists. The winner of the 2018 edition of the prize will be announced at the award ceremony scheduled for Sunday October 21, 2018. The annual prize is awarded to an unpublished fiction manuscript. Last... Read More

The Media Blog

Quramo, Toni Kan, writers

October 12, 2018

Isime Esene: Obasanjo has elevated hypocrisy to an art form

Yesterday, Atiku Abubakar got a much needed reprieve from his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo. The former Vice President got the forgiveness he had long sought from the former military leader since their public spat years ago. Both actors led the country between 1999 and 2007 – a time when the country needed to be set along... Read More

Citizenship, Editor's Pick, Featured

Atiku, Buhari, Isime Esene

October 9, 2018

VPcube Studios celebrates 4th anniversary, set to support four young female entrepreneurs with TFESS photography training

VPCube Studios, a commercial photography company with specialty in maternity, child and family photography, is set to celebrate its fourth anniversary this year, as the brand recently unveiled its plan to train four female photography enthusiasts through The Future Enterprise Support Scheme (TFESS) photography seminar, which is set to hold in Lagos on 22 –... Read More

The News Blog

photography, TFESS

October 1, 2018

On CTRL+M, Maka takes SZA’s signature sound and makes it her own

2017 was the year of SZA. The American singer had been bubbling under for nearly half a decade, and after a drastic change to her sound and a record deal with Top Dawg Entertainment enter a state of stasis, she finally released CTRL, an R&B/Nu Soul opus that was as remarkable for its honesty as... Read More

The Music Blog

EP, Maka, SoundCloud, SZA

September 30, 2018

Davido’s new interest in politics and the optics of political influence

The just concluded elections in Osun state cannot be the standard to expect in 2019. By many observers’ accounts, it was a travesty. Everybody who had high hopes for a re-assuring INEC performance is complaining. It’s as though the APC simply placed their man as the next governor of the state, the implication being that... Read More

Thinking Through

Ademola Adeleke, Davido, Politics

September 25, 2018

Here are some observations from the ‘inconclusive’ Osun elections

by Kola Muhammed After the build-up to the gubernatorial elections in Osun, one would have thought we will do that and face the 2019 election but we are going to have to wait until the rerun. Much like any election in Nigeria, there was tension and movement restriction. Something quite unusual was that there appeared to be... Read More

Opinion

INEC, osun election

September 20, 2018

Chika Nwobi launches Decagon elite software institute with Pay-After-You-Earn option

The Decagon Institute, an elite software engineering institution that will train the most talented applicants in Nigeria, even if they cannot pay fees, is launching in Nigeria this October. Decagon is founded by Chika Nwobi, the tech pioneer behind some of Nigeria’s most successful tech companies like MTech, Jobberman, Cheki and Babybliss. Graduates of Decagon... Read More

Partners

Chika Nwobi, Decagon

September 6, 2018

Emma Ikumeh: This is why I want the PDP to choose Saraki at the primaries

by Emma Ikumeh Former INEC chief, Professor Attahiru Jega recently made a case for competent leadership over strongman leadership. The latter was one of the major pivots on which Muhammadu Buhari achieved victory in 2015, bearing in mind the alleged 2 million controversial votes awarded to the APC and Buhari in Kano. Many felt strongman... Read More

Read Vice President Osinbajo’s measured response to Atiku’s open letter

Editor’s Note Recently presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar put out an open letter outlining the ways in which the current presidential team, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had failed to restructure the Nigerian economy and its infrastructural plan for the coming decade. What we didn’t expect was that the vice president would respond... Read More

Featured, Opinion

atiku abubakar, restructuring, Yemi Osinbajo

August 27, 2018

Jessica Gordon is beautifully created in her ‘I AM’ story

To begin the I AM Series, I put out an open call on Twitter asking to feature amazing individuals. There was a lot of radio silence at first, and then a handful of people responded. Jessica (Jess) was one. I remember her moving email titled, ‘Beautifully Created’ READ MORE: The ‘I AM’ Series profiles Chioma... Read More

The Film Blog

August 25, 2018

Access Bank educates communities on World Mosquito Day

Access Bank has shown its commitment to giving back to the communities across Nigeria, through partnerships with other private enterprises, supporting the work of non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged through outreach programmes, funding and infrastructural development and peer to peer education. It also partners with the government to advocate for... Read More

Partners

Access Bank, World Mosquito Day

August 23, 2018

Here’s a first look at Leye Adenle’s new novel ‘When Trouble Sleeps’

Crime thrillers are a truly underserved genre in Nigerian literature. Only a handful of thriller novels have managed to reach critical mass, gaining local and international success and critical acclaim. Leye Adenle’s debut novel ‘Easy Motion Tourist’ (which shares a name with the Nigerian song) published by Cassava Republic was one of those rare novels.... Read More

Cassava Republic, Leye Adenle, When trouble Sleeps

August 20, 2018

Stephanie Obi inspires women to turn their knowledge into Gold

The atmosphere was electrifying! More than 100 women entrepreneurs and small business owners gathered for a day of extraordinary inspiration and training with the queen of online courses, Stephanie Obi. The event tagged “Find Your Gold Live,” also doubled as a self-styled launch for her much-awaited book, “Knowledge is the New Gold.” The event recently took place... Read More

August 17, 2018

Dapchi ransom payment: Lai Mohammed’s integrity & the costs of cash to security

In March, Government Ombusdman Lai Mohammed described the return of the kidnapped Dapchi girls as being due to some sort of “moral burden” on the part of the girls’ abductors who had violated a ceasefire they supposedly agreed to. The Information Minister made the statement at the time of the release of the 104 girls... Read More

Thinking Through

Dapchi girls, lai mohammed, ransom, UN

August 6, 2018

Oghenekaro Itene is making her Hollywood debut in the upcoming thriller “Chase”

After making a huge splash in the 2017 Charles Uwagbai-directed epic blockbuster Esohe, distilled as a Nollywood-Hollywood collaboration, Tinsel actress Oghenekaro Itene has blindsided us with Chase – surprise! surprise! – an upcoming Hollywood thriller from American writer/director Michael Matteo Rossi. As seen on her IMDb page, Itene plays Jayla in the movie, which follows... Read More

More, The Film Blog

Chase, Michael Matteo Rossi, Oghenekaro Itene

August 6, 2018

Here’s the teaser for #DoYouKnow, the upcoming series from TIERS

While LGBTQ cinema and representation in Nigeria is in the lower percentile, The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) has been a strong proponent of LGBTQ advocacy through film, television, and documentary. Hell or High Water, Veil of Silence, and the web series Everything In Between are notable works produced by the human rights organisation. In... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

#DoYouKnow, TIERS Nigeria

August 5, 2018

Here’s the full list of the AMAA 2018 nominations

Announced during the nominations party held on Friday at the Wheatbaker, the Africa Movie Academy Awards unveiled this year’s nominees. Now in its fourteenth year as a reward system for African cinema, I was pleased to see Michael Matthews’ Five Fingers for Marseilles nominated in some categories, and the experimental film Hotel Called Memory. Thanks... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

AMAA, AMAA 2018 Nominations

August 4, 2018

TRACE Naija is turning President Macron’s visit to The Shrine into a TV special

Back in June, the president of France Emmanuel Macron (still working on my French on this) paid a visit to the New Afrikan Shrine in Lagos. Hosted by Trace Events and Ecobank and tagged A Celebration of African Cultures, it went down in the Shrine’s history as the first time a serving president graced the... Read More

The Media Blog

France, President Emmanuel Macron, Trace Naija

August 4, 2018

We didn’t see Sope Aluko in the new “Venom” trailer and Marvel has some explaining to do

If you are anticipating Marvel’s Venom like me, the first villain in the Spider–Man villain universe, then you must have noticed that the second trailer released recently doesn’t have any scene featuring Sope Aluko. First of all, the trailer narratively builds up on the teasing first footage, intimating us with Tom Hardy as he dually... Read More

The Film Blog

Sope Aluko, venom

Toyin Abraham is starring in ‘Two Weeks In Lagos’

You can finally watch the full trailer for Ebony Life Films’ ‘Chief Daddy’

Aftermath of the Aba Women’s Riot: Where are the women?

CRPressXYNaija at Ake: Ayesha Haruna Attah’s diary Day 4

#CRPressXAke2018: Day one; Ayesha Haruna Attah

ACPN unveils official party logo, launches #SquirrelGang social media campaign

Meet the cohorts of the British Council Future Leaders Connect

Dotts Media House emerges winner of Africa’s most outstanding quality digital marketing Company of The Year 2018

Oby Ezekwesili’s presidential bid is a game changer – Oluremi Sonaiya

2019 is not a race for Vice President, #BuhariComeAndDebate now – Oby Ezekwesili challenges #APCPDP

Friendly reminder: Long term friendships are no guarantee against sexual assault

Quramo Writers’ Prize 2018 Top 5 unveiled

Isime Esene: Obasanjo has elevated hypocrisy to an art form

VPcube Studios celebrates 4th anniversary, set to support four young female entrepreneurs with TFESS photography training

On CTRL+M, Maka takes SZA’s signature sound and makes it her own

Davido’s new interest in politics and the optics of political influence

Here are some observations from the ‘inconclusive’ Osun elections

Chika Nwobi launches Decagon elite software institute with Pay-After-You-Earn option

Emma Ikumeh: This is why I want the PDP to choose Saraki at the primaries

Read Vice President Osinbajo’s measured response to Atiku’s open letter

Jessica Gordon is beautifully created in her ‘I AM’ story

Access Bank educates communities on World Mosquito Day

Here’s a first look at Leye Adenle’s new novel ‘When Trouble Sleeps’

Stephanie Obi inspires women to turn their knowledge into Gold

Dapchi ransom payment: Lai Mohammed’s integrity & the costs of cash to security

Oghenekaro Itene is making her Hollywood debut in the upcoming thriller “Chase”

Here’s the teaser for #DoYouKnow, the upcoming series from TIERS

Here’s the full list of the AMAA 2018 nominations

TRACE Naija is turning President Macron’s visit to The Shrine into a TV special

We didn’t see Sope Aluko in the new “Venom” trailer and Marvel has some explaining to do

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