Edwin Okolo

Arise

December 11, 2020

All the looks from Arise Fashion Week Day 1

Arise Fashion Week has returned but not without some noteworthy changes. The continent’s most prominent fashion show has had to adapt amid the coronavirus pandemic by going virtual and streaming to a global audience across multiple platforms. This means you can still be a part of the fashion frenzy and performances by some of Africa’s... Read More

arise fashion week

December 9, 2020

#AriseFashionWeek2020 puts its weight behind new talent

In 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic provided a real world simulation to test the many anxieties that have plagued the global fashion industry over the last decade. A sudden, rapidly spreading illness all but eliminated physical gatherings of all kinds, questioning the superiority of physical events for fashion showcases, retail and manufacturing. In its place, the... Read More

#AriseFashionWeek2020, Andre Leon Talley, arise fashion week, Arise Fashion Week ‘30 Under 30’, Arise Network, Edward Enninful, Jenke Ahmed, Naomi Campbell, ThisDay Newspapers, Thisday Style

August 26, 2020

RecyclesPay wants to help disadvantaged children finish school while saving the planet

RECYCLESPAY PROJECT is an Eco-friendly innovation of African Cleanup Initiative that makes education affordable and accessible to children in low income schools. The project has received the endorsement of some school owners and parents to show that it is a viable project. Suffice to say, the project addresses TEN (10) SDG’s (1-No Poverty, 3-Good Health,... Read More

RecyclersPay, recycling, wecyclers

Therapy

August 24, 2020

Toke Makinwa, Falz and Bovi, is ‘Therapy’ the more star powered show on Youtube?

Apart from the impressive budgets put behind shows by the big 3 media companies creating online show content, most of the shows made for Youtube tend to fall on the indie-film spectrum, with mid-level actors carrying the shows supported by relatively new faces in the industry. But it seems House 21 TV has another strategy... Read More

Bovi, falz, Josh2funny, toke makinwa

Smart Money Woman

August 13, 2020

‘The Smart Money Woman’, Arese Ugwu’s brainchild, is almost here

When Arese Ugwu announced she was adapting her well received financial self-help series, ‘The Smart Money Woman’ into a live action television series back in 2018, we were not quite sure what to expect. The book resonated with women across the continent, paving the path for a multi-country book tour, and its very casual, Bridget... Read More

Arese Ugwu, Ini Dima-Okojie, Isoken Ogiemonyi, Lala Akindoju, Temisan Emmanuel, Timini Egbuson, Toni Tones

Content creators, Alaba market

August 13, 2020

The Lagos Film and Video Censors board is coming for content creators

It seems in the next few months, your favourite Instagram comedians and Youtube content creators might need to lawyer up or face the wrath of the Lagos state government, channelled through the Lagos State Film and Video Censor’s Board (LSFVCB). The LSFVCB (which is separate from the National Film and Video Censors Board and has... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Content Creators, LSFVCB

Land Use

With a 48% reduction in Land Use charges & a 5.8bn waiver on penalties, Lagos opens to homeowners

One of the major criticisms against the Lagos state government has been the prohibitive costs of owning a home. These costs start all the way from purchasing land with restrictive land use charges and crippling penalties when homeowners are unable to pay their land use charges. Added to this, the recent increases in Land use... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Akinwunmi Ambode, land, Land Use Act, Landlords, tenants

Ini-Dima Okojie

Ini-Dima Okojie is bringing her bubbly personality and joie de vivre to Youtube

Why wait for one film every 6 months to catch a glimpse of your favourite movie star? This is the question most Nigerian film stars have been forced to ask themselves since the Coronavirus basically obliterated any possibility of film culture resurfacing at any point in 2020. Actors rely on producers and directors to work... Read More

Ini Dima-Okojie

Revolution Now

Revolution Now is proof young Nigerians are not afraid to fight for their future

August 5th, in several states across Nigeria, protesters came out in their numbers under the umbrella of Omoyele Sowore’s Revolution Now advocacy group to protest the insecurity in the country, demand accountability from government officials and demand freer and fairer elections in the coming months. Like protesters across the world, young Nigerian men and women... Read More

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Omoyele Sowore, Revolution Now

Speech

Policing speech, not the pandemic or the suffering of Nigerians is what gets the federal government going

You would think that after the comprehensive protests to the Nigerian Senate’s attempts to pass into law a hotly contested Hate Speech bill that sought to criminalize free speech, especially on the internet, the Nigerian government would read the room and see that we have more pressing concerns. But for that to happen, you’d have... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

hate, Hate Speech, lai mohammed, National Broadcasting Code, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)., Speech

Success Adegor

From viral videos to Nollywood, Success Adegor’s story is all too familiar

Last week, Nigerian actor Enyinna Nwigwe posted a video featuring Success Adegor, the 7 year old Nigerian school child who went viral when a video of her fiesty response to being kicked out of school for not being able to afford school fees was recorded and put on the internet without her guardian’s consent. In... Read More

NIPOST

NIPOST bringing its feud with FIRS to the Twitter arbitration court is the strangest thing to happen this week

Just last week, The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) was in the news for imposing new licensing fees on courier services in the country. The new licensing fees were soundly rebuked by Nigerians who seemed tired of the Nigerian government’s attempts to throttle independent businesses by imposing licensing fees as well as other charges for competitors... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

FIRS, Maimuna Abubakar, NIPOST

Lady Buckit

The first trailer for ‘Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters’ is here

Animation is easily the last frontier of film making for Nollywood. We have conquered the drama, the comedy, even dabbled in horror cult films and produced the occasional thriller. But animation as a medium and an art form has eluded Nollywood. Partly because the Nigerian film industry is a profit first industry and animation seems... Read More

Chris Ihidero, Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters

Why are we rehabilitating Boko Haram terrorists during an ongoing terrorist occupation?

Five days ago, the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, was ambushed by Boko Haram fighters in the middle of a trip to Monguno and Baga towns to visit with and provide food for the internally displaced persons camping in those towns. Zulum was making this trip as part of a heavily armed convoy, as... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

boko haram, Governor Zulum

Tiktok

Tiktok is showing its not just about fun videos, with its first upskilling webinar

Tiktok is having a hard time globally. Threats to ban the app from American app stores due to accusations of corporate espionage have been looming for months and accusations of racism and suppression of social justice also abound. But Tiktok has also enjoyed unprecedented penetration into markets in Africa and Asia and the platform is... Read More

Skills UP, TikTok

Akpabio

Minister Akpabio’s list was yet another distraction in the NDDC case, when will we get justice?

The events of last week on the floor of the Nigerian Senate eclipsed any farce that has occurred prior. The backdrop for this particular sequence of events was a probe of the Nigerian Niger Delta Commission. The commission had been in the news months prior after its acting chairman, Dr. Joi Nunieh was ousted by... Read More

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akpabio, Gbajabiamila, Pondei

Shaggi

Broda Shaggi’s ‘Shaggi Palava’ is a career move long overdue

Everyone has a scripted Youtube show now. It has become the status symbol for creators and influencers looking to expand their reach and thousands of such shows now, covering a spectrum of ideas that pertain to human behaviour. Comedy has also found a home on Youtube, with Emmanuella of the Mark Angel comedy being one... Read More

Broda Shaggi, Shaggi palava

The Men's Club

The Men’s Club; REDTV’s sleeper hit, returns for a much anticipated third season

When Tola Odunsi started working on the Men’s Club, the sleeper hit from production company RED TV, only he could predict how big the show would become. Relying on a rarely seen cocktail of raunch, debauchery and boys behaving badly as the core engine which drives the show, The Men’s Club depicts the men that... Read More

Ayo Olla, Baaj Adebule, Efa Iwara, Etim Effiong, RED TV, The Men's Corner

Boko Haram

There is a human toll for the continued existence of Boko Haram

A video has surfaced of 5 people believed to be aid workers being executed by suspected members of the Nigerian pseudo religious terrorist sect, Boko Haram. It has been some time since the terrorist organization made a show of attacking aid workers, considering the neutral players in the ongoing conflict between the Nigerian military and... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

boko haram, Conflict, nigeria, Presidency

Nigerian Bar Association

Alleged rigging at the Nigerian Bar Association elections is a signifier of how much trouble we are in as a nation

The last recourse for justice for the average Nigerian is the Nigerian legal system. It is where we go when we have been wronged, when we try to force the government to honour its obligations to us, to settle disputes. It is also the place where some of the most egregious crimes against average Nigerians... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

electoral fraud, Fraud, NBA, Nigerian Bar Assocation

Abiola Oke’s ousting At Okay Africa is a warning to all African media bosses

Yesterday, the management of Okay Africa, arguably the largest entertainment platform focused on Africans on the continent and in the diaspora announced its CEO Abiola Oke was resigning effectively immediately. This language was to couch the fact that he was being fired after multiple accusations of sabotage, inappropriate business practices, misogyny, sexual harassment and even... Read More

Abiola Oke, Okay Africa, Okay Player

Gabon has decriminalized homosexuality

In an unprecedented move for Gabon, Gabonese lawmakers in the country’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse colonial era laws that criminalizes sexual relations between people of the same sex and gives the state the right to punish them for... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Gabon, homosexuality, non-binary

Almajiri

Kaduna state has opened its borders as a refuge for 35,000 Almajiri

For the last 20 years, Northern Nigeria has debated, with minimal progress, on the fate of its Almajiri system and the thousands of children trapped within it, susceptible to neglect and abuse and misunderstood. There have been many interventions to solve the problem of Almajiri, or restructure the system to better protect their rights and... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Almajiri, Counter Culture Blog, Hafsat Baba, kaduna, kano

Bobrisky

On Passing: Bobrisky and the role of trans people in queer liberation

In January 2017, I began to run the Sexuality Blog on YNaija. The premise was simple: YNaija was pivoting towards a vertical model that created content silos based on the major topics that young people seemed concerned with at the time. Gender and Sexuality was a topic gaining momentum in Nigeria at the time, mostly... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Bobrisky, non-binary, passing, Transpeople, ynaija

VAPP

Akwa Ibom just signed the VAPP Act into law, what does this mean?

At long last Akwa Ibom state joins 14 other Nigerian states who have adopted the Violence Against Person’s Prohibition Act, (VAPP) as state legislation. There are many reasons why this is grounds for jubilation. Originally passed in the Nigerian senate and adopted by 15 of Nigeria’s 36 states, the Act made important provisions that include a... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Seyitan Babalola

If we want Seyitan Babalola safe, men must honestly address our collective privilege

Last week, Nigerian women as a collective mourned the death of Oluwatoyin Salau. Death is the tamest way to describe the life she had to endure and the evil that preceded her last days. Salau first gained prominence through her work as a front line activist during the Black Lives Matter protests in Tallahassee, Florida... Read More

nigerian police, Oluwatoyin Salau, Seyitan Babalola

Stephen Tayo

#YNaijaNonBinary: In conversation with Stephen Tayo

As a multidisciplinary artist working out of Nigeria, it has taken three short years for visual artist, Stephen Tayo to distinguish himself from his peers and gain the attention of the world. His work has been featured in the almighty Vogue US, he has been commissioned to photograph on behalf of art biennalles, and has... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Funmi Iyanda, Interview, non-binary, Stephen Tayo, ynaija

Dandelion

#YNaijaNonBinary: In conversation with Dandelion Eghe Eghosa

Dandelion Eghosa is a non-binary visual artist who works out of Africa and explores queer themes through multi-media art that incorporates photography, filmmaking, analogue collage, embroidery and painting. They first gained prominence in the Nigerian art mainstream when they were chosen as one of 6 artists for the Rele Gallery Young Contemporaries exhibition in 2018.... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Dandelion Eghe Eghosa, non-binary, Queer, Unspoken Rudiments, ynaija

Will the church fail women on Ayo Ajani, as it did on Biodun Fatoyinbo?

This time last year, Nigerians were horrified to find out that Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, spiritual head of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) was an alleged rapist. Busola Dakolo, a former member of his church has detailed her experience, and how enabled by his wife who helped him groom potential victims and a congregation that... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Ayo Ajani, Biodun Fatoyinbo

Drive-in

Can the drive-in cinema experience save Nollywood’s movie going culture?

Over the weekend, two of the country’s biggest players in the Nollywood cineplex industry made some important announcements. They were setting up to experiment with Drive-in cinema as a way to keep cinema goers happy while honouring social distancing guidelines. View this post on Instagram Get ready to grease your wheels ?for a... Read More

Abuja, Drive-in cinemas, Genesis CInemas, Play Cinemas

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