The Church Blog: Nigerian Pastors need to stop being slow adopters

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The Church Blog: Nigerian Pastors need to stop being slow adopters

by Charles Odii When I sent the topic of this article to my friend who lives in the US, he called me immediately to air his contrary opinion. In his words: “You cannot talk about the richest pastors in the world without mentioning some Nigerians. With a fleet of private jets and exotic cars, they... Read More

Church Culture

June 9, 2017

2 British Prime Ministers have visited Jesus House and both of them have been disgraced

You’d think that politicians patronising religious institutions when seeking office is a concept limited to Nigeria right? **side eye Goodluck Jonathan a la 2015 elections** Yet, more and more, it’s becoming quite clear that everywhere, politicians do what they have to – whatever works – to get what they want. To be fair, it probably... Read More

Thinking Through, United Kingdom

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January 14, 2017

YNaija Says: Shame on you, Governor Ajimobi. Shame on you.

For the past eight months, the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso in Oyo State has been shut down, the reason being that the staff were not being paid their salaries for up to 13 months because the two states that own the university, Oyo and Osun States were not providing the required funds... Read More

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January 7, 2017

The Church Blog: This is why the RCCG will last forever

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was founded in 1952. It didn’t really grow as fast as we understand church growth today, but it’s founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi was focused always on the long term. So, years before he retired, he began to look for a successor. Eventually dragging Enoch Adejare Adebayo from... Read More

Church Culture

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December 3, 2016

#CelebAtChurch: Yemi Osinbajo, Don Jazzy, Toke Makinwa and others were at The Experience yesterday

We don’t go to church or worship concerts to see celebrities, of course. But when The Church Blog sees them, what are we supposed to do now? Everyone likes celebs. So we did a run down of those we sighted at The Experience 2016, yesterday! Politicians Gen Yakubu Gowon, former head of state Prof Yemi... Read More

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December 3, 2016

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The Experience just ended! We’ll be reviewing it throughout the day

It just ended. With the closing performance by the incredible Tope Alabi, and closing prayers by Reverend Victor Adeyemi. And what a glorious 12 hours! The Tafawa Balewa Square was full to capacity, so choked we were truly afraid someone was going to faint from the humidity and the standing-square-only crowd. Then there were the... Read More

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October 28, 2016

The Sexuality Blog: This week, Nigeria’s civil society took a bold stand – and it should impress you

We assume, if you’re the kind of person who reads YNaija.com, you know that this week, Idrs Okuneye, who you would know as Bobrisky, served up a storm, without necessarily doing anything. He was invited to speak about Unusual Engagement on New Media – a subject on which he, with his 150,000 daily views on... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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October 27, 2016

The Media Blog: That’s how they captured the ‘co-founder’ of NaijaGistLive.com

In today’s episode of What A Major Wawu, they say they have caught the founder of the notorious NaijaGistLive.com – and they caught him for, predictably, blackmail. They say his social media identity is Baudex, he is 23, and that he tried to do remote control with Femi Otedola and his wife. Which is apparently... Read More

The Media Blog

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October 26, 2016

YNaija Says: Leave Bobrisky alone

At the center of everything, what Idris Okuneye, popularly called Bobrisky, is, is a cross-dresser. But that’s not the real center. That’s what you see when all you do is look. The core is something else: a young man who expresses his masculine identity in non-traditional ways and in a severely restrictive country, has found... Read More

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October 26, 2016

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This is why Bobrisky is ‘the most qualified speaker’ for a New Media conference

by Sola Fasasi We want to assume that you already know, in detail, the kerfuffle over Idris Okuneye (Bobrisky) speaking at a New Media Conference – organized by Enough is Enough Nigeria, BudgIT and Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, happening tomorrow in Abuha. In case you have been living under a rock, here is a quick re-cap.... Read More

October 25, 2016

Wizkid is back on top! | Here are 5 takeaways from the 2016 MAMAs

by Sola Fasasi Another MAMAs has come and gone. It is, easily, the continent’s biggest music festival – and as always, it captured the attention of young Africans (or at least those of them in Ghana and South Africa). Here are 5 takeaways from the successful (by many standards, at least) hosting of the MTV... Read More

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The Film Blog: What Nate Parker said about the Nigerian film market

Some of us on TFB believe that the best thing Nate Parker could have done for his image for his new film, Birth of a Nation. Instead of talking about all that messiness with the rape allegations, we are talking about a film that everybody seems to agree is excellent. Our friends at BellaNaija met... Read More

The Film Blog

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Girl on fire! Aisha Buhari just put everyone on notice – in 3 photos

by Nkechi Nwokorie If you thought this was a shrinking violet – who wouldn’t stand firm, because she doesn’t speak much, Aisha Buhari just put you on notice today. Chimamanda Adichie said you could have several types of feminists. Mrs. Buhari is the answer to that question. Not overtime shouting all over the place like... Read More

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Aisha Buhari JUST declared war | These are 5 ways you know

by Nkechi Nwokorie Girl! How do you know that the First Lady of Nigeria is fully deliberate about the storm she caused, and she isn’t backing down, no matter how juvenile her husband’s responses? 1. She made the statement in a public interview – when she wasn’t under pressure. 2. She has kept a deliberate... Read More

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Dear Molara Wood, your disdain for #BringBackOurGirls is a failure of judgement

by Sola Fasasi On Monday, photos began to circulate about an event for the inauguration and signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for the Chibok Girls Endowment Project. Expectedly, the Bring Back Our Girls movement began receiving enquiries, and they issued a blistering disclaimer, saying in part: “After 902 days of painstaking advocacy, it is... Read More

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The Film Blog: Abeg, calm down Oreka

This morning, we woke up on The Film Blog (TFB) to find out that Oreka Godis, one of our favorite radio presenters (even though she of course won’t believe it, because in this country, even supposedly intelligent people cannot stomach praise if you add just one piece of criticism to it), had begun to attack... Read More

The Media Blog: ‘Linda Ikeji S’ is launching on November 1 – “That’s the something big,” she says

“When I said something big is coming, I didn’t mean this office, or all of this,” Linda Ikeji told one of us two weeks ago. “That’s just office space – that’s not really a product or service. Linda Ikeji S is the big thing that is coming.” Then she proceeded to tell us what Linda... Read More

The Media Blog

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The Film Blog: 3 comments provide an important minority view on Room 315

We came across these two comments, and as far as minority views go on this debate about plagiarism, they are useful. There’s this one: Commodore October 17, 2016 at 2:33 pm There is no saga. Wana and her cohorts are just being silly. As someone who knows her personally, I find this incredibly disappointing because... Read More

The Film Blog

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The Film Blog: From #TheOtherRoom to #Room315 (and what we think)

In case you were looking for a room controversy that actually worth your time, rather than the teenage-boy fantasies of an over-indulged President, well yesterday the good guys at YNaija’s Conversations desk kept one for you. We thought this would be a storm in a tea cup when we first caught wind last week. But... Read More

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The Media Blog: Ha, these people just totally destroyed ‘DJ Cuppy Takes Africa’

If you don’t know ‘DJ Cuppy Takes Africa’, which launched on the brand new Fox Life last week, we can’t help you really. And if you don’t know who DJ Cuppy is, shior, what are you even doing on this blog in the first, place. Three people who know her and know her show, and... Read More

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The Media Blog: We’re becoming mad fans of Africa Magic’s ‘Hustle’

You will remember the anticipation with which we welcomed Hustle (Weekdays, 9.30pm, Africa Magic Urban). And then the disappointment with its first cliché-ridden episode. But remember, also, what we told you? This was a show that would grow on you. That checked out. Exhibit A: Us. We have watched every single episode of the two-week-old... Read More

The Media Blog

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The Film Blog: That’s how IK Ogbonna was just going on his way o, and trailer came to jam him

By now you know we kinda like our good friends at TrueNollywoodStories, at least based on how many times we look at the stuff that Segun Odejimi and Andrew Oke put up. Even if, every now and again, we will come for them. But these are guys who are pay attention to film. Even... Read More

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Thought Experiment: What if Reuben Abati is actually right – about the demons in Aso Rock?

Our friend, Reuben Abati, is a brave man. Surely he must have known, when he wrote his latest opinion, that he would become the recipient of vehement ridicule for daring to voice, to an intelligent audience, a thought that anyone who has had conversations with Aso Rock inhabitants, or who has listened to Pentecostal pastors... Read More

The thing is, Buhari doesn’t know that his misogyny has actual consequences for Nigeria’s economy

by Sola Fasasi Anyone who actually knows Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria, knows that he is a very stubborn man, irritatingly stubborn, who will insist on his way even if he has absolutely no logic to back it up. Ministers who speak off the record to journalists, villa staff who talk amongst themselves and... Read More

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The Film Blog: We can’t find one good review for ‘A Trip to Jamaica’. No, not one.

We went across the length and breadth of the Nigerian internet to see the reviews – and what we found for AY’s blockbuster comedy, A Trip to Jamaica is, uhm, quite interested. Let’s dig into it. Number 1 In AY’s 30 Days Atlanta it was tiring. In this movie, it is a chore: as tiresome... Read More

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Thought Experiment: What if Buhari is right, and Aisha just doesn’t know what she is talking about?

Muhammadu Buhari, president of Nigeria, said something last Friday that was, to put the finest face on it when you parse public opinion, impolitic. Asked about his wife who had criticized him sharply in public on the BBC Hausa Service (and has, markedly, not said anything else or tried to apologise since, despite the firestorm... Read More

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Reading material: For those who work in media content (4)

Let’s go! We were just talking about Twitter as a media company the other day. Read 2. Amazon has a new TV drama – that goes forward into the past. Read 3. This baba got a new job with a big title – and has absolutely nothing to say. Read 4. This one doesn’t really have problems... Read More

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October 16, 2016