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November 14, 2017

Film Review: Forget the title, Couple’s Award is a pleasant surprise

by Wilfred Okiche To market Couple’s Award, a surprisingly decent, if linear domestic drama about the toll that the pressures of waiting for that first baby takes on young couples, the film’s makers and distribution team (Blue Pictures) have decided to pass the project off as a Kate Henshaw vehicle. As the biggest and only... Read More
Reviews, The Film Blog
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November 13, 2017

Nigeria’s Adebola Williams and Dayo Israel, Zimbabwe’s Vimbai Mutinhiri engage citizens on How to Win Elections in Africa

Last weekend, StateCraft Inc., the nation-building arm under RED in conjunction with the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) hosted young and politically aware Nigerians at a symposium about youth involvement in elections and the creation of our next world order during the just-concluded Lagos Book and Art Festival in Lagos. The event which held on... Read More
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November 13, 2017

Travis Greene, Donnie McClurkin, Don Moen, others set for The Experience 2017

All is set for the 12th edition of the annual gospel concert, “The Experience.” Scheduled to hold on Friday, the 1st of December, 2017 at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Onikan, Lagos from 7pm till dawn, The Experience provides a rallying ground for worshippers to praise, dance and rejoice freely in a conducive and Spirit-filled atmosphere.... Read More
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November 13, 2017

[The Church Blog] Bishop Wale Oke addresses the question of women wearing trousers

Bishop Wale Oke is the Presiding Bishop of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, also known as Christ Life Church with a 15,000 member headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria. In this recent video, he addresses the long-standing issue of women wearing trousers. According to Bishop Wale Oke there are things in Christendom which are essentials while others... Read More
Church Culture
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Onos Ariyo
November 13, 2017

The YNaija Ranking: Onos Ariyo is Number One on our Top 10 Gospel Artiste Countdown

Our Top 10 Gospel Artiste Countdown is finally out and Worship leader, Onos Ariyo (popularly known as Onos) takes the top spot, thanks to her newest release, Forever, you are God.  The song which was released in October as her birthday gift to us is one that got us all in the “zone” again. What Onos... Read More
Church Culture, Featured
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November 12, 2017

[The Activism Blog] How will IG-P Idris react to a recent global rating of the Nigerian Police?

We hear things like…”Police reforms”, “The Nigerian Police are doing better”, “Change has come to the Nigerian Police” and so on, yet the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) for 2016 has rated the Police as the worst in the world. WISPI was released by two bodies – the International Police Science Association, a non-profit... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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November 11, 2017

[The Activism Blog] GLEEHD Foundation to host Emerging Political Leaders Forum in South East, South South

After a successful outing at the first edition of its Emerging Political Leaders Forum in Lagos on the 7th of September 2017, The Governance, Leadership, Economic, Environmental and Human Development (GLEEHD) foundation has concluded plans to host another of such event in the south-south and the south east region of Nigeria on 18th November and... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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Tokyo
November 11, 2017

The Film Blog: Discovering Blackness in Tokyo with Amarachi Nwosu

For those who don’t know, Amarachi Nwosu, otherwise known as Amaraworldwide on Twitter is a pretty outspoken, if somewhat misguided photographer and social commentator. Nwosu’s big calling card is her often leftist stance on social issues, especially as regarding race and colorism. She’s become of the biggest links between traditional western youth oriented media and... Read More
Reviews, The Film Blog
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Online newspaper
November 10, 2017

[The Activism Blog] Paradigm Initiative condemns alleged impending clampdown on Online Newspapers

As far as press freedom goes, the current administration has proven it is just as closeminded as its predecessors. Most recently, it has turned its attention to digital media, as evidenced by several cases of bloggers being arrested by state governments and the DSS for ‘treason’. This and several other violations of press freedom has put... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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November 10, 2017

The Media Blog: Media hosts are always quick to bring up Bobrisky, but can’t hide their disgust for him

This week has been a very busy week for people in the media. Between Art X and AFRIFF, the GTB Fashion Weekend and AFRIMA, controversies and a back and forth between the presidency and the senate, and the elections in the United States, even the surprise arrests of influential Saudis by the country’s hierarchy; there has... Read More
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November 9, 2017

The rhetoric of Islamisation: A deliberate attempt to create division and mutual suspicion

by Rotimi Ayanwale   Human beings can at best be described as homo economicus: path dependent, self-interested, utility maximisers and rational. Although the level of rationality every human has is contingent on the amount of information he is privy to. This general definition makes the news making the rounds about the Islamisation agenda by a... Read More
Opinion
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LifePointe Church God Experienced Ebook
November 9, 2017

[The Church Blog] LifePointe Church launches 40 stories of faith in God, Experienced

If you have been to the LifePointe Church, then you are very familiar with the God Experience. God Experience at The LifePointe Church is your traditional church testimony session but, with a twist. First, nobody is being extra about anything; real-life experiences are told just as it is. Secondly, the God Experience revolves around God and his miraculous ability to show up... Read More
Church Culture
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November 9, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Stranded Rivers students: Why Amaechi must intervene

The case of the stranded Rivers students in the United Kingdom whose scholarships were suspended by the State Government is one where that requires the intervention of former Rivers Governor and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. The scholarship scheme was established when Amaechi was in power through the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency with... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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Celebrity marriage
November 9, 2017

The Film Blog: Jacurb! Tonto Dikeh is back on our screens

There are few Nigerian actresses as iconic as Tonto Dikeh at the peak of her fame. During the early 2010’s, Tonto was at the very forefront of the wave of contemporary Nollywood films that explored cultural taboos like sex and homosexuality, sex work and unconventional relationships. Combined with films that literally flew off the shelves,... Read More
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November 8, 2017

YNaija Editorial: The proposed 2018 budget reiterates just how out of touch our government is

After what has seemed like a year teetering on the edge of uncertainty, President Buhari has beaten an undisclosed illness that kept him out of the country for 100 days and delivered not one but two budgets to the National Assembly. But this new budget, like much of Buhari‘s stint as a democratic president, has... Read More
Thinking Through
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El-Zakzaky
November 8, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Is our democracy really one if El-Zakzaky is still illegally detained?

In approximately six weeks, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, the illegally detained leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) would have spent exactly two years in confinement at an undisclosed location in Abuja, courtesy of the Department of State Services (DSS). Sheikh El-Zakzaky was arrested after a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and the IMN during... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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Niger Delta
November 8, 2017

Apparently, there’s no plan for education | 5 takeaways from Buhari’s 2018 budget presentation

by Alexander O. Onukwue President Muhammadu Buhari made history at the National Assembly today where he proposed a record N8.61 trillion as the 2018 budget. The figure is in keeping with a trend which has emerged since his administration began in 2015, by topping every year’s budget by an average of N1 trillion. The budget... Read More
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