Edgy fashion has finally jumped the shark
Following today’s release of the official portraits for the President-elect and Vice President-elect, the GMB media team have announced that the “G” is going bye-bye, From May 29, 2015, the President-elect and Vice-President-elect are to be respectively known and addressed as Muhammadu Buhari, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria and Prof.... Read More
A Chemistry graduate from the University of Nairobi, Caroline Mtongolo is the co-founder of Zoi Investment Limited, a company focused on investing in the agribusiness industry in Kenya. With her cofoundher, Waithera Macharia, their aim is to make Zoi Investment a leader in the agribusiness industry in Kenya by providing profitability, quality and alternative products... Read More
Byenda Nkwanda is the founder and head designer of Golden Traib, a Zambian fashion brand redefining African fashion for women’s wear. Golden Traib creates world class high fashion using African fabric and caters for the modern day African woman who is ambitious, outgoing and fashion loving. Young and ambitious, Byenda is reaching for world domination... Read More
Mohammed Morsi, the former Egyptian president, had already been sentenced to 20 years for his role in the arrest and torture of protesters. Morsi was the first freely elected president of Egypt, but his reign was marred by excessive abuse of power. According to Al Jazeera‘s report, An Egypt court has sentenced former President Mohamed... Read More
Growing up, Lerato Motshwarakgole wanted to be so many things — a doctor, a lawyer and a scientist to mention a few. But one day, she realised she didn’t really want to be any of those, what she really wanted was to portray different occupations and lives in an artistic way. That realization was the... Read More
Before I start, you guys have probably read our very own Wilfred’s scathing takedown of Desperate Housewives Africa. Well, you’re wrong, WIlfred. DHWA is here to stay because although terrible, it is terrible in a good way like Love & Hip-Hop. Just look at the show as a McDonald’s franchise opening in Nigeria. Everything from... Read More
by Clifford Orji Blues legend, B.B. King, passed away today and in his memory, let’s take a look at five songs that sampled his work and you probably didn’t know. Christina Aguilera – Intro (Back to Basics) Sampled: The Thrill is Gone Kendrick Lamar – m.A.A.d City Sampled: Chains and Things Ice Cube –... Read More
Lorna Okeng is an adventure seeking, nature loving tech enthusiast who is passionate about using technology to address real world challenges. A former Google student ambassador and a girl child evangelist, Lorna Okeng is no stranger to winning — in 2014 she was one of the winners in the ITU Telecoms’ Young Innovators Competition. She... Read More
Wildflower PR & Company in partnership with BusinessDay is organizing an Entertainment Business Conference with the theme: ‘Breaking Digital: Expanding the Frontiers of Digital Platforms to Maximize Opportunities in the Entertainment Business in Africa’. The conference is scheduled to hold on the 19th of April at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe, Victoria Island, Lagos. “Nigeria... Read More
by Clifford Orji The other day, our very own Chuka Umunna declared his intention to become the leader of the British Labour Party. Yes, he’s “ours”. The same Chiwetel Ejiofor and jollof rice are ours. Stop asking questions. A British blogger has decided to act like a Nigerian aunty and shame poor Chuka for not... Read More
Yesterday, Complex put out a list of “5 Nigerian Rappers Jay-Z Should Know”, which didn’t go down too well with #NigerianTwitter because…well, there weren’t any rappers on the list. Culture Vultures @ComplexMag Are Now Telling The World Wizkid, Kiss Daniel, Seyi Shay And Davido Are Rappers, Thats Mis-Information — FAZILLION (@FAZILLION) May 12, 2015 @ComplexMag... Read More
A legal practitioner, hobbyist blogger, and mother who is passionate about early developmental education of children, Precious Odimegwu nursed the dream of catering to the educational needs of preschoolers.
For years, she planned to start her own Creche and Nursery Institution, writing down what it would look like and how it would be structured. But she had two major problems: where would she get funding to start out and what would her competitive advantage be.
Not one to be deterred, Precious followed her mantra of being prepared and kept a business plan in her diary, updating it over time. So, when opportunity struck by way of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme, she was ready.
Her goals are to help parents with busy schedules by providing quality child care to their preschool children, and also to contribute her quota in reducing unemployment in her community.
by Clifford Orji Here’s two things we know for a fact about Morgan Freeman He crossed the red sea with Moses He loves his marijuana Well, only one of those is true. “They used to say, ‘You smoke that stuff, boy, you get hooked!’ ” Freeman said with a laugh. “My first wife got me... Read More
At $20,000, the Louis XIII Rare Cask is the world’s most expensive bottle of cognac. Yes, TWENTY THOUSAND dollars. Going by the weekend’s black market exchange rate, that’s N4,300,000. You see all those zeros? That’s a lot. It might have the coolest unboxing ever too Let’s put that in perspective, here’s 10 things you can... Read More
Art plays a crucial role in society and can have a huge impact on community cohesion and development. However the art scene remains dominated by white, male artists while black, female artists remain largely shut out. Black communities have been among the hardest hit by austerity and the arts are consistently undermined by cuts. This... Read More
Dear General Buhari, About six weeks ago, Nigerians stood in line and cast their ballots in what is one of Nigeria’s most historic elections and elected you as president albeit with a slim majority over your opponent, making you the first candidate to defeat an incumbent president. For so many Nigerians including your supporters, it... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi I’ve been thinking. Madam Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, the one Nigerian who should never have left Washington to happen to Nigeria with her lethal IMF cocktails, has told us that we are flat broke and that she and her staff have run out of ideas. She says that she has high blood pressure.... Read More
by Clifford Orji Never watched the American version of this thing so this is my first introduction to the Desperate Housewives world. I’ll be honest, I wiki’d the entire first season before last night’s episode so I think I know what’s going on. In fact, I missed but the first half of this episode so... Read More
In a rare moment of drunken honesty, Amber Rose let out a little industry secret. Kanye is no Maya Angelou, but this is pretty big. Another thing, given who it is, I guess we now know why Kanye is no Maya Angelou. At a party she was hosting in LA’s Supper Club, she said Stop... Read More
By @woleolabanji Leading up to the recent governorship elections in Lagos, the Oba of Lagos threatened to herd I(with a ‘g’)bos into the lagoon if his preferred candidate lost on account of their voting the opposition party. Majority of people realize of course that it was simply loose talk. Still, it is perhaps good that... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi It was not really President Jonathan’s fault in the beginning. He inherited a structure, a mental attitude of congenital national laziness which reduced the essence of the Nigerian state to food that he must distribute to sustain a mad system of patronage and prebends. In fact, credit must be given to President... Read More
You’ve probably seen the video making the rounds on #NigerianTwitter. @QueenKoroye @EatDrinkLagos @YouTube is it me or is this very offensive, derogatory and even racist? — … (@BohemianSugar) May 6, 2015 A group of American comedians try African food and react rather interestingly. The team at YNaija watched their videos and well…reacted. Enitan (Personal Assistant... Read More
by Clifford Orji Excerpts from Wole Soyinka’s recent lecture, “Predicting Nigeria? Electoral Ironies”, at Harvard have finally trickled down to the Nigerian media and given its polarizing content, #NigerianTwitter hasn’t taken too kindly to it. The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will... Read More
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