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How to talk to God | Review of BB Sasore’s God Calling
There are few things subtle about God Calling, a faith-based drama in which a non-believing housewife is literally arrested by God and put to use preaching the Gospel. And how…
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Lizard, Passing, Judas and the Black Messiah…The 15 Best Films at this year’s Sundance
This year’s the Sundance film festival, America’s most important film market for independent film adopted a hybrid model that favored digital and satellite screenings as opposed to the physical gathering…
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#YNaija2020Review: #EndSARS, Don’t Rush Challenge, Don’t Leave Me Challenge… 10 Moments that broke the Internet
2020 really was that year. 20.10.2020 On October 20, between the state and federal governments, armed officers were deployed to the Lekki toll gate center where they opened fire on…
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#YNaija2020Review: Lekki Shootings, Buhari the unbothered…10 moments that painted Nigeria as a zoo
It is a dog-eat-dog world out here. But does it have to be? Arranged in alphabetical order. A Rapist in Government? Commissioner for Water Resources in Kogi State, Abdulmumuni Danga,…
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#YNaija2020Review: Chimamanda, Okonjo Iweala, Afrobeats to the world…10 Moments that made us proud this Year
Being Nigerian is hard enough. But these breakthroughs felt like collective wins and made it a little bit easier to believe in project Nigeria. Afrobeats to the World Nigerian music…
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#YNaija2020Review: Lai on DJ Switch, Pastor Chris on 5G, “Honorable minister it’s ok”…10 Worst Quotes we heard this Year
Just. Stop. Talking. 10. “The man in question, he has not been proven to be a serial woman beater. If he had a case which no competent court of jurisdiction…
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#YNaija2020Review: Lekki Shootings, Trouble in the NDDC…The 10 Wildest Scandals of the Year
Even we cannot believe all of this mess. 10. Channels reporter and the benevolent governor A medical doctor, Ifeyinwa Angbo was forced to cry out publicly via a two minutes…
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#YNaija2020Review: Duduke, Nobody, FEM…The 10 Biggest Songs of the Year
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no travel orders in a…
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#YNaija2020Review: Joy Nunieh vs Akpabio, Erica vs Laycon…The Top 10 Beefs of the Year
Ready. Steady. Fight. 10. Erica vs Laycon Before Laycon sashayed away with the #BBNaija Lockdown cash prize of 30 million Naira among other gifts totaling 85 million Naira, it seemed…
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#YNaija2020Review: Tiwa Savage, ART X Live, The Experience…The 10 Best Lockdown Performances of the year
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no travel orders in a…
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#YNaija2020Review: Afrosoul, Get Layd, For Broken Ears… See the 10 Best Mixtapes/EP of the Year
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no travel orders in a…
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#YNaija2020Review: Twice as Tall, Celia, Made in Lagos… See our 10 Best Albums of the Year
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no travel orders in a…
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#YNaija2020Review: Wizkid, Tems, Davido…Look who else made the 10 Best Music Videos of 2020
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no travel orders in a…
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#YNaija2020Review: OC Ukeje, Maryam Booth, Anthonieta Kalunta…the 10 Best Performances of the Year
There is something about actors interpreting roles that makes us feel seen and stirs the deepest passions. These are the performances that had us believing this year. 10. Seun Ajayi-…
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#YNaija2020Review: The Milkmaid, Òlòtūré, Eyimofe…The Best Films of the Year
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the film industry for months at a time with one swoop as governments issued stay at home and no…
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#YNaija2020Review: Laycon, Omah Lay, Anthonieta Kalunta…The Revelations of the Year
2020 was traumatic enough it is easier to forget. Don’t forget the 10 people on this list. Oluwatobiloba Ajayi Oluwatobiloba Ajayi is the inaugural winner of The Nigeria Prize for…
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#YNaija2020Review: Duduke, Abule, Damages…The 10 Best Pop Songs of 2020
2020 was a weird and difficult year. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered the music industry with one fell swoop as governments issued stay at home and no travel orders in a…
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#YNaija2020Review: Chadwick Boseman, Kobe Bryant, Diego Maradona… 15 deaths that shook the world
2020 was that year that claimed the lives of public figures across the globe with huge footprints on the sands of time. While this 15 deaths that shook the world…
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#YNaija2020Review: Ogadinma, Black Sunday, new Wole Soyinka…The Notable books of the year
The titles that kept us reading through a pandemic. A Broken People’s Playlist- Chimeka Garricks Almost ten years after publishing his debut novel, Chimeka Garricks returns with his first collection…
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#YNaija2020Review: Tolulope Arotile, Majek Fashek, Ibidun Ighodalo…See Notable Nigerian Deaths of the year
Editor's Note: It's been a very 'different' year for mankind - the first in at least a century.Apart from being visited with an unforseen pandemic that has led to the…
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Review: Does ‘A Day In The Live: Wizkid’ bring the Starboy closer?
With the Coronavirus pandemic upending traditional music industry structures globally, artists, their management and record labels have had to figure out alternative ways of getting their content out to the…
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Profile: The courageous defiance of DJ Switch
It was the livestream that traumatised an entire country. Streamed, shared and viewed countless of times since the fateful night of 20, October, the video which went live on the…
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Film review: ‘This Lady Called Life’ is a modest charmer
In Kayode Kasum’s perfectly acceptable This Lady Called Life, Bisola Aiyeola is Aiye; a young single mother struggling to get by in the big city. Like many residents of Lagos,…
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Film review: You haven’t seen anything quite like The Milkmaid
If the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has its way, you will not see The Milkmaid, the sophomore feature length effort by investment banker turned filmmaker, Desmond Ovbiagele.…
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Book Review: ‘Once Upon a Childhood’ poses some tough girl-child questions
Is there a safe space for the girl child? And what does such a space look like? This is the central question at the heart of Once Upon a Childhood,…
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EP review: ‘2000NProphecy’ is proof that hip hop isn’t dead
2000NProphecy is the new album by rapper and hypeman, Prophecy aka Rap Ojukwu. If you have never heard of him it is because Prophecy has spent the bulk of his…
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Lovers Rock, Night of the Kings, Beginning…The most notable films of #NYFF58
In keeping with the non-competitive nature of the New York Film Festival (NYFF) which ran from September 17 to October 11, 2020, we assemble an alphabetic ranking of some of…
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7 People who should have resigned following the #EndSARS protests and #LekkiMassacre
After two weeks of sustained protests led by young people demanding the end of police brutality, President Muhammadu Buhari finally deigned it fit to address the nation. He was forced…
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#EndSARS and the limits of celebrity activism
In the film One Night in Miami which had its North American premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), four friends and soon-to-be iconic Americans are gathered…
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Film Review: From climate change to mental health, Sema Stori films feature narratives of impact
In the instantly arresting short film, Footsteps in the Dark a richly rendered opening animation sequence gives way to a live-action exploration of the role that religion can play in…
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy