Kiitana is expanding her portfolio, and bringing love to IGTV

If there’s one thing the restrictions on movement as a result of the pandemic has created, its the drive for influencers and content creators to finally push through their doubts and reservations and expand their brands into the very scary territory of long form video content creation. There’s been a proliferation of Instagram Lives catering... Read More

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May 12, 2020

Blood and Water is Netflix’s first African YA original, and we are long overdue

Across the world, the Young Adult genre of entertainment has become a juggernaut of a sub-genre, spawning global franchises with obsessive fans and launching the careers of dozens of actors and actresses like Blake Lively, Sienna Miller, Sarah Michelle-Gellar to name a few. Even in Africa, YA themed stories like MTV’s Shuga has recorded similar levels of... Read More

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Blood and Water

May 7, 2020

Green Worship enlists Dunsin Oyekan, Shola Allyson & other gospel heavyweights for ‘Hold To His Hand’

Since the first case of Coronavirus was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria on the 28th of February, many have looked to religious institutions for comfort and guidance. The church in Nigeria has responded in a myriad of ways with some religious leaders supporting the initiatives of the government to promote social distancing and other religious leaders... Read More

The Media Blog

May 6, 2020

Did TG Omori plaigarise Jenn Nkiru for his ‘Adura’ video?

There is a difference drawing inspiration from another artist’s work, and straight up plaigarising it for your own benefit. This is a long-standing debate in the creative arts industry, especially in the visual arts where imitation can dilute an artist’s brand and lose them valuable coins. ThankGod Omori, better known by his stage moniker TG... Read More

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Daniel Obasi, Jenn Nkiru, TG Omori

May 5, 2020

Netflix is celebrating Africa Month with a ‘Made In Africa’ collection

Netflix today announced the introduction of a Made in Africa collection – a curated list of African series, films and documentaries – to celebrate Africa Month and demonstrate Netflix’s commitment to Africa and the African creative community. The collection is available globally at netflix.com/madeinafrica (or can be found on Netflix by searching ‘Made in Africa’... Read More

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May 4, 2020

The Badchelors is here to feed your fix for Ngozi Nwosu & Lagos drama

Last week, Skinny Girl in Transit finally closed out its 6th season with a highly anticipated finale that drew in nearly 10,000 viewers to its premiere on Youtube. For context, the average large scale movie theater holds about 500 people per hall. Youtube has become the new streaming stage on which Nigerian show runners prove... Read More

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April 30, 2020

Kunle Afolayan is giving a directing masterclass this weekend on Youtube’s #WithMe series

Youtube has really come through for Nigerians during this pandemic with their #WithMe series that taps influential creators across various disciplines to either share their pre-existing content delivered as offline experiences on to online platforms. First there were concerts with Nasty C, TY Bello, Seyi Shay and food tutorials for Easter. Now they are upping... Read More

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April 29, 2020

Simi & Ladi Poe are the latest popstars to hack tiktok virality

Music focused social media platform Tiktok has really exploded in Nigeria, thanks to the quarantine and the thousands of challenges it has spawned. Music artists like Doja Cat and Megan The Stallion have ridden tik-tok virality to help improve the charting of their songs on streaming platforms to much success. Doja Cat (a South African... Read More

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April 28, 2020

Funmi Iyanda returns to take her crown as the queen of talk

We are in truly uncertain times and looking for the familiar and the comforting to help us make sense of the way the world has changed in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Is there anyone more familiar and more comforting that the undisputed queen of talk in Nigeria, Funmi Iyanda? After years away from... Read More

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Funmi Iyanda, Public Eye

April 27, 2020

Bolanle Austen Peters is bringing her best plays to YouTube

Yesterday, several thousand Nigerians gathered on the Bolanle Austen Peters Youtube channel to relive, Moremi the Musical, shown for the first time outside of the Terra Kulture theatre. Excellently edited to cut out all the stage changes, Moremi the Musical suprisingly held up to scrutiny with stand out performances from Femi Branch, Lala Akindoju and... Read More

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Bolanle Austen-Peters, Moremi The Musical, TerraKulture

April 21, 2020

Artish is making its play for Nigerian new media supremacy

A few years ago, the Nigerian new media space was saturated with new entrants looking to break into the market. The market in 2016 seemed primed for scalability. The internet had broken down the geographical barriers that kept African content creators from chasing that all important Afro diaspora dollar and covering music from across the... Read More

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Artish, New Media, Toye Sokunbi

April 20, 2020

Oga Bolaji should be on your #QuarantineWatch playlist

Our job this quarantine, among other things is figuring what are the best things to watch on the internet and how you can get a piece of them. Filmmakers have been extra resourceful this period, going as far as making their older work available on streaming platforms and mostly on Youtube where they reach the... Read More

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Kayode Kasum, Oga Bolaji, Sugar Rush, youtube

April 19, 2020

Toyin Abraham opens up about her depression on the premiere of #WithChude

Heralded by weeks of touring on Instagram Live, and creating capsules of conversations with celebrities like Vector, Ubi Franklin and Adekunle Gold on well-being, Chude Jideonwo’s mental health talk show With Chude premiered Saturday night on TVC Entertainment, and had actress Toyin Abraham as its first guest. With Chude couldn’t have aired at a better... Read More

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April 17, 2020

MTV Shuga is connecting its stars across Africa with ‘Alone Together’

We’ve been talking all month about how the global Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted or caused the indefinite postponement of many of our favorite forms of media. Musicians can no longer organize concerts, Red carpet events are basically a thing of the past and film crews can no longer meet film deadlines. But this period is... Read More

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April 15, 2020

Iykeresa from #UltimateLoveNG is still going strong two months in

The Coronavirus pandemic did many things to the fans of Ultimate Love NG, the now beloved dating show from Multichoice. For one the season finale for the show was moved forward by one week, fans of the couples from the show were unable to adequately show their appreciation for their favourite couples through a well... Read More

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Iykeresa

April 14, 2020

Bankers NGR, Mildred Okwo’s stalled TV series will finally see the small screen

Mildred Okwo, director extraordinaire and head honcho at the Audrey Silva company has been coming through with the hits this year. First she announced ‘La Femme Anjola’, a risque noir film which pits veteran Rita Dominic beside Battle Ground star Nonso Bassey in a steamy tale of infidelity and seduction. The buzz around the film’s... Read More

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April 8, 2020

AY Makun’s ‘Call to Bar’ is our #QuarantineBinge of the day

What do you get when you put AY Makun, The Real Warri Pikin and alcohol in one place? The new scripted comedy series, Call To Bar. Best known for his engaging live comedy specials, and his critically panned and commercially succesful block buster film projects, AY Makun successfully revolutionized the Nigerian film industry, proving over and over... Read More

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April 7, 2020

FatherDMW conquered Instagram by shooting his shot

Who could have predicted at the beginning of March, that one of the biggest social media phenomenons in Nigeria would be a Naira Marley sidekick and an upcoming British model. Such is the power of social media in the time of Corona. FatherDMW, whose original claim to fame was that he was friends with Zlatan... Read More

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April 3, 2020

Stella Damasus & Daniel Ademinokan adopt the direct-to-Youtube model for ‘@BetweenTheMovie’

Earlier this year, Plan B, the Nigerian/Kenyan collaboration helmed by two female film makers Lola Adelek of LowlaDee studios Sara Hassan of Kenyan production company Alfajiri Productions, was nominated for and won best East African film at the 2020 African Magic Viewers Choice Awards. This win was unprecedented, because Lowladee productions premiered Plan B as an exclusive... Read More

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April 2, 2020

Diane Russet is showing she won’t be pigeonholed with ‘Bayi’

One of the side effects of finding fame through reality television is that you are tainted by its artifice. Reality television requires a level of exaggerated drama for it to be enjoyed, that once the show is done and the winners crowned, it becomes difficult to offer anything else. This is especially true of the... Read More

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April 1, 2020

MasterKraft and Pheelz face off tonight for Battle of the Hitz II

Last weekend, mega producers Sarz and Shizzi shut down Instagram with their ‘Battle of The Beatz’ show. We’ve discussed at length how groundbreaking it was to see two producers, traditionally behind the scenes take control of their narrative and how amass their cumulative fanbases into a conversation about their massive catalogues and the longevity of... Read More

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March 31, 2020

Sarz and Shizzi’s Insta-live hangout shows social media is the new frontier for media companies

Yesterday, veteran music producers Sarz and Shizzi had a ‘face-off’ via Instagram. View this post on Instagram For the culture with my bro @iamshizzi ? // Tonight on instalive 10pm WAT #SINYM A post shared by Sarz (@only1sarz) on Mar 30, 2020 at 3:40am PDT The subject of their beef was simple:... Read More

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March 30, 2020

#UltimateLoveNG: Roksie takes home the gold and seals the deal

For the past few weeks, we have been treated to intriguing reality TV drama, courtesy of the Ultimate Love reality show. We watched in enthrallment as 16 people from around the country were lumped together, under one roof, in an endeavor to find love. For the Love Guests, it has been a sequence of highs... Read More

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March 30, 2020

Yomi Black’s Room 420 is the quarantine entertainment you need

Yesterday, the president announced that Lagos and Abuja were going into a 14 day 24 hour curfew. Somehow he did not include the arts among the essential services that would be allowed to move around and perform their tasks, criminal considering it is the tireless work of comedians, musicians, artists and actors. that have kept... Read More

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March 29, 2020

#UltimateLoveNG: It’s the grand finale in a bit and here’s our ‘Winner’

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks, largely as a result of the adversities the world is currently faced with. Luckily, DSTV subscribers and fans of reality TV have been treated to the latest original Nigerian content; Ultimate Love. The reality show was created to entertain people who crave love drama in their programmes; portray... Read More

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March 29, 2020

#UltimateLoveNG: Dynamics behind the finalists

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March 27, 2020

#UltimateLoveNG: Meet the finalists – DoubleChris

DoubleChris is a perfect a pair as their moniker is. They share certain similarities one of which is their disdain for confrontations. Now, not to be confused, Chris will definitely speak her mind, if ever she has anything to say, as she has had her own fair share of malice in the love pad. If... Read More

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March 27, 2020

#UltimateLoveNG: Bolar have made it to the finals but can they bring it home?

Beneath the surface Bolar seem more compatible and in love than the screen time allotted to them would have us believe. Bolanle and Arnold are two of the most easy going housemates in the love pad. They rarely spend anytime apart, except when they have necessary or urgent things to attend to. WILL ULTIMATE LOVE... Read More

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Kiitana is expanding her portfolio, and bringing love to IGTV

Blood and Water is Netflix’s first African YA original, and we are long overdue

Green Worship enlists Dunsin Oyekan, Shola Allyson & other gospel heavyweights for ‘Hold To His Hand’

Did TG Omori plaigarise Jenn Nkiru for his ‘Adura’ video?

Netflix is celebrating Africa Month with a ‘Made In Africa’ collection

The Badchelors is here to feed your fix for Ngozi Nwosu & Lagos drama

Kunle Afolayan is giving a directing masterclass this weekend on Youtube’s #WithMe series

Simi & Ladi Poe are the latest popstars to hack tiktok virality

Funmi Iyanda returns to take her crown as the queen of talk

Bolanle Austen Peters is bringing her best plays to YouTube

Artish is making its play for Nigerian new media supremacy

Oga Bolaji should be on your #QuarantineWatch playlist

Toyin Abraham opens up about her depression on the premiere of #WithChude

MTV Shuga is connecting its stars across Africa with ‘Alone Together’

Iykeresa from #UltimateLoveNG is still going strong two months in

Bankers NGR, Mildred Okwo’s stalled TV series will finally see the small screen

AY Makun’s ‘Call to Bar’ is our #QuarantineBinge of the day

FatherDMW conquered Instagram by shooting his shot

Social media will cost a lot of Nigerian celebrities their careers

Stella Damasus & Daniel Ademinokan adopt the direct-to-Youtube model for ‘@BetweenTheMovie’

Diane Russet is showing she won’t be pigeonholed with ‘Bayi’

MasterKraft and Pheelz face off tonight for Battle of the Hitz II

Sarz and Shizzi’s Insta-live hangout shows social media is the new frontier for media companies

In this era of ‘breaking news,’ #DontRushChallenge may just be your antidote for the pandemic

#UltimateLoveNG: Roksie takes home the gold and seals the deal

Yomi Black’s Room 420 is the quarantine entertainment you need

#UltimateLoveNG: It’s the grand finale in a bit and here’s our ‘Winner’

#UltimateLoveNG: Dynamics behind the finalists

#UltimateLoveNG: Meet the finalists – DoubleChris

#UltimateLoveNG: Bolar have made it to the finals but can they bring it home?

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