Category: The Media Blog

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Bernard DayoJanuary 8, 2018

[The Media Blog] The Power of the Hashtag: How the #MeToo movement won at the 2018 Golden Globes

Awards season has finally kicked off as Hollywood stars gathered at the 75th Annual Golden Globes Awards in Beverley Hills ...

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Bernard DayoJanuary 5, 2018

[The Media Blog] Once again, the Temitayo Nathan rape allegation proves that the Internet never forgets

Welcome to 2018, and as much as we’d like to press forward in the brand-new year and leave behind all ...

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Bernard DayoJanuary 1, 2018

[The Media Blog] President Buhari appoints Tunde Kelani to head National Film and Video Censor Board

Filmmaker Tunde Kelani has been named as head of the NFVCB on Friday, an appointment by President Buhari along with ...

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Bernard DayoDecember 29, 2017

[The Media Blog] Is social media ruining films and tv shows?

There are many good things about social media from a pop culture perspective. TV showrunners can send out a tweet ...

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Bernard DayoDecember 24, 2017

[The Media Blog] NIPR Lagos Chapter Awards Adekunle Ayeni PR Practitioner of The Year

The Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has named the Founder and Chief Executive officer of ...

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Bernard DayoDecember 24, 2017

[The Media Blog] Five Times “The Handover Show” was Great in 2017

What makes a good radio show can be too broad a question to answer. What makes a good entertainment show ...

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Bernard DayoDecember 22, 2017

[The Media Blog] BBC Appoints Toyosi Ogunseye as Head of Language Services for West Africa

In a bid to continue its expansion in Africa, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service has appointed Toyosi Ogunseye ...

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Wilfred OkicheDecember 21, 2017

YNaija2017Review: #BAAD2017, #EndSARS, Mr Eazi… These 10 stories/hashtags broke the Internet

The internet loves a good buzz. Something to rally round or be outraged about, it doesn’t matter, as long as ...

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Bernard DayoDecember 19, 2017

[The Media Blog] Was the Face of Amuwo Odofin 2017 beauty pageant a scam?

The second edition of the Face of Amuwo-Odofin Beauty Pageant, the anticipated pageant contest eligible only to young women who ...

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Bernard DayoDecember 19, 2017

[The Media Blog] Turn Up: Nigerian Twitter is having its first TwitterNG party and you are invited

Since Twitter became a thing in Nigeria, there have always been online groups who have tried to take their clout ...

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EditorDecember 18, 2017

[The Media Blog] The diversity problem of Nigerian Web Series

Long before the explosion of web-based content in the form of scripted dramas, television series were produced, packaged and aired ...

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Wilfred OkicheDecember 17, 2017

#YNaija2017Review: Stay With Me, Love Does Not Win Elections… See the 10 most notable books of the year

From award-winning sprawling depictions of infertility and feminism, to non-fiction accounts of winning elections in Africa, these are the YNaija2017Review’s ...

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EditorDecember 14, 2017

[The Media Blog] Linda Ikeji is gambling big with Linda Ikeji TV

Linda Ikeji is back in the game! It certainly took her long enough after the hit and miss Linda Ikeji ...

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EditorDecember 10, 2017

[The Media Blog] What is going on at Big Cabal?

So we were trawling the interwebs, as we do, just monitoring our favourite blogs, when we noticed this tweet from ...

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EditorDecember 4, 2017

[The Media Blog] RADR Online is joining the race to crack podcasting with its new online show

After the first wave of podcasting shows in 2016, we experienced a bit of a lull. There were no great ...

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EditorNovember 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 ...

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Oludolapo AdelanaOctober 31, 2017

Premium Times takes the #1 spot on our top 50 online media (web) countdown | The YNaija Ranking

Investigative journalism is gradually returning to the fore in the country, and Abuja-based internet newspaper, Premium Times is at the ...

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Oludolapo AdelanaOctober 16, 2017

The Media Blog: And GreyRoomNG is trending on Twitter AGAIN

Remember GreyRoomNG, right? the podcast that made very good numbers in its first episode. They are at it again. After ...

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Oludolapo AdelanaOctober 9, 2017

The Media Blog: Who’s trying to malign TheCable?

That’s the email you will get from the ‘sender’ trying to impersonate news platform, TheCable. TheCable on Monday said the ...

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Oludolapo AdelanaOctober 9, 2017

The Media Blog: KraksTV has a podcast, and we are kinda impressed

We all know KraksTV right? The online platform famous for sharing some of the most hilarious and viral content in ...

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Oludolapo AdelanaOctober 5, 2017

The Media Blog: What’s all the fuss about GreyRoomNG?

So there’s a new podcast in town – The GreyRoomNG – and in only three days after upload, its numbers ...

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EditorSeptember 22, 2017

The Media Blog: Hardly any activity on their social media, website… is TStv really ready?

It’s no longer news that TStv will launch on October 1. The entry of the cable network into Nigeria’s media ...

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EditorSeptember 21, 2017

The Media Blog: Will TStv succeed where HiTV failed in this battle against DSTV?

The year: 2007. His name: Toyin Subair. The company: HiTV. The mission: upstage South African owned cable television, DSTV. The ...

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EditorSeptember 21, 2017

The Media Blog: TStv, the new cable TV that seeks to give Nigerians independence

On October 1, 2017, the 57th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, a new cable television platform will launch its services. According ...

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EditorSeptember 20, 2017

SubDeliveryMan, The Comment Section knocked off the YNaija top 10 online (social) media ranking

Before Instagram became the platform for getting the hottest gist and news on social media, a certain Twitter handle, @SubDeliveryMan, ...

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EditorSeptember 14, 2017

TVC returns to the top 20 on the YNaija top 25 TV countdown

Television Continental has returned to the YNaija top 25 ranking for television stations. The station which fell off the pecking ...

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EditorAugust 22, 2017

[The Media Blog] BBC Pidgin, first of its kind…last of it?

We don land gidigba! That was the opening sentence as BBC World Service announced that it had begun its broadcast ...

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RoqeebahAugust 13, 2017

[The Media Blog] We said this about Dele Olojede last year…

In the wise words of many Nigerians, “as if we knew“. Still, we are disappointed at what finally came in ...

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RoqeebahAugust 13, 2017

[The Media Blog] “If they didn’t kill Sahara Reporters and Premium Times, why would anybody kill NEXT?”

A smart NEXTer from a WhatsApp group discussing Dele Olojede‘s interview with Feyi Fawehinmi, published on Premium Times calls multiple ...

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RoqeebahAugust 13, 2017

[The Media Blog] And no, NEXT’s Diezani story was not “the peak of journalism in Nigeria”

No, we aren’t done with the Dele Olojede interview. Not when we haven’t corrected the claim that the said Diezani ...

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