Category: The Media Blog

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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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RoqeebahAugust 13, 2017

[The Media Blog] Dele Olojede is still blaming others for his failures at NEXT, and that’s nonsense

We hear: it’s the advertisers, it’s the corrupt government and now, it’s a single story about Diezani Madueke that crippled ...

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EditorAugust 8, 2017

The Media Blog: The guys at Ripples Nigeria are not playing at all

When a media platform starts advertising aggressively, with Google Ads, of all things, two things are involved. – They are ...

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EditorAugust 7, 2017

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

The media has often been termed as the voice of the people and the conscience of the government. And no ...

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EditorAugust 7, 2017

Channels TV takes the #1 spot on our top 25 TV countdown | The YNaija Ranking

Channels TV has ousted ROK TV as the number one station in the YNaija Ranking for TV stations. The John ...

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EditorAugust 7, 2017

Instablog9ja retains #1 spot on our top 10 social media (web) countdown | The YNaija Ranking

The battle for relevance on the online web space has been intense in the past few months. Many new social ...

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EditorAugust 4, 2017

The Media Blog: This statement from the Sokoto NUJ chairman is nothing but stupidity

Please don’t DM us. Stupidity is as stupidity does. “How can you imagine a 25-year-old person becoming a state governor ...

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EditorAugust 4, 2017

The Media Blog: These are the shows Linda Ikeji TV is working very hard on

So we know there are plenty people who are waiting for Linda Ikeji to fail. They are wasting their time ...

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EditorAugust 4, 2017

The Media Blog: The NYT and WashPo have been doing the Lord’s work, this fantastic report shows

Crucial excerpt: Call it the Last Newspaper War, as two great survivors face off with different strategies and different economic ...

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ToluAugust 4, 2017

[The Media Blog] Inside Out with Agatha is a survivor at 20 and we should all be taking notes

To gain entry into the media industry at a time when most people didn’t quite know what they were doing ...

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EditorAugust 2, 2017

The Media Blog: We found a gem called ‘Village Factor’

An essay on colonial architecture in Lagos. An interrogation of JayZ’s 4:44 album. Headlines like ‘Five Black Novels about Afrofuturism’. ...

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EditorAugust 1, 2017

The Media Blog: Denrele Edun’s ‘Everything in between’ is quietly, but majorly, pushing the boundaries

So Denrele Edun’s name in the headline was just to get you to read this because he is not the ...

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EditorJuly 31, 2017

The Media Blog: Wait, did we have anything to do with the launch of Native Magazine’s print issue?

We know it’s inelegant to point it out, but what the hell. We told you three weeks ago that we ...

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EditorJuly 31, 2017

The Media Blog: In case you missed it, this is the defiance with which Instablog9ja returned

You know the story by now. For some reason, our favourite Instagram account was blocked, again, on 20 July. It ...

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EditorJuly 31, 2017

The Media Blog: 2017 is definitely, and officially, the year of Makida Moka

Sitting down at the premiere of Banana Island Ghost and seeing model and actress, Makida Moka light up the room ...

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RoqeebahJuly 30, 2017

[The Media Blog] Post-graduate media students of the PAU are now available for hire

The post-graduate students of the School of Media and Communication at the Pan-Atlantic University are now available for hire this holiday ...

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RoqeebahJuly 30, 2017

[The Media Blog] Guess he wouldn’t be Daddy Freeze if he didn’t comment on this

Let’s just all come together and agree that Daddy Freeze will never stop surprising us. He may just be a ...

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EditorJuly 26, 2017

The Media Blog: Online TV has finally joined the big leagues, thanks to Nielsen

Nielsen is the gold standard when it comes to TV viewership ratings across the world – and finally, it announced ...

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EditorJuly 26, 2017

The Media Blog: What happened with Snopes gives us such hope

So the myth-bursting website,  Snopes.com had major legal issues that made it unable to function, essentially. It took a bold step, went ...

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