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The Media Blog: Chika Ike is a glorious mess, and we love her for it
What in the world is even going on in this video? Her accent. The expression on her face. The calabashes. What does it all mean? Why are they holding out…
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The Media Blog: A webseries in French? Red TV continues to intrigue us
It's called Boutique Hotel, and appears to have been made in Côte d'Ivoire. It stars Ivorians, and it's entirely in French. It's subtitled in English, of course, but that's beside…
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The Media Blog: Which one is Media Room Hub again?
Azuka Ogujuiba, the person behind that Tiwa Savage interview has come again with a new one. It's something called Media Room Hub. It's supposed to be an online magazine. The name confuses…
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Reading Material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (14)
1. What does law enforcement owe the media? 2. Is there one simple idea needed to understand Trump supporters? 3. This content business comes with consequences. 4. Not even Kellyanne Conway…
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The Media Blog: They should just take this ‘The Shade Corner’ back wherever they brought it from
It seemed like a curious concept. It piqued our interests at least. But after 2 underwhelming episodes, we're not really sure we're interested in seeing more of The Shade Corner. We…
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The Media Blog: Our Best Friend’s Wedding has us asking questions
What does it mean when people are watching a show but don't appear to be talking about it? That's what Our Best Friend's Wedding has us asking. The show is…
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The Media Blog: Genevieve Magazine is not your mate
Sure, that's a great cover. Eku Edewor is stunning as ever, and we could choose to focus on that. Or we could choose to focus on the weirdness of the…
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Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (13)
1. We're going to be learning lessons from the 2016 US elections for a long, long time. 2. First Russia, now Iran? 3. Journalism in Trump's America. 4. The…
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The Media Blog: We’re already laughing at this “The Republic” TV show
Nicole Amarteifio made a name for herself, and a successful TV show, by ripping off Sex and The City. But, An African City worked because while she blatantly copied the…
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The Media Blog: Medium is following the money
Medium is pivoting to a subscription model. They're calling it an "upgrade to your Medium experience” but it's still too soon for anyone to tell just how true that will turn out…
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The Media Blog: Kemi Adetiba absolutely kills it in this TW Magazine shoot
Kemi Adetiba's on the cover of the latest issue of TW Magazine, and while we've only seen one photo (aside from the cover) from the full shoot, it's enough to…
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The Media Blog: We just watched episode 2 of Our Best Friend’s Wedding
So Red TV has released the second episode of their new webseries Our Best Friend's Wedding. While this episode looks just as good as the first, it doesn't do much…
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The Media Blog: Funke Akindele’s new TV show already has us scratching our heads
Clearly not content with the runaway success of Jenifa's Diary, Funke Akindele's somehow found the time to work on another TV show. It's called "Industreet" and you can check out…
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The Media Blog: Red TV continues its upward swing
Last week RED TV debuted their first scripted narrative, Our Best Friend's Wedding. The show, produced in conjunction with The Naked Convos, appears to be on its way to being…
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StarTimes has entered the football craze full blast
The crave for quality football content in the country is absolutely off the hook. Week in, week out, millions of youth are glued to TV screens watching football games. The…
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The Media Blog: Gidi Up is back
Or almost back, at least. Less than a full day after another Nigerian online TV platform launched its first webseries, Ndani TV announces the return of their own original series.…
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The Media Blog: Navel gazing about the media’s low approval ratings is nonsense
Whenever the media in America does anything that someone somewhere doesn’t like, the response is now predictable: X and X is why the media has such low approval ratings. Now,…
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The Media Blog: Our Best Friend’s Wedding is here
2017 is shaping up to be the year Red TV forces us all to take it seriously with this online TV thing. First was Here & Now, which has maintained its…
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The Media Blog: Let’s talk about media and ‘The forbidden experiment’
Legend has it that King James IV once stretched, yawned and thought to himself ‘hm - what language would babies speak if they didn’t have any humans to learn language…
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The YNaija Ranking: Gidi Traffic is number 1 on our top 10 online media (social)
Nearing one million Twitter followers, Gidi Traffic is Nigeria's most influential and most respected online media platform. It's powerful presence hinges on the ease it provides to road users in…
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The YNaija Ranking: BellaNaija is number 1 on our top 50 online media (web) ranking
BellaNaija holds the top spot in this category for very obvious reasons. Over the years, BellaNaija has grown in leaps to become a leader in the online media space in…
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The Media Blog: Did Buzzfeed finally cross a line?
Buzzfeed published an 'unverified memo' about Trump and Russia - and all hell has broken loose across America's media (and on Trump's timeline, of course, but that is no longer…
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The YNaija Ranking: Urban 96.5 is Number 1 on our Top 10 Radio Station Ranking
The official Media Ratings haven’t come in, but the social media feedback and our un-official Uber-driver poll makes it clear Urban FM is the leader in the radio category. It…
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The YNaija Ranking: ONTV is number 1 on our Top 25 TV Station Ranking
ONTV continues to lead the TV ratings as far as the respected Media Facts ratings can tell, and since the Geopoll survey hasn’t yet gained mainstream currency, we will stick…
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The Media Blog: Abeg, Bola Tinubu should go and find several seats
Every now and again, people – including questionable characters who have not satisfactorily answered corruption allegations – mount a bully pulpit to accuse ‘the social media’ (a ridiculous term that…
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The YNaija Rankings: Every month, we will rank the top films, TV and radio stations in Nigeria
YNaija will, from Wednesday, January 11, release a monthly countdown of platforms leading and lagging in the Nigerian media space. The online matrix will rank the Top 20 TV channels,…
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The Media Blog: This Medium investor is doing us ‘boju boju’
Evan Williams wrote his own letter declaring that Medium has to fire 50 percent of team, and 're-position', which only ever means one thing - 'we got it wrong, we've…
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The Media Blog: Evan Williams letter captures the BIG PROBLEM with premium platforms
From the guy that brought you Twitter, a hugely influential platform - that makes no money, and refuses to grow. He also brought you, amongst one more, Medium. Also hugely…
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The Media Blog: The 5-tweet answer to people that say ‘Nigerians like consuming rubbish’
God bless you Justin.
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The Media Blog: Mania Magazine returns
We probably shouldn't call it a return, seeing as they never officially "left" or went anywhere to begin with. But like we said before, their appearances now are fairly unpredictable,…
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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