The Media Blog

Tunde Kelani

January 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 209 chairmen and 1258 board members into federal agencies and government parastatals. Aside Kelani, veteran actress Joke Silva was also appointed as a member of the board and it will be a second appointment for... Read More

Joke Silva, NFVCB, Tunde Kelani

Adekunle Ayeni

December 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 BlackHouse Media,Adekunle Ayeni, as the PR Practitioner of 2017. The award is in recognition of Ayeni’s sterling contributions to the PR practice in Nigeria, especially for his firm’s leadership and creating of value for the... Read More

ayeni adekunle, BHM, LaPRIGA

Handover Show

December 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 on radio narrows it down to a category, but there are a number of things to consider. Personal taste is one. And with how largely homogenized the Nigerian radio landscape is, one’s taste soon adapts... Read More

Gbemi, The Beat 99.9FM, The Handover Show, Toolz

December 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 as the head of Language Services for West Africa. Ogunseye is the Editor of Sunday Punch and her appointment will take effect from January 1, 2018 and she will be based in Lagos, managing Afrique,... Read More

BBC World Service, Toyosi Ogunseye

December 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 we can all converge on a similar hashtag. This year had a list of those moments. They include a fairytale wedding, an over the top chef and a campaign to put the police in check.... Read More

Featured, Reviews, The Cutting Floor, The Media Blog

hashtags, Mr Eazi, YNaija 2017 Review

Amuwo Odofin

December 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 live in Amuwo-Odofin and its environs, held the finale for its December contest last Friday at the Holy Family Event Center, Festac. Though a winner has emerged out of the 26 contestants, the pageant’s credibility... Read More

Amuwo Odofin, Festaconline, Nigerian pageant industry

TwitterNG

December 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 and followership offline. Who could forget the epic parties of 2010- 2012 and the @TheNakedConvos events of 2012 – 2016. It feels like the biggest gamble, replicate the community and camaraderie online, offline. Currently, the... Read More

The Media Blog, Twitter NG Party

Nigerian Web Series

December 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 as time-scheduled programming on television stations. Despite the obvious limitations of this terrestrial model, in terms of not having the luxury to rewatch an episode or binge an entire show, the ’90s and early ’00s... Read More

Abimbola Craig, SGIT, Skinny Girl in Transit, The Media Blog

Linda Ikeji

December 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 social, but with the success of Rok TV’s Lagos House Husbands and Mary Remmy-Njoku coming out of nowhere and trying to snatch Linda’s crown as the queen of Media, Linda knew she had to come... Read More

BETTY IRABOR, Linda Ikeji, Linda Ikeji TV, The Media Blog

December 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 Sanusi Ismaila, tech insider and all around good guy about media company Big Cabal. Everyone from Techcabal/BigCabal has scrubbed off any mentions of the brand from their bios. What’s happening? — SuperSanusi (@supersanusi) December 6,... Read More

Bankole Oluwafemi, Big Cabal, osarumen osamuyi, Seyi Taylor

RADR

December 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 shows and the few ones that had already found themselves audiences (Submarine and a Roach, We Just Got Back and Now’O’ Clock’ had all fallen into gluts of cyclical, unimaginative content. However in 2017, we’ve... Read More

r, RADR, The Media Blog

November 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 Weekend and AFRIMA, controversies and a back and forth between the presidency and the senate, and the elections in the United States, even the surprise arrests of influential Saudis by the country’s hierarchy; there has... Read More

Amore Nigeria, Bobrisky, Latasha Ngwube, The Media Blog

October 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 forefront of leading this charge. Alongside, New York-based SaharaReporters¸ Premium Times has taken it open itself to reveal atrocities in government, the military, and even in the civil service, as is the case of the... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

Mainagate, Premium Times, punch, Sahara Reporters, top50media web, Vabguard

October 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 eleven hours of uploading its latest episode (Do you think it is right for a man to hit a woman in any scenario?), it’s currently the third most trending topic on Twitter Nigeria. [Read Also]... Read More

Domestic violence, GreyRoomNG, The Media Blog, twitter.

October 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 name of its founder and CEO, Simon Kolawole was being used as the sender of the above mail. The webiste said: This is to inform the general public that there has been a spam attack... Read More

attackers, Spammers, The Media Blog, TheCable

October 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 Nigeria’s internet space. Well, it has now ventured into the podcast business. Last week, INV Media set Twitter on fire with the release of the first episode of its podcast, The Grey Room. The episode... Read More

KraksTV, Multiple sex partners, podcast

October 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 are already blazing. Like 12,000 views blazing! The first episode (Do you think society is fair on men by making them pay most of the bills?) features young Nigerians and it has generated a lot... Read More

GreyRoomNG, podcast, The Grey Room

September 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 space was one of the top trending topics on Twitter NG yesterday. [#InCaseYouMissedIt] The Media Blog: TStv, the new cable TV that seeks to give Nigerians independence Reactions were on both sides of the divide on... Read More

cable tv, Per Pay View, social media, The Media Blog, TStv, TStv Africa, website

September 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 outcome: epic failure. Earlier today, we reported about the imminent entry of a new cable television: TStv. The platform owned by Telcomsat Limited is set to give DSTV a run for its money. Wondering how they... Read More

cable tv, DSTV, hitv, Toyin Subai, TStv

September 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 to Telcom Satellites Ltd owners of ‘’TStv Africa’’, a full monthly subscription comes at a maximum fee of N3000, while the decoder goes for N5000 only. Do you still find this hard to believe, you can... Read More

cable tv, Per Pay View, The Media Blog, TStv, TStv Africa

September 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, now @subdeliverypage held sway. The account managed anonymously by a Nigerian resident abroad was the abode of any and every kind of social media conservation. If you needed a gist, like the ‘cocaine scandal’, you had... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

@instablog9ja, African Jagbajantis Vine, African Jagbjantis Vine, Ambode Obsarver, Break_or_makeup, Gidi Traffic, kraks TV, KraksTV, subdeliveryman, the comment section, top10media social, Urbanyooba

September 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 order in June returned this month on the number 20 position. In the month under review, its flagship show, Your View, maintained its position as the number one content for its timebelt. TVC’s good job in... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

Galaxy Tv, top10tv, TVC, YNaija ranking

August 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 in Pidgin language on the BBC Africa platform. With a minute and 3 seconds long video, the British Media giants, showed off their new team, making promises of an interesting future to come while also... Read More

BBC, BBC Pidgin, BBC World Service, Pidgin English

August 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 the mail. Subair came with complexity, nuance and humility. Olojede is not familiar with any of the above. This interview is conclusive proof he hasn’t taken responsibility for his mismanagement of a beautiful and important brand.... Read More

Dele Olojede, Feyi Fawehinmi, NEXT, The Media Blog

August 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 BS on his statements, Because this was a confidential conversation, we will only share very tiny bits: “Why would anybody kill Next?” Let me start by saying that NEXT did not do anything that Tempo,... Read More

Dele Olojede, Dieziani, IBB, NEXT, Sahara Reporters

August 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 story was “the peak of journalism in Nigeria.” So what happened to all the incredible work TELL, TheNEWS and TEMPO did to unearth even more dangerous scoops under Abacha and Babangida. NEXT did incredible work,... Read More

Dele Olojede, diezani, journalism in Nigeria, NEXT

August 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 NEXT, according to this interview on Premium Times less than an hour ago. Not the mismanagement of debt, not the unreasonable top-heavy expenses, not the unnecessary daily paper that was a bad business idea from... Read More

Dele Olojede, Feyi Fawehinmi, NEXT

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 not playing at all. – The pockets behind them are deep. The results are showing, shooting into the top 300 of Nigerian sites in less than a year of active pushing. The product itself? Meh.... Read More

Google ads, Ripples Nigeria, The Media Blog

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