Blogs

February 10, 2020

We are getting a remake of ‘Nneka the Pretty Serpent.’ Here’s why it deserves an all-female soundtrack

Charles Okpaleke is remaking the 1992 cult horror Nneka the Pretty Serpent, another movie in the filmmaker’s massive remake rollout that includes Rattle Snake and Glamour Girls. And, with the more-than-decent success of the Living In Bondage sequel released last year, Nollywood’s spell of remakes seems to be in safe, capable hands. Other filmmakers can... Read More

Charles Okpaleke, Nneka the Pretty Serpent

Visa

February 7, 2020

Never mind Nigeria’s closed borders, we have a new visa policy

Nigeria is quite the country of contradictions. Mid-2019, the Nigerian Customs authority, with express consent from the Presidency chose to close Nigeria’s land borders. The reason Commander Hameed Ali, head of the National Customs Authority gave for the ban, just days before the country signed a pan-continental trade treaty whose major requirement was open borders,... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Buhari, Closed Border, Harmeed Ali, Visa Policy

Off Air

February 7, 2020

What censors? – Toolz and Gbemi are bringing back ‘Off Air’

Rejoice lovers of radio, youtube and podcasting, our favourite duo (aside Jollz and FK) are back on the air for a second season of their hit radio show/podcast ‘Off Air’. And if this new promo slot released on Twitter yesterday is anything to go by, Toolz and Gbemi O are taking things up a a... Read More

Gbemi, Mike Edwards, off air, Toolz

SXSW

February 6, 2020

Yemi Alade, Bez & La Meme Gang are going to SXSW 2020

The South by South West Festival (SXSW) is easily one of the biggest media festivals in the world. It is also well known for discovering new musical acts and cross pollinating the work of these artists to music and culture audiences across the world. As such it is a huge privilege to be invited to... Read More

South by South West, SXSW

tobacco

February 6, 2020

Tobacco is coming under the microscope with new regulations & enforcement

A few days ago, people across the world commemorated World Cancer Day. While activities to mark the day in Nigeria were pretty muted (because we seem to have more pressing problems), there were important conversations on how to manage the illness, promises from the government to improve the capacity of its medical centres to deal... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Jola Ayeye

February 5, 2020

Jola Ayeye wants you to join her Cash Madam Collective

It’s criminal that you haven’t heard of Jola Ayeye. Thankfully we’ve been on top of thing here at YNaija. We first featured her in our 2018 New Establishment list as one of the film makers to look out for in the coming years for her ability to leverage social media as tool to start and... Read More

Cash Madam Collective, Jola Ayeye

Olatunji Omirin

February 5, 2020

Olatunji Omirin is the latest Nigerian journalist to be arrested by Nigerian forces

At this point, it has become common place to hear of Nigerian journalists, arrested either by the DSS or Nigerian Army, abducted by unnamed assailants or charged with terrorism or treason for doing their job. Dadiyata, the Kaduna state based journalist stands in stark relief as an example of what happens when order breaks down... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Amnesty Official, boko haram, maiduguri, nigerian government, Olatunji Omirin, Omirin

Trump

February 4, 2020

The new Trump travel ban will allow you visit America, but not live there

Over the last week, a number of opinions have been expressed about the newly announced expansion of the ‘Trump Travel Ban’, to include Nigeria and six other countries. According to new reports from the US embassy, the new travel ban was already in the works as early as March 2019, nearly a year before it... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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Caine

February 4, 2020

The 2020 AKO Caine Prize has a new roster of judges

Unless you haven’t been paying attention, the AKO Caine Prize is the definitive short story prize for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Fraught with its own criticisms, the Prize has seen a number of significant changes in the last few years in response to criticism from Binyavanga Wanaina and other African beneficiaries... Read More

Caine Prize, Fiction, James murua, Olumuyiwa tharp

Queen Sono

February 4, 2020

‘Queen Sono’ is Netflix’s first South African original

We are entering a new era of content in Nigeria. For far too long, a handful of gatekeepers have controlled funding for projects in Nigeria and shut out new talent with new ideas. Driven primarily by financial bottom lines, we have been subjected to a revolving door of mediocre comedy sitcoms and tepid dramas whose... Read More

netflix, Netflix Original, Pearl Thusi, Queen Sono

February 4, 2020

Dividends of Democracy: Gokada lays off most of its staff

The Lagos State government will have you believe its sudden ban on micro transport (motorcycles and kekenapeps) was done for the ‘good’ of Greater Lagos. This is the mantra it has trotted out each time it committed an illegality against citizens of Lagos state. Last week, it announced out of the blue that it was... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Fahim Saleh, Gokada, lay offs

January 31, 2020

It’s almost payday in Nigeria. A senator will get his first N13.5 million salary in prison this January

by Ifedayo Adeleye Every month, each Nigerian senator receives about N750,000 as a basic salary, according to the current Senate President, Ahmed Lawan. But that salary pales in comparison to the many other extra-ordinary allowances (Hardship, 50%; Constituency, 200%; Furniture, 300%; Recess, 10%) and a long list of other emoluments that, for Professor Itse Sagay,... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

January 31, 2020

Honourable Ado Doguwa wants you to know he is a strong man

The last thing anyone could have thought was that the newly elected senate would make Nigerians nostalgic for the active, progressive national assembly under Senator Bukola Saraki. Sure the senate over which Saraki presided was fraught with in-fighting from the very day it was instituted yet somehow they managed to initiate and see to fruition... Read More

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Ado-Doguwa, senate

January 31, 2020

Kugali Media is taking African comics and animation offline

This week on the internet, I came across a tweet from Kugali media that made me very happy. Hey guys, we’re having a meet up next week Tuesday for comic and animation fans in Lagos, Nigeria. Bring your hard drives, physical comics, wallets and fully charged social batteries ? It’s free but you have... Read More

Augmented reality, Foyeh, Kugali Media, Nommos

keke

January 27, 2020

Sanwo-Olu shows he is a true Lagos governor by banning kekes & okadas (again)

When Nigerian governments have a problem they cannot solve by ignoring it, they choose instead to ban it instead. We saw the federal government ban the production of codeine after the BBC documentary Sweet Codeine expose the corruption within the over counter drug industry, even though codeine was not an illegal substance and the businesses... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Keke, lagos, okada

Ifeoma Chukwuogo

January 27, 2020

Ifeoma Chukwuogo is tackling Biafra with her new series ‘No Victors’

Ifeoma Chukwuogo has had an interesting few years. Her first major short film after film school, ‘Bariga Sugar’, the heartbreaking story of the budding but ultimately tragic friendship of the children of sex workers went viral when Chukwuogo first released it on Youtube. Chukwuogo would pull it from Youtube a few weeks later and put... Read More

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January 24, 2020

Why Mercy Eke making her acting debut in ‘Fate of Alakada’ makes perfect sense

Big Brother Naija’s Mercy Eke has been securing the bag since emerging as season 4 winner – the flow of endorsements, media interviews, tours and whatnot. It hits different given that she’s the first woman ever to win. That said, Nollywood is the most common pathway for reality stars or newly minted celebrities to maintain... Read More

Fate of Alakada, Mercy Eke, Toyin Abraham

Joseph Odok

January 24, 2020

Joseph Odok, charged with terrorism by Ben Ayade finally gets bail

Terrorism seems like a ridiculous charge to bring against a lawyer, but this is the Nigeria we are living in under president Buhari. It is even more disappointing when you realise that the charges of Terrorism brought against lawyer and activist Joseph Odok, was the work of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state, a... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Agba Jalingo, Joseph Odok

CNC

January 24, 2020

A new collaboration between the Nigerian Film Corporation and the CNC will bring new life to Nollywood

The National Film Corporation is really on a roll this 2020. Last week we announced that the corporation which is in charge of promoting film in the country had partnered with the Nigerian Ministry of Defense to fund films that promoted the image of our military forces through a call for collaborations with independent film... Read More

CNC, collaboration, French Cinema, NFC

January 23, 2020

The Tarkwa Bay jeopardy is just another pointer to a failed humanity

When Nigerians (who are often in underserved communities and are barely able to get by) are asked to evacuate the places they call home either for radical gentrification purposes they can no longer gain access to or sometimes for protracted infrastructural development, these evacuation notices aren’t always immediately acted upon. Why? There are simply no... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Lagos government, Tarkwa Bay

Tarkwa Bay

January 23, 2020

Tarkwa Bay makes it 24 beachfront communities illegally evicted by Lagos state

I start this article with Olutimehin Adegbeye’s TED Talk, Who Belongs In A City, because with each month it becomes more poignant to the realities in Lagos state, and the impunity with which our leaders treat people they consider powerless. When Timehin gave this speech, she was a social worker with the Just Empower organization, a... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Kiki Mordi, Olutimehin Adegbeye, Tarkwa Bay

Chuma Nwokolo

January 23, 2020

Chuma Nwokolo just won his plagiarism lawsuit against High Definition Studios

In November 2019, Nigerian writer and political satirist, Chuma Nwokolo put up a blog post. The gist of the post was an accusation that filmmaker Bright Wonder Obasi had plagiarised significant portions of his short story ’10 Commandments of Nigerian Politics’ from his short story collection Diaries of A Dead African. Nwokolo stated that the... Read More

Bright Wonder Obasi, Chuma Nwokolo, intellectual property, Theft, Wonder Obasi

January 21, 2020

The EFCC should do its job but are these dehumanizing methods of arrest really necessary?

For a while now, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has continued to reiterate its’ unbending stand on fighting corruption and the fraudulent practices that have developed strong skeletons within our existing socio-political institutions. In the past three years, news of the homes and safe houses of active and former government officials in reputable... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

89 boys arrested in Ibadan, EFCC

Kiki Mordi

January 21, 2020

More wins for @KikiMordi as she & Fisayo Soyombo receive the 2019 PJP Awards

As with many media based professions, journalists often have to deal with the misconception that they suddenly achieved fame. In reality, years of grueling groundwork paves the path for a journalist to find an execute the career affirming work that leads to public recognition and global recognition. 2019 was definitely that year for Kiki Mordi.... Read More

Fisayo Soyombo, Kiki Mordi

Ganduje

January 21, 2020

Ganduje continues in Kano as Supreme Court affirms his election

Many hopes were dashed this morning as the Supreme Court of Nigeria affirmed the re-election of Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano state. The governor’s re-election campaign had been challenged as fraudulent by Abba Yusuf, the governorship candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), citing the fact that the Kano state elections had encountered significant violence... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Abba Yusuf, Ganduje, Rabiu Kwankwaso

Dj Juba

January 20, 2020

Dj Juba wants to show you the reality for women Djs in Nigeria with ‘Assurance’

Dj Juba might not be a name you know in the Nigerian media scene, but perhaps you should, especially because of her most recent documentary project. It shouldn’t be news to anyone that the Nigerian entertainment industry has suffered greatly from misogyny. It is prevalent in the conversations around which female musicians are allowed to... Read More

DJ, Dj Juba, Dj Yin, female, Sensei Lo

ImoWantsIhedioha

January 20, 2020

#ImoWantsIhedioha: The South-East protests to reject the Supreme Court ruling on Imo state

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. #imowantsihedioha ???? pic.twitter.com/aZz6wc2hCS — Mundus (@mundus01) January 19, 2020 This is one of several dozens of videos that have been published on social media chronicling the nationwide protests by indigenes of Imo state and supporters of the People’s Democratic Party, challenging the Supreme court ruling on the... Read More

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Emeka Ihedioha, Hope Uzodinma, imo state, ImoWantsIhedioha

Amotekun

January 17, 2020

Protecting lives should be the priority of everyone in power and this includes governors

By now, we ought to have seen the widely acclaimed Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun) getting about their duties, if of course it wasn’t declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. The Federal Government’s insistence on monopolizing the welfare and technicalities of Nigeria’s security system would make sense if they have a... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Abubakar Malami, Amotekun Initiative, Western Nigeria Security Network

Binti

January 17, 2020

Another win for Nnedi! Binti is coming to the small screen

Finally, I can be public about it! We are adapting Binti into a TV series at @hulu. I’m co-writing the pilot with @StacyAmma (HBO’s Watchmen). #Africanfuturism #Binti ?? https://t.co/B4Bb3AGvwD — Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi) January 14, 2020 I think at this point it would be fair to say that Nnedi Okorafor is without a doubt,... Read More

Adaptation, Binti, Nnedi, Television, Wild Seed

Hisbah

January 17, 2020

Maybe Kano can learn a thing or two from Jigawa’s Hisbah board

Hisbah, the para-security organizations created to implement Shari’a law in many of the Northern Nigerian states has gotten a bad rep over the last few years. Particularly in Kano state where the Hisbah board has unfairly targeted LGBT people, tried to legislate and prosecute consensual sexual activity and has been essentially used to police sex... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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