Before Kaduna-Abuja rail line suffers failure of mismanagement

Passengers in their numbers on Sunday, August 5, 2018 were stranded at the Kaduna station of the newly commissioned Kaduna to Abuja rail services operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation. The enraged passengers that waited to board the 4.00PM trip could not make the trip as tickets were not available. It was later discovered that... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Abuja, kaduna, NRC

August 7, 2018

2019: Political realignment is a reminder our politicians care only about themselves

As it was in 2014, so it is in 2018. At the last count, three Governors, National Assembly members and the Senate President and some other political leaders have moved from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and vice versa. As expected all of them gave several reasons for... Read More

The Legislative Blog

2019, APC, PDP

August 6, 2018

In a bid to woo investors to Edo, Obaseki slashes C – of – O to 50,000

Edo state Governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki has shown time and again that he is fit for the job and concerned primarily with the betterment of the average Edo state indigene. Just about a week ago, we put up an article detailing his new directive to the Edo State Tax collection agency to slash the market... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Edo, Investors, Obaseki

August 6, 2018

Oghenekaro Itene is making her Hollywood debut in the upcoming thriller “Chase”

After making a huge splash in the 2017 Charles Uwagbai-directed epic blockbuster Esohe, distilled as a Nollywood-Hollywood collaboration, Tinsel actress Oghenekaro Itene has blindsided us with Chase – surprise! surprise! – an upcoming Hollywood thriller from American writer/director Michael Matteo Rossi. As seen on her IMDb page, Itene plays Jayla in the movie, which follows... Read More

More, The Film Blog

Chase, Michael Matteo Rossi, Oghenekaro Itene

August 6, 2018

Here’s the teaser for #DoYouKnow, the upcoming series from TIERS

While LGBTQ cinema and representation in Nigeria is in the lower percentile, The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) has been a strong proponent of LGBTQ advocacy through film, television, and documentary. Hell or High Water, Veil of Silence, and the web series Everything In Between are notable works produced by the human rights organisation. In... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

#DoYouKnow, TIERS Nigeria

August 5, 2018

Aguero scores a brace as Man City win Community Shield ahead of woeful Chelsea

Manchester City tactically outclassed and outmatched Maurizio Sarri’s Chelsea in a 2-0 victory in the Community Shield on Sunday. City opened the scoring in the 13th minute after Sergio Aguero latched on to a pass from Phil Foden after he went past the Chelsea defenders with a mazy run. The Cityzens looked comfortable in the... Read More

Editor's Pick, Featured, The Sports Blog

chelsea, man city

August 5, 2018

Here’s the full list of the AMAA 2018 nominations

Announced during the nominations party held on Friday at the Wheatbaker, the Africa Movie Academy Awards unveiled this year’s nominees. Now in its fourteenth year as a reward system for African cinema, I was pleased to see Michael Matthews’ Five Fingers for Marseilles nominated in some categories, and the experimental film Hotel Called Memory. Thanks... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

AMAA, AMAA 2018 Nominations

August 5, 2018

Chelsea, Manchester City set the tone for the Premier League in Community Shield fixture

Pep Guardiola and Maurizio Sarri are great admirers of each other and have publicly professed the love they have for how they like to set their teams up. On Sunday, they will have another chance to square up once more (both managers faced each other in the group stage of last season’s UEFA Champions League)... Read More

Featured, The Sports Blog

chelsea, community shield, man city, Maurizio Sarri, Pep Guardiola

August 5, 2018

National disgrace as African Athletic Championship in Asaba flops

There are a few things that surprise Nigerians and administrative incompetence is not one of them – it has even become a norm. However, what baffles me is when this ‘norm’, this so-called ‘Naija behaviour’ rears its ugly head in international events – ultimately showcasing our shame for the world to see. The latest part... Read More

Featured, The Sports Blog

africa, Asaba, nigeria

August 4, 2018

TRACE Naija is turning President Macron’s visit to The Shrine into a TV special

Back in June, the president of France Emmanuel Macron (still working on my French on this) paid a visit to the New Afrikan Shrine in Lagos. Hosted by Trace Events and Ecobank and tagged A Celebration of African Cultures, it went down in the Shrine’s history as the first time a serving president graced the... Read More

The Media Blog

France, President Emmanuel Macron, Trace Naija

August 4, 2018

We didn’t see Sope Aluko in the new “Venom” trailer and Marvel has some explaining to do

If you are anticipating Marvel’s Venom like me, the first villain in the Spider–Man villain universe, then you must have noticed that the second trailer released recently doesn’t have any scene featuring Sope Aluko. First of all, the trailer narratively builds up on the teasing first footage, intimating us with Tom Hardy as he dually... Read More

The Film Blog

Sope Aluko, venom

August 3, 2018

Education about to suffer another setback as government considers levy for primary and secondary schools

While several stakeholders in the education and outside the sector are calling for an improved funding of the sector and at the same time improve accessibility by all and sundry, it seems the government is thinking otherwise. At the 63rd Ministerial session of the national council of education, a new directive concerning levies for school... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

levy, nigeria, UBEC

August 3, 2018

There’s a new Nollywood pop-up channel on DStv, for you Nollywood lovers

Till date, the best pop-up channel experience I’ve had as a DStv subscriber is the one dedicated to Marvel movies. As someone who watches a lot of television, I find pop-up channels very consuming and bingeable, as long as it’s serving what I want. But having a Nollywood pop-up channel on DStv, unveiled by MultiChoice... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

Multichoice, nollywood, Pop up channel

August 3, 2018

Here’s what Mofe Duncan said to a troll on Instagram who called him fat

In another celebrity-troll engagement on Instagram, Mofe Duncan descended on a troll who recently body-shamed him soon after he posted a picture. But while some celebrities might clapback and keep it moving, Duncan revealed his medical condition called spondylosis, which I have never heard before until now. ☆ So comments like make me realise that... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

mofe duncan

August 2, 2018

This female presidential aspirant insists she’s not a feminist and we are still not over it

On Wednesday, presidential aspirant Eunice Atuejide and founder of the National Interest Party (NIP) declared on Twitter that she’s not a feminist. Which is bitterly funny, and ironic, and also feels like a reckless political subterfuge. The offensive tweet from her account (I’m dead sure she tweeted it herself) was in reaction to a grainy... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

Eunice Atuejide, feminism, twitter.

August 2, 2018

The #MeToo movement will give a lot of people in Nollywood the heat | Nigerian actress, Somkele

If you only discovered Somkhele Idhlama when she won the AMVCA Trailblazer award, I’m sorry to inform you, you’ve barely scratched the surface of how fantastic she is as an actress, model and all around star. Right from her days on Ndani TV’s Gidi Up, Somkhele has brought a depth to every role she’s played,... Read More

Boring trailer for “From Lagos With Love” reminds us that Nollywood is out of ideas

Have you seen the trailer for From Lagos With Love? Don’t worry, you will soon. It is so Nollywood, beguiling in its tone and style. Damilola Adegbite agitatedly telling Jon Ogah that she wants a man that will fight for her, her face scrunched. And Sharon Ooja shaking with excitement as if on the verge... Read More

The Film Blog

Dami Elebe, damilola adegbite, From Lagos With Love, Jon Ogah, Nonso Bassey, Shaffy Bello

August 2, 2018

Here’s your Nollywood movie cinema release schedule for August

If anything, this year’s Nollywood movie release timeline has been something of a joke. Egregiously bad movies keep flooding the cinemas, caked in the same themes. Lara and the Beat was not what we expected, Cheta Chukwu’s PayDay was just fluff and we still don’t know when Guyn Man will be released, initially scheduled for... Read More

The Film Blog

From Lagos With Love, Klippers, Moms at War, Seven and a Half Dates, The Washerman

July 31, 2018

NAPTIP’s iReport App is a good way to combat human trafficking

The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in commemoration of the 2018 World Day against Human Trafficking and the fifteen years anniversary of the agency has launched the “NAPTIP iReport App”. At a press conference on Monday, July 30, 2018, the Director General of the agency, Julie Okah- Donli said the app... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

NAPTIP, nigeria, technology

July 31, 2018

Here’s a Twitter user’s thread of sugar daddy/mummy sites for sugar babies

“Are you young, agile and ready to be killed with sweetness?” begins the intro of a concise Twitter thread that caught my eye recently. Readily purporting to be a useful resource on the sugar daddy/mummy dating landscape right from the first tweet, the target dating demographic are obviously the sugar babies. And, well, prospective babies... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

OnyiiBekeh, Sugar babies, Sugar daddy

July 31, 2018

One action is all it takes to turn Nigerian football around

Over the past week, I have been pondering a lot on what to put up as an article, and a new perspective and outlook for Nigerian football. Then it struck me, rather lazily when I was walking down the corridor of my house. All the great marvels and wonders man has ever achieved were based... Read More

Featured, The Sports Blog

nff, nigeria

July 31, 2018

Emmanuel Iduma tells of his experiences as a sojourner on ‘A Stranger’s Pose’

Memoirs have become quite a thing in Nigeria as the vacuum for literature that is neither fiction or largely autobiographical grows. It is an indication of our growing tastes as a reading nation, especially for narratives that centre us Nigerians and our experiences. You see this shift in the number of personal blogs and vlogs... Read More

The Media Blog

A stranger's pose, Emmanuel Iduma, travel memoir

July 30, 2018

Pleased to inform you that CJ Obasi’s “Mami Wata” has been selected into the Ouaga Film Lab

Mami Wata, the black-and-white, supernatural thriller coming from genre director CJ Obasi, is inching towards becoming a fully-realised program. Still crowdfunded via Indiegogo, Obasi recently announced on social media that his movie has been accepted into the Ouaga Film Lab. We are very pleased to announce that our feature film project MAMI WATA @mamiwatamovie has... Read More

The Film Blog

CJ Obasi, Mami Wata, Ouaga Film Lab

July 30, 2018

Seun Onigbinde’s 22 questions is a must-read for every presidential aspirant

Seun Onigbinde, co-founder of the civic-tech organisation, BudgIT over the weekend posed what he termed, “the 22 existential questions Nigeria can’t avoid” to ignore if it desires to achieve greatness. In a thread on his Twitter page, the social entrepreneur took his audience covering issues bordering on the economy, education, health, power, security, agriculture and entertainment sectors.... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

2019 Elections, Budgit, manifesto, Seun Onigbinde

July 29, 2018

Bryan Okwara’s clapback at this troll on his sexuality will leave you rooting for him

I live on celebrity clapbacks on social media. More often than not, they show a side to celebrities that reminds us that they are humans. But clapbacks are an art form by themselves, as seen in the savage style of celebrities like Chrissy Teigen, who culturally has been regarded as the “Clapback Queen.” On the... Read More

The Media Blog

Bryan Okwara, sexuality, troll

July 29, 2018

You won’t be able to forward content to more than 20 people, thanks to new restrictions from WhatsApp

Creating new rules or enforcing old ones have become a familiar act by social media platforms. Facebook, Instagram, and even recently Twitter have tried to bring decorum and civility into our internet culture. The latest in this regulatory check is WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service that has set a limit on forwarding messages following the... Read More

The Media Blog

Central India, WhatsApp

July 29, 2018

Rick Famuyiwa is making Disney’s first African princess movie “Sadé” and we are here for it

Disney’s catalogue of properties, especially its princess-y fairytales marketed towards children, have a heavy stroke of white characters as leads. Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Aurora and, excuse the pun, Snow White. Much has been said about Shuri being a Disney princess in Marvel’s Black Panther, but this thread on Quora smartly dispels that idea. And perhaps... Read More

The Film Blog

disney, Rick Famuyiwa, Sade

July 28, 2018

BB Sasore is looking for a second unit director for his upcoming movie and it could be you

The next time you’ll hear about director and writer BB Sasore, on a big scale that is, it will be for his upcoming faith-based, Christmas movie God Calling. Sasore is known for works like Before 30, the television series about the pressures of marriage especially on women and the farcical, supernatural comedy Banana Island Ghost.... Read More

The Film Blog

BB Sasore, God Calling

July 28, 2018

Islam, blasphemy and the Nigerian Law School

It was reported last week that some Muslim students of the Nigerian Law School Lagos campus attempted to lynch a colleague of theirs last week for writing a blasphemous article against prophet Mohammed and it was nipped in the bud by security agencies. After much stress, I was able to lay my hands on the... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

blasphemy, islam, law school

July 27, 2018

#ThursdayTalks discusses the June 12, 1993 presidential election and the lessons for advocacy

The June 12, 1993 presidential election will remain a historical reference the world over when a discuss centres around ‘free and fair elections‘. There were antecedents and of course, outgrowths after the election was annulled but, that will not take anything off the fact that the election affected the Nigerian political sphere in more ways... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Ayo Obe, Chuks Ojidoh, Thursday Talks

Before Kaduna-Abuja rail line suffers failure of mismanagement

2019: Political realignment is a reminder our politicians care only about themselves

In a bid to woo investors to Edo, Obaseki slashes C – of – O to 50,000

Oghenekaro Itene is making her Hollywood debut in the upcoming thriller “Chase”

Here’s the teaser for #DoYouKnow, the upcoming series from TIERS

Aguero scores a brace as Man City win Community Shield ahead of woeful Chelsea

Here’s the full list of the AMAA 2018 nominations

Chelsea, Manchester City set the tone for the Premier League in Community Shield fixture

National disgrace as African Athletic Championship in Asaba flops

TRACE Naija is turning President Macron’s visit to The Shrine into a TV special

We didn’t see Sope Aluko in the new “Venom” trailer and Marvel has some explaining to do

Education about to suffer another setback as government considers levy for primary and secondary schools

There’s a new Nollywood pop-up channel on DStv, for you Nollywood lovers

Here’s what Mofe Duncan said to a troll on Instagram who called him fat

This female presidential aspirant insists she’s not a feminist and we are still not over it

The #MeToo movement will give a lot of people in Nollywood the heat | Nigerian actress, Somkele

Boring trailer for “From Lagos With Love” reminds us that Nollywood is out of ideas

Here’s your Nollywood movie cinema release schedule for August

NAPTIP’s iReport App is a good way to combat human trafficking

Here’s a Twitter user’s thread of sugar daddy/mummy sites for sugar babies

One action is all it takes to turn Nigerian football around

Emmanuel Iduma tells of his experiences as a sojourner on ‘A Stranger’s Pose’

Pleased to inform you that CJ Obasi’s “Mami Wata” has been selected into the Ouaga Film Lab

Seun Onigbinde’s 22 questions is a must-read for every presidential aspirant

Bryan Okwara’s clapback at this troll on his sexuality will leave you rooting for him

You won’t be able to forward content to more than 20 people, thanks to new restrictions from WhatsApp

Rick Famuyiwa is making Disney’s first African princess movie “Sadé” and we are here for it

BB Sasore is looking for a second unit director for his upcoming movie and it could be you

Islam, blasphemy and the Nigerian Law School

#ThursdayTalks discusses the June 12, 1993 presidential election and the lessons for advocacy

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