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[The Presidential Blog]: How To Get Away With Plagiarism
“If anything goes wrong, I will take responsibility, and I will fix it. That is what it means to lead”. This is my premise. It is where I start this…
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The Media Blog: No, we’re not even joking. Adesuwa Onyenokwe is interviewing Bobrisky today
We can't help you if you are in the media and you don't know Adesuwa Onyenokwe. Icon of the talk show format, with One on One and Today's Woman, she…
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The Media Blog: Former Gawker staff appear not to know that something has happened to them sha
You know we love Gawker here. So we keep keeping tabs, even though it’s not a Nigerian company. It's only been a month since power changed hands at Gawker, and…
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PODCAST: Toyin Subair’s HiTV expose, Nigeria’s PayTV explosion and more on The Media Blog Uncensored
Ifeoma Areh is creative director of Wildflower PR & Company, Lekan Olanrewaju is a scriptwriter (credits including Tinsel and Hotel Majestic), and Isime Esene, managing editor of YNaija.com stands in…
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[The Legislative Blog]: Senator Buruji Kashamu is the messiah of Ogun East district
Fellow Nigerians, What comes to mind when you see a crowd this large in Nigeria? A religious convention? Voters at an election ground? Packs of Dangote salt and Senator Buruji…
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The Media Blog: Is like the Nigerian army don’t want to respect themselves
Plenty of bad news have emerged from reporters and storytellers focused relentlessly on the tragedy of the north - famine, institutional abandonment, official theft, recklessness. Admittedly, even the positive stories…
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[The Legislative Blog]: Once recess is over, recession will be packing its bags too
In a Sallah speech, Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has assured Nigerians that upon resumption, the upper chamber will begin drawing up ways to ensure that the economic recession is…
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The Media Blog: Konbini.com arrived Nigeria prepared for a media war
Konbini.com, launched in 2008 in perhaps is a global media company with a presence in France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United States, and now, Nigeria. You hadn’t heard of…
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The Media Blog: How Oby Ezekwesili came for Naij
So, legacy media houses have been taking turns making a fool of themselves recently. 9. This 3rd apology within 3 weeks for 3 separate malicious & slanderous publication by Nigerian…
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The Media Blog: The latest Media Big Boys? Osagie Alonge and Tunde Kara, from Pulse
Last week we updated you on Rich Tanksley. Former head honcho at Pulse Nigeria, who took the unrefined and made it gold – and his departure in October. Now, everyone…
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The Media Blog: The New York Times just made life difficult for all journalists
Actually they didn’t ‘just’, it’s a reminder. But we can’t imagine living under these conditions. As we enter the home stretch of the presidential campaign, all of us in the…
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The Media Blog: Big Cabal’s Osarumen Osamuyi is moving up in the world
In another life, many many moons ago, it would almost be inconceivable that we would be here writing about the ‘big career moves’ of a below-25-year-old whose career in the…
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[The Presidential Blog]: The President will address the 71st UNGA; and I’ve written his speech
I'll be the first to admit that my heading is a little misleading. It's for good reason. This is an urgent message the President needs to see before his session…
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Dear Nigerians, transgenders are here and there’s nothing you can do about it
The Nigerian society is quietly witnessing the birth of a new breed of transgenders, a trend that hardly existed few years back. Since the year began, a few young Nigerians…
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The Media Blog: 3 tweets about NYT interns that should depress Nigerian journalists
That is all.
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The Media Blog: Toyin Subair has said his own, oya Dele Olojede, it’s your turn to confess
Everyone in the media industry that pays attention to online conversation has been talking about Toyin Subair’s significant opus on why he failed with HiTV – an ambitious media experiment…
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Media Jobs: AfricaCheck is looking for a Nigeria editor
Africa Check got a bit popular in this market for its story correcting (another) of Kaduna governor, Nasir el-Rufai’s incorrect (some people would say wild) claims - this time about…
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The Media Blog: Nigerians on Twitter (who know the story) have no sympathy for Toyin Subair
So high-profile media entrepreneur, best known for the high-profile failure of HiTV, Toyin Subair wrote this. (We tl;dr-ed it for you here). And Nigerians on Twitter (because Nigeria is not America…
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The Media Blog: Toyin Subair just took everyone to school (and Heil DSTV!)
The former chief executive officer of the failed HiTV (High Television, for long) put up a post on LinkedIn in August that we just came across and that every media…
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PODCAST: Bobrisky, dangerous gossip blogs and more on The Media Blog Uncensored
Ifeoma Areh is creative director of Wildflower PR & Company, Lekan Olanrewaju is a scriptwriter (credits including Tinsel and Hotel Majestic), and Isime Esene, managing editor of YNaija.com stands in…
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The Media Blog: Blood of GOD. Have you seen this crazy blog?
How has no one sued them to court? How has no one attempted to shut it down? How has no one noticed to bring everyone’s attention to the mainstream media?…
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The Media Blog: When it comes to top-banner ads, Premium Times is the new LIB
We never seem to talk about folks like Premium Times and Sahara Reporters when we speak of online media revenue models. Maybe for good reason, seeing as grants are a…
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The Media Blog: Beht why na, NotJustOk TV?
Mobile internet data these days is expensive o. And Nigerians don’t have time for anything that doesn’t really work. So we wonder about anyone who isn’t reaching for the stars.…
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The Media Blog: Introducing The YNaija Ombudsman
We have always liked the tradition of newspaper Public Editors. The New York Times’ Margaret Sullivan was particular a favourite of ours. They serve as an Ombudsman, taking on-board review…
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The Media Blog: This Premium Times interview leaves us a little – actually, a lot – uncomfortable
We read this interview in Premium Times 6 days ago that worried us – it worried us because it is wrong. But it also worried us because Premium Times usually…
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The Media Blog: Rich Tanksley is leaving Pulse – and that somehow makes us sad
You don’t know Rich Tanksley. And frankly, if you’re just a consumer of the media, it doesn’t really matter. But if you’re maniacally following who’s up and who’s down in…
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The Media Blog: CNN didn’t do anything wrong
Nigerians have been all over tne matter of CNN’s coverage of Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Nigeria. The headline was innocuous enough: “Mark Zuckerberg makes first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa”. ;
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PODCAST: We gathered 4 media experts to talk about everything that happened in Nigerian media last week
Ifeoma Areh is creative director of Wildflower PR & Company, Lekan Olanrewaju is a scriptwriter (credits including Tinsel and Hotel Majestic), and Tosin Ajibade is founder of Olorisupergal.com. Together with…
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The Media Blog: Ifan, the stylist just launched a magazine – but nobody has seen it yet
If you work in at that intersection of digital and fashion media, or if you are blogger who really know whats going on, then you know Ifan (Ifeanyi Michael). He…
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The Media Blog: Have you seen Folorunsho Alakija’s second Forbes cover?
Does Folorunsho Alakija have something she is selling (other than fuel for oyinbo people to drink) these days? She is at every other event. Giving an interview to every other…
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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