The Film Blog: You should totally see what Bovi did with ‘It’s Her Day’

Bovi Ugboma produced his first film, launched last week, and of course it’s a comedy. We went to the cinemas expecting to be disappointed. We were wrong. ‘It’s Her Day’ is essentially slapstick, but it excels in every single place (and there are several places) that AY’s ’30 Days to Atlanta’ thoroughly failed. (In which... Read More

The Film Blog

Bovi, It's her day, nollywood, Omoni Oboli

September 19, 2016

The Film Blog: We have to disagree with this review of 93 Days

Harry Itie is a smart guy. We like him. He anchors the Entertainment beat on TV Continental. And he runs a great blog. But we vehemently disagree with his review of 93 Days which we finally watched over the weekend. To be honest, we find ourselves looking at him a bit askance, because we went in... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

93 Days, Asa, chimamanda, Harry Itie

September 19, 2016

The Film Blog: We hope Naz Onuzo reads this review – and pays attention

Chinaza Onuzo is clearly one of the leading lights for that project they call New Nollywood. You don’t know him yet. But you should. And soon, anyway, you probably will. He is now part of the awkwardly-named Efikze film collective, essentially a mishmash of the names of the collaborators for The Wedding Party – FilmHouse... Read More

The Film Blog

Chinaza Onuzo, nigeria, Niyi Akinmolayan, Somkele Iyamah Idhalama, TFB, The Film Blog, TIFF

September 19, 2016

The Media Blog: Jason Njoku has made a very, very important move with IrokoX

So, it’s always interesting to follow Jason’s Njoku’s moves – not just because iROKO is a big fish in a very clearly small pond, but also because he shares how his mind works, and even if it’s not the whole truth, it’s much better than anything you get in these parts. He recently announced that... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

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September 19, 2016

Budget Padding Tracker: Ignore Jibrin, he is a psychiatric case – Chief Whip

The Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa on Sunday said Nigerians should ignore the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, stating that he is a psychiatric case. Doguwa told Punch on Sunday while reacting to a recent 117-page letter written by Jibrin to 360 House members, demanding the sack of... Read More

The Legislative Blog, The News Blog

Abdulmumin Jibrin, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, Budget padding, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara

September 18, 2016

The Film Blog: 93 Days got the Oby Ezekwesili stamp of approval

If we weren’t planning to see the biopic 93 Days, now we certainly are. We have been a bit worried. This has been a highly anticipated film. And such an authentically Nigerian story. But it was curious the fact that it launched on Tuesday, and we had seen no reviews yet. For a film with... Read More

Featured, The Film Blog

93 Days, Ebola, movie, nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili, Stella Adadevoh, TIFF

September 17, 2016

[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 admonition/reproach/plea – probably-the-most-conflicted-passage-ever-written. Yesterday, Adeola Akinremi revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari lifted chunks off President Barack Obama’s 2008 acceptance speech. It is extremely heart-breaking. And... Read More

The Presidential Blog

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September 17, 2016

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 is now working hard on finding her space in a fragmented media environment where the media cycle has shortened to precisely 30 seconds. And here... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

Adesuwa Onyenokwe, Bobrisky, donald trump, nigeria, Snapchat king, The Media Blog, TMB, Today's woman, TW Magazine

September 17, 2016

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 already the combative young men and women are at war with their new bosses at Spanish media company, Univision. You’ve got to love the Gawker... Read More

The Media Blog

Gawken, gawker, Hulk Hogan, Nick Denton, The Media Blog, TMB, Tommy Craggs, Univision

September 16, 2016

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 for Tosin Ajibade, founder of Olorisupergal.com on this episode. Together with the host, they talk about everything that’s important in Nigeria’s media space today – Toyin Subair’s ‘confession’... Read More

The Media Blog

cable tv, DSTV, epl, hitv, Ifeoma Areh, Isime Esene, lekan olanrewaju, nigeria, Olorisupergal, Pay TV space

September 15, 2016

[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 Kashamu-labelled sacks of rice. Very Governor Fayose-like! Well, this confirms your guess. Senator Buruji Kashamu has heavily invested in stomach infrastructure. As we know there’s... Read More

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Buruji Kashamu, legislature, photos, sallah, senator

September 15, 2016

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 reflect only well on the relentlessness of citizens, and not on a government that can still have, sometimes fatal gaps in its capacity. So we... Read More

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armed forces, Biu, boko haram, Eromo Egbejule, national security, nigeria, Nigerian Army, north-east, Rabe Abubakar, The Media Blog, TMB

September 14, 2016

[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 dealt with till it becomes a thing of the past. He said the senate will focus on the economy. Managers of the economy will be invited to... Read More

The Legislative Blog

Bukola Saraki, economy, recess, recession, senate

September 14, 2016

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 it. To be honest, until we had to write about it, we didn’t take it too seriously. We should have. It’s clearly a European powerhouse.... Read More

The Media Blog

Buzzfeed, Cosmo, HuffPost, Konbini, OMGVoice, Pulse, The Media Blog, TMB

September 14, 2016

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 newspapers is revealing of DECAY in MEDIA. — Oby Ezekwesili (@obyezeks) September 13, 2016 8. I accepted the apologies from @nigeriantribune & @daily_trust .... Read More

The Media Blog

guild of editors, Media, Naij, nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili, slander, The Media Blog, TMB

September 14, 2016

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 has the scoop on where he goes next. General Electric where he will be doing something with garages and laboratories and (shudders) printers. After the... Read More

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.NET, Media, Osagie Alonge, Pulse, pulse Nigeria, Rich Tanksley, Tunde Kara

September 14, 2016

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 newsroom should keep in mind our longstanding policies on social media. On personal social-media accounts, Times newsroom staffers should avoid editorializing, endorsing candidates or otherwise... Read More

The Media Blog

editorializing, facebook, journalism, journalists, new york times, social media, The Media Blog

September 14, 2016

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 media, or in anything significant, is barely a year old. Tell me about how drastically the world has changed. Osarumen Osamuyi, the engineering graduate from... Read More

The Media Blog

Bankole Oluwafemi, Big Cabal Media, osarumen osamuyi, Tech Cabal, virtual reality, Zikoko

September 13, 2016

[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 at the 71st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Fingers crossed hoping it will get to him. The President will be in New York this week and... Read More

The Presidential Blog

#BBOG, 71st UNGA, economy, Governance, looted funds, president buhari, security, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly

September 13, 2016

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 have revealed their new identities without shame or fear. Most of them are men who now identify with the female gender and will stop at... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Bobrisky, Denrele Edun, gay, LGBT, nigeria, Transgender

September 8, 2016

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 if there ever was. There was one even more ambitious, and just as consequential – and it was NEXT newspapers, founded by Pulitzer-prize winner and... Read More

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234NEXT, Dele Olojede, hitv, ikhide, NEXT, punch, Toyin Subair

September 8, 2016

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 Kaduna’s gold deposits. Founded in 2012, many news platforms across the country have come to respect them for the important, and rare work that they... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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 where you can rehabilitate your image in peace via a thoughtful piece) came for him with these: The ambivalent. Toyin Subair: HiTV 101 If there’s... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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 entrepreneur who wants to do big things (like ELTV, NN24, Channels TV scale big things that require risk, and hard slog) needs to read. HiTV... Read More

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channels tv, DSTV, eltv, government, hitv, local content, Toyin Subair

September 8, 2016

PODCAST: Bobrisky, dangerous gossip blogs and more on The Media Blog Uncensored

The Media Blog

Bobrisky, Ifeoma Areh, Isime Esene, lagos, lekan olanrewaju, nigeria, NulliJuice, Olorisupergal, podcast, The Media Blog, TMB Uncensored, Tosin Ajibade

September 7, 2016

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? We have one take: it’s difficult to confess that one has discovered and is reading a blog like NaijaGistLive.com. Go ahead. Check it out. You... Read More

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gawker, gossip, Linda Ikeji, Media, NaijaGistLive, nigeria, SDK, StellaDimokoKorkus, The Media Blog, TMB

September 6, 2016

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 major part of their model. Which is legitimate of course. The kind of important, dangerous journalism they do (and the extra-judicial journalism, for want of... Read More

Featured, The Media Blog

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September 3, 2016

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. Today: We are on NotJustOk.com NotJustOk is the most popular music download site in Nigeria, at least if you think of the brand. So maybe... Read More

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Ayojay, Don Jazzy, Linda Ikeji, Naijaloaded, notjustok, NotJustOK TV, sticky, TooXclusive, youtube

September 2, 2016

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 and criticism of the paper’s inevitable foibles and errors and mistakes. It’s an act both of hubris and of humility – about the above-boardness of... Read More

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The Film Blog: You should totally see what Bovi did with ‘It’s Her Day’

The Film Blog: We have to disagree with this review of 93 Days

The Film Blog: We hope Naz Onuzo reads this review – and pays attention

The Media Blog: Jason Njoku has made a very, very important move with IrokoX

Budget Padding Tracker: Ignore Jibrin, he is a psychiatric case – Chief Whip

The Film Blog: 93 Days got the Oby Ezekwesili stamp of approval

[The Presidential Blog]: How To Get Away With Plagiarism

The Media Blog: No, we’re not even joking. Adesuwa Onyenokwe is interviewing Bobrisky today

The Media Blog: Former Gawker staff appear not to know that something has happened to them sha

PODCAST: Toyin Subair’s HiTV expose, Nigeria’s PayTV explosion and more on The Media Blog Uncensored

[The Legislative Blog]: Senator Buruji Kashamu is the messiah of Ogun East district

The Media Blog: Is like the Nigerian army don’t want to respect themselves

[The Legislative Blog]: Once recess is over, recession will be packing its bags too

The Media Blog: Konbini.com arrived Nigeria prepared for a media war

The Media Blog: How Oby Ezekwesili came for Naij

The Media Blog: The latest Media Big Boys? Osagie Alonge and Tunde Kara, from Pulse

The Media Blog: The New York Times just made life difficult for all journalists

The Media Blog: Big Cabal’s Osarumen Osamuyi is moving up in the world

[The Presidential Blog]: The President will address the 71st UNGA; and I’ve written his speech

Dear Nigerians, transgenders are here and there’s nothing you can do about it

The Media Blog: 3 tweets about NYT interns that should depress Nigerian journalists

The Media Blog: Toyin Subair has said his own, oya Dele Olojede, it’s your turn to confess

Media Jobs: AfricaCheck is looking for a Nigeria editor

The Media Blog: Nigerians on Twitter (who know the story) have no sympathy for Toyin Subair

The Media Blog: Toyin Subair just took everyone to school (and Heil DSTV!)

PODCAST: Bobrisky, dangerous gossip blogs and more on The Media Blog Uncensored

The Media Blog: Blood of GOD. Have you seen this crazy blog?

The Media Blog: When it comes to top-banner ads, Premium Times is the new LIB

The Media Blog: Beht why na, NotJustOk TV?

The Media Blog: Introducing The YNaija Ombudsman

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