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August 24, 2016

The Media Blog: MTV Base subbed the Nigerian government – and maybe some corporates

The MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA), anchored by MTV Base is for the third year, hosted in South Africa. This is a big deal. Nigeria continues to not take media events seriously (government and brands) – despite the fact that media events like the MAMAs bring global attention, if not immediate investment to a country’s... Read More
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August 24, 2016

The Media Blog: Lai Mohammed and Ambode said plenty things about the media yesterday – and precisely nothing

It’s really frustrating when Nigeria’s leaders speak often about the power and necessity of tourism – and then do actually nothing since Donald Duke was governor to seriously engage the possibility of that potential. Because a huge part of tourism is the media – it’s the art of selling the power of your destination as... Read More
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August 22, 2016

The Media Blog: Did you know Cosmo is fully covering Nigeria? It’s doing a pretty good job – but not enough

Save for BellaNaija, Nigeria doesn’t really have a portal for women – at least one that truly is part and parcel of the culture, and of daily life. There is Woman but it is taking a while to rev up its engine, even though it does important work. In case you have been trying to... Read More
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August 22, 2016

The Media Blog: PopCentral TV is up to something important… but it hasn’t figured it out yet

You hear PopCentral and where does your mind go? They call it a destination for streaming eclectic and premium entertainment. The website looks just as pop it can get. Nicely executed. For brand identity, it’s a 10/10. The whole point of Pop Central TV is a one-stop spot for all the local web series around.... Read More
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August 21, 2016

The Media Blog: No major blog reported Mayowa’s death 2 hours after Twitter rumors – why that’s a very good thing

And that’s a supremely good thing. Whilst our team in-house has joined others across the media to confirm this rumour (in this case, waiting for family confirmation, or at least independent sightings on a matter of huge public interest), we at TMB monitored the major – and even many minor – news, lifestyle and entertainment... Read More
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August 20, 2016

Eye on Ambode: ‘Omo-Onile’ must go, New Pen Cinema fly-over and more (PHOTOS)

Last week on Keeping an Eye on Governor Ambode, he commissioned a new helipad for the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, commenced the training of over 2,000 youths to mark Youth day and more. This week, the governor is not relenting in his strides even as he announces the commencement of the construction of Fly-over bridge... Read More
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August 19, 2016

The Media Blog: Gawker.com is dead and I don’t know what I’m going to do

by Tolu Orekoya YNaija has some times been influenced, like plenty across the world, with the tone, chutzpah and vision of Nick Denton‘s Gawker. As it closes down courtesy of a court case brought by Hulk Hogan, a friend of house Tolu Orekoya shares her – and our – personal grief. Gawker.com is dead. I... Read More
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Kunle Afolayan
August 18, 2016

The Media Blog: On today’s episode of ‘This is not an exclusive’, we present… TrueNollywoodStories

Ugh, beht why TNS? We haven’t paid enough attention to this blog, but we should. It’s doing God’s work in terms of keeping it 100 with Nollywood’s great and small. And it works hard to justify its place at the top of movie reportage. We will be monitoring to see how it grows and how... Read More
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August 18, 2016

The Media Blog: Akah Nnani is probably, finally coming into his own

What’s that awful name of that barely-there show he used to host on TV Continental? Entertainment Splash, we think. Thank God this young man escaped that trap nicely. We would be fooling him if we called him one of the best presenters on that format we have seen since lunch-hour TV became a thing in... Read More
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August 17, 2016

The Media Blog: Jade Osiberu created the magic that’s Ndani TV – and now she is ready for her close-up with Isoken

She did it before with Gidi Up, Ndani TV’s original series that secured a nomination in the AMVCAs in 2015. After nine months of saving up for this movie, scouting for the industry’s best and actual shooting (which might explain why the scripting and directing of Ndani series these days has gone to the toilet?),... Read More
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August 17, 2016

The Media Blog: We don’t get too excited at TMB, but ‘The Wedding Party’ has us excited with a capital ‘E’

Expensive? Yes. Glossy? It’s Mo Abudu, so yes. Star-studded? Like-from-RMD-to-Frank-Donga yes. A-delicious-trailer? Yes-Yes-Yes-Yes-Yes-Yes. The trailer for ‘The Wedding Party’ – the fresh new film from EbonyLife TV is out and it took us some time to really look and decide if the excitement we feel is appropriate for the world-weariness that’s our signature tone on... Read More
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August 15, 2016

The Media Blog: TheCable is on the hunt for new audiences

TheCable is one of our favourite news platforms – the writing has flair, the sensibility is fresh, and they understand the concept of the-news-behind-the-news as an important concept for news in the 21st century. And they have led the way in terms of breaking news and incisive analysis for the two years that they have... Read More
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August 15, 2016

The Media Blog: Someone says this is the difference between new and old media

How Punch reported the news on Linda Ikeji’s new office – rumored total sum, 106million. How the NET reported the same ‘exclusive’. We won’t take eet.   PS: See anything worth talking about on the ins and outs of the media business in Nigeria on TV, radio, print and online (could be news, tweets, photos,... Read More
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August 15, 2016

The Media Blog: Let’s explain to you how EXACTLY Linda Ikeji makes her millions

So now that the news is everywhere, especially in places where the media gossips, that Linda Ikeji has finally gone nuclear and launched everything in every available space, with multi-million naira investments to make sure she wins, the wags are out again: how is she getting the money? Where is she getting the money? Has... Read More
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Linda Ikeji's mansion is worth over N500million | YNaija.com
August 15, 2016

The Media Blog: So Linda Ikeji is finally going nuclear (all of you can now allow her rest)

For years, everyone has been taking panadol for Linda Ikeji’s headache. Why isn’t she creative? Why isn’t she on her own URL? Why is her blog UI, UX and U-anything else still not, uhm, intuitive (incredibly redundant question if bulk of her readers like her as she is)? Why isn’t she building a network of... Read More
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Ambode at the commissioning of the Helipad at LASUTH
August 14, 2016

Eye on Ambode: A new helipad for LASUTH, training for 2,000 youth and more

Governor of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode is making giant strides in Lagos state. This week on Keeping an Eye on Ambode, the governor commissioned a Helipad to facilitate medical evacuation and air ambulance transfer of patients to Trauma Centers on Thursday. Also, to mark the International Youth day on Friday, August 12, the governor revealed that... Read More
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August 12, 2016

The Media Blog: What Biola Alabi did next – already has a Season II

You know Biola Alabi of course. She is the former managing director of MNet responsible for hits from the Africa Magic channel explosion (including, of course, the Yoruba channel) to the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCAs). And you may know that she has launched Biola Alabi Media (with a partner), which is essentially a... Read More
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August 12, 2016

The Media Blog: Financial TV? Arese Ugwu is all over that

Arese Ugwu is a money blogger (sounds suspiciously like ‘money doubler’) and building a personal financial platform (Smart Money Africa) targeted at young people – especially young women. And this has clearly been her year if you pay attention to Instagram. First she hosted a finance workshop targeted at young women that hosted almost a... Read More
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August 11, 2016

Top 12 Countdown, Loose Talk are the most listened to podcasts in Nigeria – and they both have less than 5k at their highest

The Loose Talk podcast has one too many cusswords. In which case of course, its hosts will say ‘yeah that’s deliberate – that’s the kind of show’. To which we would say – yeah we know, but when the F-bombs just feel gratuitous, then it grates rather than gratifies. Anyway, pet peeve out of the... Read More
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August 11, 2016

The Media Blog: The Online TV Wars – GTBank vs UBA vs Access Bank (and Diamond Bank is struggling nearby)

Accelerate TV (owned by Access Bank) is, uhm, accelerating. Sure, its bank-as-media-owner strategy is inspired (to put it gently) by Ndani TV (owned by GTBank). But it’s not taking that gently – its content over the past year has undergone a major makeover – across short dramas, scripted series, event coverage, travel shows, interview shows... Read More
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August 11, 2016

The Media Blog: Guardian TV gets branded content deal with Zenith Bank – but why?

Guardian TV has taken the lead in terms of branded digital TV content in the space – launching a brand new finance series called ‘Your Life, Your Money’, hosted by money blogger Arese Ugwu. Content is built in partnership with Zenith Bank through its Aspire account for undergraduates. That’s significant. So far the only Digital... Read More
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August 11, 2016

The Media Blog: Oreka finally finds her way

Oreka Godis is one of the most talented media talents you will find in the country. But you wouldn’t know it if you weren’t a media insider. And that’s because she’s essentially been off the radar since she left Beat FM in contentious circumstances. She began a late night relationships show on EbonyLife TV but... Read More
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August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: EbonyLife TV has finally figured out it needs to do what it needs to do

Whom we love, we chastise. The bible says something like that. So let it be known that TMB (that’s The Media Blog) is a fan of EbonyLife TV. Stop thinking about the misadventure with Desperate Housewives. Let’s not hate on The Spot today (just today, we promise). There’s more than that to them. What they... Read More
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August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: PartyJollof vs Zikoko: Tracker, Episode 1

So if you pay attention to the underground ‘submarine channel’ of online media, you will know that there is a silent war between entertainment magazines Zikoko and PartyJollof (disclosure: our sister company is an investor in PartyJollof). You wouldn’t know it by looking at the timelines of PartyJollof, but it’s always there when you find... Read More
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August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: Beat FM’s ‘The Handover’ comes to a smartphone screen near you

The Beat 99.9 should be worried. Urban 98.6 has fully taken its space (we will talk about The Legend of Tajudeen Adepetun who owns that network alongside 8 TV stations sometime soon, we promise) in the Lagos radio corner, at the very least. Taxi drivers, Uber drivers, anyone who has a car and drives to... Read More
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August 9, 2016

The Media Blog: TNC is (possibly) finally ready to wear big boy pants

If you’re a part of what they call the mass market, then TNC (TheNakedConvos.com) isn’t something you will neither care about. Which is the plan. But if you’re part of a digitally connected, influence audience, globally savvy (we’re 100% certain this is in their deck) that’s also young, then you’ve heard of them. Especially if... Read More
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August 6, 2016

Eye on Ambode: Lagos governor celebrates 64-year anniversary with RCCG (PHOTOS)

Governor of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode celebrated with the Redeemed Christian Church of God at the New Arena in Redemption camp, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The church, with millions of members spread across the world clocked 64 years and celebrated it with an annual convention spanning from the August 1 to 7. Governor Ambode and his wife... Read More
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