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October 31, 2016

Reading material: For those who work in media content (6)

Because sometimes, you’re here today and gone tomorrow. (RIP Vine) Read. It’s 2016, nobody is going to let you get away with blatant lies. (Especially you, Mr. Trump.) Read. You’d never think it, but a horror TV show has a lot to say about the media today. Read. They keep saying video is the future.... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 29, 2016

Eye on Ambode: Lagos is Africa’s fifth largest economy, Deep seaport project underway in Badagry and more

It’s another edition of Eye on Ambode. Here, we bring to you a recap of some of the week’s activities of Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. So here are some of the things you should know from this past week: Governor Ambode received a delegation from the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) this week. The... Read More
Featured, The Alausa Blog
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October 29, 2016

Movie review: Oloibiri is not the definitive Niger Delta narrative

by Okon Ekpo As we were taught in school, oil was first discovered in Nigeria in commercial quantities in a sleepy little village in Rivers state named Oloibiri. As events have proven, that discovery has been both gift and curse as it has enriched the nation’s coffers immeasurably, but plunged the host community and others... Read More
The Film Blog
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October 28, 2016

The Sexuality Blog: Let’s explain why what happened this week was bigotry

by Chi Ibe First, let’s take you through dictionary definitions: According to Merriam-Webster, simple and full definitions: 1. Full Definition of bigot: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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October 28, 2016

The Media Blog: Our new fav show? The Real Househelps of Kawangware! 

How many minutes until we say something like: why don’t we see such ingenuity when we choose to ‘copy’ foreign formats in this market? The Real Househelps of Kawangware takes an American reality TV trope and gives it an authentic Kenyan narrative. Where Americans have The Real Housewives of Somewhere or the Other. The producers... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 28, 2016

The Sexuality Blog: This week, Nigeria’s civil society took a bold stand – and it should impress you

We assume, if you’re the kind of person who reads YNaija.com, you know that this week, Idrs Okuneye, who you would know as Bobrisky, served up a storm, without necessarily doing anything. He was invited to speak about Unusual Engagement on New Media – a subject on which he, with his 150,000 daily views on... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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October 27, 2016

The Media Blog: That’s how they captured the ‘co-founder’ of NaijaGistLive.com

In today’s episode of What A Major Wawu, they say they have caught the founder of the notorious NaijaGistLive.com – and they caught him for, predictably, blackmail. They say his social media identity is Baudex, he is 23, and that he tried to do remote control with Femi Otedola and his wife. Which is apparently... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 27, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: Let’s talk a bit about street begging now that the Senate is interested

“Sister, i’m going to Mushin and i lost my wallet. Can you please help me with 100 naira?” This is the same line that we’ve had to listen to from the lot of beggars on the streets of Lagos but these ones are on an entirely different level. They are the professionals. With street begging... Read More
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October 26, 2016

The Media Blog: Naij.com just launched an interesting network – except for one small problem

Naij.com made an announcement: a new platform that will enable it aggregate content from all over the blogosphere to be published on their website and app. It’s called the Naij.com Blogger Network. Content from any blog owner -from writers to photographers and everyone in between. To be sure, Pulse and Naij are doing the Nigerian... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 26, 2016

The Sexuality Blog: 2 tweets give the proper answer on Bobrisky 

Alder Consulting is a strategy and consulting firm in Nigeria, whose well-respected chief executive tweets about sex, and relationships regularly. A member of the team was invited to a new media and governance conference. Because cross-dresser Idris Okuneye (Bobrisky) was invited, they pulled out, via a press release this morning: The inclusion of Bobrisky unfortunately... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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October 26, 2016

The Media Blog: 11 questions to help you understand the TV digital switch over

We realize many people, including very many media professionals, are deeply confused about what exactly Nigeria’s television digital switch over means. So, as we promised last week, we got a professional, who was deeply involved in the process under the former director general of the National Broadcasting Commission, but sadly refuses to be named, to... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 26, 2016

The Media Blog: Agatha Amata is one of only two women who own TV channels – and Rave TV is back on air

It went off StarTimes for a bit, but no one ever got rich counting out Agatha Amata. The presenter and producer of the almost 15-years-running Inside Out with Agatha has bounced back with the station now on GoTV channel 112. RAVE TV NOW ON GOTV, CHANNEL 112 – Rave TV https://t.co/wLM3XzoDUk — Insideout wit Agatha... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 26, 2016

Reading material: For those who work in media content (5)

Let’s go! 1. The death of print media has been greatly, and deathly exaggerated. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/newspapers-digital-first-214363#ixzz4NP0T8Ny8 2. Newspapers are paying a price for speaking their minds in America. http://www.poynter.org/2016/this-newspaper-is-paying-a-price-for-endorsing-donald-trump/434972/ 3. Sometimes, journalism takes your dignity. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681 http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/301553-sorry-not-sorry-politicos-thrush-doubles-down-on-podesta-emails 4. The media and the political establishment are in cahoots – unavoidably. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/john-podesta-emails-wikileaks-press-214367 5. Someone got veeeeeery excited about... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 26, 2016

The Media Blog: People of God, please which one is Bing TV?

So we we minding our business when we saw this in the press release for Innoson Group’s latest investment – in Cable TV infrastructure, in collaboration with some Chinese people: “Also, an investment of $100 million to establish technology-based Direct-To-Home Digital Bing Television Stations in Nigeria, among others.” Digital Bing? Digital Bing? We have never... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 25, 2016

The Sexuality Blog: Nigerian menswear designers and the so-called ‘gay agenda’

A journalist walked up to me recently and asked if I had noticed how Nigerian male designers were boldly throwing taboo to the wind. Taboo? Hmm… I mean they are definitely reaching places never threaded before and are thinking outside the box but I’m not sure I will describe that as “throwing taboos to the... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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October 24, 2016

Guest Post: We attended Day 1 of the Eko International Film Showcase – to watch American films

We were invited by the organisers of the Eko International Film Festival to watch four American documentaries as part of the American Film Showcase. The documentaries promised to speak to the times we live in today. But because too many promise and fail films have made us cynical so we had no idea to expect from this event.... Read More
The Film Blog
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October 24, 2016

The Media Blog: So we dropped by the last day of Africast

Africast 2016 ended on Thursday. Yes, I know you didn’t know even though you work in the media or in TV. Because the people at the National Broadcasting Commission and the Nigerian Television Authority still don’t understand the place of a new generation (call it New Television). We almost missed it. But we caught the last day,... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 24, 2016

The Media Blog: DStv is not afraid of Nigerians again, you know

In Kenya, because they have sense, they have begun to move away from DStv and its high subscription rates. The company had announced an increase in price due to operation costs, so the customers in that same market, decided to move to other options – and save DStv more operations. Less operations = less operation... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 23, 2016

[The Presidential blog]: See what Minister Lai Mohammed has been up to [PHOTOS]

While the rest of the leadership have been taking one side or the other in the “cabal” can of worms that Mrs Aisha Buhari opened up in her interview with the BBC Hausa service couple of weeks ago, Minister Lai Mohamed has been conspicuously silent. Some of our own cabals here at YNaija (*side eye to those... Read More
The Presidential Blog
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October 23, 2016

Eye on Buhari: The President reunites with his dear daughters and more

Following the roller coaster week that President Muhammadu Buhari had last week, we were not sure what to expect this week. It could have gone either way with him finally apologising for his misogynist comments or choosing to continue to defend them. Well much as we hoped, neither happened. Instead, it was a week full... Read More
Featured, The Presidential Blog
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October 23, 2016

[The Presidential blog]: Bringing the anti-corruption crusade to a campus near you

What’s the motto of this administration? That’s right, anti-corruption. It started with pending issues like James Ibori’s, and we’ve all had to bear witness to how much the Buhari-led administration is invested in fighting corruption in Nigeria. You can complain about the recession all you want. This government is committed to seeing an end to all... Read More
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October 22, 2016

The Media Blog: ‘Titi K’ just told Genevieve one hell of a story

Tinsel’s Titi K was absolutely one of our favorite characters on Tinsel before we stopped watching the soap entire because we value our sanity. But we just finished this remarkable tale about her battle with autoimmune rheumatic disease called Scleroderma, and wow. Wow, not in pity, because she continues to live a life that inspires.... Read More
The Media Blog
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October 22, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: Usman thinks Hon Jibrin has lost his political relevance…maybe we agree

Who is Usman? Another lawmaker? A minister? A government official? Usman is none of any of the options listed. Usman is a political observer and a writer, he’s genuinely concerned about the state of political affairs in the country. More importantly, Usman is upset about how the budget padding scandal has been handled (or not),... Read More
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