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September 27, 2016

The Media Blog: That’s how the Nigerian Army packed 10 journalists from one media house

The Nigerian Army now suddenly has an interest in the media. Before you start thinking it’s good stuff, let’s put it to you like this: The Nigerian Army is crossing lines and attempting to silence the Nigerian media. First, it was Ahmad Salkida, the journalist who has exclusive access to Boko Haram. He got arrested... Read More
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September 26, 2016

The Media Blog: But let’s say the truth, The Marcy Project is a hot mess

We are very reluctant to use those words ‘hot mess’. To be honest, it’s lazy. And it’s what critics do when they can’t be bothered to actually commit thought to the material they are descending on and actually explain why they think what they are thinking. So we avoid it. Except today, there are no... Read More
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September 26, 2016

[The Presidential Blog]: Did you hear about the President’s book?

Bayo Omoboriowo has a new book about PMB and I am so excited! https://www.instagram.com/p/BKxaAA_DA5E/?taken-by=bayoomoboriowo&hl=en Yes, sir I want to! I was just talking about this with a friend the other day. I just didn’t know Mr Bayo wasn’t going to wait till 2019. I mean, who knows what might happen right? Before we get ahead... Read More
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September 26, 2016

The Media Blog: Lai Mohammed is going to court – over a scandal that doesn’t even make sense

No one is asking our opinion, but if they did, we would tell them the truth: the entire kerfuffle over the ‘Change begins with me’ campaign is ridiculous. First, because the campaign itself is dead on arrival. It’s a hastily conceived, unprofessionally rolled out, accident of governance that terribly mismatches the slow-train messaging of a... Read More
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September 26, 2016

Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (1)

Or journalism. Because is like some of you don’t yet know that you are no longer journalists, and we are all in the business of content now. But that’s a matter for another day. Today, we will begin sharing with you, weekly, links that should put you in the mind of a professional that’s ready... Read More
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September 26, 2016

The Film Blog: In which Kunle Afolayan says he has only made N20m on ‘The CEO’

To be honest, this is Kunle Afolayan’s shtick. It’s confessional film-making – where he takes the viewer through the entire process, from the idea to the scripting, to the fund-raising, through every single challenge he faced, up until the movie hits the screens. By what time, you are completely hooked. You feel this film is... Read More
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September 26, 2016

The Film Blog: Ladies and gentlemen, a tsunami is coming to the cinemas this week

We feel sorry for every Nigerian film that’s in the cinemas this week. We feel sorry for It’s Her Day. And we feel sorry for our favourite Nigerian movie ever – 93 Days. Because something deep and furious will be hitting all 30-something cinemas in Nigeria this week. And it will be hitting everything that... Read More
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September 26, 2016

The Media Blog: Molara Wood and Kadaria Ahmed tag-teamed Uti Nwachukwu – and he came roaring back

So this was what started it. @molarawood but also can’t believe a program like #Jara would promote bleaching @SirUTI @MNet #Disgraceful https://t.co/nn9igqfoYo — Kadaria Ahmed (@KadariaAhmed) September 24, 2016 Molara Wood (you should know her – she is one of Nigeria’s finest culture critics and former arts coverage leader at NEXT) tweeted something ‘intellectual’ about... Read More
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September 25, 2016

The Film Blog: Did you miss the 4 beautiful tweets Aunty Mildred Okwo had for Uncle Charles Novia?

We posted the origin of the wahala without comment earlier. Charles Novia (we knew it was only a matter of time before he talked himself into a buzzsaw) and Uzodinma Okpechi (ordinary one of the brightest lights of Nollywood before cinemas) and, uhm, Moses Ewang (don’t bother). Anyway, both of them were busy talking on... Read More
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September 24, 2016

Our embrace of Bobrisky (and Denrele) proves we’re more tolerant than we like to admit

Two years ago, the National Assembly passed an anti-LGBTI Law to what might be considered ‘critical acclaim’ by Nigerians. Nigerians are a people given to fiercely protecting their own but there was no protection for the LGBTQ Community by Nigerians when then President Goodluck Jonathan signed the bill in 2014. The average Nigerians that chose to... Read More
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September 24, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: Senator Joshua Dariye’s journey to “sainthood” at the APC

Yesterday, amidst the lengthy debate about Senate plans at the Upper Chamber, Senator Joshua Dariye representing Plateau Central announced his decision to defect from the PDP to the APC. The news of Senator Dariye’s decampment did not quite come as a shock to many as the man who is the former Plateau state governor is in... Read More
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September 24, 2016

The Media Blog: NaijaContent may or may not be on to something

You should look out for something called naijacontent.com? Because some of you like to compare anything with something Americans have done, let’s explain it as Netflix. For Nigeria. With less complexity. The pay-off is No 1 website for Nigerian video content – so it essentially helps you aggregate everything that exists anywhere on the vast... Read More
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September 23, 2016

[The Presidential Blog]: The President met with “15 of the best people God ever created” and guess what he did

You guessed right. He complained. Yet Again. About the Nigeria that he met. It appears the President thinks that we do not listen when he speaks. Otherwise how do you explain this whole idea of saying the same thing over and over. So this time it was in New York; before a group of Nigerian... Read More
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September 22, 2016

The Media Blog: Abeg abeg abeg, there is nothing wrong with the New York Post Brangelina cover

People like to be outraged for the flimsiest reasons. Especially on the Internet. Because it’s so easy. Everyone was immediately thinking of Jennifer Aniston when the Brangelina news broke. It’s natural. It makes sense. It doesn’t matter that she doesn’t react. There is context. The New York Post captured that spoken and unspoken zeitgeist. People... Read More
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September 22, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: Plenary ended at 4.21pm…the Nigerian Senate goes hard

Shall we give a resounding applause to the Nigerian Senate for closing plenary at 4.21pm today? It must be a first for the lawmakers as Senate President, Bukola Saraki shared the information via his Twitter handle hours ago. Just finished plenary at 4:21pm, we stayed back to make sure EVERY Senator had the opportunity to... Read More
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September 22, 2016

The Media Blog: The NET says it ‘HAD to’ ask Sean Tizzle if he was bleaching – it HAD to?  

The NET is a site you should respect – it has broken significant stories in Nigerian entertainment, and has conducted respectable experiments in entertainment content across text, video and events. But sometimes, it finds itself terribly confused about what it is – or (again, four fingers might be pointing back into our past here) crossing... Read More
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September 22, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: 5 important things Speaker Dogara said at the House of Reps’ resumption

Nigeria’s House of Representatives resumed from its annual recess yesterday, 21st September and its first sitting turned out to be a very dramatic one what with the massive hailing the Speaker received from the honourables when the budget padding issue was raised. Outside the walls of the chamber, a group of protesters brandished placards demanding... Read More
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September 21, 2016

The Media Blog: Dapo Olorunyomi steps (just a bit) aside at Premium Times

This didn’t make as much of a splash as it should have. Understandable sha – it’s Nigeria after all, where the present has very little knowledge of its provenance. Dapo Olorunyomi is one of Nigerian journalism’s true greats. Almost every important milestone of the past 20 years has his footprints all over it – until... Read More
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September 21, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: Dogara! Dogara!! Dogara!!!

It was theatre in its most crude form at the House of Representatives sitting today. Dogara! Dogara!! Dogara!!! The honourable members of the House of Reps chanted. It’s like when the Yunkai slaves sight the Khaleesi, the mother of dragons and the breaker of chains who bought their freedom from their previous masters and they... Read More
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September 21, 2016

PODCAST: Osagie Alonge, others moving up; banks owning media franchises 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 – Osagie Alonge,... Read More
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September 21, 2016

The Film Blog: These 3 TIFF reviews of ‘76 will leave you with 3 different opinions

One of us had an art teacher once that said there is no good or bad film – only films that you like or don’t like. And the reviews of the plenty-anticipated ’76 that we see from the Toronto International Film Festival more than prove the point. There are clearly as many conclusions as there... Read More
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September 20, 2016

[The Legislative Blog]: “Change will not happen by a slogan” and other things Saraki said at today’s plenary sitting

The  Nigerian Senate resumed today from their seven-week recess and in his welcome speech, Senate President Bukola Saraki made some salient points about the economy and how it can be revived, amongst other things. As it was a pretty lengthy speech, we’ve listed some of the most interesting and noteworthy statements with interjections of how... Read More
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September 20, 2016

The Film Blog: This is how a London paper demolished Brad Pitt

Ready. Set. Dead. This is how London’s City AM reported the news of one Oscar winning star divorcing another Oscar winning star. As in Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. As in, the world’s most nothing-will-ever-come-between-us-as-we-adopt-all-the-world’s-children power couple. As in, Adam and Eve, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinwetalu Agu and Patience Ozokwor, of our dreams. Where do... Read More
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September 20, 2016

The Film Blog: For 93 Days’ Steve Gukas, this must be personal

Everyone had a sneaking suspicion that Steve Gukas was a master storyteller. Unfortunately, ‘A Place in The Stars’ came in with so much promise, so much hype, and proved itself possessed of so much unrealized potential that it came crashing down under the burden of a million expectations. And in the cascade of bad reviews... Read More
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September 20, 2016

The Film Blog: ‘Green White Green’ was the real star of TIFF 2016 – but you didn’t hear about it, because… feferity

In the din of the well made ’93 Days’, the well hyped ‘The Wedding Party’, and the badly-bashed ‘Okafor’s Law’ there was the indie film ‘Green White Green’ with the pensive Ifeanyi Dike Jr as lead. Hear the Screen Daily: “a rousing celebration”. We try to avoid being pedantic at The Film Blog (TFB), but... Read More
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September 20, 2016

The Media Blog: This is where we say ‘Linda Ikeji STUNS’ on the cover of…

You know when it comes to photo stories in every blog these days – celebrities either ‘stun’, ‘sizzle’ or ‘storm’. Well pick your choose with this Linda Ikeji cover on TW magazine. She looks good, she looks different and it expertly wraps up a day she completely owned – from her viral video, to her... Read More
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September 20, 2016

The Film Blog: So is BellaNaija’s Atoke a film critic or not, or just when she says she is?

We love BellaNaija. Family, really. And so, we have to love Atoke. And no reason not to really – she is a fan favourite with the BN audience, with audiences generally, and she has that girl-next-door vibe that’s the soul of blogging. Somehow, that connection didn’t carry through with most of her reporting from the... Read More
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