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The trailer for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s upcoming drama ”Farming” is here, and it’s compelling and haunting

Back in 2017, Variety reported the news about Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s British drama Farming. Based on Agbaje’s autobiographical story, Farming centers Enitan (Damson Idris), a young Nigerian boy drawn into the warped world of a racist skinhead gang in 1980s England. Per the plot synopsis, Enitan is “farmed out” by his parents to a white British... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Damson Idris, farming, Genevieve Nnaji, Kate Beckinsale

Drums, attitude, spirit: Afrobeats is alive on Beyoncé’s ”The Lion King: The Gift”

Beyoncé just might be the necessary ingredient to rocket Afrobeats into the mainstream US music scene,” Quartz Africa wrote days ago after it was revealed that The Lion King album would feature Wizkid, Burna Boy, Yemi Alade, Shatta Wale, Tiwa Savage, Mr. Eazi and Tekno. These immaculate selection of Afrobeats artistes was Beyonce (who produced and... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

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Lakeith Stanfield set to star in adaptation of American-Nigerian chef Kwame Onwuachi’s memoir, “Notes From a Young Black Chef”

Lakeith Stanfield of the Sorry To Bother You and Atlanta fame is set to star play the lead role in the adaptation of Notes from a Young Black Chef, based on the 2019 memoir by Nigerian-American chef Kwame Onwuachi. Notes from a Young Black Chef chronicles Onwuachi’s upbringing in the Bronx, his adolescent journey to Nigeria... Read More

Culture, Featured, The Film Blog

Kwame Onwuachi, Lakeith Stanfield, Notes from a Young Black Chef

The trailer for time-travel thriller ”Don’t Let Go” has David Oyelowo trying to solve a murder

Blumhouse has been a name synonymous with horror blockbusters over the years. Halloween, Ma, The First Purge, Unfriended: Dark Web, to name a few. Now, the studio has recruited David Oyelowo in its upcoming high-concept story that features an uncle and a niece trying to solve across time. Interested? Confused? Want to know more? Check... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

Blumhouse Productions, David Oyelowo, Don't Let Go, Storm Reid

Four female housemates evicted from #BBNaija still doesn’t mean that women have to support each other, dear Don Jazzy

On Sunday night, two female housemates Ella and Kimoprah were evicted from the new season of Big Brother Naija, making it a total of four women already eliminated from the show. Mind you, women have been the only ones eliminated since evictions started two weeks ago – Ella and Kimoprah joining Avala and Isilomo –... Read More

BBNaija, Big Brother Naija, Don Jazzy, Female Housemates

The video for Zlatan and Tiwa Savage’s ”Shotan” is party-ready

It’s great that Tiwa Savage is an omnipresent pop star on continent, further demonstrating this by make that big move from Marvin to Universal Music Group back in May. As much as she’s a good solo act, she doles out collaborations and features quite frequently. On the Spellz-produced Zlatan single Shotan, she tells a potential... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

Shotan, tiwa savage, Zlatan

In Case You Missed It: On Apple Music’s Up Next Artist interview, Burna Boy reveals he didn’t realise his music had ”popped” until performing in Eastern Nigeria | Anthony Joshua visits Makoko Community

On Apple Music Up Next Artist interview, Burna Boy was interviewed by Beats 1’s Julie Adenuga on his forthcoming album Africa Giant, and the moment he realised his career was blowing up. The latter he explained when he performed in 2014 in a stadium in Eastern Nigeria. According to Burna Boy, Easterners tend to gravitate... Read More

Culture, Featured, The News Blog

Anthony Joshua, Burna boy, Makoko community

This Week In Music: Lady Donli’s ”Suffer Suffer,” Niniola’s ”Boda Sodiq,” Tiwa Savage and Zlatan’s ”Shotan” and more

Because he has nothing better to do with his time, every Saturday, Bernard Dayo brings you the most awe-inspiring, confounding, addictive or otherwise hilarious moments from the week in music. This week: Lady Donli is here to enjoy on ”Suffer Suffer” Lady Donli stars as ”Cash Mummy” in the video for her new single Suffer... Read More

Culture, Featured, The Music Blog

Chris Brown, Davido, Lady Donli, Niniola, tiwa savage, Zlatan

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s men are ”masters” over women misogyny, Senator Remi Tinubu vs Elisah Abbo, Super Eagles beat South Africa in #AFCON2019 quarter-final – Here’s everything that happened this week

This week was a rollercoaster of buzzy stories, from politics to culture and while we routinely reported each of these stories from our YNaija desk, here’s a roundup of everything that went down in the past six days and are still trending today: Senator Remi Tinubu vs Elisah Abbo During the Senate investigative session presided... Read More

Culture, Featured, The News Blog

AFCON 2019, AKA, Bafana bafana, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Senator Remi Tinubu vs Elisah Abbo, south africa, super eagles

Will a woman win the #PepperDem season of #BBNaija? Against the female housemates, the odds are already stacked

The fourth season of Big Brother Naija, Pepper Dem, has barely stayed two weeks on our screens but there’s already enough talking points. The 21 housemates are good looking – especially the men – and fans were initially disgruntled that the show was sloshed with foreign accents, the lingering theory that housemates from the diaspora... Read More

Culture, Featured

BBNaija, Female Housemates, Khafi, Pepper Dem, Tacha

Nigerians troll rapper AKA on Twitter over Super Eagles’ triumphant victory against South Africa

We are still basking in the euphoria of the Super Eagles thrashing South Africa’s Bafana Bafana 2-1 in the 2019 African Cup of Nations, a quarter-final clash that saw the South Africa get eliminated from the tournament. Rapper AKA, who incidentally is from South Africa, really didn’t hide his disappointment about the match. I have... Read More

Culture, The Sports Blog

#TotalAFCON2019, AFCON, AKA, super eagles

Beverly Naya is the heroine we deserve in the action-packed trailer for ”Lockdown”

Beverly Naya is a whole different vibe in the trailer for Lockdown, a heist thriller directed by Ladi Akinyosoye and produced by Labake Akinyosoye. The movie itself is one of the few genre films of the year so far, an interesting departure from the churn of hollow comedies flooding our theaters. “We wanted to make... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

Beverly Naya, Kalu Ikeagwu, Kelechi Udegbe, Labake Akinyosoye, Ladi Akinyosoye, Linda Ejiofor, lockdown

New teaser of ”The Set Up” shows Jim Iyke in all shades of being a bad boy

The trailer for Niyi Akinmolayan’s The Set Up was released last week, and it gave us a full look at young drug smuggler Chike (Adesua Etomi-Wellington) who gets more than she bargains for and is drawn into a web when she is hired by a socialite (Jim Iyke) to assist with his scheme to marry... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

bad boy, Jim Iyke, Niyi Akinmolayan, The Set Up

Kemi Adetiba wants to know if you’d watch a Nollywood horror movie in the cinema

The first thing that came to my mind after seeing Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys is how beautiful it would be to have Adetiba direct a horror movie. King of Boys, released last year and with a hint at a possible sequel, has been a reference point to good Nollywood filmmaking, never mind that the... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

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Do you miss ”OGA! Pastor”? Here’s how we think NdaniTV can bring the show back

In June, NdaniTV premiered OGA! Pastor, a show that brought out my negative bias as another bourgeoisie, Nollywood-adjacent spectacle even without seeing the trailer. OGA! Pastor is NdaniTV’s latest installment after their flagship show Skinny Girl In Transit ran for five seasons, and revolves around the philandering cleric Pastor Deoye Geshinde (Uche Arukwe), who makes a... Read More

Culture, Opinion

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Uche Jombo called out Bleacher Report for stealing a Nollywood movie clip and we just had to stan

With erstwhile comedic duo Aki and Pawpaw re-entering the culture as memes, their new-found appeal has left the world starstruck. The internet is currently glazed with their funny ramblings which are always meme-ready, derived from their old catalogue of Nollywood movies. Pawpaw (Osita Iheme) is the internet’s main obsession though, bobbing on our timelines and... Read More

Aki and Pawpaw, Bleacher Report, Chinedu Ikedieze, Lakers, Osita Iheme, Uche Jombo

This Week In Music: Odunsi’s ”Star Signs,” Phyno’s ”The Bag,” Niniola’s ”Boda Sodiq” and more

Because he has nothing better to do with his time, every Saturday, Bernard Dayo brings you the most awe-inspiring, confounding, addictive, or otherwise hilarious moments from the week in music. This week: The best of both worlds on Odunsi’s ”Star Signs” The world Odunsi The Engine builds in the video for Star Signs, off his... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

Mr Eazi, Niniola, Odunsi the Engine, Phyni, Star Signs, Supernova, The Bag, This Week In Music, Timaya

”The Set Up” is one of the most anticipated movies of 2019, and now we have a trailer

The Set Up is Niyi Akinmolayan’s followup to the bombastic comedy Chief Daddy, a movie that I still remember for its histrionics. Before now, the teaser for The Set Up gave us a glimpse into the film. With the trailer released recently, we have a better picture of the mood and characters and I have... Read More

Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Ayoola Ayolola, Jim Iyke, Niyi Akinmolayan, The Set Up, Tina Mba

Nigerians are trolling Rema for saying his song ”Spiderman” is about saving the youth

In just a short time, Mavin Global artiste Rema has risen to be a Gen Z sweetheart. The 18-yr-old burgeoning star commands loyalty and stanship with two body of works already released in 2019, turning him into a Wizkid-adjacent sensation with the potential to be massive. That said, Rema has steadily been receiving some criticisms... Read More

#MoreThanKinksAndLocs: Loctitude’s Ade Balogun tells her story

The fourth episode of #MORETHANINKANDLOCS features Ade Balogun. Ade Balogun is a loctician, an architect and a hustler. 10 years ago while practicing as an architect, Ade decided to lock her hair mostly due to the convenience of not having to worry about making her hair. For Ade, people see her dreads as beautiful and... Read More

MoreThanKinksAndLocs

This Week In Music: Timaya’s ”2 Stoopid,” Niniola’s ”Boda Sodiq,” Mr Eazi’s ”Supernova,” and more

Because he has nothing better to do with his time, each Sunday, Bernard Dayo brings you the most awe-inspiring, confounding, addictive, or otherwise hilarious moments from the week in music. This week: Naira Marley’s ”Soapy” is about male masturbation…well most of it Three things: First, Soapy is Naira Marley’s first single out from prison and... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

2 Stoopid, Boda Sodiq, Mr Eazi, Naira Marley, Niniola, Sarz, Soapy, Soapy dance, This Week In Music, Timaya

We are loving the sexy teaser of Mildred Okwo’s upcoming movie ”La Femme Anjola”

Mildred Okwo’s upcoming movie La Femme Anjola is film noir, which has been in development for some time and recruits top-tier actresses Joke Silva and Rita Dominic, and also Nonso Bassey. Okwo, who directed The Meeting, 30 Days, and Surulere loves genre filmmaking and her latest project evokes the rich mood of old Nollywood revolving... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

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Asa’s latest single ”Good Thing” is all you need to hear today

While we eagerly wait for Asa to release her fourth studio album, which has trickled in with last month’s single The Beginning, Asa has dropped another followup called Good Thing. We know the album, which we have no details about even a name, is going to be good because the singles released thus far has... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

Asa, Good Thing, The Beginning

EbonyLife Films has released the teaser-trailer for ‘Òlòtūré’ and there’s a lot of intrigue

I may be wrong, but the upcoming Oloture from EbonyLife Films is a complex departure from the studio’s brand of bloated, bombastic comedies. The movie, about a young journalist (Sharon Ooja) who goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking, has generated some buzz and positively receptive press after it was screened last... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

EbonyLife Films, Oloture, Sharon Ooja

Chiwetel Ejiofor has joined the cast for upcoming Netflix movie ”The Old Guard”

It’s always a delight to see Chiwetel Ejiofor in movies, whether he is in a Marvel flick (Doctor Strange) or directing and featuring in his own movie (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind), we can all agree that the Nigerian-British actor has serious acting chops. Now, according to Variety, the 12 Years a Slave star... Read More

Culture, The Film Blog

Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, netflix, The Old Guard

This Week In Music: Adekunle Gold’s ”Kelegbe Megbe,” Kizz Daniel’s ”Eko,” Simi’s ”Jericho” and more

Because he has nothing better to do with his time, each Saturday, Bernard Dayo brings you the most awe-inspiring, confounding, addictive, or otherwise hilarious moments from the week in music. This week: Adekunle Gold ”Kelegbe Megbe” video >>>>>>>> The video for Kelegbe Megbe finds Adekunle Gold tastefully shaping his neo-Afrobeat sound, orchestrated by still-prolific director... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

Dremo, Eko Kizz Daniel, Jericho, Reekado Banks, Rema, Rema Freestyle EP, Ringer, Simi, This Week In Music

Simi’s video for ”Jericho” featuring Patoranking is the dancehall bop of the summer

Simi has just released the video for Jericho, the dancehall earworm off her third studio album Omo Charlie Champagne Vol. 1 released in April, which features collaborations from Falz, Maleek Berry, and husband Adekunle Gold. Simi is known for catchy, candy-coated melodies, and in the video for Jericho in which Patoranking hops on as a... Read More

Culture, The Music Blog

Jericho, Patoranking, Simi

The trailer for D’banj’s reality talk show ”The Adventures of the Koko Master” promises an adventure

Not that anyone is surprised that D’banj is veering into reality television with the announcement of his new series The Adventures of the Koko Master. D’banj’s decade-spanning career in music is illustrious and towering and with a series like Koko Master, it could provide a more balanced perspective about D’banj’s life and experiences aside from... Read More

Culture, The Media Blog

D'banj, koko master, The Adventures of the Koko Master

Tiwa Savage didn’t see many dark-skinned women while growing up, and now she wants to be the much-needed representation

Tiwa Savage posted a picture of herself online recently, using the words ”brown skin” and how she didn’t see black women while growing up. And although ”brown skin” is debatable in the context of semantics and ethnicity, we can all agree that the world today has been shaped by eurocentric standards of beauty where black... Read More

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