Yela isn’t trying to conquer the world, but tries to make sense of it with his music. His sophomore album Existence Resistance, out Friday, has a charmed quality that the 32-year-old singer has been polishing since releasing his debut EP Gidi and the Undertow in 2016 and then 2018’s Folabi, a fuller body of work....
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OPPO Mobile Nigeria just announced the biggest Black Friday discount deals for smartphones in Nigeria and this is a perfect chance for quality smartphone lovers to change their phones without breaking the bank. Starting from tomorrow, the 20th of November 2020, OPPO Mobile Nigeria would be offering a special 50% discount on select OPPO smartphones in the OPPO Flash...
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Lekki Massacre happened; no, it didn’t. That has been the jostle back and forth in the minds of many Nigerians since the unfortunate incident of October 20, 2020. Over a hundred thousand bore witness to the callous opening of fire by the Nigerian army through DJ Switch’s live Instagram video, yet they were left confused...
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If you look at tweets about Sars or police brutality in Nigeria from many years ago, you will see people who insisted that nothing can change, nothing ever changes in Nigeria except the politicians say so. Well I’ll like you to find one or two of those people and tell them that nobody can ever...
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FG to reduce import duties on buses, tractors The Federal Government is set to reduce the import duties and levies of buses, tractors and other motor vehicles with the 2020 finance bill. The federal executive council approved the bill at its meeting on Wednesday. After the meeting, Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national...
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Collectively, Nigerians need to go through some form of counselling or therapy because of the major gaslighting they’ve suffered in the hands of the government in the past few weeks. After citizens witnessed the murder of peaceful protesters at the Lekki tollgate by the Nigerian army on the 20th of October, 2020, the government has...
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Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here’s a roundup of the best we saw: 1. Lol. It will be the audacity for us! 2....
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As part of continued efforts to revamp Nigeria’s health sector, Access Bank has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare Systems to provide cost-efficient and flexible financing for healthcare providers. The finance scheme is specifically designed to address major challenges experienced by healthcare providers in accessing finance, including onerous documentation and stiff collateral requirements, huge financing cost, short...
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It would probably be perplexing for an album to cross the one billion mark in streams yet such an album is not dominating award platforms all over. To have amassed such a landmark figure indicates global acceptance of such a music project and that its style resonates with many music fans. But when it falls...
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For the past two years now, the biggest story surrounding the world of heavyweight boxing has centred around three key players, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder, and Nigerians have enjoyed conversations regarding these three, but it wasn’t always like this. For the rest of the world, boxing has been a major sporting event,...
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If there is one lesson we can learn from the Coronavirus pandemic is the fact that healthcare is easily, if not the single most important sector in any and every government. Therefore, negligence and insufficient funding for the health sector in even the most remote community in the world could literally lead to a global...
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If the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has its way, you will not see The Milkmaid, the sophomore feature length effort by investment banker turned filmmaker, Desmond Ovbiagele. In making the decision to withhold its censorship seal, the agency seems invested in audiences not experiencing the film the way that the director has...
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Desmond Ovbiagele,
Kannywood,
Maryam Booth,
Michael Ogunlade,
Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB),
Obijie Oru,
Pat Nebo,
Render to Caesar,
The Milkmaid,
Yinka Edwards
On the heels of the #EndSARS protest, young Nigerians who took to the streets to demand good governance and an end to police brutality enjoyed massive support from prominent members of the international community, including the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who called for bitcoin donations to support the peaceful protesters. It was heartwarming to...
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Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC has launched a reactivation campaign aimed at welcoming all its customers with dormant accounts “back home” to relish the best financial solutions. To enjoy several benefits, customers will have to reactivate their inactive and dormant accounts with the Bank and enjoy improved services and digitised channels. The incentives include zero charges...
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It is becoming clearer by the day why the political class prefer to jet out to seek medical attention rather than make use of local healthcare facilities which they have left in a sorry state over the years. Just recently, investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who has been at the forefront of exposing the rot in...
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On the 20th of October 2020, officers from the Nigerian Army opened fire on unarmed #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos, at about 7pm, and the events of that night, which has become one of our generation’s most shocking and abominable incidents. The thoughts of a country’s military shooting at unarmed protesters...
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Ingressive For Good has unveiled a digital skills training program in partnership with Facebook to help African youth leverage digital tools to move their brands and career forward. The I4G Facebook program covers topics on brand storytelling, community building, advertising, audience discovery, and using digital tools (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc.) to promote yourself and advance...
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After months of test-running, Twitter has finally launched ”Fleets,” a new feature on the platform that many may recognise from Instagram and WhatsApp where users can publish temporary stories or content. Inspired by the word ”fleeting” which means short-lived or brief, Twitter’s design director Joshua Harris in a blog post highlighted that Fleets was created...
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BudgIT, Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE Nigeria) and Paradigm Initiative (PIN) will hold the fourth edition of the bi-annual pan-African New Media, Citizens and Governance Conference (NMCG) virtually on Thursday, November 26, 2020. Africa’s civic space is evolving with the application of new technologies and methods to strengthen advocacy and foster active citizenship. With the...
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As the sustainability leader in Africa, Access Bank PLC was invited to participate in the Sustainability Certification under the Sustainability Standards and Certification Initiative (SSCI). The certification audit process saw Access Bank emerging with the highest level of sustainability certification under the SSCI program. Access Bank was presented with its sustainability certification during the World Development...
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Lagos shuts down 16 health facilities The Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency has shut down 16 health facilities across the state for quackery and non-compliance with other regulatory standards. The Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr. Abiola Idowu, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. She explained that “out of 280 health...
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Contrary to the idea that everybody is deserving of love no matter what they have done, is the idea that you don’t make the decisions you are supposed to take because you love a person. That is not love. That is sentimentalism. Love is treating a person as you’d like to be treated at the...
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The government has shown so much dedication and commitment in the past few days to crushing the EndSARS movement, that if the same effort was put into governing, Nigeria would for sure be progressing. The most recent attempt to obstruct any ‘re-birth’ of the protests was the order to restrict movement in and out of...
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Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here’s a roundup of the best we saw: 1. Please what is going on here? 2. It’s the...
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When you click the trending hashtag #SoroSokeGeneration on Twitter, one of the first tweets you’ll see is of a viral clip of embattled Activist, Eromosele Adene‘s Mom in an interview. She said so many incredibly supportive things in defence of her son and the hundreds of Nigerian youths still being persecuted by the Nigerian government...
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When it took the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) about three days to respond to the most recent hike in fuel, it only appeared to underpin what Nigerians regard as a foregone conclusion – and it is that they have become a subordinate arm of the government. The formation of NLC, the foremost labour union in...
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On this week’s episode of #WithChude, Kachi Ucheagwu, winner of the recently concluded first season of Ultimate Love NG, broke down in tears while opening up to show host and founder of Joy, Inc., Chude Jideonwo, about the lead up to the public break up that ended his engagement to Rosemary ‘Rosie’ Afuwape. The pair,...
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There’s a popular saying amongst internet users nowadays that speaks to an increase in complexity as one advances in certain situations. “There are levels to this.” When it comes to activism and solving the obscure problems of social inequalities plaguing our human society, this saying couldn’t be any more relatable. Activism is a phenomenon that...
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The Nigerian government seems bent on worsening the situation of young Nigerians following the #EndSARS protest, despite their genuine effort to drive positive change. As young people with a progressive mindset who have come to terms with the fact that the desired change is achievable even in the face of stiff opposition, Nigerian youths decided...
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Realness Institute and global streaming service Netflix have announced a partnership to create an Episodic Content Development Lab for writers in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Through the partnership, Realness Institute emphasizes its commitment to foster a new wave of storytelling, while Netflix also brings its expertise in episodic content development, production and insight into...
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