The Future Project, organizers of the continent’s biggest youth awards event, The Future Awards Africa, has launched a series of community and media activities running from March through May, 2019 in preparation for this year’s edition of the event. The tour which is set to cover Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo states provide a platform for...
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Folu Storms,
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Hauwa Ojeifo,
Ken Nwadiogbu,
Kiss FM,
Nigerian Info FM,
Olive Emodi,
Pauline Tomlin,
The Future Awards Africa,
The Future Awards Africa alumni,
The Future Awards Africa Prize in Creativity 2018.,
The Future Awards Africa Prize in Fashion 2018,
The Future Awards Africa Prize in On-Air Personality (TV) 2018,
The Future Awards Africa Prize in Photography 2018,
The Future Project,
Tiwalola Olanubi,
Tosin ‘Style Infidel’ Ogundadegbe,
Vanessa Onwughalu,
Wazobia FM,
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The trailer for the upcoming CBS comedy Bob Hearts Abishola was out on Thursday and, judging by the reactions from Nigerians on Twitter, it was polarising. According to CBS, Bob Hearts Abishola is a love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while...
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What does it take to get Nigerians excited in 2019? The singer formerly known as Kiss Daniel certainly has some ideas. They include sex, infidelity and the bitter dissolution of a romantic relationship. For added effect, he throws in some name calling, slut shaming, plus a hint of colourism mixed with generous doses of the...
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Here are the ten stories that drove conversation this week: FG approves 30,000 as new allowance for NYSC The Federal Government has increased the monthly allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to 30,000. Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during a press conference where she added that...
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Leading Pan-African Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) PLC in partnership with leading global payments and technology company, Mastercard, have announced they are giving away all-expenses paid trips to the Semi-Finals and Finals of the 2019 UEFA Champions League to 12 lucky UBA Mastercard holders and their plus ones. Open to all existing and new...
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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. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here are the ones we...
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Here the stories that drove conversation today: Court strikes out suit challenging Onnoghen’s suspension According to Channels, the Supreme Court struck out an application by the Cross River Government challenging the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria The court on Friday said it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter and...
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Let me say one thing: Lupita Nyong’o‘s performance in Jordan Peele‘s horror movie Us was brilliant. And she should get all the awards. Still can’t get over the fact that this is Nyong’o’s first time starring in a horror film, and marvelously playing villain and non-villain roles lends credence to the depth and range of...
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Till now, I’m still disappointed with Umoh Imoren‘s 2018 heist movie Club, with a trailer that had Nancy Isime in a sloppy, cringe-worthy scene wherein she tells Baaj Adebule: ”So you brought a knife to a gunfight???” That I can still remember those words shows how embarrassing and sloppy the scene was. But guess what?...
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Here are the stories that you should be monitoring today: Fayemi nullifies employments made by Fayose since July, 2018 The Ekiti State government has nullified the employment of over 2,000 workers employed a few weeks to the end of the administration of Ayodele Fayose as governor. Fayose had engaged about 2,000 workers in the state’s...
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Follow the links below to check out our latest stories and more: How can we escape the stupidity of Okon’s videos justifying rape? Don’t watch them Kathryn Fasegha’s ‘2 Weeks in Lagos’ is set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival The Late 5: EFCC files 11 charges against Naira Marley; INEC shifts Kogi,...
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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. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here are the ones we...
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Here are stories that drove conversation today: EFCC files 11 charges against Naira Marley According to Punch, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has preferred 11 charges bordering on fraud against upcoming musician, Azeez Fashola, aka Naira Marley, for alleged credit card fraud. The musician effectively risks seven years in jail if found guilty, as...
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Before now, no one knew Imeh Bishop aka Okon existed until he recently posted an incendiary video on his Instagram: In it, the actor and comedian comically tried to explain why rape isn’t the correct term for what happened to the women involved in the recent Abuja police raid, which spurred protests within and outside...
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The Cannes Film Festival is currently underway in well, Cannes, France. And this year, African film practitioners will get the chance to market their films, interact, find partners and expand their professional network with other film industry professionals at Marché du Film, world’s biggest film market. We already know that we are going to have...
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Here are the stories that you should be monitoring today: Oshiomhole, APC instigating EFCC to arrest me – Okorocha Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, and other leaders of the party of instigating the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other law enforcement agencies...
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Follow the links to read our latest stories and analyses on the trending issues: The Big 5: Tribunal fixes May 22 for hearing of PDP’s motion; Oshiomhole, APC instigating EFCC to arrest me – Okorocha | Other top stories Akeredolu flew all the way to Thailand on taxpayers’ money just to learn how to...
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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. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here are the ones we...
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Here are the stories that drove conversation today: Ben Murray-Bruce calls for population control to reduce poverty “What’s our population control policy? Does anybody care how many children we have? Does anybody care how many we ought to have? How many children make up an economy functional, nobody cares. So, we all talk about issues...
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If you are looking for yet another reason why Nigeria is a joke, look no further: via his Twitter account on Tuesday, the governor of Ondo Rotimi Akeredolu revealed that he was in Thailand to learn how to grow cannabis. He had had an epiphany when he looked around the fields in Ondo bursting with...
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National Agricultural Seeds Council, Nigeria’s preeminent regulator in the agriculture sector, and an agency under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, under its transformation agenda, has introduced an innovative platform for electronic quality verification of seeds and planting materials in Nigeria. NASC selected mPedigree as its strategic innovation partner to deploy mPedigree’s Ovasight...
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off yesterday in Cannes, France, and it was preceded by a little buzz: African filmmakers, artistes and distributors will get a section to market their films at festival. The Pavillon Afriques, a platform for the promotion of African and Black cinema to film professionals from across the globe,...
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Here are the stories that you should be monitoring today: Air Force, ground troops neutralize 12 bandits, rescue 15 kidnapped victims The Nigerian Air Force has said 12 bandits have been killed during air strikes and coordinated attacks by ground troops in Birni-gwarri, Kaduna. Its spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola said in a statement that the...
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Check out our latest stories and more using the links below: The Big 5: We are not planning to overthrow Buhari – Military; US suspends drop box visa applications in Nigeria | Other top stories Leah Sharibu at 16: Sadly, it doesn’t look like the government wants her back It’s 2019 and Nollywood movies...
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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. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here are the ones we...
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Here are the stories that drove conversation today: FG to inaugurate implementation committee on new minimum wage The federal government on Tuesday in Abuja inaugurateed the N30,000 new national minimum wage implementation committee, almost one month after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill into law. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this while...
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About 48 hours ago, online medium Sahara Reporters released two telephone audio tapes which revealed how the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emiefele, his Deputy, Edward Lametek Adamu, the Director for Finance, Dayo M. Arowosegbe and one of the Special Advisers to the CBN Governor, Emmanuel Ukeje allegedly discussed plots to cover...
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It’s Leah Sharibu‘s 16th birthday today. Leah, the only teenager yet to be returned among the 105 students kidnapped on February 19, 2017, by the Islamic West African Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram during its raid on the Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi-Yobe, has been in captivity for the last 449...
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After years of drought, Asa has finally given us new music. Teasing her new material on Twitter last week was enough to cause a rapturous excitement, and had people like me literally counting down to 14/05. Today, Asa dropped a YouTube link to the video of The Beginning, which we have ravenously consumed as a...
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Africa Fintech Foundry is set to hold the 2nd edition of Disrupt Africa Conference on Thursday, 16 May, 2019 at the Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. This announcement was made during a press conference recently held at the Access Bank Headquarters. Themed ‘Digital Goldrush: Building a Sustainable Tech Economy,’ the event is organized to connect...
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Africa Fintech Foundry,
Bayo Adekanmbi,
Disrupt Africa Conference,
Funke Opeke,
Herbert Wigwe,
Mary Uduk,
Olusegun Adeniyi,
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