Excerpt from Y! Issue 4 Modestus Diko’s work is directly targeted at young people. How many books have you written? I have written two books, titled The Philosopher’s Grief and The Enslaved Virgin Girl, published in 2010, but I have written a number of articles for different media. What are the books about? The Enslaved Virgin... Read More
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by Taiwo Damilola Have you ever been blown away at first listen? The twenty-something year old song bird, Sopheeyah did it for me with ‘Cup E Don Full‘, her first ever single. Even though it seems she played it safe on the vocals, we can’t help but stop and listen as she delivers line after... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola Having listened to some of Ibk’s work in the past and understanding the uniqueness of his soundcraft, we can tell why he is set miles apart from most of his contemporaries. Ibk recently released an unofficial remix of the Mary Mary single ‘Something Bigger’. Born and raised in Warri , this music producer,rapper,singer... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Just like the Barcelona – Real Madrid game, this semi-final tie was settled from the first leg. Both common sense and statistics are the conspirators-in-chief. No team in the Champions League era has ever overturned a two-goal home defeat to progress on aggregate. Such is the scale of the task facing Schalke... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola After freestyle rapping for 9 hours, 18 minutes and 22 seconds at MTV’s inaugural O Music Awards in Las Vegas, Chidera ‘Chiddy’ Anamege broke the Guinness World Record for the longest rap in history. Barely skipping a beat after being informed, live and on camera, by an official representative that he had... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang [@ifreke] [25th Apr – 30th Apr, 2011] MONDAY: Today was Easter Monday and so it was a holiday. @ekwem didn’t see the need. “So why is easter Monday a holiday?,” he asked. “Wot did Jesus do today?” It wasn’t a holiday for @Nixienuga and she was pissed that she had to take... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola This month, Lynxxx, the man who popularized ‘Utunu’ and the ‘Jollof Musik’ movement, will touchdown in Abuja for his Pepsi Album Launch and Promotional Tour. The launch will take place on May 14th, 2011, and will feature special appearances by Hip-Hop duo, Show Dem Camp (SDC), and artists from Finesse Entertainment And Play... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang The month of April has quickly breezed past and we are already in May. This month, the Twitter Personality series continues, with @Jamilah11 as first Twitter personality to be featured. However we are not done just yet with those who we featured last month. In the month of April alone, we profiled... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Taruwa, the definitive monthly art, music, culture and social event made an exciting comeback last month, and it holds again tonight (3rd May) at Bogobiri, No 9 Maitama Sule Street, Off Awolowo Road at 6:30pm. “We will be having Strictly Amazing Performances,” says Lydia Sobogun of Taruwa. At the event, there will... Read More
by Yemi Olowu One Mic Naija was held on Easter Sunday, Apr 24th at Browns Cafe, Lagos. The WePlugGoodMusic initiative was put together in Lagos by s.h.a.r.e, M.et.al and GroundZeroMngt with media support from YNaija, Fab Magazine, Infinity TV and more. The event kicked off at 5pm with rappers Kel and KB, the hosts of... Read More
by Oluwole Olabanji It is easy to quickly lump in the murderous violence that exploded across northern Nigeria after the presidential elections with the series of senseless and unprovoked attacks regularly meted out to southerners and Christians by northern Muslims, but certain curious details of this season of anomie may suggest that we do not... Read More
by Nubi Kayode It was the May 1 edition, and the presenter, Adebola Williams, came into the studio a liitle tired, due to an eventful traditional thanksgiving service. Co-presenter, Shade Ladipo was also in a sober mood, perhaps due to the topic of the show: Protect The Corpers. Last week, Bauchi state governor Yuguda issued... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang [@ifreke] Abiola Adewoyin, who we all call Jamilah has a celebrity status on twitter. And it’s quite amazing because she is not even based in the country. She’s been away in Phillipines for some years but she has stayed connected to her roots via the social networking site. In this quick interview,... Read More
When it struck, it struck my heart, With a force that tore my doubt apart. It ripped through my soul like a violent gale, And when it was done, I was left with no sail. Shipwrecked upon my own shores, Marooned on the island of my bathroom floor, She was the hurricane, the typhoon and... Read More
by Sola Fasasi In the early hours of this morning, US President Barack Obama announced that Al Qaeda leader and September 11, 2011 mastermind Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a US Navy SEAL helicopter raid. The operation took place in a mansion where Bin Laden resided in Abbottabad, an affluent city located in... Read More
by Sola Fasasi Alas, the Royal Wedding has come and gone! We smiled, shed tears and cheered for William and Katherine, Duke & Duchess of Cambridge as they made their vows to one another in a stunning wedding ceremony. But we’re not in a hurry to forget the wedding just yet, so YNaija presents Take... Read More
by Sola Fasasi It is now urgent that we #ProtectTheCorpers! On April 19, the Bauchi State Commissioner Of Police, Mr. John Abakasanga reported that four serving members of the NYSC were killed in Bauchi State. According to the Commissioner, rioters raided a building housing about fifty-one youth corpers, killing four and wounding several others. Subsequent... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola Sound Sultan returns with the video for ‘Very Good Bad Guy‘, the third single off his album ‘Back From the Future‘. It’s logical for a kick-ass song to have a kick-ass video, but many video directors fail on the creative vision it requires to follow through. However this wasn’t the case for... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola I must confess that the first time I heard the single ‘Ba Ni Kidi’ (Give Me the Beat), the respect I had for Dare Art Alade hit a new peak. I thought it was pure brilliance in the form of a song. With its thumping baseline and ever changing tempo, the song... Read More
The Royal Wedding: Look who got invited! Since the announcement of the royal engagement, the world has wondered which socialites, celebrities and relevant heads of state would get invited to what will be the most talked about wedding in years. Certainly, for the world’s upper crust, the royal wedding guest list will be the ‘grand... Read More
by Sola Fasasi It’s official – Royal Wedding Fever has hit a peak all over the world! In a matter of hours, the world’s most recognised Crown Prince, William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales will be joined in marriage to his fiancée Miss Catherine Middleton. And though some may say it’s none of our beeswax,... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola I’ve heard a lot of songs sampling Wiz Khalifa’s, Stargate produced ‘Black & Yellow’ beat, and I must admit – none of them struck me like this one! ‘Garri Yellow’ by Dollar sign features Bigslymm and Dynamyt on what might just turn out to be the anthem for Calabar food joints all... Read More
by Taiwo Damilola Nigerian folk singer Asa was a guest on popular online TV show, Factory78, during her recent European tour while promoting her sophomore album ‘Beautiful Imperfection’. Factory78 is a media channel which promotes urban music and entertainment, founded by DJ and Videographer Lanre Davies, a Nigerian-born, London-based DJ. The channel brings the sound of... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Just how influential are you on Twitter? Well, you don’t need to take a guess or rough estimate – there’s now an index that can measure your level of social influence. Our hot new discovery is www.klout.com. With the popularity of Twitter these days, many ‘tweeps’ now battle amongst themselves for supremacy... Read More
Hello, We all know that at the moment, almost everyone is upset at the spate of avoidable deaths of youth corps members across the country. It did not start today – from natural disasters to rape and murder, ethno-religious crisis to post-elections violence, these young men and women serving their country find themselves easy targets... Read More
by Sola Fasasi Once again, Bold Entertainment, the Marketing Communications and Branded Entertainment company brings Twitter to life! Twiterave, the 1st Naija Twitter Party, held it’s first and second editions last year, and each was a night of glitter, entertainment and celebrity, with guests such as Wande Coal, D’Prince, Soul Snatcha, Tosyn Bucknor, Don Jazzy,... Read More
by Cheta Nwanze I woke up early this morning, and like every other person in my area, was met with pitch darkness. It has become an increasingly common occurrence since democracy was reintroduced in Nigeria twelve years ago. There had been power yesterday, so at least the taps ran, and I was able to take... Read More
by Tolu Ogunlesi (Excerpt from Y! Magazine Issue 3) “You have four minutes,” the ticket attendant at Liverpool Street Station tells me, handing over the ticket I’ve just bought, for the 10.55 pm Stansted Airport Express. It is the last train of the day, missing it would be disastrous. I make it onto the train... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang [@ifreke] No social networking site has rocked our world quite like Twitter. To a lot of us, even Facebook has been relegated to the distant past. It is not about the relentless exchange of information and web links but the witty, interesting little tweets and retweets we indulge in. And that is... Read More
by Kayode Nubi Yesterday’s episode of Rubbin’ Minds was a gloomy one, but also one that caused the guests and viewers to spring into action. A few minutes before the program went on air, I had the opportunity to sit backstage with some of the guests, and it felt sad that some opinions could not... Read More
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