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Pleasure me this

Title: Guilty Pleasures Producer: Emem Isong and Desmond Elliot. Director: Daniel Ademinokan & Desmond Elliot. THIS STORY was told from the end forward. It is driven through a (rather confusing)…

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She’s Oprah’s girl!

Kenneth Oliko ONLY 27, ‘Funa Maduka is the Dean of Students of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls Obvious question; what did it feel like to be announced Professional…

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Timaya’s a new man (well, almost)

Artiste – Timaya Album: De Rebirth Da-ti-da-ti-ra-ra, Da-ti-da-ti-ra-ra! A completely meaningless – you can even say senseless – refrain. It’s exactly the kind of drivel you expect to hear from…

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This should suite you

IT’S ALMOST a cliché. Tucked somewhere in the middle of the busy Adetokunbo Ademola in Victoria Island, almost opposite Eko Hotel and Suites is Suite XVIII. Right in between two…

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She’s the one!

MO’CHEDDAR, NOMINEE for the Hip Hop World Awards NextRated, is certainly the next big thing How will you define your music? My music is a lot like me... happy, exciting,…

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Suffering and Laughing

Title: Who is Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Producer/Director: Wole Oguntokun I HAD no answer to this question until I watched the play. Then I sat through the more-than-one-hour drama, laughing…

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Taking over the world, one city at a time

WHAT WOULD cross your mind if you heard the phrase ‘City Crawler’?  You might think of someone who knows (or has explored) the nook and cranny of the city, and…

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Oh, sweet memories!

NIGERIA HAS Yemisi Ilo to thank for bringing Sesame Street How long have you been in television? I stumbled into TV 5 years ago, when working with the not for…

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GOSPEL Straight from her heart… to your soul

Title: Chapter One Artiste: Sinach OUT OF the overly saturated Nigerian gospel industry comes a voice that is rich, anointed and beautiful all at the same time. All hail the…

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Blinging on empty

Simon Ejembi A LOT has changed in the Nigerian music industry since “Dem be two/later become three.” And it’s not just the Plantashun Boiz. A lot has changed since we…

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All they want is freedom

Damilola Amolegbe MANY OF us are not aware of the extent of human trafficking that goes on in Nigeria. It isn’t exactly the kind of news that the popular media…

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No messing around

Title: One Day Artiste: eLDee Director: eLDee MUSIC VIDEOS are in a separate genre in the motion picture industry. A video is allowed the flexibility to express a different point…

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My Travel

Nosa Oyegun | 22:08 ‘Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria WHAT IS your favourite travel destination? Nottingham, United Kingdom (until December 2010). Why do you like to travel? For…

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Omotola is angry!

Omotola has been a celebrity for 15 years now and a lot of us think we know her – her marriage, her kids, and her career. However, for what might…

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Don’t Call It Charity

-Adebola Williams “If I say I totally understand how I keep my body and soul together, it will be the award-winning lie!” the 28 year old Tolu Sangosanya says, a…

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Chimamanda: Proust Questionnaire

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Easily Nigeria’s most influential contemporary writer, the author of Half of A Yellow Sun and The Thing Around Your Neck reveals an impatience with modesty What is…

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Budgeting – A piece of cake

Sarah and Shola, two identical twin sisters, each got a chocolate cake for their birthday on the 23rd of July. Sarah, being a spontaneous, self-confessed chocolate junkie, dug in with…

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Would you marry a poor man?

Kicker:  Singer Waje, radio presenters Tosyn Bucknor and Phoenix, actor Lala Akindoju and marketing professional Lola Talabi have a no-holds-barred conversation on humble beginnings, marriage and staying the long haul…

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It’s BLING, baby!

Fi’ ammari Machar Zoaka, a graduate of Covenant University, has taken the next general elections as his life’s work.  But for this engineering graduate, it goes beyond 2011: he and his…

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Here we come

“So how will you make sure this survives?” She asked as we laid out our plans to change the world. We were three wide-eyed-but-relentless teenagers intent on doing the impossible:…

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Brand Church

‘Damilola Oyedele Welcome to the world of this new generation of God-lovers PERMIT ME to (mis)quote a famous pig: “All churches are cool, but some are cooler than others.” It’s…

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