by Ifreke Inyang Samson Siasia has been relieved of his job as the Head Coach of the Super Eagles. The decision was finally taken today after much deliberations between the members of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation. The meeting which was held in Abuja recommended that Samson Siasia be fired. After the... Read More
Willfred Okiche Challenge:Future is inviting students and young people aged 18-30 year old to participate in three new challenges, each one bringing many opportunities such as scholarships worth 2,500 Euros per person to attend the Challenge:Future Academy and Summit 2012. Other prizes include financial support for project realization, internships, speaking opportunities at global events and... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Yesterday, Microsoft Nigeria started its 2-day high profile Open Door events in Abuja. The event is a key initiative of Microsoft’s continued investment in the region and it aims at fostering local IT development and drive innovation. On the first day, the event had more than 300 participants and they included customers,... Read More
A lot of people know Japheth J Omojuwa to be a vocal person both on Twitter and in the blogosphere. But recently, he proved that he is not afraid to speak his mind no matter the medium. He was invited to speak at the the public launch of Public Integrity Networks (PINS) at the FCT... Read More
by Onyeka Nwelue So many people are ‘graduating’ this year. Many of them haven’t actually graduated. What they do is this: they finish their final year exams and come on Facebook and then scream, ‘I’m a graduate!’ Confirmed, you are a graduate! Congratulations. At least, they get a lot of comments, from people who can’t... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Against most expectations, Samson Siasia has stayed in his position till today. As soon as it dawned on Nigerian football fans and analysts – both renowned and arm chair – that we will not be competing in the coming African Cup of Nations, there were increased calls for Siasia to be sacked.... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Against most expectations, Samson Siasia has stayed in his position till today. As soon as it dawned on Nigerian football fans and analysts – both renowned and arm chair – that we will not be competing in the coming African Cup of Nations, there were increased calls for Siasia to be sacked.... Read More
Seyi Lawal TRACE Urban is making good it’s promise of promoting African music as it premieres two new exclusive videos from two leading mainstream music acts. The urban music channel which launched its TRACE Urban Anglophone Africa portal in Nigeria only few weeks ago, has gotten exclusive rights to new videos by multiple award winning... Read More
Seyi Lawal TRACE Urban is making good it’s promise of promoting African music as it premieres two new exclusive videos from two leading mainstream music acts. The urban music channel which launched its TRACE Urban Anglophone Africa portal in Nigeria only few weeks ago, has gotten exclusive rights to new videos by multiple award winning... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang The Nigerian Music Video Awards (NMVA) will hold its fifth edition in November, and as a part of the build up to the event, the organisers have released the nominees’ list. Jodie, who blew most people away with her mid-tempo single, ‘Kuchi kuchi’ and Darey, who released his Double Dare album this... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang The Nigerian Music Video Awards (NMVA) will hold its fifth edition in November, and as a part of the build up to the event, the organisers have released the nominees’ list. Jodie, who blew most people away with her mid-tempo single, ‘Kuchi kuchi’ and Darey, who released his Double Dare album this... Read More
Seyi Lawal The Heinrich Boell Foundation’s book of essays, ‘Unity in Diversity: Diversity is positive for Nigeria’, will be launched next Monday, October 31, 2011 at Terra Kulture by 1pm. The book, a coalition of six essays written by young Nigerians, evolved from an essay competition amongst young writers which the foundation launched in 2010.... Read More
Seyi Lawal The Heinrich Boell Foundation’s book of essays, ‘Unity in Diversity: Diversity is positive for Nigeria’, will be launched next Monday, October 31, 2011 at Terra Kulture by 1pm. The book, a coalition of six essays written by young Nigerians, evolved from an essay competition amongst young writers which the foundation launched in 2010.... Read More
by Seyi Lawal The Federal Government has extended the age limit for qualification to benefit from the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria, popularly known as YouWiN! by 5 years. According to a press statement issued by Coordinating Minister of the Economy & YouWiN! Project Coordinator, the government has decided to up the age limit... Read More
Seyi Lawal Singer Adebola Oluwaseun Ayodeji popularly known as Maxima has released a follow up track to his debut single, ’Loving You’. The New track, ‘Victims of Emotion’ is produced by rave pop music producer, Samklef and it’s music video directed by Tosin Igho. Watch video below.
by Wole Oyedeji The Spirit of Enterprise initiative is targeted at providing avenues for aspiring and early stage entrepreneurs to acquire personal empowerment opportunities to develop and establish their ideas and businesses. And in line with this vision, the body will be organizing an Aspiring Entrepreneurs Seminar and the 3rd edition of their Networking Exposition,... Read More
Seyi Lawal The MTN Power of 10 musical fiesta, organized to celebrate MTN’s tenth anniversary in 10 cities across Nigeria, made a stop in Ibadan at the Habour Point. Aboard the train, which had already made stops in Markurdi, Enugu, Calabar, Abuja, Ilorin, Owerri, Benin and Port Harcourt, were ‘A’ list musicians including all past... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Factory78tv and one of its presenters, Adesope Olajide picked up two awards from three nominations at the just concluded Black Entertainment, Film, Fashion, Television and Arts Awards, BEFFTA, where Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde also picked up a plaque. With the exposure they have received through syndicating their shows on various platforms including on YNaija,... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang Factory78tv and one of its presenters, Adesope Olajide picked up two awards from three nominations at the just concluded Black Entertainment, Film, Fashion, Television and Arts Awards, BEFFTA, where Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde also picked up a plaque. With the exposure they have received through syndicating their shows on various platforms including on YNaija,... Read More
Ifreke Inyang Just yesterday evening, a six-storey building collapsed in Maryland. Unlike some previous incidents, there were no lives lost. The Don de Dieu Plaza, which the building was called stood at 11, Aderibigbe Street, off Ikorodu Road and housed over ten companies. According to reports, there were rumblings and noises within the structure of... Read More
by Willfred Okiche Fresh off an acclaimed collaboration with 2Face Idibia, rapper Vector has cut the video for another single. He hooks up this time with multiple award winning cross-over sensation, 9ice, on the religion themed “Angeli”. watch below.
The Chairman and Board members of the Lagos State Football Association will unveil their vision for the new Football Association in a private presentation on the 27th October 2011 at the SS Lounge, 7 Sapara Williams close, off Idowu Martins Street, Victoria Island. In an official invitation signed by the Chairman Seyi Akinwumi, the official... Read More
The Chairman and Board members of the Lagos State Football Association will unveil their vision for the new Football Association in a private presentation on the 27th October 2011 at the SS Lounge, 7 Sapara Williams close, off Idowu Martins Street, Victoria Island. In an official invitation signed by the Chairman Seyi Akinwumi, the official... Read More
by Oluwatobi Soyombo Last week on Technology 101, we considered the various importance of owning your own website/blog. As promised last week, we will talk about one of the most popular platforms you can use to create your blog, Blogger. “Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created... Read More
Wilfred Okiche The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is launching CrowdOutAIDS.org, an online collaborative project to crowdsource its new strategy on youth and HIV—a first in the UN system. Crowdsourcing is a technique used to rapidly engage large numbers of interested people to develop strategies, solve problems or propose relevant and fresh ideas.... Read More
Wilfred Okiche The 2011 Transformation summit is the annual summit of Youths for Generational Change (YGC Africa). This year’s summit is themed ‘Dare To Aspire’ and will feature some of the finest personalities Africa has to offer, people that have gone beyond limitations to become world class people of Impact. Speakers and facilitators at this... Read More
by Kayito Nwokedi The super-tight pants shown at Givenchy could have been mistaken for tights, save for the flare just above the ankle. Riccardo Tisci said he was inspired by surfers and mermaids for spring. As regards to the surfer theme, the pants were fitting, giving that they looked like wet suits. What Tisci showed... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] Vivian is one of the warmest tweeters you will ever follow on Twitter. She is popular but down to earth and friendly. Once in a while, she likes to stir up a bit of controversy by putting up what we have all come to term, er… Boobvatars. Vivi, as she... Read More
by Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] Vivian is one of the warmest tweeters you will ever follow on Twitter. She is popular but down to earth and friendly. Once in a while, she likes to stir up a bit of controversy by putting up what we have all come to term, er… Boobvatars. Vivi, as she... Read More
by Seyi Lawal Gossip writer and entertainment journalist and blogger, Stella Dimoko –Korkus has published exclusive pictures of some of the spoils Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke indulges in. According to the renowned Encomium magazine writer, the controversial actor is set to move into a multi million naira mansion in the federal capital, launch a N90million... Read More