Tag: Funmi Iyanda
Here are the best Nigerian articles of the week
Each week here at YNaija, we round up the best Nigerian writing on the internet, highlighting the stories, profiles, interviews ...
Funmi Iyanda, Olumide Makanjuola, Kunle Afolayan, Tope Oshin, Michelle Dede, others, step out for ’Walking with Shadows’ premiere at AFRIFF
Funmi Iyanda, Kunle Afolayan, Tope Oshin, Michelle Dede and Zainab Balogun were among the personalities that attended the premiere of ...
Funmi Iyanda’s ’Walking with Shadows’ is set to premiere at AFRIFF 2019
‘Walking with Shadows’, the debut movie of veteran talk show host, Funmi Iyanda’s production company, OYA Media is set to ...
Funmi Iyanda’s debut movie, ‘Walking with Shadows’ premieres tonight at the BFI London Film Festival
‘Walking with Shadows,’ a movie produced by veteran talk show host, Funmi Iyanda’s production company, OYA Media in collaboration with ...
5 Things that Should Matter Today: UNILAG has set up a panel encouraging more students to speak out on #SexForGrades
Following the allegations of sex-for-grades against two of its lecturers, the management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has set ...
We need to talk about the lack of bisexual characters in Nollywood LGBTQ movies
It’s Bisexuality Awareness Week, a push for advocacy and acceptance of bisexuals which will culminate into the celebration of Bisexual ...
”Walking With Shadows” is proof that Funmi Iyanda is still invested in telling human interest stories
It is a long way from Lagos to London, but when the 63rd London Film Festival unveiled its programme for this year’s ...
Funmi Iyanda is bringing stories of acceptance to the 2019 BFI London Film Festival
This year’s BFI London Film Festival starts in October, and already the line up will parade movies from Martin Scorsese ...
5 Things that Should Matter Today: Funmi Iyanda’s ”Walking With Shadows” is the queer Nollywood movie we need right now
Queer cinema isn’t exactly dead in Nollywood, but we can admit that it’s nowhere near Hollywood’s churning content on LGBTQ ...
Omotola cheekily correcting Rukky Sanda’s grammar was one of the best things on Instagram yesterday
Nigerian celebrity social media can be an immersive world, replete with banter, jokes, and anecdotes. From Funmi Iyanda tweeting about ...
Chimamanda Adichie, Banky W, Toke Ibru, others make YNaija inaugural #Woke100 List
In 2017, YNaija committed a big part of its time and resources towards carefully documenting the big stories happening in ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Dr Joe Abah, Fani-Kayode, Funmi Iyanda and others
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we ...
[The Music Blog]: Still on Asa’s rare Interview with Funmi Iyanda and that bit about her virginity
Through the 25 minute runtime of the webclip, Asa and Funmi Iyanda talked about an array of topics. From Asa’s ...
Asa speaks on losing her virginity in a revealing interview
The Nigerian-French singer, Bùkólá Elemide, popularly known as Asa, in an interview with Funmi Iyanda said she lost her virginity ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Sundar Pichai, Dr Joe Abah, Atiku and others
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Wizkid, Funmi Iyanda, Trump, Angela Merkel and others
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we ...
The Thread: “Music is not to blame for Nigerian children turning to Yahoo”, Funmi Iyanda chides
Nigerians love a good fight, even if about irrelevant things, like whether Falz was right to say that musicians should ...
The Thread: “Fear Yoruba demons” | Lady reveals how a Yoruba demon wrecked her life
The legend of the Yoruba demon is strong in these parts, with stores of betrayal and broken hearts to make ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Falomo High school boys allegedly gang rape female students + Ambode proves once again he hates the poor
Every day, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, ...
The Thread: Funmi Iyanda goes in hard on Nigerian youth and war erupts
The daily scuffles we see on social media daily are representative of the state of the Nigerian society itself. Whether ...
The Media Blog: Funmi Iyanda (sort of) brings back New Dawn
It’s easy to forget that, when she isn’t ruffling feathers on the internet, either for opinions about marriage or for ...
The Thread “Coolest kid since cool kids was invented” “Underdog wa ti gba top 3” | See our top 10 tweets from #BBNaija finale
Finally, it’s a wrap. The Big Brother Naija show that had everyone in arms has come to a fitting end. ...
The Thread: Did Funmi Iyanda unknowingly walk into a trap over TBoss?
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more controversial figure, well after Kemen and TTT, amongst the Big Brother Naija housemates ...
The Thread: “Efe and Marvis should marry” “Bisola’s got an extraordinary mentality” “Efenomenon” | Nigerians cannot get over Efe’s 25M win
As you might imagine, Twitter NG is lit today. Different topics are trending at the same time, all having #BBNaija ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Trump, Funmi Iyanda is on the tube and God’s Command Ministry organises prayer retreat for #BBNaija’s Efe
Every day, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, ...
The Thread: Your mother might not be as perfect as you’d like to think, but that’s okay
In honour of Mother’s Day, media entrepreneur and organiser of How To Fix Nigeria, Funmi Iyanda, took on the elephant ...
Funmi Iyanda: Theory of death- In conversation with my mother
by Funmi Iyanda Funmi: So, Did you die? Yetunde: Yes. Funmi: That’s a relief; I spent too long thinking you ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Adele, Beyonce, CeeLo Green and others
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we ...
The Sexuality Blog: About that coming out story ‘For Akin’
There are coming out stories and there is ‘For Akin’, written by Funmi Iyanda at the request of her friend ...
Funmi Iyanda: The marriage diary
by Funmi Iyanda I 1985 Yesterday brother Eleyinmi visited, that really is his name. He was an elder but not ...