Category: Blogs

[The Presidential Blog] What Minister Amaechi was actually doing when he insulted Wike this morning (PHOTOS)

The long running battle between Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and his successor as Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike is getting tiring. There's only so much anyone can find funny when…

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[The Church Blog] When Olowogbogboro does not do it #HallelujahChallenge

With the invent of The Hallelujah Blog; a platform to share and read testimonies from the ongoing Hallelujah Challenge, many have had an opportunity to take a glimpse at the…

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[The Church Blog]: Poju Oyemade gives an insightful exposé into how Olowogbogboro opened the Gentile world to the Apostles

So, Pastor Poju has done it again. The ongoing controversy on The Hallelujah Challenge has propelled him to educate us with a lengthy post and we found it very profound…

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The Film Blog: So Uche Jombo woke up this morning and decided to make a fool of herself

The first comment on BellaNaija says it all: Who do these people think they are?

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The Church Blog: We have one important response to Uche Nnaji’s Facebook post

It's very easy to bash churches these days. It's cool. We understand. There are many people who will conclude the employee in this story was unwise. That's in order, we,…

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The Media Blog: Smooth FM’s breakfast show gets it!

  Listening to the radio in Lagos is usually an exercise in madness. You hear about 8 different accents a sentence - a phenomenon some call a charitable enterprise because…

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The Media Blog: The misreporting of Evans, the billionaire kidnapper villain

Freedom of speech is something that must be protected. Every man, woman and child should be free to say whatever nonsense they want. That’s something nobody here will ever disagree…

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[The Alausa Blog]: Ikoyi, Banana Island, Festac and Trade Fair belong to LASG – Okunnu

Former Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Femi Okunnu on Tuesday expressed sadness over the current status of the Federal Secretariat in Lagos and other abandoned and surplus assets…

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[The Alausa Blog]: Ambode swears-in new permanent secretary

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode was present as a new addition to the Body of Permanent Secretaries in Lagos State Mrs.  Fiyinfoluwa Adenike Ogunbanke was sworn in. The number of substantive…

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[The Presidential Blog] Osinbajo is currently meeting with Northern leaders (WATCH)

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, as part of efforts to restore peace after the series of threats from Northern and South Eastern groups to Nigeria's unity, is now meeting with Northern…

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[The Alausa Blog]: Governor Ambode receives the Assistant Inspector General of Police

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode received the Assistant Inspector General Of Police, Zone 2 Police Command, Ibrahim Adamu at Lagos House, Ikeja earlier today. Ambode met the AIG  in a bid to…

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Church Crawler: My weakness and the strength of Daystar Christian Centre

I woke up really weak on Sunday morning and could hardly move myself out of bed. I could hardly decipher the reason for the weakness but there I was on…

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The Church Blog: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo should not just annoy us this week 

We don't like it when politicians - or in fact anyone - try to score cheap points. It's unnecessary and it's disrespectful to the citizens. Like yesterday, when, speaking at…

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The Film Blog: Isoken is hot like fire at the cinemas – for one simple reason 

It's funny.   This isn't our greatest Nigerian movie of all time, but don't take our word for it, because while we sat in the cinemas, everyone was laughing to death.…

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The Media Blog: This message is for the Nigerian Twitter Outrage Machine 

Because every twenty-something-year-old on Twitter is now a media critic, knowing everything about the ethics of journalism, how stories should be told and what the standards have always been, it…

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[The Presidential Blog] The Federal Government is opening something new in Owerri

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), a regulatory arm of the Ministry of Environment is currently opening up a new zonal office in Owerri, Imo. The agency, headed…

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[The Presidential Blog] 10 things Aso Rock wants you to know about the 2017 Budget

When the Federal Government started to take this digital communications business very seriously, we did not take them too seriously. We were plagued by the peculiar Nigerianess that takes one…

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[The Music Blog]: As the world is filled with “Wild Thoughts”, Afropop should take notes

Despite the Latin guitar riffs that open DJ Khaled's latest single "Wild Thoughts", the baseline isn't immediately distinctive. In fact, when Rihanna's voice sets into the tempo with the same Barbadian…

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[The Music Blog]: Song Of The Summer: African Bad Gyal (featuring Chris Brown) by Wizkid

Nearly two years after Wizkid made an unusual radio hit off a sparse production and convoluted themes with "In My Bed", "African Bad Gyal" comes bearing mark of the same…

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[The Music Blog]: This is a petition to Wizkid and Davido to have a public beef once and for all

Early Sunday, media outlets broke the news of a potentially brewing beef between Wizkid and Davido, after the two made suggestive social media posts allegedly targeted at each other. It…

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[The Church Blog] Spiricoco launches new platform, Whatsup!

If there is one platform that constantly remind us that there is swag in all things Gospel, It is spiricoco. Spiricoco is a one stop online content shop for Christian…

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[The Sexuality Blog] Spread the word, BimInspire is offering free counselling for victims of sexual abuse and Domestic Violence this month

SURVIVE: A private counselling and therapy session organised by BimsInspire Foundation for victims of Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence. The programme is supported by Stand To End Rape This is…

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[The Sexuality Blog] Things are increasingly complicated for LGBT people looking to become parents

Science and changing societal expectations means that more LGBT people are coming out of the closet and pursuing what would ordinarily constitute as a 'normal' heterosexual life. They are especially…

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[The Sexuality Blog] A Nasty Boy is exploring queerness and gender norms through fashion

For an industry that has profited greatly off queerness and queer people, the Nigerian fashion industry has largely been incredibly exclusionary to queer people who dare to publicly assert their…

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[The Church Blog] Morning Devotion: Time of lifting with Tim Godfrey

Energy, Vibrancy, Praise, vigor, vitality and many more is what this Gbemisoke song by Tim Godfrey represents. Gbemisoke is a prayer to God that simply translates as "Lift me up"…

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[The Sexuality Blog] Bill Cosby’s mistrial proves we need to separate our artists from their work

Bill Cosby, better known to you as Cliff Huxtable from the Cosby Show has literally inspired two generations of black people across the world. He is as instantly recognisable in…

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[The Church Blog] Dreams come true | Kirk Franklin to be hosted in Nigeria by August

Multi award winning gospel musician, Kirk Franklin would be hosted by House on the Rock Lagos at Tim Godfrey's Fearless concert in August. This announcement was made on Tim Godfrey's…

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[The Sexuality Blog] Who would have thought? Trump just signed a new HIV/AIDS deal with Nigeria

We have been quite alarmist about Donald Trump on the Sexuality Blog. We have have had good reason to be, considering his policies on female reproductive health, abortions and LGBT…

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[The Church Blog] Nathaniel Bassey’s followers are exploding

The next time you want to choose an Instagram username, I'd advise you ask your pastor for a name that would be synonymous with what God wants to do in…

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[The Legislative Blog]: Dino Melaye explains how his recall process is a fraud (WATCH)

Senator Dino Melaye is nowhere near giving up. Following the move to recall him from the Senate, a move we can no longer verify considering INEC has denied knowledge of…

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