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Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has unveiled the list of its finalists for the 2014 edition of the awards. The finalists have been selected from the pool of outstanding individuals across various disciplines and nominated from all over Africa for this season of the awards – and have been assessed through…
One hundred and fifty nominees (150) have been announced for the voting stage of the 2014 Social Media Awards Africa #SMAA2014. The voting window will run from November 18–28, 2014 at www.smaafrica.com/vote Announcing the list of successful nominees and the commencement of the voting stage of the awards at a Press Conference in Lagos-Nigeria, Femi…
The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has announced the leading influencers for its global campaign to pool 1 million young Africans to act against Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The #StopEbola campaign will be led by TFAA Young Person of the Year 2013, Ashish Thakkar and Africa’s leading creative icons – Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola…
Former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Lanre Ope was hosted to a tweetmeet moderated by social media expert @Bar_Baric. During the session, which lasted for about 1 hour 30 mins, the seasoned politician engaged the public, entertaining questions and giving insights on his ambition to govern Lagos State come 2015. The…
This November, something fresh and unique will be hitting the Lagos art and entertainment circuit. Finding Home, a theater piece delivered entirely in spoken word poetry, and scheduled to tour across Africa, will make its grand debut at Terra Kulture on the 14th of November. Finding Home follows ten dynamic characters across Africa, abroad, and…
The editors of Y! – TV, Magazine & Online – today announced the shortlist for Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2014. The YNaija Person of the Year is in its fourth year and is awarded to the individual who has most visibly influenced the Nigerian society for good in the past year,…
Team Elan, winners of the maiden edition of Fayrouz L’Original Expression show, adorned the runway of the ongoing Lagos Fashion and Design week (LFDW) with one of the most exciting collections of the season, yesterday at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. The group of 4 consisting of a Designer, Make Up Artist(MUA), Photographer and Model,…
M.I Abaga has unveiled the Official Album Art along with the track-list of his anticipated third album The Chairman, the album contains 17 songs with the first 8 and the last 8 being completely opposite to each other, the song in the middle stands on its own. There are also features from some of the hottest acts…
Chude Jideonwo, 29 and Adebola Williams, 28 have been announced as winners of the CNBC Africa All Africa Business Leaders Awards 2014 – for the Young Business Leader of the Year 2014, West Africa. This was announced at the awards event held on Thursday, 23 October at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.
In a bid to do this, the Office of Miss Insurance 2014/2015 has officially kicked off her “Teens For Insurance” pet project, with the announcement of its online essay competition, titled: The Significant role of Insurance to the development of an Economy. The “Teens For Insurance”, project was developed to sensitize the younger generation…
GE created the Garages program in 2012 to reinvigorate America’s interest in invention, innovation, and manufacturing. In 2014, Garages went global with three weeks of workshops amidst a fully equipped fab lab in Lagos, Nigeria, at GE’s regional headquarters. On October 27th, 2014, GE will expand on past successes by evolving the program into six…
The third edition of The Genevieve Pink Ball will take place this Saturday, 18th of October 2014 at 6.30pm at the prestigious DORCHESTER Event Centre located at 288 Ligali Ayorinde Street, VI.
Singer, Sound Sultan alongside top industry leaders such as comedy pioneer Ali Baba, popular comedian Julius Agwu, Founder/CEO BHM Group Ayeni Adekunle, ace photographer Don Barber, Nollywood Producer Kunle Afolayan and Executive Director, 141 Worldwide Suleman Momoh gathered on Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at the Royal Events Center Ikeja to share their career experiences and…
The Wives, an evergreen stage play written by Prof Ahmed Yerima opened today at the Agip Recital Hall of the Muson Centre Onikan, Lagos. The star studded play features Kate Henshaw, Joke Silva, Jide Kosoko, Ireti Doyle, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Adebola Williams and Toyin Oshinnaike.
We are walking in honour of Women everywhere! Join the fight! When: On the 13th of September, 2014 Registeration Fee: N5,000 (Get your free shirt!) Route: (Lekki – Ikoyi – Lekki) Meeting Point: Divine Merchy Church Playground on Admiralty Road Time: 7:00am
Due to recent heavy rainfall, golfing fans will have to wait just a little longer to find out who will don the blue blazer as the victor of the inaugural Johnnie Walker Blue Label Golf Challenge, the penultimate (third) and final rounds of which have now been merged and will take place on Saturday, 6th…
PRESS RELEASE: We are pleased to announce that Enterprise Creative is a partner for the British Council’s upcoming fashion skills and mentoring programme for young Nigerian fashion professionals. The British Council is currently inviting applications from emerging Nigerian fashion designers to take part in a year-long mentoring programme that will bring together a range of…
Tanzanian Innovator, Meck Khalfan and Nigerian singer, Seyi Shay are the cover stars on the latest issue of Africa’s leading youth-focused magazine, Y! Africa. It is released to commemorate August 12 2014 – the International Day of the Youth.
Africa’s top artists, including Nigeria’s D’banj and Femi Kuti, South Africa’s Judith Sephuma and Congo DRC’s Fally Ipupa will be traveling with Manchester City soccer star Yaya Toure to Washington D.C. 4-7 August with The ONE Campaign to play an active role in shaping the conversation about the US-Africa relationship at the historic US-Africa Leaders Summit.
Ajegunle.org, an initiative of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), which connects young people with ICT enabled opportunities to help access better livelihoods, has just completed a Google Web Training for community youths. The training held from 9 to 27 June 2014.
After a full year receiving nominations from across Africa, the Central Working Committee (CWC) of The Future Africa Awards & Summit (TFAAS) has today released the Nominees List for 2014.
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EbonyLife TV, Mo Abudu hosted guests to a live Pop-Up activation titled ‘The Studio Experience’. The Studio Experience was designed to showcase the making of ELTV’s favourite programmes in an interactive and captivating way. The Studio Experience held at the Tinapa Studios in Calabar on Sunday 20 July, 2014….
I want to thank the members of the Pyrates Confraternity for their doggedness in pursuing me all these years to speak at one of these events. Having failed to deliver this lecture on two different occasions, I am pleased that the doggedness of Mr. Chiemeka Ozumba and his friends has paid off and I have…
Contrary to all the craziness that have been hauling Nigeria into international limelights, good things do happen in the country. Young Nigerians are certainly taking the future into their own hands. Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) is a social enterprise that connects Nigerian youth with ICT-enabled opportunities.