Suleman Momoh’s mark is everywhere. It’s more popular than the official brand Nigeria icon (Good People, Great Nation) that was forged in 2008 in the kiln of national politics and force-fed with a portion of […]
“You a legend in the makin’ too” – Will Smith in ‘Will’ Remix
This has become a conflagration — 2:45 minutes of blazing street-level poetry that the world has gathered to watch. You have to see the comments on YouTube to fully connect. But what’s more catchy is […]
How Kenny Ogungbe And Ayeni Adekunle Killed PR
Did you know? …That Ayeni Adekunle, at one point in his young adult life, lived in a two bedroom flat on the backside of Lagos? Dude was dead broke, they say. There were even some […]
HOW TO BE “NICHE FAMOUS”
A tiktok video went viral last week that spontaneously got some major celebrities vexed. Here’s a quote from the video: “And these people (Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon) are awful. I had to deal with […]
Senator Dino Melaye… The Straight Path to NATIONAL RESPECT
I asked a friend the other day what he thought of Senator Dino Melaye’s new house—the gilded one whose photograph the Kogi politician recently posted on Instagram. My friend, who is reputed to possess an […]
10 Ways Rotimi Bankole Leads the New School of Marketing Communications in Nigeria
Recently, Tecno signed Grammy nominated afrobeats superstar Wizkid as its first celebrity brand ambassador. Behind the reported multimillion naira deal is SBI Media, a fast-rising seven-year-old media agency. In 2019, the same agency had helped […]
for years, Jahman Anikulapo Quietly MINTeD Leaders In A Lagos Newsroom
One afternoon in 2005, my boss and I stood in the vast newsroom of The Guardian and watched time whizz by. It was 4,5pm-ish. The reporters were back, as usual, sliding across the glazed floor, […]
naira marley started a cult by accident
He doesn’t even know it, but Naira Marley is a cult leader.
All of a sudden, there’s an army of Nigerians all over the world calling themselves Marlians. They follow the philosophy of the Great One aka Afeez Fashola, who is only 25 years old.
Their doctrine, it appears, is smoke a bouyant amount of weed, rage against the authorities, have a lot of sex, and secure the bag aka naira.
Boardroom Miracle: How Tope Jemerigbe Resurrected A Totally Dead Ad Agency In One Year
For three weeks, Tope Jemerigbe had waited with nerves on fire for this phone call. Now that she was on it, she knew there was only one answer she could accept from the man on the other end of the line. That man, Tarek Abdelnabi, must make up his mind today or Tope and her people would be out of time. Tope didn’t like to be out of time.
‘IN A COUNTRY WITHOUT SAFETY NETS, FAMILY BUSINESSES can BE our safety nets’ – nike anani
If you want statistics, there are dozens of statistics on how many startups die young. Four out of five. Eighty percent. In Nigeria, most companies die with their founders. Or they shrivel as the founder […]