Category: Media – TV & Radio

Nollywood

Entertainment – Nollywood, Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General, Nollywood – Others, Nollywood – Yoruba

Nollywood; is the often criticized but common expression for the Nigerian film industry. Nigerian movies are seen as the pivot of a developing African film industry and the cultural mainstay of Africans… read more
Onyeka Onwenu

Entertainment – Media, Media – TV & Radio, Music – Others, Nollywood – General

Onyeka Onwenu; legend of Nigeria’s music industry and multiple award-winning songstress, fondly called the Elegant Stallion. Onyeka was known also to a generation of Nigerians as a broadcaster, and lastly, an actress. Onyeka took part in Half of a… read more
Television

Entertainment – Media, Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General, Social – Relaxation

Television in Nigeria was anticipated by Adekanbi, editor of Eko Akete in a 1924 publication when, in reaction to Colonel Malone, chairman of the Radio Association’s prediction of the emergence of the television… read more
Jimi Solanke

Literature – Others, Media – TV & Radio, Philosophy – African

Jimi Solanke; Children’s storyteller, also an acclaimed actor, teacher, and poet . Born July, 1942, the versatile artist with a warm personality also veered into such business as owning a club and… read more
Godfrey Chukunweke

Journalism, Media – TV & Radio

Odu Godfrey Chukunweke; Nigerian journalist with the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA. Born in 1946, Odu Godfrey was a native of Ezi, Aniocha Local Government, Delta State. He graduated from the University of… read more
Dolapo Oni

Entertainment – Media, Media – TV & Radio, People

Dolapo Oni; Also, Marcy Dolapo Oni. Television presenter in Nigeria. In 2015, Dolapo Oni launched her own TV show, The Marcy Project on DSTV’s Africa Magic, a lifestyle and entertainment programme with… read more
Charles Oputa

Entertainment – Pop Culture, Media – TV & Radio, Music – Pop, People, Social – Welfare

Charles Oputa; Nigerian eccentric entertainer, often appearing with a scarf tied round his neck, nose and eyelids pierced and fixed with big earrings. Oputa, the first son of Chukwudifu Oputa, highly revered… read more
Onyia Zeal

Entertainment – Music, Media – TV & Radio, Music – Others

Onyia Zeal; famous trumpeter with records of spectacular performances. Zeal fine-tuned his budding skills under the tutelage of Bobby Benson of Nigeria and Emmanuel Tetteh Mensah of Ghana. After starting his music… read more
Dokpesi Raymond

Business, Media – TV & Radio, People

Dokpesi Raymond Aleogho; Nigerian media entrepreneur who in the early 1990s harnessed the liberalisation of the Nigerian broadcasting industry which allowed private ownership of radio and television stations in the launching of… read more
Abike Dabiri-Erewa

Media – TV & Radio, People, Policy, Politics – Public Service

Dabiri-Erewa Abike; Member, Nigerian House of Representatives of the 4th to the 6th Assembly and at different times, Chairman of the House Committees on Diaspora Affairs and Media and Publicity respectively. Dabiri-Erewa… read more