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IdeaLab Nigeria launched Nollywood Fans Club portal

by Mutiu Okediran on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment

IdeaLab Nigeria launched Nollywood Fans Club portal

IdeaLab Nigeria, a technology Solutions Company has launched Nollywood Fans Club portal. According to the MD/CEO, Mr. Adebola Oni “The month of July is indeed a SPECIAL one for me! Over the years, July has always brought in one special thing or the other for me. Just on the 1st, our new company IdeaLab Nigeria, was introduced. Now, the new company is giving birth to its first baby, NollyWoodFansClub.Com”

As the name implies, NollywoodFansClub, is a platform, a social network for all the fans of Nigerian Movies, popularly referred to as Nollywood, one of the world’s top three movie industry.

Mr. Oni said “We saw it as an anomaly that the fans of Nollywood do not have a platform for meeting, online or offline. Since somebody has to start something, IdeaLab Nigeria, has decided to take up the onerous task of providing this needed platform.”

Nollywood Fans Club, with its online platform at http://www.nollywoodfansclub.com/, is set to contribute positively to the growth and development of Nollywood. Aside provide the platform for the fans of Nollywood to connect, it will also provide the platform for people to make positive contribution that can bring about developments.

The Alternative 2.0 on June 12, 2010

by Mutiu Okediran on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Alternative 2.0

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria and Microsoft Nigeria are proud to announce ‘The Alternative 2.0′, the event that highlights the need for young Nigerians to redirect their energy – from cybercrime – towards positive online opportunities. The event is free and open to all, but you must RSVP through this FaceBook page or by eMail to info@pinigeria.org.

It holds on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 10am (Green Carpet reception at 9am) at the Main Auditorium, University of Lagos. Featuring Cobhams Asuquo (producer, ‘Maga No Need Pay’), MI, Rooftop MCs, Modele, Bez, Wordsmith, Kemi Adetiba (director, ‘Maga No Need Pay’ video), Deolu Akinyemi (discussing ‘Alternatives to Cybercrime’) and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (award-winning author, I Do Not Come To You By Chance)!

We will provide updates on MISSPIN activities to date, announce new activities and thank the outgoing MISSPIN Ambassadors, the new Call for MISSPIN Ambassadors will be announced at the event.

For more information, see flyers and watch out for the radio and TV adverts or visit www.pinigeria.org.

TFP’s Young Writers Network begins internships

by Mutiu Okediran on May 3, 2010 | No Comments

Two lecturers, Toni Kan and Olu Jacob, arriving for classes

The Young Writers Network Creative Classes, presented by The Future Project (TFP), has moved to the next stage of its first session, with the students now interning at various media houses across the country.

“The past weeks have been amazing,” said Chude Jideonwo, Creative Director of TFP, which is also the organiser of The Future Awards. “The spread of students has been impressive – young people working in the creative industries, financial sector, oil and gas, those who are sticking with the arts, all coming together in an intellectually charged environment to improve their talent: it has been very refreshing. The lecturers are also a pool of the very best in the business, and, most remarkably, they are doing this pro bono – all committed to helping the next generation of writers.”

After Abuja , Nigerian youth march in Lagos April 13

by Mutiu Okediran on March 31, 2010 | 1 Comment

After a massively successful rally at the National Assembly in Abuja on March 16 that continues to be talked about weeks after, young Nigerians under the aegis of the ENOUGHISENOUGH (EiE) Nigeria coalition have announced a Lagos rally, which will hold at the Governor’s Office in Alausa on Tuesday April 13, 2010.

The protesters will gather at the Archbishop Vining Memorial Anglican Church car park that morning at 11am, and march to Alausa. “The governor’s office has already been notified about this as well as the authorities of the Nigerian police force,” said Adebola Williams, who is one of the rally’s coordinators.

ENOUGHISENOUGH Nigeria, the coalition of change-seeking youth leaders and young professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, celebrities, activists and students from across the country, will march to the Lagos State Governor’s Office where they will present 4 Key Demands to the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, for onward passage to the National Council of State and the Governors’ Forum.

EnoughisEnough Lagos Rally holds on Tuesday 13th April 2010

by Mutiu Okediran on March 26, 2010 | No Comments

Our Votes Must Count!

On March 16, young Nigerians stormed Abuja.
On April 13, Lagos, here we come.

#EnoughisEnough Nigeria!
Finally, young Nigerians take charge…

Our Votes Must Count!
Join young professionals, celebrities, media, students and activists…

Take-off: Archbishop Vining Church, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Destination: Governor’s office, Alausa, Ikeja
Time: 11am prompt

OUR DEMANDS THIS TIME…

Nigerians youths march to the National Assembly next Tuesday, 16th of March 2010

by Mutiu Okediran on March 11, 2010 | No Comments

A coalition of prominent youth leaders and young people from across the country rose from a strategy meeting in Lagos and announced plans for a protest rally against happenings in the governance of the country. The rally will hold on Tuesday, the 16^th of March 2010, and the young people will march to the National Assembly in Abuja.

This historic push is to be taken under the name ENOUGHISENOUGH Nigeria.

“ENOUGHISENOUGH [is] a coalition of individuals, organisations, and collectives, intended to be the most ambitious of youth initiatives aiming to effect peaceful transformation in Nigeria,” said Tolu Ogunlesi, winner of the CNN Journalist of the Year awards last year. “ENOUGHISENOUGH is a double-edged sword; it is a message both to us (that it is time to leave the comfort of our computer and mobile phone keyboards, and seek to exert authority in the real world) and to the powers-that-be (that enough is enough of taking Nigeria and Nigerians for granted).”

Finally, The Future Awards 2010 is here!

by Mutiu Okediran on February 3, 2010 | No Comments

It’s finally here! After four solid months of one of the nation’s most intense publicity campaigns, and a national tour the likes of which the nation probably only sees in politics, the organisers of The Future Awards are set to present, for the fifth year in a row, Nigeria’s biggest youth event.

The event holds as announced by the organisers at the official launch of this season on October 1, 2009 in Lagos . It holds on Sunday, the 7th of February 2010 at the Musion Centre in Lagos . The Keynote Speaker is Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Pat Utomi, Abike Dabiri, Ben Bruce, others speak at The Future Pre-Awards Conference

by Mutiu Okediran on January 13, 2010 | No Comments

The organisers The Future Awards 2010 have announced the second edition of the annual The Future Pre-Awards “Do Something” Conference. It holds on Saturday, 6 February 2009, a day before the awards night.

“We will be giving young people the rare opportunity to meet some of the highest achieving young Nigerians you can find,” Chude Jideonwo, the event’s creative director said. “The conference was an idea that started last year as an extension of our plans to use The Future Awards to develop more practical programmes that can give young people access to knowledge skills and experience that can move them forward. As usual, the focus of our efforts is on role modelling, and this follows that trend.”

The Future conference is different from other conferences because the young people are not sitting down and listening to lectures. “We don’t want that – there is enough of that and we don’t think it’s particularly effective, especially given how broken down our structures are in this country,” Jideonwo said. “At this point, we believe that Nigeria needs to listen to young people to know their issues and how to engage them. Therefore, the format is that these young people are free to ask these role models any questions they have. It’s no holds barred!”

The Future Awards releases Nominees List for 2010

by Mutiu Okediran on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

-Mercy Johnson , MI , Psquare, Omawumi, Tosyn Bucknor, Tolu Ogunlesi, Dare Art-Alade, Asa, others make list

- 8 young scientists discovered

On Tuesday, the 8^th of December, The Future Awards released its much-awaited list of nominees for the 2010 edition of the awards. “It’s a rich list!” said Emilia Asim-Ita, the awards’ PR Director. “I am so proud of it; it took two months of gruelling work and research, but I look at the list of another 160 high-achieving young Nigerians and I think to myself: wow, we have been representing!”

The long list was released after two months of calling for nominations, and having town hall meetings across eight states of the federation (Osun, Adamawa, Edo, Rivers, Cross River, Enugu, Abuja and Kaduna), in conjunction with HiTV, as well as Accra, Johannesburg, Manchester and London, reaching out to young Nigerians in order to get a fine spread of nominations and participation.

All the nominees are Nigerian citizens aged 18 – 31.