Next year’s race for the presidency in Nigeria just got a lot more interesting as a crusading journalist – an upstart known for exposing the millions and billions stolen by a national “loot-ocracy” – announced his candidacy for the nation’s top job. As news spread that the publisher, Omoyele Sowore, was testing the waters for […]
New York – Social media icon Adeola Oladele Fayehun has parted ways with her employers Sahara Reporters. Adeola who hosts the famous YouTube and Whatsapp viral satire show ‘Keeping It Real with Adeola’ quit her job at citing personal reasons. The firebrand journalist joined the Sahara Reporters Media Group in New York in 2011 and
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Nigerians were faced with the choice of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan or his challenger, Muhammadu Buhari. On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Americans will face a similar choice. Will they choose a member of the political establishment, Hillary Clinton, or an outsider, Donald Trump? In the
– By Kwesi E. Baako For a first time appearance for these 2 contemporary Nigerian comedians, it is really something to discuss; till the next performance, which promises to be an improvement after scaling the hurdle of putting together a stand up event in the Big Apple. And for me, I was fortunate to see a
Video By Kind Courtesy: SaharaTV/ Sahara Reporters SaharaTV’s Kwesi Baako interviews Namwali Serpell as she discusses her 2015 Caine Prize win, and explains why she wants to share her prize with other shortlisted nominees. Watch the interview here:
03/25/2014 “If they fail to give us Biafra, Somalia will look like a paradise compared to what will happen to that zoo. It is a promise, it is a pledge and it is also a threat to them… if they do not give us Biafra, there will be nothing living in that very zoo they
