Interswitch, Africa’s leading digital payments and commerce provider, has announced an integration of its Quickteller services with BlackBerry’s BBM™. The groundbreaking service will be made possible via a new app called Quickteller Mini, available for smartphones running Android™, BlackBerry and iOS®. With this partnership, BBM users with a Nigerian bank account can make a request […]
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International R&B Superstar Maxwell To Perform R&B superstar Maxwell is heading to SA shores this summer to headline the BET Experience Africa, a spectacular global celebration of urban culture, music and lifestyle, from entertainment channel BET (DStv channel 129). The event which holds on December 12, BET Experience Africa provides the perfect kick off to the summer season, taking over the Ticketpro Dome for a non-stop, jam-packed entertainment fest, […]
A 2015 research compilation by the Media & Intelligence Unit of BHM The Difference Between Public Relations and Advertising Advertising is defined as having: a verbal and or visual message; a sponsor who is identified; delivery through one or more media, and payment by the sponsor to the media. Public Relations, on the other hand, […]
BY AYENI ADEKUNLE SAMUEL CEO, BHM GROUP It’s 2015. It’s July 9, and almost 50 workers at BlackHouse Media, a public relations agency in Lagos, Nigeria are out of patience waiting for June salaries. A week earlier, the finance team sent a mail to all staff, explaining the delay and promising payment in one week. It’s […]
BY OYINDAMOLA BAMGBOLA [email protected] Power has shifted from the hands of media companies and PR professionals to that of the consumer In 2014, BlackHouse Media recorded over a billion social media impressions from different campaigns. In the same year, the company introduced Nigeria’s first mobile application for the media and public relations industry. Figures and […]
BY AYENI ADEKUNLE SAMUEL CEO, BHM GROUP Honoraria. Flava. Keske. T-fare. Brown Envelope. These are just some of the code names by which cash exchange for editorial coverage is known in Nigeria. In a country where there are over 50 newspapers and magazines on the newsstands, hundreds of radio and TV stations, and an ocean […]
It is the story of a growing industry in a young and rapidly expanding African economy. The story has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. There are wizened old heads with decades of experience and a new wave of sharp, savvy Young Turks collaborating with them to drive their craft into the future. There […]
The death of Public Relations has been announced. Born to the Nigerian Railway Corporation and UAC in 1948 in Lagos, PR lived for 66 years and moved extensively around Nigeria before passing away following a protracted digital illness which began sometime in the late 2000’s. A memorial service of songs was held in its honour […]
Chido Nwakamah was still president of Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN) when we sat in my office at BlackHouse Media in 2014. BHM, where I am CEO, was launching Nigeria’s first mobile application in the PR industry and Nwakanma attended with the association’s excos John Ehiguese, Muyiwa Akintunde, and others. As we […]
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