Tag Archives: MTN Nigeria

MTN Y’ello Star: Five Contestants for Exclusion after Third Week Performances 

This weekend, MTN Y’ello Star viewers watched as 14 finalists displayed their vocal strength and performance abilities as they performed to determine who would be the first to lose their right of performance on the show. At the end of Sunday’s outing, the sixth episode of the show’s debut season, five of the 14 contestants, […]

MTN partners with Gameloft on exciting new platform 

In partnership with Gameloft, a leader in the development and publishing of games, MTN Nigeria has announced the launch of MTN Gameworld – a new gaming platform for its subscribers. The platform will offer the Nigerian gaming community access to a variety of fun and exciting games online through an extensive premium catalogue from Gameloft […]

14 Talents make the Hub as MTN Y’ello Star Debut Season Heats Up

The first broadcast of the new MTN Y’ello Star project gave us seven contestants who got a YES and made it to the house, seven more contestants secured spots to the Y’ello Star Hub last Saturday after impressive performances during the national sing-off. Contrary to the initially announced 13 spots in the Y’ello Star Hub, the judging trio of Omawumi, Banky W, and Olisa […]

Tobi Bakre and Hilda Baci set to Host MTN Y’ello Star

MTNAs the stars roll out to support this year’s top Nigerian music project  Tobi Bakre and Hilda Baci will host the maiden edition of MTN Y’ello Star, as announced by the company today. The launch of the reality music project, MTN Y’ello Star, is poised to build capacity among Nigeria’s musical youth talent and position […]

Meet the judges for MTN Y’ello Star – Banky W, Omawumi & Malik Yusef As the music reality show hits screens this weekend

  Six-time Grammy-award winner, Malik Yusef and award-winning Nigerian artistes, Banky W and Omawumi have been announced as judges of the premiere edition of the MTN Y’ello Star Project. The trio will help unleash the musical talent from the selected finalists.  Speaking on the selection of the judges for the Y’ello Star music reality TV […]

Ayeni Adekunle Spills On What Every Musician Needs On Their Journey To Stardom

Ayeni Adekunle, one of Africa’s leading reputation managers and founder/CEO of BHMG says there is more to a successful music career than vocal prowess.  “I believe you must have some form of talent to want to claim you can practice music, but I have always held a firm belief that what a 2Baba is selling […]

Efe Omorogbe, Ayeni Adekunle, Larry Annetts, Share Music Business Survival Tips at MTN’s Business of the Art Series

MTN Foundation, the social investment vehicle of MTN Nigeria, recently hosted the fourth edition of its Business of the Art series. Young Nigerians gathered online for a three-hour session aimed at guiding upcoming artistes and music enthusiasts to make informed decisions when navigating the converging lines of business and arts in the music industry. The programme had […]

MTN partners with Unacast to use its Turbine Location Processing Engine for Social Distancing Data to Help Mitigate COVID-19 in Nigeria.

To help mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, Unacast, an award-winning location platform and analytics firm, and MTN Nigeria, the leading mobile telecommunications provider, today announced a partnership in which the two will use privacy-friendly, aggregated and anonymized, human mobility insights derived from MTN’s network data, to make available a version of Unacast’s recognized and […]

MTN Hosts 13th Edition Of MUSON Graduation Concert

After an intensive two-year diploma programme at the prestigious Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON), 30 young Nigerians will be graduating on Tuesday, August 25, 2020. All thirty are recipients of MTN Nigeria’s MUSON Scholars programme which has provided scholarships for over 300 Nigerians in the past 13 years.  Before graduating, the scholars will host Nigerians […]