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  • Biola Alabi joins Pulse Africa Board to boost strategic growth

    Biola Alabi joins Pulse Africa Board to boost strategic growth

    Africa’s leading innovative media company, Pulse, has announced the appointment of renowned media and investment executive, Ms Biola Alabi, to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

    Chief Executive Officer of Pulse Africa, Ms. Katharina Link, said the appointment aligns with the company’s forward-looking goals and reinforces its strategic direction.

    “Biola’s extensive leadership experience and commitment to innovation perfectly align with Pulse’s vision for the future. We are thrilled to welcome her to our Board of Directors as we accelerate our mission to inform and engage young people across Africa,” she stated.

    Ms Link noted that Ms Alabi’s appointment is a strategic move to bolster Pulse’s leadership capacity and expand its influence across Africa’s rapidly evolving media and digital landscape.

    “With a career spanning over two decades across corporate America and Africa, Ms Alabi is widely respected for her strategic foresight and proven ability to drive market growth. She currently serves as a venture partner at Delta40, where she champions investments in climate-focused agtech and fintech innovations.

    “Her track record also includes a stint as General Partner at Acasia Ventures, where she led critical fundraising and strategic efforts across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Her boardroom experience is equally impressive, having served as a non-executive director on the boards of Unilever Nigeria, Big Cabal Media, subsidiaries of Odu’a Investment Company, and Akili TV. Her expertise spans governance, audit, finance, risk management, and corporate strategy.” She added.

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    Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pulse Africa, Mr Tim Kollmann, also described the appointment as a timely step towards strengthening corporate governance and unlocking new growth opportunities.

    “Pulse has consistently raised the bar in connecting with Africa’s digital audiences while delivering impactful media and marketing solutions for partners.

    “The appointment of Biola Alabi to the Board reflects a strategic commitment to enhancing governance and creating new value for both our audiences and commercial partners. Her insight and leadership come at an important time, and we look forward to the opportunities this next chapter presents,” he said.

    Ms Alabi’s appointment is expected to contribute significantly to Pulse’s ambition to deepen engagement with Africa’s young, digital-first population and to scale its impact across the continent.

  • Biola Alabi’s Bukas & Joints enters Season 4

    Biola Alabi’s Bukas & Joints enters Season 4

    Exploring the rich Africa’s heritage and culture of food and confectioneries, Biola Alabi’s food and travel docu-series, has set off on an exciting journey in Season 4.

    “For many years, a rich African story has been preserved in our food, and we can only experience this history by tasting it,” said Alabi, CEO of Biola Alabi Media. “In Season 4, Bukas & Joints travels to Kano, Calabar and through Badagry in Lagos, goes to Cotonou and makes a final stop in Ghana. Bukas and Joints is set to show viewers fantastic spots and places that are creatively preserving the African taste and also serving a significant part of Africa’s history, one that tells of the unwilling journey of our fore-fathers across the trans-Atlantic many years ago,” she added.

    Andrews Liver Salt, a major sponsor of the show believes that “Africa’s rich and tasteful delicacies carry a lot of history that should be celebrated and explored. Partnering with Bukas & Joints is a great way to show these important parts of Africa’s history.”

    According to Alabi, “Season 4 of Bukas & Joints will go beyond the food and interact with the rich stories and heritage rooted in the places visited.”

    Hosted by Olisa Adibua and watched by more than 25 million households, the show which also enjoys sponsorship from Grand Pure Soya Oil, Suppy Cubes, Kilimanjaro Restaurants and Bournvita, screens on the continent’s largest broadcast network AIT, every Sunday by 7PM. It also airs on the African Channel in the US and on DSTV’s Africa Magic Channel.

  • August date for Biola Alabi’s ‘Banana Island Ghost’

    August date for Biola Alabi’s ‘Banana Island Ghost’

    From a hilarious trailer, screened to media practitioners and industry enthusiasts at the Filmhouse IMAX Cinema on last Tuesday, there are indications of an audience delight in Biola Alabi’s feature film debut entitled, Banana Island Ghost (B.I.G).
    It was commendations galore by the choice audience, as co-production company, BAM-NEMSIA Pictures released the first official trailer of the much anticipated movie, written and directed by BB Sasore.
    Starring international superstar Tomiwa Edun, and Nollywood heavyweights including, Uche Jombo, Saheed Balogun, Ali Nuhu, Bimbo Manuel, Damilola Adegbite, Lala Akindoju and Dorcas Fapson, pundits believe that the 90-minute action and comedy flick will be an instant classic and pop-culture favourite across Nigeria and beyond.
    Scheduled for cinema release on August 4, 2017, B.I.G has been touted as the first from a slate of five films by BAM-NEMSIA Pictures, a coproduction partnership between Biola Alabi Media (BAM) and Nemsia Films – headed by BB Sasore and Derin Adeyokunnu.
    The collaboration has also evolved some strategic partners and sponsors, including Dr. Ayo Osunrinade, Michael Ugwu, founder of FreeMe Digital, Adenike Adekanbi of HTB Entertainment Studios, Mr. Niyi Toluwalope and Basheer Tosin Ashafa of Tri-Equity Capital who are all Co-Executive Producers.
    Commenting on the film, Alabi, who is the Executive Producer said, “Banana Island Ghost is unprecedented in many regards, and we believe that this trailer will excite viewers across Nigeria and beyond, to look forward to a rib-cracking experience when the movie hits the cinema screens in August.”
    In the film, the cantankerous firecracker, Ijeoma (Chioma Omeruah) wakes up to find a Ghost (Patrick Diabuah) next to her. He has three days to fall in love and she will do anything to save her father’s house in Banana Island from the bank coming to reclaim it in three days.
    According to the Producer Omorinsojo Spaine, “A lot of work and resources went into making this film, and I am very proud of what we’ve accomplished. The trailer has been hugely applauded and I can’t wait for everyone to see the film in August.”
    The movie was co-produced by Tolu Olusoga, Head of Productions at BAM.

  • Biola Alabi’s rising profile

    Biola Alabi’s rising profile

    BIOLA Alabi, until recently the Africa Managing Director of M-Net, has been named a 2014 Yale World Fellow. She joins 15 other World Fellows selected this year from thousands of applicants across the world.

    The Lagos-based 40-year-old is only the seventh Nigerian selected for the prestigious fellowship since the programme’s inception in 2002. Attending Yale’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut, for five months, Alabi will take part in specially-designed seminars in leadership, management and global affairs; receive individualized professional development training; attend courses and engage in discussion with a wide range of distinguished guest speakers.

    Alabi served as M-Net’s Africa Managing Director for five years until January 2014 when the continent’s leading television content providerappointed her Director of Special Projects.

    A 2012 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, last year Alabi was voted West African Businesswoman of the Year as well as being named one of 20 Young Power Women in Africa by Forbes magazine.

  • Big Brother Africa on AfricaMagic next year

    Big Brother Africa on AfricaMagic next year

    In addition to its first ever AfricaMagic Viewers Choice Awards which it is creating in association with MultiChoice, AfricaMagic has confirmed that it will also screen a new season of the hit reality super-series Big Brother Africa (BBA).

    Exactly a decade after Africa pioneered the world’s first-ever continental Big Brother , the show will return to DStv and GOtv screens next year with more of the must-watch entertainment, drama and excitement that it’s famous for. And once again, there is a secret twist that producers have worked on to ensure that the new season will capture audience attention once more!

    “The demand from audiences for BBA continues undimmed. In some ways it really is astonishing to see the enthusiasm for this particular series, but in other ways it is to be expected,” says M-Net Africa Managing Director Biola Alabi.

    “Viewers want to see unscripted television, as it happens, with normal people that they can relate to dealing with completely familiar emotional concepts – happiness, frustration, success, failure, hope, anxiety, friendship, opportunity and of course, love. Big Brother continues to be a ratings sensation from Australia to India, and in Africa, for exactly this reason. And the format’s flexibility is a producers dream because you can do something different every time,” she stated.

    Asked if the new season will be fresh, fun entertainment, producers Endemol SA are confident of another successful edition.

    “We are delighted with the new concept that has been developed for the upcoming show,” confirms Endemol MD Sivan Pillay.

    “Every year as soon as we know that we are going ahead with a new season, we head into a creative brainstorming session and every year, ideas just go racing around the room. Our teams enjoy the show as much as audiences our audiences do and it shows on screen. And this year, I have a feeling that audiences are going to fall in love with the idea!”