Events

WAPTV Wins Big at Media Industry Awards

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3 years ago

November 21, 2023

WAP TV has received double honours at the prestigious BrandCom Awards, which took place recently at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos State.

At the event, attended by hundreds of influential individuals from top corporate organisations, advertising agencies, and media houses across Nigeria, the management and the WAPTV team expressed delight and appreciation for receiving the awards.

The Media Industry Award was organised to celebrate outstanding achievements in the country’s media and marketing communications industry.

The event, which is organised annually by Brand Communicator Magazine, awarded WapTV Network as the ‘Most-Outstanding Indigenous TV Channel’, for over 10 years of providing quality family entertainment to the average Nigerians, and inducted the organisation’s Chairman, Mr. Wale Adenuga, into the ‘BrandCom Hall of Fame’ “for his immense contributions in the industry by connecting thousands of brands with millions of audience members for over 40 years.”

While responding to the awards, Adenuga, the managing director WapTV, said: “As the first Nigerian TV channel with presenters speaking Pidgin English since 2012, we are intentional about our content being primarily targeted at the middle and low-income earners in Nigeria; who actually make up the vast majority of our country’s population.

“Hence, we meticulously create and curate top-notch content to provide our viewers with the top-notch family entertainment which they deserve. As with all our awards, we are thankful to God, the organisations advertising their products and services through us, the independent producers airing their live and recorded programmes on our station, and of course the millions of viewers who tune into WapTV daily. We promise to do more.”

He added: “WapTV is a 24-hour family entertainment channel, available across Nigeria and several African countries on an extensive network of all major satellite and cable TV platforms: DStv 262, StarTimes 116, GOtv 129, FreeTV 751, and Play 275; as well as worldwide via several streaming apps, including AVOTV, SuperTV, and TVNow.”

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August 27, 2026

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The contemporary art and photography exhibition “Wake Up!” is back again for a second edition.

Curated by Awele Onwordi, Wake Up! 2 exhibition pays homage to the Nigerian youth and burgeoning street culture which many of its contributing artists reference in their works.

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Titled “Young, Wild, Free”, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, resilience, freedom and cultural influence found in Nigerian youth.

Taking aim at societal issues and economic concerns, the exhibit reflects the youth and their refusal to compromise or bow despite all the challenges stacked against them while charting youth culture through art, music, fashion, skateboarding, photography and community.

The exhibition will be held, once again, at the Angel and Muse Gallery at 25 Sumbo Jibowu street off Ribadu Road off Awolowo Road in Ikoyi.

It will open on Saturday 5 September 2026 and will run until 11 September 2026
This second edition which focuses on celebrating, nurturing and exploring artistic practices rooted in youth and street culture will feature works from DENCITY and SUPERGLIDER HOUSE.

Exhibiting artists include Ajilore Kehinde – their work is deeply influenced by Nigerian street culture and works of other artists like Slawn, Peters Ejiro, etc, Chuka Onwordi – graphic designer who embodies themes of death, melancholy and beauty in his works, ZIDYEP – Abuja based creative whose works move between digital and physical spaces through art, graphic design and air brushing , Franklyn Okoye – graphic designer and artist whose works explore themes of identity and hyper-reality, Awele Onwordi – founder & curator of WAKE UP and multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans character art, creative logo design, album covers and more , Oluchi Kogolo – digital illustrator whose work explores street culture, personality and storytelling through a raw and playful visual style and Kozetuo Apeji – multidisciplinary artists who work explores experimental approaches to problem solving through both digital and traditional art forms.

Commenting on the exhibition in her curatorial statement, Awele noted that “despite economic instability, limited opportunities and socio-political challenges, Nigerian youth continue to shape culture through music, fashion, art, skateboarding, raves, photography and community.”

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Continuing and harping on the raison d’etre of the exhibition she said, “Young, Wild and Free exists to celebrate Nigerian youth while also creating a platform that supports and amplifies them.”