ADEKUNLE AYENI'S NET MAGAZINE DEBUT

 Respected entertainment journalist and critic Ayeni Adekunle has launched a weekly entertainment newspaper.

Nigerian Entertainment Today (NET) is a 16-paged all-colour newspaper that parades all you ever need in entertainment. The newspaper first hit the stands on April 26, 2010 with a special tribute edition to late rapper Dagrin. 

Ayeni, who has over the past seven years anchored popular entertainment columns in Encomium, THISDAY and THE PUNCH, apart from contributing regularly for Hiphopworld Magazine and The Africa Report, told journalists in Lagos, that the website and newspaper ‘are children of necessity’.

‘Personally, it’s a dream come true for me. But more importantly, what we’re trying to do is to fill a vacuum; to fill a void. Young people want their info on the move. They’re on Facebook, Twitter, they spend all their time chatting on Blackberry messenger. They’re hooked to E!, TMZ and the rest. So we thought, why not create a service that’ll deliver Nigerian content to them real time? That’s what gave birth to thenetng.com. And within five months, we were already attracting millions of users." he said.

NET combines art and celebrity reporting; balancing the journal’s content between the soft sell, and hard sell. And the team of reporters, writers and contributors are drawn from different genres. Notable names include Tosyn Bucknor, Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi, Chiagoziem Onyekwena, Joy Isi-Bewaji, ‘Biodun Ogundairo, Kerongo Grace, Olutomi Oladipo, Victoria Ige and Ayeni Adekunle himself. 

The paper will circulate nationally, with a target to reach every young person especially those  between the ages of 15 and 35.