30 June, 2020 – AREWA24, the leading Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle television channel and production studio in Nigeria and West Africa, announces a major slate of new and exciting shows to coincide with the company’s sixth anniversary. Since its launch in 2014, AREWA24 has consistently produced high-quality programming that provides an authentic Northern Nigerian voice for its audiences and reflects the region’s pride in local culture, arts and lifestyle for Hausa speaking families everywhere.
AREWA24 will debut a gripping new drama series, “Labarina,” from the well-known and highly respected Hausa director, Aminu Saira, beginning in July. Additionally, viewers will be treated to a new Season-2 of the popular hit comedy series, “Gidan Badamasi.” The network will also premier all new episodes of the longest-running drama series in Northern Nigeria, “Dadin Kowa” and AREWA24’s other blockbuster hit drama series, “90 Days.” AREWA24 continues to air the most recent and popular Kannywood movies and has licensed a collection of new movie titles that will be rolled out in the weeks and months ahead.
In the important children’s and youth categories, AREWA24 has teamed up with the iconic children’s show, Sesame Street, to present a Nigerian version of the show, “Dandalin Sesame,” featuring all of the show’s lovable characters, but in a Nigerian cultural context and all in Hausa. AREWA24 will also debut a new and highly-acclaimed kids’ educational show, “Akili and Me,” from the same producers as the popular youth show, Ubongo Kids, which currently airs on AREWA24. Rounding out the slate of new youth shows are “My Better World,” an animated series that follows the exciting adventures of six African teens as they navigate the complex challenges of school, family and friendship, and “The 77%”, a gritty, street-relevant youth magazine show about the 77% of Africans who are under the age of 35 and who will be shaping the Continent’s future.
“Sesame Workshop is proud to partner with Arewa 24 to deliver Sesame Street programming that was developed locally to meet the specific educational needs of children in Nigeria. We look forward to a successful partnership with Arewa 24 and to Dandalin Sesame continuing to bring laughter and learning in the Hausa language for many years to come,” said Danny Labin, Sesame Workshop’s Vice President of International Social Impact.
In the lifestyle category, AREWA24 is also debuting “Jakadan Arewa.” Jakadan Arewa is a travel, lifestyle and profile show featuring Hausa personalities, musicians and communities in other African countries and beyond.
“There is no better way to celebrate our sixth anniversary than to treat our viewers to a special collection of new Hausa dramas, kids and youth shows and other family-friendly entertainment programs that anchor our lineup,” says John Ekainu, AREWA24’s Studio General Manager. Ekainu adds that “all of these new shows will be available on the company’s global subscription streaming service, “AREWA24 On Demand,” reaching Hausa speakers around the world.”
Celestine Umeibe, AREWA24’s Chief Commercial Officer, adds: “All of these new shows further demonstrates AREWA24’s commitment to our 40M viewers and to our advertising partners, who are always guaranteed 100% compliance on their placements, who receive in-depth knowledge and insights into the Northern consumer market and who enjoy a high return on investment for their ad placements on AREWA24.”
ABOUT AREWA24 (www.arewa24.com): AREWA24 and its production arm, AREWA24 Productions, was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of authentic, locally-produced and high-quality Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming that reflects pride in Northern Nigerian life, culture, music, film, art, cooking and sports. Today, AREWA24 reaches approximately 40 million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa through its Eutelsat satellite free-to-air broadcast, on the StarTimes payTV bouquet (channel#138) the two Multichoice payTV platforms, DStv (channel #261) and GOtv (channel #101), and on the Canal+ payTV service (channel #285) in Niger, Chad and Cameroun. AREWA24 benefits from active audience engagement across its digital and social media platforms at AREWA24.com, facebook.com/AREWA24, Instagram.com/AREWA24channel, and twitter.com/AREWA24channel.
ABOUT AREWA24 On Demand: AREWA24 On Demand, a division of Network AREWA24, Ltd, is an all-Hausa language global streaming and OTT service with the mission of sharing pride in local culture with Hausa speakers worldwide. The service launched with over 2,000 episodes of Nigeria’s and West Africa’s favorite shows across a variety of genres and formats, including original award-winning dramas, Kannywood movies, talk and variety, women’s programming, Hip Hop, youth and kids shows, cooking, culture and much more. To subscribe to the new AREWA24 On Demand streaming service, go to http://tv.arewa24.com or download the app from the IOS App Store, Google Play, Apple TV, Roku Channel Store and Amazon Fire TV.
For additional information please contact: info@arewa24.com
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AREWA24 Celebrates 7th anniversary with largest slate of new programming ever
28 June 2021 – AREWA24, the leading Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle television channel and production studio in Nigeria and West Africa, celebrates its 7th anniversary by giving its viewers the largest slate of new Hausa-language programming in the channel’s history. AREWA24’s new slate of programming debuts in July, with new original dramas, a new women’s talk show, new kids’ “edutainment” series, fresh football shows alongside AREWA24’s other popular hit dramas and studio shows. Many of these new shows will also be immediately available on AREWA24 On Demand, the channel’s global subscription-video-on-demand service connecting Hausa speaking families around the world to Northern Nigerian entertainment, culture and lifestyle. New seasons of AREWA24’s original runaway hit drama series, Kwana Casa’in and Dadin Kowa, are currently in production and will premier in October.
AREWA24’s new slate of programs leads with three new Hausa dramas: Buka Afrikana, an ensemble situation-comedy set in a local Nigerian Middle Belt diner, or “Buka.” Labarna-Season-3, the newest season of one of the most popular Northern Nigerian hit drama series and Sirrin Boye, a new Hausa mystery and crime drama. Also launching in July is AREWA24’s new ground-breaking women’s talk show, “Mata A Yau” (Today’s Woman”), featuring four dynamic co-hosts from different backgrounds and ages, openly discussing important issues women are currently facing today in Northern Nigeria.
AREWA24’s CEO, Jacob Arback, reflecting on the company’s growth over the past seven years, gives all the credit to the company’s management and staff and to the tremendous talent in the Northern Nigerian television, media and creative arts sectors. “Many people don’t realize that there are over 80M Hausa speakers in Northern Nigeria and the Sahel, and the region is bursting everywhere with young talent. Arback adds, “what I am most proud of, however, is how our management and staff, comprised of such diverse Nigerian backgrounds, ethnicities, tribes, religions and geographics, can all gather as a team in Kano, Nigeria, to produce some of the best programming coming out of Africa today.”
AREWA24 is also expanding its kids’ entertainment and education programming in July, dubbing into Hausa for the first time ever the multi-award winning “Sesame Street Friends,” with all of your favorite Sesame Street characters, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. Also debuting in Hausa on AREWA24 is Super Sema, the first African kids’ superhero animated series about an ordinary young girl on an extraordinary mission to protect her African village from a heartless villain and his army of pesky robots. The Oscar-winning actress, Lupita Nyong’o, is a voice actress on the Super Sema series and is also a partner in the Nairobi-based Super Sema production company, Kukua. Keeping our avid Nigerian football fans happy, AREWA24 is rounding out its July new program launches with two new football series: “Homage, and “Perfection.”
ABOUT AREWA24: AREWA24 and its production arm, AREWA24 Productions, was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of authentic, locally-produced and high-quality Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming that reflects pride in Northern Nigerian life, culture, music, film, art, cooking and sports. Today, AREWA24 reaches 40+ million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa through its Eutelsat satellite free-to-air broadcast, on the StarTimes payTV bouquet (channel#138) the two Multichoice payTV platforms, DStv (channel #261) and GOtv (channel #101), the payTV platform TSTV (#361) and on the Canal+ payTV service (channel #285) in Niger, Chad and Cameroun. AREWA24 benefits from active audience engagement across its digital platforms at AREWA24.com, facebook.com/AREWA24, and Instagram.com/AREWA24channel.
To subscribe to the global streaming service, AREWA24 ON DEMAND, go to http://tv.arewa24.com or download the app from the IOS App Store, Google Play, Apple TV, Roku Channel Store and Amazon Fire TV.
For additional information please contact: info@arewa24.com
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AREWA24 Launches new slate of Q4 Programming, hires top executives
AREWA24, the leading Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle channel in
Nigeria, announces a slate of new premium programming for Q4 and Q1 2019, including the launch of the channel’s much-anticipated new original Hausa drama series in January, complementing its current long-running and award-winning series, “Dadin Kowa.” The ambitious new drama series is currently in production, and is expected to set a new standard for originality and quality in Hausa language television production.
AREWA24’s new slate of programs launching in October includes “Amo Daga Arewa.” This primetime music series features live performances and interviews with the incredibly talented musicians from across the North, including traditional music genres, as well as R&B, soul and religious. “Amo Daga Arewa” brings together the more traditional elements of the rich Northern Nigerian music culture, adding to
AREWA24’s already popular Hip Hop programs.
Re-launching in the fourth quarter with a brand new format and hosts, “Matasa@360” is a contemporary, street-wise and relevant youth show, focusing on the talent, innovation, and creativity of Northern Nigerian youth. The show also addresses the very real challenges facing young people in the region and the pressures they experience on a daily basis. The show’s regular featured segments explore how Northern Nigerian youth navigate daily life, relationships, media, entrepreneurship, performing arts, current affairs, campus life, technology and other areas that youth from all over the world can relate to.
AREWA24 has also green-lit a fourth season of “Haske: Matan Arewa,” featuring the dynamic women from Northern Nigeria as they tell their stories intimately and passionately. Breaking social and cultural barriers to becoming leaders, traders, teachers, entrepreneurs, rural activists, filmmakers and more, these amazing women share their successes, their struggles, their disappointments and their triumphs.
Rounding out AREWA24’s new Q4 programming lineup are dozens of Kannywood’s newest and best films from the industry’s top directors, producers and actors. AREWA24 now rivals any channel in the region when it comes to showcasing the most and the best Kannywood films. The channel has also licensed new shows for young viewers who watch its popular morning and afternoon Children’s block.
AREWA24 also announces two major executive programming and production hires at its Kano studio: Kadiri Yusef and Evans Ejiogu, each of whom brings their long experience and stellar track records in the Lagos television and media sector to Kano.Kadiri Yusef is a veteran executive of the programming and production staff at Silverbird Television, where he worked from 2004 to 2017. Kadiri became Silverbird’s Head of Television Production in 2006 where he directed most of Silverbird’s flagship shows, and all of its live broadcast programs. At AREWA24, Kadiri is in charge of directing all of the channel’s diverse studio-based shows and formats.
Evans Ejiogu has been a successful television content creator, producer, director, writer and video editor.
Along with his programming and production experience across formats and genres, Evans also brings to AREWA24 his extensive commercial skills honed from a decade in the corporate communications and advertising sectors. Evans’ work in theatre, television drama, short films, commercial production, radio and online digital content, helps raise the overall level of expertise and production quality at AREWA24.
Says Jacob Arback, AREWA24’s CEO, “we are very fortunate to have programming executives of such caliber and professional pedigree working at AREWA24. Evans and Kadiri are not only contributing to our already high performing programming staff and raising the channel’s production values, they are also helping to grow and further professionalize Northern Nigeria’s television and media sector.”
ABOUT AREWA24: AREWA24 was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of locally-produced Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming that reflects pride in Northern Nigerian life, culture, music, film, art, cooking and sports. Today, AREWA24 is available to over 80 million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa through its Eutelsat satellite free-to-air broadcast, and, in Nigeria, on the StarTimes pay bouquet (channel#138), on the StarTimes DTH satellite platform (channel#538) and on the two Multichoice pay platforms, DStv (channel #261) and GOtv (channel #101). AREWA24’s original productions are also uploaded weekly to youtube.com/AREWA24channel, and the channel benefits from active audience engagement across its digital platforms at AREWA24.com, facebook.com/AREWA24,
Instagram.com/AREWA24channel, and twitter.com/AREWA24channel.
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CANAL+ INTERNATIONAL sun sanya tashar AREWA24 a jerin tashohinsu.
CANAL+ INTERNATIONAL ya cimma yarjejeniyarta da tashar nishadantarwa da tsarin rayuwa a Najeriya, wato AREWA24.
Tashar wadda aka bude a shekarar 2014 don haskakawa tare da fito da al’adun Hausawa, AREWA24 na isa ga masu kallo da ke magana da harshen Hausa sama da milyan 80 a yammacin Afirka.
Tashar AREWA24 na gabatar da shirye-shirye masu nishadantarwa da tsarin rayuwa da dama, iri daban-daban, Kama daga shirye-shiryen Gari Ya Waye da na Mata da Matasa da shiryeshiryen Hip Hop, da Fina-finan Kannywood da shirin “Kundin Kannywood” da Girke-Girke da kuma Shirn al’adu da shirye-shirye na musamman.Haka kuma shirye-shiryen talabijin na tashar AREWA24 sun hada da shirye-shiryen kiwon lafiya, da shirin yara da kada-kaden gargajiya da kuma wasannin kwaikwayo daban-daban na kasashen Indiya da Turkiyya masu dogon zango, wadanda duk aka fassarasu cikin harshen Hausa. Tashar nishadantarwa a Najeriya, AREWA24 na nan a kan na’urar tauraron dan adam ta Canal+ kan tasha mai lamba 285, wadda zata fara daga yau. Don haka ne, wannan sanarwa ke kaddamar da bude sabon rukunin tashohin talabijin a kasar Nijar.
Kamfanin CANAL+INTERNATIONAL yana kokarin ganin ya kara matsowa kusa da abokan huldarsa na Najeriya, domin fitar da hanyar biya musu bukatunsu. “Muna farin ciki da muka samun damar fadada shirye-shirye masu inganci da muke samarwa. Tashar AREWA24 tasha ce da ta ke samar da shirye shirye masu inganci tun daga shekarar 2014.
A halin yanzu CANAL+INTERNATIONAL ta iso kasar Nijar kuma muna fata mu bawa masu basira a kasar damar kaiwa ga dukkanin kasashen dake magana da harshen Faransanci a nahiyar Afirka. Manufarmu ita ce tallata nasarorin da Najeriya ta samu da kuma kulla wata alaka tsakanin bangarori daban-daban na nahiyar Afirka.” A cewar Cheikh Sarr, Babban Jami’in Canal + ta kasar Niger. “Mun yi farin cikin samun hadin guiwa da CANAL + INTERNATIONAL wajen nuna shirye-shirye masu inganci da harshen Hausa ga abokan huldarsu. Muna da tabbacin cewa shirye-sjiryenmu za su zaburar tare da nishadantar da sabbin masu kallonmu a kan CANAL + a kasar Nijar kamar yadda suke yi a tsawon shekaru biyar da suka wuce a Najeriya.” A cewar Celestine Umeibe, Shugaban sashen tallace-tallace na tashar AREWA24.
Game da AREWA24 : Za a iya sauke shirye-shiryen tashar AREWA24 a kowanne mako a kan youtube.com/AREWA24channel. Ku kasance da masu kallon tashar AREWA24 da ke k kafafen sada zumunta a kan: AREWA24.com, da https://facebook.com/AREWA24, da Instagram.com/AREWA24channel, da kuma twitter.com/AREWA24channel.
