{"id":4986,"date":"2021-06-24T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa24.com\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T08:05:58","slug":"arewa24-celebrates-7th-anniversary-with-largest-slate-of-new-programming-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa24.com\/en\/arewa24-celebrates-7th-anniversary-with-largest-slate-of-new-programming-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"AREWA24 Celebrates 7th anniversary with largest slate of new programming ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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28 June 2021<\/strong> – AREWA24, the leading Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle television channel and production studio in Nigeria and West Africa, celebrates its 7th<\/sup> anniversary by giving its viewers the largest slate of new Hausa-language programming in the channel\u2019s history.\u00a0 AREWA24\u2019s new slate of programming debuts in July, with new original dramas, a new women\u2019s talk show, new kids\u2019 \u201cedutainment\u201d series, fresh football shows alongside AREWA24\u2019s other popular hit dramas and studio shows.\u00a0 Many of these new shows will also be immediately available on AREWA24 On Demand<\/strong>, the channel\u2019s global subscription-video-on-demand service connecting Hausa speaking families around the world to Northern Nigerian entertainment, culture and lifestyle. \u00a0New seasons of AREWA24\u2019s original runaway hit drama series, Kwana Casa’in<\/strong> and Dadin Kowa<\/strong>, are currently in production and will premier in October.<\/p>\n

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AREWA24\u2019s new slate of programs leads with three new Hausa dramas:\u00a0 Buka Afrikana<\/strong>, an ensemble situation-comedy set in a local Nigerian Middle Belt diner, or \u201cBuka.\u201d Labarna-Season-3<\/strong>, the newest season of one of the most popular Northern Nigerian hit drama series and Sirrin Boye<\/strong>, a new Hausa mystery and crime drama.\u00a0 Also launching in July is AREWA24\u2019s new ground-breaking women\u2019s talk show, \u201cMata A Yau\u201d<\/strong> (Today\u2019s Woman\u201d), featuring four dynamic co-hosts from different backgrounds and ages, openly discussing important issues women are currently facing today in Northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n

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AREWA24\u2019s CEO, Jacob Arback, reflecting on the company\u2019s growth over the past seven years, gives all the credit to the company\u2019s management and staff and to the tremendous talent in the Northern Nigerian television, media and creative arts sectors.\u00a0 \u201cMany people don\u2019t realize that there are over 80M Hausa speakers in Northern Nigeria and the Sahel, and the region is bursting everywhere with young talent.\u00a0 Arback adds, \u201cwhat 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AREWA24 is also expanding its kids\u2019 entertainment and education programming in July, dubbing into Hausa for the first time ever the multi-award winning \u201cSesame Street Friends<\/strong>,\u201d with all of your favorite Sesame Street characters, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.\u00a0 Also debuting in Hausa on AREWA24 is Super Sema,<\/strong> the first African kids\u2019 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.\u00a0 The Oscar-winning actress, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, is a voice actress on the Super Sema series and is also a partner in the Nairobi-based Super Sema production company, Kukua.\u00a0 Keeping our avid Nigerian football fans happy, AREWA24 is rounding out its July new program launches with two new football series: \u201cHomage<\/strong>, and \u201cPerfection<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ABOUT AREWA24:<\/strong>\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 AREWA24 benefits from active audience engagement across its digital platforms at AREWA24.com<\/a>, facebook.com\/AREWA24<\/a>, and Instagram.com\/AREWA24channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To subscribe to the global streaming service, AREWA24 ON DEMAND<\/strong>, go to <\/em>http:\/\/tv.arewa24.com<\/a> or download the app from the IOS App Store, Google Play, Apple TV, Roku Channel Store and Amazon Fire TV.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For additional information please contact: info@arewa24.com<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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