By Chris Onuoha

The delectable quintessential queen of screen and former ‘Most beautiful’ Nike Oshinowo, who once described how she cringes in front of camera is now transformed into a formidable maverick on screen, full of confidence and creativity that makes her talk show a delight. Late night show isn’t something that could have easily crept in to a typical Lagos television viewer’s mind judging the timing, but the style, flavor and content Nike introduced jolts and attracted the workaholic Lagosians to make it a must watch every Thursday night it airs on AIT station by 11.00pm.

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LNWNO is Nigeria’s first-ever exciting new entertainment and lifestyle late night talk show, showcasing the best of art, culture, music politics and pop-culture.

Very unique in the sense that it is the only show that serves as a platform for various personalities, industry leaders, politicians, celebrities, artists, musicians to connect directly to the people across the globe through engaging interactions and candid interviews with Nike and her co-host, Cheta Nwanze alongside the in-house DJ, DJ Spinall with sizable audience.

Journey so far

Nike has come a long way surpassing critics doubt with her strong personal brand and influence coupled with her huge intellectual swagger to sustain this ‘first of its kind’ show in Nigeria with quality format and content. Excited and optimistic Nike during the celebration of successful first season curtain call revealed that it has not been easy but the show has been awesome with optimal expectations.

She said, “Season one was an eye opener to me. Obviously I thought I was a big champion until my interaction with some Nigerian guests changed my whole perception. The one on one with the music icon, 2face Idibia was enriching and quite revealing. It blows my mind to know we have great geniuses among us.

Also the interesting chart with Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, to see an intelligent, articulate and well exposed man like Femi compounds that notion that we have to wait to know what goes on behind the scene before we form opinions about people. I was amazed and impressed with level of creative and iintellectual people around us.”

The personality of the host, life style, dress code, carriage, accent and charisma, are all that form part of what build up the quality and success that counted on the first season and taking it further, “I am impressed with certain females. Being a woman, even though I am not actively promoting this gender alone, there are women featured in the show that dazzled my imagination. Dakore being one, is one of the most intelligent and coherent. She has the most passionate set of morals.

Revealing what she’s been through in life is quite intriguing. Those are kinds of things, the amount of knowledge I know about our females; Folake Coker, Ruth Osime, Dolapo Oni all in different fields discussing knowledgeable issues that touches the heart. It’s interesting to know that we have a huge international viewership from China, Thailand, Spain, Ireland and the whole of Europe and America via internet and digital TVs. We do want to make it more interactive since we have a lot of global audience. It’s really humbling and exciting.”

Transcend

Currently, LNWNO is in season two with over six episodes, featuring interesting topics by overwhelming personalities. Nike said, “The difference between one and two from my view is that I feel more comfortable in front of camera than before. Season two is similar to one, only that it’s more interactive and exciting. We have real entrepreneurs and lots of politics because of the period we are in now.

It will be excitement all the way as the political wave will be settling soon with new President, new Governors, Senators, new First Ladies etc, all these people will be featured thus bringing more life to the programme. Then, for the entrepreneurs, we will have top celebrities from abroad and lot of international events featuring during this time.”