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Ex-Deputy Governor of Lagos State vows to renounce citizenship ahead of Tinubu’s inauguration

Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, has announced that she is in the process of renouncing her Nigerian citizenship following the election of Bola Tinubu as President-elect.…

Editor 6 years

Nigeria 2019 Elections: Kingsley Moghalu announces candidacy for president

Former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Founder, Institute of Governance and Economic Transformation, Professor Kingsley Moghalu has declared his intention to contest in the 2019 presidential…

Editor 6 years

Enough Is Enough is coming to #SMWLagos2018

For the 6th year, EiE Nigeria will provide a space for citizens to learn and share how technology helps facilitate engagement with government during Social Media Week Lagos in 2…

Victor Terhemba 6 years

Opinion: Your PVC is not enough; get involved

Nigerians’ political consciousness has been on a steady growth since 2010, following the constitutional crises that embroiled the presidency. President Yar’Adua was bedridden, unconscious in a hospital somewhere in Saudi…

Mercy Abang 6 years

Mercy Abang: In Oguta, women risk death to give birth

Down the muddy drive to Mgbele from Oguta Local Government Area sits a dilapidated building with fallen rusty brown roof, cracked walls and flaky, peeling paint and open windows obscured…

Op-ed Editor 6 years

Mercy Abang: How sexual predators target Nigerian kids

by Mercy Abang In Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, 4-year-old Banke Olu (real name withheld) was raped by her auntie’s husband. The last child of her parents - both in their…

Op-ed Editor 6 years

Mercy Abang: A superstitious link between dark riches and cerebral palsy is hurting Nigeria’s children

by Mercy Abang Cerebral Palsy, the medical condition that occurs in approximately 2-2.5 of 1000 live births globally according to a Paediatric cerebral palsy report in Africa – the condition…

Op-ed Editor 6 years

Mercy Abang: Nigeria is unmasking citizens online at record levels but there are no rights – yet

by Mercy Abang A recently released report by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) revealed an emerging trend of user information and content…

Op-ed Editor 6 years

Aba Oyo: Where promises and words mean nothing anymore

Oghenekevwe Christopher “Our journey there is about halfway done,” someone says from the rear of the single file. Forty-two minutes past of trekking through the thin – often depressed –…

Roqeebah 7 years

Water in a Basket V: Tam knows best

Salaries haven’t been paid to civil servants in the last 9 months. Sometime during the penniless lull, *Tam decided her job at the Ministry of Agriculture was not quite the…

Roqeebah 7 years

Water in a Basket IV: Relief is here, more to come

I am glad I experienced one of the few times reliefs were brought to the community, that faithful day in the afternoon, the news spread like wild fire. As…

Roqeebah 7 years

Water in a Basket III: Sewese’s fish business is sinking

Sewese, 37, is a civil servant at the Ministry of Information with a fish farming business on the side. Having gone without receiving remuneration for her day job for about…

Roqeebah 7 years

Water in a Basket II: Susan is too distressed to be stressed

Since the floods, Susan, 31, and her mother-in-law, 55, have lived in the IDP camp at the Ultramodern International market. Together with 3 of her kids and 2 brothers-in-law, the…

Roqeebah 7 years

Water in a Basket I: No one is even talking about rebuilding our homes yet

"Thank God no life was lost!" There are six structures in Moses’ compound – about 5km into Welfare Quarters, well known as a sodden area in Makurdi. Two…

Roqeebah 7 years

Editor’s note: YNaija presents conversations with survivors of the Benue flooding to inspire you

We would have loved to say that it is with excitement that we bring you another one of YNaija's citizenship stories but you'll agree that it is extremely difficult to be…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Gbenga Odunsi: The pains and torment of being a tenant in Abuja

by Gbenga Odunsi In advanced countries, housing is a form of social product, it is governmental provision for the citizenry, although not free, but the government has a technique of…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Mercy Abang: Jail Time or Death— Pregnant women in Nigeria face unlikely sentence in hospitals

by Mercy Abang Mrs Audu, 33, had just given birth to her first child at the Asokoro General Hospital. She was ecstatic and could not wait to take her newborn…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Muyiwa Babarinde: How Ventures Platform is helping to build Nigeria’s technology future

***As Thrive Agric, Gerocare and other start-ups pitch solutions to everyday problem*** On the 15th of September, I was opportune to attend Ventures Platform second Demo Day which…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Yusuf Goje: What are Senator Hunkuyi and Honorable Mohammed Rabiu doing about these constituency projects?

by Yusuf Ishaku Goje In line with the letters and spirit of Section 4 (1-9) of the Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution as amended, the sole responsibility of the legislature is that…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Anambra 2017: Dr Tony Nwoye’s manifesto

by Tony Nwoye One of the best ways to tackle youth unemployment and support economic and social growth is through education – not just within the classroom, and at…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Nigeria should have a one-day identity holiday

by Pius Adesanmi But for the giveaway that is in our names, I would have called for a daunting challenge: a national day of identity neutrality in the management of…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Gbenga Odunsi: FCT civil servants reject NBS report on recession

By Gbenga Odunsi For days, Gbenga Odunsi, a journalist, toured five of the federal ministries in Abuja, spending time with civil servants over the NBS report that Nigeria is…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Mercy Abang: In Maiduguri, poverty breeds Nigeria’s next ‘Boko Haram mothers’

By Mercy Abang Over 134 suicide bombings have occurred since 2009 when Boko Haram unleashed a campaign of terror on Nigeria's northeast region. According to research by Combating Terrorism Center at…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Michael Ace: Diary of a Nigerian hustler (Pt 3)

by Micheal Ace If your money or phone goes missing on the street of Ibadan, it's either you are careless or your purse is damaged. If that happens on…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Michael Ace: Diary of a Nigerian hustler 2

by Micheal Ace They say in Nigeria, if you want to walk fast, take a bike; if you want to walk far, walk with your earpiece. It was a sunny…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Michael Ace: Diary of a Nigerian hustler

You woke up and realised you had slept off leaving the Bob Marley's mixtape beating from your phone. It's 2 am and in few hours time, some fellas from your…

Ezinne 7 years

The Thread: What is Nigeria worth?

Nnamdi Kanu and a section of the South East want Biafra. Northern Youths do not want Igbos in the North anymore and regardless of El rufai's arrest order, they are…

Editor 7 years

Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: How do we recover – urgently – our dignity as Nigerians?

by Chude Jideonwo Let me tell you about my driver of seven years. The first sign of trouble when he was recommended was the fact that he didn’t have a…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

The Thread: Here’s a perfect example of how the Nigerian police make people suffer everyday

Hardly goes by in Nigeria without one person or another complaining about their experience with the Nigerian police. How can a security agency set up for the security of citizens…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Opinion: What if President Buhari is dead?

by Marvel Umoh For over a week now, there’s been this disturbing rumour which speculates that the President of Nigeria – Mr Muhammadu Buhari is dead. And it’s been one of the…

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