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May 5, 2013

Dapo Olorunyomi: Media freedom & the threat of impunity by the Jonathan gov’t

by Dapo Olorunyomi The past half a decade has been perhaps the most challenging years since Nigeria’s return to civil ...

April 25, 2013

Report: Jonathan awards $40million contract to Israeli company to monitor your “computer, Internet communication”

by Hauwa Gambo This is worrisome. Premium Times is reporting a matter of public interest for Nigeria’s internet users, and ...

April 25, 2013

Now, shush: NUPENG suspends chairman for protesting Alamieyeseigha pardon

by Hauwa Gambo Someone should have struck with his day job, apparently. Vanguard is reporting that “the Petroleum Station Workers ...

April 21, 2013

“Jonathan may be the last president of Nigeria if…”

Dr Chris Ekiyor is the former National President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and currently the Caretaker Chairman of ...

April 17, 2013

Is this a ridiculous letter? ACN tells GEJ to move around Lagos by helicopter (READ)

by Hauwa Gambo The president, Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to visit Lagos on Thursday, 18 April – and its key ...

March 21, 2013

Olusegun Adeniyi: A most controversial pardon

by Olusegun Adeniyi Following his arrest in 2005, according to the story, Alamieyeseigha was brought to the villa in handcuffs ...

March 11, 2013

Opinion: Why I think President Jonathan’s visit to Borno and Yobe was useless

For about four years now, the JTF have occupied the streets of Maiduguri without yielding desired results. Let’s look at ...

March 6, 2013

Opinion: 2015 – In support of Jonathan hostage fatigue on Nigeria

by Bayo Oluwasanmi The candidacy of Mr. Jonathan for 2015 was unofficially announced sometimes in 2012. Abuja residents woke up to ...

March 5, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Jonathan’s bare knuckle slugfest

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu Jonathan, himself, once a short-lived substantive governor, has taken on the very difficult task of doing what ...

February 28, 2013

Opinion: Jonathan vs Amaechi: In whose interest?

by Senator Magnus Abe The basis for the persecution of Amaechi as an enemy of President Jonathan is that he ...

February 7, 2013

Opinion: When will Obasanjo apologise to Nigerians?

by Bayo Olopohunda Frankly speaking, it is not in Obasanjo’s place to assess or criticise this government. It is possible ...

February 6, 2013

Opinion: Our attitude towards Nigeria

by Sabella Abidde Why bother to faithfully serve this country when at the sunset of your life, she is likely ...

February 5, 2013

Okey Ndibe: Jonathan is Obasanjo’s worthy successor

by Okey Ndibe Call me a sucker for conspiracy theories if you wish, but I suspect that Mr. Obasanjo ...

January 30, 2013

#InCaseYouMissedIt: Nigeria spending N7 billion on intervention in Mali – President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan hinted on Tuesday that Nigeria has committed $34 million (about N7 billion) on the immediate deployment of troops and ...

January 21, 2013

Sam Omatseye: Shut up, Orubebe!

by Sam Omatseye If it was by grace and by competence, Orubebe should not be minister. That is why he ...

January 20, 2013

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Let’s talk about irresponsible government (Y! FrontPage)

by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu I was in the car with my brother’s driver heading out to get fuel and noticed ...

January 19, 2013

2015: Jonathan has Sambo under watch

There are indications that the crisis of confidence between President Goodluck Jonathan and his deputy, Vice President Namadi Sambo, may ...

January 19, 2013

Report: GEJ makes moves to reconcile with Obasanjo

President Goodluck Jonathan has begun moves to reconcile with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as a means of ending the rift ...

January 18, 2013

Opinion: Vacancy in Jonathan’s State House

by ‘Tunji Ajibade A president’s prestige is not separable from setting what he wants, and getting it. When he loses, ...

January 18, 2013

Opinion: Let me tell you what you will see if you take a trip to Yenagoa

by Bayo Olopohunda For a first-time visitor, what will forcefully unearth Yenagoa’s palpably unnatural guise are the slums that sandwich ...

January 12, 2013

Hauwa Gambo: There was a president, and his name was Olusegun (Y! FrontPage)

by Hauwa Gambo Whatever good this man accumulated in his time in office, he wasted and squandered towards the end ...

January 10, 2013

GEJ will spend 7 years in prison after tenure – Prophet

Respected for the accuracy of his predictions, Prophet Marcus Tibetan who is widely referred to as the Nostradamus of our ...

January 1, 2013

President Jonathan visits Idris Wada in Abuja hospital, shuns journalists (SNAPSHOT)

President Goodluck Jonathan Monday visited Kogi State governor, Idris Wada, at the Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, where he was receiving treatment ...

January 1, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Our president, Johnny Go-Slow…

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu Well, Nigerians are tired of Jonathan’s excuses, as they no longer hold water. In addition to being ...

December 31, 2012

YNaija Editorial: Aliko Dangote is YNaija Person of the Year 2012… Let’s tell you why

… there is Aliko Dangote – a man who has created more wealth, expanded more economic spaces, pushed more entrepreneurial ...

December 16, 2012

Dele Momodu: Why I wrote the letter from Cambridge

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, how do I thank you for the deluge of messages I received from you over ...

December 16, 2012

“Jonathan is my president, but I will not keep quiet” – Obasanjo

by Hauwa Gambo Headlines about the ongoing battles of wills between President Goodluck Jonathan and his benefactor, former president Olusegun ...

December 15, 2012

Jonathan may not be president beyond 2015 – Dokubo-Asari

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan may not rule ...

December 13, 2012

Abimbola Adelakun: Jonathan, the ‘owambe’ president

by Abimbola Adelakun Owambe: A large, grandiose party thrown by Nigerians, especially the Yoruba, anywhere in the world, involves a ...