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Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Why I am an entrepreneur in the business of nation building (2)

by Chude Jideonwo Then there is the long-term advantage – and this is the more important one for the future of our nation: what roles can business thinking and the…

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YNaija.com launches ‘New Voices’ daily column today | Arit Okpo, Aderonke Adebanjo, Ore Fakorede, 11 others take the lead on conversations that matter

The editors of YNaija.com today announced a fresh new column, ‘New Voices’ today – a daily column that presents the very best of a new generation of Nigerian writers sharing…

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#Impact365: Temie Giwa’s LifeBank is solving Nigeria’s blood crisis

Temie Giwa is the chief executive of LifeBank, a five month old startup that is using technology to solve the problem of blood shortage across Nigeria. In this interview with…

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Lifebank founder, Temie Giwa has NO regrets voting for Buhari – and she explains why (TWEETS)

This is the season of apologies and regrets as many young and influential Nigerians have come out to publicly denounced President Buhari's administration and apologize for supporting Buhari. Despite this,…

Temie Giwa: Plane crashes – The act of God in the hands of men (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The recent drama about the N225 million BMW shopping spree is ironic and incredibly sad, especially when one considers reports that the NCAA, agency in charge of…

Temie Giwa: Extra-judicial killings in Nigeria – Show me your particulars (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Here is the remarkable fact, they are killing us. All of us. They kill us in our cars, at our shops, in our homes sometimes just negligently…

Temie Giwa: Conversation on class (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa ....the fascinating conversation died out when the proponent of the ‘Child not bride’ initiative focused on moral outrage while ignoring the huge elephant in the room: inequality and…

Temie Giwa: Blood donors – The givers of life (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Blood from volunteer donors is often the difference between life and death yet Nigerians hardly donate blood voluntarily. Consider these facts: Blood means life but in Nigeria…

Temie Giwa: The doctor ordered primary health care (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Primary health care in Nigeria is truly horrific... Clinic filled with overworked and underpaid staff members, who are so prone to mistakes that if Nigerians were remotely…

Temie Giwa: Go back to your village (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The other reason I have spent my life wandering around the world is to take up a chance to make my fortune and I am still work…

Temie Giwa: Nigeria – The rampaging cancer scourge and how we can fight it (Y! FrontPage)

There are some viral infections such as HBV/HCV and HPV that are responsible for up to 20% of cancer deaths in low- and middle-income countries. Cancer is here to stay;…

Temie Giwa: Baga – The war of hearts (Y! FrontPage)

The dead are dead, the people of Baga have buried their women and children, but as the burnt livelihoods are being cleared away, the lesson of Baga remains for those…

Opinion: The difference between a feminist and a nuisance

by Nana Nwachukwu We need to stop fashioning a feminist box. There is no formula to feminism and feminism is not a threat to masculinity. Feminism...hmmn, what does it mean?…

Temie Giwa: This is what a feminist looks like (Y! FrontPage)

In other to change this status quo, most of us must become feminists. Many women are not satisfied with staying at home and raising children, no matter how fulfilling this…

Temie Giwa: 2015 – Who will bell the legislators? (Y! FrontPage)

In order to get 2015 right, a shift in perspective is required for us to slightly move away from our historical obsession with the Executive branch of government, and towards…

Temie Giwa: The oil masters (Y! FrontPage)

Were the representatives aware of how much the delay of the PIB will cost Nigeria? How is it that they have been complicit in deferring the passage of the bill…

Temie Giwa: Corruption – Nigeria needs to protect its whistle blowers (Y! FrontPage)

...it is a warning to those who might yet choose to stand with the people, that their government will not stand for them... Nigeria must learn to treat her whistle…

Temie Giwa: How to make a baby homeless (Y! FrontPage)

Are we fine with paying for high-rise apartments or gleaming new malls with the homelessness of a baby? Is this a price we are willing to pay for development? Are…

Temie Giwa: Donating blood is giving life (Y! FrontPage)

Saving Nigerian lives from preventable deaths requires action from the government, international partners and from citizens like you. I think a lot about citizenship and what that entails. What does…

Temie Giwa: Rape and responsibility (Y! FrontPage)

In further defense of the editors, it also posted right at the bottom of the piece, like it always does, that the opinion shared in every opinion piece is not…

Temie Giwa: Stealing from the police (Y! FrontPage)

So if we spend so much on the Nigerian police, how come the state of the Police Colleges are so bad? Last week, it seemed that the Presidency was set…

Temie Giwa: The Great Police Reform (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Last Friday afternoon, a young Nigerian doctor, Irawo Adamolekun, was shot to death in his car on a Lagos road. Although his shooter was not a…

Temie Giwa: Here comes the state police (Y! FrontPage)

The only thing that will save our police force is better training and better remuneration. The very same thing that will save Nigeria’s teachers, health workers in fact the entire…

Temie Giwa: Befriending the Nigerian police (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The stories of killings, tortures, and extortion against the Nigerian police are so many that it is almost a cliché to mention these. Nigerians are generally not…

Temie Giwa: Boko Haram spreads its wings (YNaija FrontPage)

The problem of Boko Haram is coming to all our homes faster than we can imagine. Days before the splintering began, the Boko Haram faction, still whole, had created a…

Temie Giwa: Prevention is better than dialogue (YNaija FrontPage)

Every Nigerian with an AK47 is being given an incentive to unleash terror on innocent folks, to kill and maim them, then demand ‘dialogue.’ It is a business model Nigeria…

Temie Giwa: We need to talk about the North (YNaija Frontpage)

When death comes in waves to people who look like us all, it cheapens the lives of the living; and makes cheap death probable for us all. It is very…

Temie Giwa: The Nigerian political opposition’s poison (YNaija FrontPage)

The opposition’s strategy is to steal the Sout-West and the North from PDP by presenting a northern favorite through CPC and a South-Western winner through the ACN. The plan seems…

Temie Giwa: The kabal and their overlord (YNaija FrontPage)

I have news for Mr. President; the Nigerian people do not find these findings “incomplete or useless”. It confirms all that we have suspected about his administration since the beginning.…

Temie Giwa: Citizens awake! Watch our national spending (YNaija FrontPage)

In fact, I believe that a public budget is the most important tool that citizens can use to gauge the seriousness of purpose of their government because it shows it…