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President Buhari has trashed us again, but does it matter if we aren’t triggered?
After a fire was put off at the National Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday morning, President Muhammadu Buhari lit a bright new one on a platform with a blue backdrop…
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Reno’s looters list or famzing with Theresa May — which is worth your time?
Would Goodluck Jonathan have won the 2015 elections if his communicators were a little nice and not so self-absorbed? Dr Reuben Abati, Doyin Okupe and Reno Omokri did not receive…
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Genevieve Nnaji breaks the internet; Journalist reveals only 15 Chibok girls are alive | See our top 10 viral tweets from last week
Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…
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What happened to the one-term president Buhari? Listen to the symphony of sycophancy
Last week Friday, Abdullahi Ganduje, the Governor of Kano state, said the following: “I’m happy that it’s not Mr President who said he will continue; it is people that are…
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Opinion: City of soot, are you darkening just for me?
Every morning, for the better part of the past 20 months, the clouds take their time to make way for a bright sun shine day. You would think the…
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Is Shittu’s ‘attack’ on Sowore part of the gimmicks old politicians like to play?
There should be more unstructured interviews between serving public officials and Nigerian citizens. For many good reasons, the exchange between Minister of ICT, Adebayo Shittu, and Omoyele Sowore, the SaharaReporters…
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Black Panther goes to Saudi Arabia; Black soot takes over PH | See our top 10 viral tweets from last week
Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…
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How close is Tolu Ogunlesi to becoming a tyrant of low expectations and high mediocrity?
A crash course on Tolu Ogunlesi: He is the creative writer, journalist and public affairs commentator who called former president Goodluck Jonathan, among other things, a sadist. Since the defeat…
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An APC “list of saints” will certainly be interesting
The way he has been serious about his PDP looters’ list, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, seems ready to prove to the whole world that the APC government…
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Lai’s looter’s list is a re-election appeal that will not work
The Federal Government has released 23 names who it claims were looters of the treasury under the Goodluck Jonathan PDP government. The list, a follow-up to a “teaser List” published…
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“Yes, I helped rig elections” “Nigerians should fight for themselves” | Read the top 10 quotes from last week
It’s the second quarter of 2018! A holiday weekend is an occasion for relaxation and brief refreshment before hitting another work week and the beginning of a new month. However,…
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Supermodel Naomi Campbell causes mayhem on TwitterNG | See our top 10 viral tweets from last week
Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…
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Martin Luther King award scam: Yes, it is a scam and the Presidency should be ashamed
In communicating the receipt of a leadership award from “the MLK family”, President Buhari’s media team (or whoever posted those photos on Twitter) had a clear intention: to associate…
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Is Dino Melaye’s security alarm to embassies meant to embarrass Buhari?
Has the theatrical mudslinging between Dino Melaye and Yahaya Bello become an international circus? It hasn’t, so the Senator wants to make it one. On Monday evening, Mr Melaye posted…
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YNaija Analysis: What does TY Danjuma know about the army and ethnic cleansing that should convince us?
As the Chief of Army Staff that shepherded Nigeria through its first military to democratic transition, General TY Danjuma (rtd) will probably always have a good place in the reckonings…
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Macron has got some nerve trying to make us adopt his language of ‘freedom’
Emmanuel Macron is going to be investing millions of Euros to make the French language a stronger global rival to English at the European Union, and the number one language…
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“I am jubilating because my daughter did not renounce Christ” | Read our top 10 quotes from last week
Joy and relief, puzzles and subsisting fear were the emotions with which we began the past week following the Dapchi girls’ return. That event and others gave us the top…
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Dangote’s UNshakeable table; the Nigerian woman who invented bomb detectors | See the top viral tweets from last week
Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…
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Presidency 2019: These are our possible contenders so far and how they stand
The National Assembly may still be in conflict with the Executive over the sequence of the 2019 elections but there is no denying the anticipation towards who the Commander-in-chief will…
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Dapchi girls return, but five are dead: Here is what we know and want to know
The Presidency has confirmed that at least 101 of the 110 girls abducted from a secondary school in Dapchi Yobe state on the 19th of February this year have been…
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To trade trust with Nigerians, Atiku has one major question to answer
By one commenter’s account, the review of Black Panther posted on Atiku Abubakar’s medium profile is an “impressive analysis”, even as it was impressive that the former Vice President graciously…
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Opinion: Stephen Hawking – Mind the Mind
I set my Whatsapp status, on Wednesday, to a screenshot of a tweet showing the coincidence of the birth and death dates of scientific geniuses Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein and…
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“My daughter wants to be the next Emir and she’s disappointed…” “I am quite surprised” | Read our top 10 quotes from last week
From the world’s top diplomat lost his job after visiting Nigeria and president Buhari shedding tears at Dapchi to Snapchat’s disgraceful publicity stunt and the fallout from the Champions League,…
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The scientist who defied death | See the top 10 viral tweets from last week
Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…
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Buhari wins the superior response and sensitivity competition – Really?
President Muhammadu Buhari has visited Yobe state three weeks after the abduction of 110 school girls from a government school in Dapchi, Bursari Local Government Area. Speaking to parents of…
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From journalist to presidential candidate, Sowore plans to correct Buhari’s mistakes #Sowore2019
In May 2010, while many Nigerians were receiving conflicting reports on the state of then-president Umaru Musa Yar'adua, one man knew for sure that he was dead and would call…
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Senate says “running costs” not new, but would they agree it is cruel?
Spokesperson for the Nigerian Senate, Sabi Abdullahi, has moved to calm alarms arising from Senator Shehu Sani’s revelations about the Senators’ N13.5 million “running costs”, by claiming that the disclosure…
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The President is surprised again: should we expect any consequences?
Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police, did not spend more than 24 hours in Benue after President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered he relocate there in the wake of wanton…
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“If you give women more chance, they will overthrow us” “APC can never wake up in Rivers state” | Read our top 10 quotes from last week
Naturally, the best quotes of the past week were in celebration of women, and the thoughts drawing our minds to #PressForProgress, hoping the conversation continues beyond the week to become…
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The Mushin child rapper with ryhmes for days; the Black woman who shattered Stanford’s glass ceiling | See our top 10 viral tweets from last week
Viral tweets just make Twitter utterly delightful; so we thought to curate our top 10 (there’s a bonus and then some) from last week. Some of the tweets will have…
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy