If you know, you know! This song by Lionel Peterson could pass as the most choreographed song in history. And the message behind the song is deep! Enjoy!
While we are still waiting to see the result of the tensions created in the Presidency by Zahra Buhari’s outburst on the state of Aso Rock clinic, it is important to state a quick fact here that Aso Villa Clinic will not work no matter the amount of money budgeted for it. While President Muhammadu... Read More
Jalal Arabi is the state house Permanent secretary who has been called out by the President’s daughter – Zahra Buhari – for the rot in the state house clinic. Though we might not know what went wrong with the funds budgeted for the State House clinic, the glaring absence of equipment and medical consumables shows... Read More
The European Union has released €20 million to the Niger-delta region. This was done to promote socio-economic activities and peace in the Niger-delta through increased access to safe and sustainable water supply. This was revealed recently in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom during a media dialogue on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) by UNICEF WASH specialist, Engr. Moustapha... Read More
A Non-Governmental organization, The Onome Akinlolu Majaro (OAM) Foundation has called on Nigerians to stop discriminating and stigmatising against Albinos stressing that Albinism is a genetic disorder and not a disease. The Executive Director of OAM, Mrs Rita Okagbare stated this recently while donating 50 eyeglasses and frames to Albinos at Lagos University Teaching Hospital... Read More
The failings of the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency has reached a level where members of his family have to speak out in a bid to save their face, so as not to partake in any blame game that might arise in the nearest future. Zahra Buhari, the most vocal and cosmopolitan of the president’s children took... Read More
Follow these links to read our cover stories and analyses on YNaija: Who is Stephen Paddock? | The 64-year-old responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in US history Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo features in first movie Atiku denies using bags of rice for 2019 campaign
by Wilfred Okiche Nollywood starlet, Mary Lazarus joins the ever-expanding list of actresses to take the plunge into film production with Dance To My Beat. She plays it as safe as she possibly can by backing a project that is tucked securely in the weddings sub-category of the romantic comedy genre. Because filmmaking is... Read More
Yesterday, Nathaniel Bassey gave us one of the best news we have been looking forward to in a while. Although it wasn’t news of another month of praise and worship, it was exciting because it sounded like the beginning of a new thing or an answer to a question that has been on our minds... Read More
The Special Hallelujah Challenge night organised by Nathaniel Instagram kicked off around 11:57pm and lasted for about one hour. It seemed short knowing we have intensely missed his live praise and worship sessions but it was such an awesome way of walking into the new month especially knowing that it ushered Nigeria into the new... Read More
Follow these links to read our cover stories and analyses on YNaija: Why Buhari should not re-contest in 2019 – Cardinal Okogie Why I would always support Fayose – Fani-Kayode How Wizkid made history in London last night
At a time the APC-led federal government is firing on all cylinders in a bid to rid the country of corruption through its “anti-graft war”, the APC government in Sokoto is doing otherwise; or how do we describe the pardon granted five persons indicted for mismanagement of funds totalling N15 Billion under the immediate administration... Read More
The new trend among state governors in the country irrespective of their party, is frustrating the “anti-corruption war” of the federal government and it’s getting more serious. While we are yet to get to the end of the drama being played out in Akwa Ibom, between the state government and the EFCC, as the former has... Read More
Lawyer and human right Activist, Ms Ayo Obe has joined the increasing list of those opposed to the proposed NGO Regulation Bill currently at the committee stage in the House of Representatives. In an interview with Sahara Reporters on Friday, September 29, 2017, she said supporters of the bill are merely seeking a way of silencing... Read More
Follow these links to read our cover stories and analyses on YNaija: Has Evans the kidnap kingpin truly repented? “Nnamdi Kanu is not in the custody of the military” – Defence Spokesperson ‘Lectures to begin October 3’ – LAUTECH
A health-focused charity, founded by the wife of the Governor of Kebbi, Zainab Shinkafi – Medicaid Cancer Foundation (MCF), has announced its plans to train health workers from three North West states of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara on cancer screening. Briefing journalists on Friday, September 29, 2017, on the activities of the foundation, she said, “although... Read More
The dust raised by the proposed NGO Regulatory Bill currently at committee stage in Nigeria’s House of Representatives is yet to settle. A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Thursday, September 28, 2017, approached a federal high court in Abuja to challenge the appropriateness of the bill on the ground that the bill violates... Read More
On Wednesday, September 27, 2017, the media was awash with the news of the death of Smart Ohuzu, an inmate at Ogwashi-Uku prison in Delta. He was remanded in prison custody five months ago while awaiting trial for a murder case. His situation assumed the worst dimension when he fell sick and was suspected to... Read More
On Monday, September 11, 2017, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Alliance for Good Governance and Democracy called the attention of the Federal Government to an imminent starvation of inmates in Nigeria prisons due to the inability of the Nigerian Prison service to pay contractors supplying food to the prisons for the past two years. The group also... Read More
The recent death of Smart Ohuzu, an awaiting trial inmate at Ogwashi-Uku prisons in Delta is one death too many. The young man died due to his inability to access prompt and quality healthcare from the prisons. His death, which was primarily caused by the non-professionalism of prison officials is one that warrants investigation with... Read More
Bama, one of the local governments under Dikwa Emirate in Maiduguri, Borno, with a population of almost three hundred thousand inhabitants, was a community renowned for its commercial activities, especially as it relates to fishing and other agricultural activities. This was however disrupted as a result of attacks by the dreaded Boko Haram sect in... Read More
[The Injustice Blog] Why arrest protesting IDPs just because they are tired of suffering in silence?
On Sunday, about 3000 IDPs in Maiduguri stormed the streets protesting their poor living conditions in the IDP Camps and the inability of Borno state government to return them to their community after the celebrated liberation of Bama from Boko Haram sect in 2015. The protest, which was peaceful, was cut short as they were... Read More
Nigeria has refused to evolve from where it is, to where it ought to be. We have tried the military and democratic forms of government – The result is nothing to write home about and, the gap between the leaders and the led has widened. An evidence of this wide gap was displayed on Sunday,... Read More
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says access to quality contraceptive services and information should be treated as a human right. This call was made on Tuesday on the occasion of the World Contraceptive Day which holds annually on the September 26, since it was launched in the year 2007. In commemoration of this year’s event, WHO,... Read More
Human right lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has written the United Nations through its UN high commissioner for human rights to investigate reports of attacks on judges in Kenya. In a letter to the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Diego Garcia Sayan, on Tuesday September 26,... Read More
We woke up today to the news of the 63rd Birthday of Bishop David Oydepo, Founder and Presiding Bishop Living Faith World Outreach Centre and Chancellor, Covenant and Landmark Universities but much more than that was this succinctly written note from Pastor Adeboye, General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, worldwide to the Bishop. Some years... Read More
The plight of Missing persons in Nigeria has received the attention of a Non-Governmental organization – Findme Alert. In a newsletter released by the group on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, it states that between 2007 to 2011, an estimate of 9,000 people were missing in Nigeria, just as indicated by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics... Read More
The United States, through the USAID, has announced that Nigeria will benefit from its $550 million humanitarian assistance to countries ravaged by food insecurity, to provide life-saving food and health care for vulnerable groups that have been affected by a crisis. This was announced in New York on Thursday, September 21, 2017, by the Administrator... Read More
There is a strange connivance between two individuals at the moment which is a case of elites versus masses. In this situation, the elites are winning but how far they will go is left for the court to decide. The Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel and his predecessor Senator Godswill Akpabio, the man that presided... Read More
Political office holders in Nigeria regale us with the tale of how they left their “lucrative” work and business to take up a political position which is not as lucrative as what they were doing. Many go as far as rewriting their stories by telling us they suffered while growing up as they had no... Read More
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