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YNaija Says: The Nigerian Police must account for the woman killed at Onipanu

Yesterday evening, policemen shot a woman dead at the Onipanu area of Lagos State while trying to shoot an alleged online fraudster, popularly known as “Yahoo-Yahoo”. This reckless action of…

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The Media Blog: The first episode of King Women with Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett is immense

Immense simply in terms of how much weight is packed behind every single word Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett, the subject of the first episode, utters. Kemi Adetiba's interview series couldn't have picked…

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BEYOND BIAFRA: From the heart of Aba, a food revolution is coming

by Victor Akhidenor Agbai Amarachi is on a mission. She is a student of the department of Food Science and Technology at Abia State Polytechnic, Aba and she wants to…

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BEYOND BIAFRA: Stories of innovation, grit and tenacity from the South-East

This month’s citizenship series on YNaija is focused on the South-East part of Nigeria.  Keeping in line with our commitment to focus on the people that matter and their stories, our…

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[The Music Blog] What do you do when you become the kind of artist that calls out Don Jazzy on live TV? | The Glory of Olamide

What do you do when you become the kind of artist that calls out Don Jazzy on live TV?, when you come from being a street myth to becoming the…

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The Film Blog: It looks like Isoken is about to kick into high gear

Look at these fantastic new posters for the Jade Osiberu directed film. We also hear a full trailer will be dropping tomorrow, so expect marketing activities for the film to…

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The Media Blog: The #BBNaija housemates need to fight somebody for these magazine shots

The girls don't look so terrible And this group shot is almost okay. But then... poor Miyonse. Seriously. Poor Miyonse.  

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So I met the James Bond of journalism, Anas Aremeyaw Anas (READ)

by Rachel Ogbu It was the first standing ovation of the day, the final talk of the evening, it suddenly strikes me how far away from the “real” reality most…

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YNaija Editorial: On this trial of students for protesting, UNILAG is playing with fire

In September 2015, students of the University of Lagos brought activities at their school to a halt when they came out to protest an invasion of their halls of residences…

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YNaija Analysis: It’s official, the powerful are now using the courts to intimidate new media players

The past few weeks have been quite interesting ones with respect to the number of court cases that have emerged as a result of postings on social media that generated…

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Reading Material: Here’s what you need to be reading if you work in media content this week

1. Journalism so great it makes a great time out of reading about something like gentrification. 2. But then even great journalism won't be enough to fix what's broken…

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Is it our Ministers’ turn to go missing? | The latest YNaija Effectiveness Ranking

Our Senators going missing is nothing new, so even though we were disappointed back when they left us with no choice but to make that assessment, we weren't entirely surprised.…

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Governor Ambode remains at the bottom on this week’s YNaija Governors Ranking

More than enough time has passed since the Otodo-Gbame disaster. More than enough time for Governor Ambode to, if not make this right, then acknowledge that it was wrong. But…

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Dino Melaye is the worst Senator in Nigeria | The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators

Was it too much to ask for Senator Dino Melaye to conduct himself with some level of grace? Clearly so. Not even the genuinely good work he was doing, which…

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SaharaReporters moves up to #1, Zikoko slides into the top 5 | The latest YNaija online media (web) countdown

They say controversy sells and no one proves this more right now than SaharaReporters which takes the #1 spot on our online (web) countdown. The past month has seen the typically…

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The YNaija Ranking: Instablog9ja retains the #1 position on our latest online media (social) countdown

For a second straight month Instablog9ja is at #1 on our online media (social) countdown. The Instagram handle remains the clear leader in a sea of social media competitors that…

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The YNaija Ranking: ROK TV takes the #1 position on our top 25 tv countdown

From #5 to #1 is how ROK TV moves on our chart this month as the past few weeks have seen the station release a slew of original, high quality…

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The YNaija Ranking: Inspiration FM moves up into the top 10 on our top 25 radio stations countdown

There's a curious thing that a lot of people experience when a new building springs up somewhere. It's expressed most succinctly in the question: what was there before? It's particularly common…

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The YNaija Ranking: Obiwon takes the lead in our Top 10 Gospel Artiste Countdown

Obiwon Obiora takes the top spot this month because of his new video for Mercy, straight off his latest album, Overflow. As we have mentioned ‘Oh Jesus’ is easily the…

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The Church Blog: Word for the week

Word for the week is: God will definitely pick up your calls. In other words, God will answer your prayers this week. How do we know this? Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)…

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The Church Blog: Should I celebrate April Fools’ day as a Christian?

Today is April 1, the world-famous April fool’s day, and I’m seated here fighting the urge to play just one tiny prank on my friends. What exactly is my apprehension?…

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Woman Rising returns April 8th and 9th 2017

Woman Rising, the annual celebration of women through Music, Arts and Networking returns on April 8 and 9, 2017 in a two-day extravaganza in its usual extension of the annual…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 1st of April

Read the full stories here, here and here now.

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YNaija Says: The military needs to apologize to Nigerians for the dishonesty about Shekau

For the past eight years, the name Abubakar Shekau has struck fear into the hearts of Nigerians, especially those who have seen and experienced the destruction and bloodletting that Boko…

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Is the Nigerian Army joking? 5 takeaways from the ridiculous confession that Shekau is alive

7 months after claiming that Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau had been killed, the Nigerian army has come out to say that this was, as many people already either suspected…

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Brave Women: “People told me not to show her to the world” | N’kiru Njoku on raising a special needs child and more

by Nk'iru Njoku On the meaning of bravery Bravery is to me, simply doing what you have to do, when you have to do it, regardless of how afraid you…

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From Figurine to Fifty: How Omoni Oboli became Nollywood’s Box Office queen

by Wilfred Okiche Between 2014 and 2015, thanks to one of those occasional twists of fate that occur in the film business once in a while, Nollywood crowned a new…

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The Media Blog: The Spot is ending and we don’t know what to do

It's been 4 years already? Yeah, we know when EbonyLife TV launched but time really has flown, hasn't it? Time in which The Spot has grown to be one of…

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EXPLAINER: Why Kemi Olunloyo’s arrest makes perfect sense

by Mark Amaza For the past couple of days, social media has been abuzz over the arrest of controversial blogger, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo over a post she published on her blog…

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Red Media Africa wins at the Communication for the Future Awards in Switzerland

Red Media Africa, a leading African PR and communication agency, has been announced winner of the ‘Evangelist of the Future’ category at the Communication for the Future Awards. This award…

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