Commentary: The chairman PDP needs at this point in time

A cursory look at the tactical jostling going on to occupy the office of Chairman in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leaves one with a burning question: why does PDP always repeat the same mistake? The report sheet of the 2015 Presidential Elections must be brought into focus as we elect a new party chairman.... Read More

February 13, 2016

Dele Momodu: A President in dire need of like-minded disciples

Fellow Nigerians, let me say right away that I do not envy President Muhammadu Buhari at this moment. It cannot be easy carrying the burden of nearly 200 million highly boisterous people. It is worse when your predecessors had messed up big time thus almost snuffing life out of a potentially great nation. What a... Read More

February 13, 2016

Chris Okotie: Why Nigerians must unconditionally support Buhari’s quest to clean the Augean stable

These, certainly are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd) popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury looters. The ongoing battle by President Muhammadu Buhari against this corrupt cabal who have held this nation hostage for years leaves no one in doubt that it is no longer business as usual... Read More

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February 13, 2016

Femi Fani-Kayode: An ode to Murtala Mohammed, the first among equals

If there was one man that had a profound effect on our history, perhaps more than any other, it was Gen. Murtala Ramat Mohammed. Sadly he was assassinated 40 years ago, on February 13th 1976. In a clime and a nation in which there are few true heroes, he was certainly one of them. I... Read More

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February 13, 2016

‘There is no overnight success’ | Leading Ladies Africa interviews Omilola Oshikoya

Everything about Omilola speaks of depth, awareness, deep-rooted knowledge and a certainty grounded in faith. There is nothing wishy-washy or contrived about her as she shares her experience as Africa’s Premier Wealth Coach. She chats with Francesca Uriri on what made her start her business, why more women are taking charge of their financial futures,... Read More

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February 13, 2016

Piers Morgan: Dear Kanye West, now that you’re a husband and father, grow up

Dear Kanye, You’ve got a new album out, and need to promote it by shouting off your legendarily loud mouth. I get it. Only this can possibly explain your recent behaviour, which has been ridiculously offensive even by your standards. I’ve been a long-time admirer of yours. I think you’re a brilliantly talented musician and... Read More

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February 12, 2016

Jude Ndukwe: Calls for Saraki’s resignation and Femi Falana’s politics of charlatanism

The recent verdict of the Supreme Court directing the Senate President, Dr Olubukola Saraki, to face trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal has laid to rest the controversy trailing the powers of the tribunal to try him in the prevailing circumstances. The matter is now set for hearing, and like Saraki himself has said,... Read More

February 12, 2016

Olu Onemola: Bringing back ‘Made in Nigeria’

There has been a lot of talk in recent times about promoting ‘Made in Nigeria.’ From the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s recent visit to the ‘Made in Aba’ trade fair, to the hashtag to #BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira, it is clear that Nigerians are beginning to understand that it is only our concerted and collective internal efforts... Read More

February 12, 2016

Opinion: The fiddling, fumbling Godwin Emefiele

The number one banker in a West African nation is currently fiddling with his country’s currency whilst it’s economy burns. He is doing it exactly the same way Emperor Nero fiddled with his fingers hundreds of years ago whilst Rome was burning to ashes. Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor of Nigeria is the villain I’m... Read More

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February 12, 2016

Gimba Kakanda: The only vacation President Buhari needs at the moment

The announcement of the President’s five-day vacation last week was interpreted vastly differently by individuals and groups across the country, generating both commentary and debate. This was because it happened less than a year into office. The good old man has also spent so much time thousands of meters above many big seas, crisscrossing from... Read More

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February 12, 2016

Opinion: Before you condemn Nigerians for lack of organization, orderliness and timeliness…

In morning hours of 8 and 9 in 2008, I was driving down to the city of Vienna for a crucial appointment. On nearing the city I happened on a traffic an unusual scenery along that axis. For some reasons, cars on my lane were almost not moving. Then to my consternation, one man swerved... Read More

February 12, 2016

Ayomikun Samuel: Love and the many shades of Valentine’s Day

Aljazeera was the first media I ever heard the names, Sharon Johnson (SJ) and Sandra Kaye Johnson (SKJ) on one particular afternoon. No thanks to some of our Nigerian TV stations who just occupy a frequency slot of our limited frequency spectrum yet give out junks and disseminate insensitive information. I had watched Aljazeera with... Read More

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February 12, 2016

A letter to the Minister of Education: The sorry plight of the Obafemi Awolowo University undergraduates

Some days ago, I was in the ancient town of Ile-Ife to see for myself the state of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Campus after a compulsory holiday. What informed this trip of mine is not far-fetched. It happened that the OAU undergraduate students had a peaceful picket in the early days of December 2015 that... Read More

February 12, 2016

Reuben Abati: The legendary Mama Dawes and the teachers who shaped us

Teachers are the most important persons in anyone’s life. Teachers teach us everything that we know. They inspire us. They leave their imprints, almost like genetic imprints in our lives, and those imprints survive forever. They come in different shapes. The teachers in the classrooms, the ones we meet in our life-long journey of searching... Read More

February 11, 2016

Opinion: The fall of political establishments, Hillary Clinton and the US elections

The 2016 US presidential campaign is turning out to be dramatic. Many analysts have predicted a something close to an easy victory for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton to have an easy ride in the primaries. I also recall severally downplaying the chances of Republican top-notch, Donald Trump, in some of my write-ups. I was proven... Read More

February 11, 2016

For the love of the babies: 3 or 6 months breastfeeding?

Nigerian working mothers often have to make difficult choices about their newborns. And sometimes these choices affect the quality of family life in Nigeria. We recently conducted a survey on working mothers who use our platform about their reasons for going back to work after childbirth. The results of our survey shows that 56% of... Read More

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February 11, 2016

Bayo Oluwasanmi: Fayose is eligible for prosecution… he has no immunity from Ekitigate

“There is no immunity for impunity as far as electoral malfeasance is concerned. In the cases of Obi v Mbakwe, Alliance for Democracy v Ayo Fayose and Amaechi v INEC it has been established that governors cannot hide under the immunity clause to commit electoral fraud.” – Femi Falana Parliamentary immunity in the Nigerian context... Read More

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February 10, 2016

Olaokun Soyinka: How to unlock billions of Naira for healthcare in Nigeria

We need some good news in Nigeria and I believe that good news can come from the health sector. Ultimately the cascade of events that SOML grants can trigger will add billions of naira directly to the primary healthcare budget of every state in the country – that will save more than a million lives... Read More

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February 10, 2016

Chinedu Ekeke: The activism of a reactionary Supreme Court

I waited to read the rationes decidendi for the recent judgements of Nigeria’s Supreme Court over last year’s governorship polls before commenting publicly about the decisions. Those reasons finally came on Friday, 5th February, when a 7-man panel of the apex court, led by Chief Justice Mahmud Mohammed, explained why it ignored the incontrovertible evidence... Read More

February 10, 2016

Opinion: Dear Sunday Oliseh, I am your critic and I’m not insane, but you are

I’ve had to play Sunday Oliseh’s rant over and again at the mercy of my precious internet data and all I could mutter to myself was: what has gotten over this disorientated opportuned coach? He said his critics are insane, but for real, no one looks as insane and inept as he does in that... Read More

February 9, 2016

Opinion: You’re not different from Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau

It is no news that Nigerians are extremists – and in everything too. Whether or not we choose to admit it, we are laced with (un) conscious bias. Yes, I’m saying there’s some form of sexist, racist, and religious/ethnic bias fortified within many of us ready to prowl out anytime (provided we allow it to).... Read More

February 9, 2016

Jude Ndukwe: Buhari, the criminalisation of Nigerians and the limits of presidential gaffes

In his recent trip to London and at an interview with The Telegraph, President Muhammadu Buhari made a sweeping criminalisation of Nigerians when he declared thus: “Some Nigerians claim is that life is too difficult back home, but they have also made it difficult for Europeans and Americans to accept them because of the number... Read More

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February 9, 2016

Bayo Oluwasanmi: Hello Saraki: ‘Can you hear me now? Why are you still hanging on to the Presidency of the Senate?’

“In conclusion, I find no merit in the appeal which is accordingly dismissed.” – Justice Walter Onnoghen of the Supreme Court. “He expresses disappointment over the judgement of the apex court in the country on the six grounds of appeal.” – Yusuph Olaniyonu, spokesman for Bukola Mesujamba Saraki Our Constitution guarrantees the right to equality... Read More

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February 8, 2016

Opinion: TSA- enhancing autonomy, research and transparency

At no point in the history of contemporary Nigeria has government been able to fully account for all its funds, at once, from a single consolidated view, until now. Thanks to the Treasury Single Account, TSA, which makes this possible. The TSA initiative is not only to the advantage of the federal government and its... Read More

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February 8, 2016

Chude Jideonwo: The lost art of making a proper Afang soup

I am officially desperate. Where have all the people who know how to do ‘afang soup’ gone? Why do I have to keep explaining to so-called 5-star hotels across Nigeria that, no, that is not in fact Afang soup. It is not even edikang ikong. It is some variation of the generic ‘vegetable’ soup, but... Read More

February 8, 2016

Opinion: Will the 2016 budget resuscitate the Nigerian economy? (LONG READ)

The year 2015 was a tough year for Nigeria. The country recorded one of the lowest growth profiles in decades with GDP growth averaging 3.1% in the first nine months of the year, compared to 6.3% in the previous year. For the most part of the year, inflation rate trended upwards to a peak of... Read More

February 8, 2016

Opinion: A prayer for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the impatient reformer

It is of no necessity to remind you what you went through to regain our “stolen” mandate and to retain that ‘not-of-present’ an enviable seat for another four years. It was neither a “Kiriji” nor was it a “Jalumi”, but it was a battle, a fierce one you fought, and like “Agbogun Gboro” who liberated... Read More

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February 8, 2016

Opinion: Nigeria’s challenge of diversification and industrialisation

Before the ascension of President Buhari to power, oil prices have taken hits-currently hovering around $30 per barrel- which has sent mono-economic oil revenue-dependent nations into recessions. Nigeria unfortunately, happens to be one of these nations. The Nation will be borrowing $5 billion dollars per day to fund the 2016 budget deficit. The line items... Read More

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February 8, 2016

#YNaijaNewEstablishmentList: Adekunle Gold, Ebi Atawodi, Odion Ighalo… Meet the class of 2016

In what has become an annual tradition, YNaija.com/Y! Africa Magazine has yet again, painstakingly and thoroughly scouted the breadth of the country to uncover vibrant, upwardly mobile and entrepreneurial Nigerians who are blossoming in spite of the challenges associated with becoming successful in Nigeria. The 2016 picks for the New Establishment list were carefully selected... Read More

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February 8, 2016

Wole Soyinka: Between Olumo and Aso – Reminiscences from Ogun at 40

“Why?” demanded my argumentative friend, “ is it always you people? “ Why do you make so much trouble? Always Ogun, Ogun, Ogun! – are you the only state in the nation?” And he proceeded to reel off a number of names of notorious “trouble-makers”, dead and living, pin-pointing their birthplaces in Ogun State.” It... Read More

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Commentary: The chairman PDP needs at this point in time

Dele Momodu: A President in dire need of like-minded disciples

Chris Okotie: Why Nigerians must unconditionally support Buhari’s quest to clean the Augean stable

Femi Fani-Kayode: An ode to Murtala Mohammed, the first among equals

‘There is no overnight success’ | Leading Ladies Africa interviews Omilola Oshikoya

Piers Morgan: Dear Kanye West, now that you’re a husband and father, grow up

Jude Ndukwe: Calls for Saraki’s resignation and Femi Falana’s politics of charlatanism

Olu Onemola: Bringing back ‘Made in Nigeria’

Opinion: The fiddling, fumbling Godwin Emefiele

Gimba Kakanda: The only vacation President Buhari needs at the moment

Opinion: Before you condemn Nigerians for lack of organization, orderliness and timeliness…

Ayomikun Samuel: Love and the many shades of Valentine’s Day

A letter to the Minister of Education: The sorry plight of the Obafemi Awolowo University undergraduates

Reuben Abati: The legendary Mama Dawes and the teachers who shaped us

Opinion: The fall of political establishments, Hillary Clinton and the US elections

For the love of the babies: 3 or 6 months breastfeeding?

Bayo Oluwasanmi: Fayose is eligible for prosecution… he has no immunity from Ekitigate

Olaokun Soyinka: How to unlock billions of Naira for healthcare in Nigeria

Chinedu Ekeke: The activism of a reactionary Supreme Court

Opinion: Dear Sunday Oliseh, I am your critic and I’m not insane, but you are

Opinion: You’re not different from Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau

Jude Ndukwe: Buhari, the criminalisation of Nigerians and the limits of presidential gaffes

Bayo Oluwasanmi: Hello Saraki: ‘Can you hear me now? Why are you still hanging on to the Presidency of the Senate?’

Opinion: TSA- enhancing autonomy, research and transparency

Chude Jideonwo: The lost art of making a proper Afang soup

Opinion: Will the 2016 budget resuscitate the Nigerian economy? (LONG READ)

Opinion: A prayer for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the impatient reformer

Opinion: Nigeria’s challenge of diversification and industrialisation

#YNaijaNewEstablishmentList: Adekunle Gold, Ebi Atawodi, Odion Ighalo… Meet the class of 2016

Wole Soyinka: Between Olumo and Aso – Reminiscences from Ogun at 40

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