Follow these links to read our cover stories and analyses tonight: Floyd Mayweather to visit 2baba’s nightclub Governor Ayodele Fayose: A typical African leader South Korea fires shots at unidentified object flying from North Korea
Last night, The Presidency tweeted that Nigerians should post questions they have for the Presidential media aides. Apparently, they hope that the answers they will provide to curious Nigerians during a Press briefing in commemoration of the administration’s second anniversary will placate them. Or who knows if these people have any rationale for whatever they do?... Read More
by Roqeebah Olaoniye Hours ago, an explosion went off in Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande performed the “first of three scheduled UK performances” in front of a mostly adolescent audience. The British authorities are reportedly treating the incident as a terror attack. CNN reports that a British Chief Constable Ian Hopkins confirmed the incident, saying he... Read More
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu just went and promised, with no bidding from anyone, that he’ll “walk away” from the government if Nigeria has not stopped importing petroleum by 2019. Speaking earlier today during an interview with the BBC World Service Programme, Hardtalk, Daily Trust reports that Dr Kachikwu “vowed he... Read More
Follow these links to read these stories and analyses on YNaija: President Trump’s flight to Israel may be a first in history ‘For the second time in 2 weeks, President Buhari is dead’ 1999 constitution cause of recession not Buhari – Bisi Akande
by Roqeebah Olaoniye Not to visit the sins of the father on the son, but too often, the Trumps leave us no choice. Ivanka Trump has adamantly vouched for her father’s empathy towards the injustices faced by women despite the utterances that he’s made publicly including asking reporters if they could imagine “that” being “the face... Read More
We cannot get enough of all the fashion that Melania Trump served during the just concluded Riyadh Summit, where Saudi royal King Abdulaziz hosted the United States first family–Donald Trump and his wife Melania, as well as his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. The style star of the first leg of the Trump... Read More
Follow these links to read our cover stories and analyses on YNaija today: Musiliu Obanikoro badly wants to join the APC, he just doesn’t know it yet | Our thoughts on his latest interview We haven’t started dealing with Nigeria’s disease – Okorocha Fact Check: Melania Trump did not defy King Salman by leaving her... Read More
Trump danced with swords; Melania “defied tradition” in style; here’s what Ivanka Trump did in Saudi
President Donald J Trump, completely flanked by his family – Melania, Ivanka and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner – embarked on his first foreign trip and made his first stop in what he describes as the “the heart of the Muslim world”, Saudi Arabia. [Quick read: Donald Trump delivered a ‘historic’ speech in Saudi Arabia (Full Transcript)] The... Read More
The people of Cross River are angry. So angry! Their Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, is not acting his title according to Cross Riverians who think that he should “focus on visible development of the state and not media hype development”. What’s this that they call “media hype development”? The Governor went and changed the State’s... Read More
The PUNCH Newspapers, this morning published a very telling interview that they had with former Minister of State for Defence under President Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP administration and Lagos Governorship aspirant under the PDP umbrella, Musiliu Obanikoro where he made a huge deal of denying the recent rumours of his move to the ruling All Progressive... Read More
After a long week of scandals, whining, crying and heartfelt revelations worldover, we know it must be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. Below are the most significant things to remember from the past week: “Shame upon evil wishers, purveyors of lies and wickedness. Do they have blood running in their veins at... Read More
Before you tear out last week’s dates from your calendar or close your mind to that chapter for whatever reasons, we have a warning for you: DO NOT! The past week was full of celebrations; in fact, it may turn out to be the most celebratory week of the year worldwide. France elected its youngest... Read More
Follow these links to read our cover stories and analysis on YNaija this morning: How Ifeanyi Ubah stole N11bn PMS, NNPC tells court 5 thoughts on Kevin McCarthy’s “joke” about Putin paying Trump Microsoft to launch datacentre in Africa to boost economy
Who knew these things happened in Nigeria right? Thanks to U.S President, Donald Trump who has made himself almost synonymous with the phrase “executive orders”. Anyway, Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo today signed three executive orders earlier today, presumably after the phone discussions he had with the Cote d’Ivorian and Liberian Presidents, regarding a peaceful resolution of... Read More
Follow the links below to read these stories and more on YNaija: Tinubu made Buhari president, not you | Reno Omokri tells northern elders FOX news former CEO dies at 77 https://ynaija.com/right-nose-people-cashing-made-naija-porn/
Last week, we had a moment about Alhaji Lai Mohammed being one of the 15 remaining people (we could just say “few people” but where’s the fun in that?) in the universe who haven’t got social media accounts. We found it confusing because he’s after all the Minister of Information and what 21st century Minister... Read More
Yes, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo now has a Medium account where he shares thoughts about some of his official activities with his 16 followers. Actually, he’s only shared his thoughts on one activity as yet because the account is fairly new. Yesterday, he posted a comprehensive breakdown of his thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the Africa... Read More
Follow the links below to read these stories and more on YNaija today: $50m Ikoyi cash: Why I won’t appear before you, Emefiele tells Reps This is the man who negotiated the release of 82 Chibok girls Audu Maikori sues El-Rufai for N10bn
by Soma Oj. The only time things are ever allowed to get this murky is when we are tucked in on Saturdays with nothing to do but watch silly movies with mind blowing plot lines and incredibly good characters to bring them to life. Movies about crazy Presidents who started wars based on their naivete... Read More
Follow the links below to read these stories and analyses on YNaija: FG is undecided on who will sign the 2017 budget – Lai Mohammed Biafra’s Forgotten Soldiers I: Bullet in my chest UK will continue to work with Pres. Trump despite intelligence leak -Prime Minister
A combination of factors brought us to ask this question. The first and most obvious will be the fact that we have just been put through two “presidential” weddings. In the sense that two former Nigerian Heads of State married off their kids last weekend and it’s only natural that we remembered Faith Sakwe... Read More
Or how else do you explain this? Someone at Vanguard Newspapers is suffering from an impoverished sexual life and suddenly everything makes sense. This is the third time in one year (keep in mind we are not even halfway through the year yet) that we have had to write about what is going on at Vanguard... Read More
Follow the links below to read these stories and more on YNaija today: ‘Osinbajo to receive 2017 budget from N’Assembly today’ Seek public offices on other platforms, Makarfi PDP tells members Wizkid grabs 7 nominations at the Billboard Music Awards
Follow the links below to read these stories and analyses on YNaija this evening: Fayose becomes drummer at a party (WATCH) This is why this photo of Dino Melaye and TBoss bothers you so much I am not your role model – Burna Boy tells fans
by Soma Oj. Nigerian politicians will never fail to amuse us. Their confidence in the potency of the disease of national amnesia that plagues the populace tricks them into believing they have a free pass to do and then undo; say and then retract and generally do as they please even when it contradicts the... Read More
The new edition of the Aso Villa Newsletter by @DigiCommsNG is Based on Logistics: https://t.co/bfrxzdgXjb#read #share #subscribe — Government of Nigeria (@NigeriaGov) May 15, 2017 This is tiring. It is one thing to go through your Twitter feed everyday hoping you won’t be confused by a phoney person or organisation trying to jump on a... Read More
by Soma Oj. Earlier today, a photograph of Big Brother Naija runner-up, TBoss and Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi) at the launch of his book, Antidotes for Corruption, surfaced online and it has all but scattered the internet. [In case you missed it: TBoss spotted with Senator Dino Melaye] To be honest, I am... Read More
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