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AFRIFF 2017 announces festival activities

Organisers of Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) have announced the return of the festival for 2017. The festival is scheduled to run from October 29 to November 4, 2017 and…

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[The Presidential Blog] Buhari’s plan to Islamise Nigeria has been exposed

Last month, there was a public outcry over the decision of the Federal Government to offer it's first Sukuk bonds as a means of raising funds for capital infrastructure. There…

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 6th of October

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 6th of October

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Water in a Basket V: Tam knows best

Salaries haven’t been paid to civil servants in the last 9 months. Sometime during the penniless lull, *Tam decided her job at the Ministry of Agriculture was not quite the…

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Water in a Basket IV: Relief is here, more to come

  I am glad I experienced one of the few times reliefs were brought to the community, that faithful day in the afternoon, the news spread like wild fire. As…

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Water in a Basket III: Sewese’s fish business is sinking

Sewese, 37, is a civil servant at the Ministry of Information with a fish farming business on the side. Having gone without receiving remuneration for her day job for about…

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Water in a Basket II: Susan is too distressed to be stressed

Since the floods, Susan, 31, and her mother-in-law, 55, have lived in the IDP camp at the Ultramodern International market. Together with 3 of her kids and 2 brothers-in-law, the…

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Water in a Basket I: No one is even talking about rebuilding our homes yet

  "Thank God no life was lost!"   There are six structures in Moses’ compound – about 5km into Welfare Quarters, well known as a sodden area in Makurdi. Two…

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Editor’s note: YNaija presents conversations with survivors of the Benue flooding to inspire you

We would have loved to say that it is with excitement that we bring you another one of YNaija's citizenship stories but you'll agree that it is extremely difficult to be…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 5th of October

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 4th of October

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 4th of October

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 3rd of October

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Buhari, Ibe Kachikwu, Fuel scarcity

[The Presidential Blog] This is the Kachikwu letter everyone is raving about

There's a possibility "Kachikwu" has popped up one or two times on your social media or RSS feeds today. The Minister of State for Petroleum has somewhat attained celebrity status…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 3rd of October

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YNaija Editorial: The sad day after Nigeria’s Independence

October 1, naturally, marks one of the most significant days in the history of our beloved Nigeria. Not only did we gain our independence from the exploitative British empire that…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 2nd of October

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Here we go… all the cheesy #IndependenceDay photos you don’t want to see

Every year, every landmark event, people, businesses - even those ones you have never heard of - choose to celebrate by producing or posing for thematic photographs which are more…

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 29th of September

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 29th of September

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 28th of September

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[The Presidential Blog] This is why Nigeria is backing out of 90 organisations

On the heels of what many - including the country's minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama - have described as a successful outing at the just concluded 72nd UNGA, the…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 28th of September

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 27th of September

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 27th of September

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 26th of September

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The YNaija Cover this morning -26th of September

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CAN we all just try to understand what Sukuk bonds are already?

Mid-2017, the Debt Management Office of the Federal Government announced that Nigeria will be offering its first sovereign Sukuk bond in a bid to diversify the sources of government funding by…

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 25th of September

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