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“People want change.” “President Trump is delivering that change.” If we didn’t know better, we’d credit those words to Josh Earnest, the Press secretary to the Obama-led White House but these were Sean Spicer’s, the Trump-led White House Press secretary. The words ring true for both Presidents; although from two incredibly very different angles. Obama had... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari took off from Nigeria to the United Kingdom on a 10-day holiday during which he was to make a very routine trip to the doctors for his check-up. The holiday itself started on the 23rd putting his date of resumption as the 6th of February. If we go by how he travelled, then... Read More
It’s been a very confusing 10 days for the whole of the world apparently. While Americans are dealing with a Trump who desperately needs to prove a point, here in Nigeria we are dealing with a President desperate not to prove any. Meanwhile, his army of media assistants have been desperately trying to quell “rumours”... Read More
Disclaimer: This is no wicked, callous, hateful or unkind post intended to “kill” our President. Wait, why do we have to explain this again? Anyway, if you are one of the people that experienced the painful ordeal that shrouding the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s sickness in secrecy visited upon Nigerians (or those who have read... Read More
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https://youtu.be/u1vsyKD_UNM Presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has mostly kept a low profile since the inauguration of the 45th President, Donald Trump. She did acknowledge the #WomensMarch on the 21st of January via her Twitter where she thanked the women who marched for speaking up for very important values. Not forgetting that she also... Read More
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We do not mean to add any more than bad roads, housing deficits, darkness, and allegations of corruption to former governor Fashola’s plate right now but if he hasn’t, he may have to check in with his Japanese friends about what’s been happening on his Twitter account. There have been random incidents of Japanese tweets... Read More
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There’s a storm gathering at the doorsteps of the Presidency – the President, his media team and the wife of the President. The Governor of Ogun State and Daisy Danjuma may also be complicit. Funny, those pictures of him and his wife in London were actually taken in 2015, and it's strange that his spin... Read More
The 2016 edition of the Miss Universe Competition held on Sunday night at the Asian Mall in the Philippines. Weirdly, Steve Harvey was allowed to host the show again after 2015. Okay, quick backstory: During the Miss Universe 2015 pageant, in Las Vegas, Harvey incorrectly announced that Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutiérrez was the winner. She’d... Read More
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We already explained how the American Superbowl works elsewhere on YNaija but it’s Monday and staying up till 12:30 am to catch a football show may not have been your first choice so we stayed up for you and picked up the best bits of the show on your behalf. The best bit being the... Read More
It’s already happening and you are going to wake up to a trending#Superbowl tomorrow morning. There’ll be bants and if Lady Gaga is the child of her father, she start something like a protest against the orders of the organisers and there’ll be even more bants and so you’ll feel the need to comment. Only... Read More
Dear celebrities of the world, There was actually a time that people followed you lot. A 10-year old in 2002 would have done anything that Beyonce or Puff Daddy endorsed. Same as a 24-year old in the same year but a lot has happened in the past few years and across continents to throw you off your throne... Read More
After all said and done, Beyonce ruled the visual world this week with the release of the photos from her maternity shoot. Do we need to say she slayed. It was even as if she had her African #Beehive in mind as she not only called her (and a million others’ too) favourite body artist,... Read More
Despite the Minister of Information denying reports about the President’s return being hampered this morning, President Buhari’s media aide, Femi Adesina has just released a statement informing us of the President’s extended vacation. See below: STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE: https://t.co/bMSmglkiBC pic.twitter.com/K9sff8E18U — Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) February 5, 2017 Who’s surprised though?
This past week was going to be all about 2Baba’s protest and a little bit of the usual from the FG and Trump until the Queen Bey handed us some lemonades. Here are the top 10 quotes from the oast week: “Just finished with the DSS, they were professional… it is well. –Apostle Suleiman‘s tweet... Read More
by Will Fred 9ice and Id Cabasa made sweet music in the past. Their union produced 9ice’s magnum opus, Gongo Aso as well as a couple of other essential records of both their careers. Then the inevitable happened, their union collapsed and they both went their separate ways. Both careers suffered instantly. 9ice has had... Read More
EnoughisEnough (EiE) Nigeria – a coalition of individuals and youth-led organizations committed to instituting a culture of good governance and public accountability in Nigeria through active citizenship, has confirmed that the ‘I Stand With Nigeria/One Voice Nigeria’ rallies to protest corruption and worsening standard of living under the Muhammadu Buhari administration at all levels of... Read More
To fully get the gist of this post, you may have to catch up with our starting point here. But the gist is simple: Trump is shattering all the rules we have held dear about success. At the end of that last post, we were so sad that the American President’s success so far has broken... Read More
by Mark Amaza Early last month, a shadowy Twitter account, EmefieleStays was created and has been engaging in a social media campaign advocating for the retention of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele who has been severely criticised locally and internationally for his counter-productive monetary policies that have kept Nigeria mired... Read More
Tomorrow, 6 February had been highly anticipated as pop music star, Tuface Idibia (2Baba) had called for nationwide protests against the Federal Government for the rising economic hardship in the country. The protests were billed to be huge as civil society groups, most especially EnoughIsEnough (EiE) had joined him in the desire to protest and they had... Read More
We love it! It’s so impressive to see that agencies of government are getting on the train to transparency. It’s okay these agencies may not know what exactly they are setting themselves up for – snarky anonymous Nigerians who never forget and nonanonymous ones with too much time on their hands. But it’s great, they’ll... Read More
Growing up, we had to look up to people like Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey and basically anyone who had “made it” out there in the world. Some had Michael Jackson, while others had Mandela to look up to. The point was that if you wanted to be successful, you had to look up to... Read More
Donald Trump undeniably has had the worst first two weeks in the history of American Presidents in recent times. For the most part, he cannot be pitied. Not with his clamp down on the media and his restoration of a global gag order and everything else that is about to be turned upside down in that part... Read More
There’s hardly anyone who does not remember Babatunde Raji Fashola, the superhero governor of Lagos State. And we are not even trying to be sarcastic, Governor Tunde Fashola’s achievements in Lagos in his 8-year tenure cannot be exaggerated (well, they can but you get the gist). In his time as governor, he had to contend... Read More
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