Author: YNaija
Thought Experiment: What if Goodluck Jonathan were still president?
You cannot even lie that this has not crossed your mind. *** March 28th, 2015: Imagine if you had rejected all of Muhammadu Buhari's promise of Change and voted for transformation…
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We predict the next 4 years based on President Trump’s inaugural speech
Taking the Oath of Office as the least popular President in 40 years is no mean feat. But President Donald J. Trump is no stranger to breaking the mould. Against…
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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 20th of January
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As the chances of Yahya Jammeh fleeing increases, we go over all the runaway African leaders
Edward Anthony Gomez, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's lawyer, in the heat of the battle over the inauguration of a new administration in the country, has fled to Senegal reportedly with…
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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 20th of January
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7 things to expect from Donald Trump’s inauguration tomorrow
If Donald Trump were a pentecostal Christian in Nigeria, he'd now be singing "This is the day... this is the day ..." or at least whistling the tune as many…
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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 19th of January
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[The Presidential Blog] This can’t be the right time to ask for an annual vacation, Mr. president
President Muhammadu Buhari, pursuant to Section 145 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) has just written the Senate to request 10 days off. In the…
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[The Presidential Blog] The President needs 10 days off. For what again?
Sahara Reporters has just posted the news that the President is asking the Senate for about two weeks off. This is yet unconfirmed by the media aides of President Buhari…
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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 19th of January
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Could this be the reason why Boko Haram continues to hold on to the Chibok girls?
On Monday, something extremely dreadful happened. A 7-year-old was strapped with explosive device(s) and sent to a worship centre within the University of Maiduguri, in the recovering city of Borno.…
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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 18th of January
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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 18th of January
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[The Presidential Blog] Aisha Buhari is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has never given any reason for us to see her Future Assured Project as just another "pet project". She apparently means business and…
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Where is Ibrahim Salisu Buhari?
Salisu Ibrahim Buhari was the sixth Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives. He headed the lower chamber for the short period of one year between 1999 and 2000. According…
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The Ynaija Cover this evening – the 17th of January
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[The Presidential Blog] This media assistant to Buhari must have been taking a lot of Twitter lessons from Trump
Just last week, the President's personal assistant on social media came to our attention. Of course, it's not that we hadn't known her before then. No, we knew when she was…
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The Ynaija Cover this morning – the 17th of January
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Sambisa is 18 times the size of Lagos | A Roundup of everything we learnt from the BBOG’s day tour of Sambisa
On the 11th of January, 2017, the Federal Government did something it had never done before. A letter was written to the conveners of the Bring Back Our Girls group…
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We have your receipts: But the Nigerian Army told us they had sent Boko Haram out of Sambisa
No doubt, it was suspicious from the get go to think that the Nigerian Army and its allied forces that make up Operation Lafiya Dole had truly completed a sweep of Operation…
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“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” | 10 memorable quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
Today is the day set aside to honour the American civil rights activist, Martin Luther who led the Civil Rights Movement while maintaining his policy of non-violent disobedience to confront…
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The Ynaija Cover this evening – the 16th of January
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[The Presidential Blog] The President’s response to the University of Maiduguri bombing
Early this morning, there was a terrorist attack on a mosque in the University of Maiduguri while members of the community there were observing Subhi prayers. While the number of casualties…
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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 16th of January
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We have your receipts: Governor Fayose what do you have to say now?
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, the Critic-in-Chief of all constituted authority except Governor Wike now has a dead civil servant to account for. Earlier today, we learnt that Tope Afolayan,…
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[The Presidential Blog] This is everything President Buhari actually said to the Nigerian troops everywhere today
President Muhammadu Buhari celebrated this year's Armed Forces Remembrance Day with much more enthusiasm than we have now come to expect from him. We'll chuck it up to his background…
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Still on the Matter: We slept on it but woke up to an Ajimobi that is still wrong, wrong, wrong
The last time students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology took to the streets to protest their being shut out of campus and their studies, the strike action had just…
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The new public enemies according to Donald Trump and Nigerians | See our top 10 photos of the week
The videos of Governor Abiola Ajimobi addressing the protesting students from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (whatever version you have got) is probably the most shared item across all media…
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“You are all mad”, “8 months of what?” | See our top 10 memorable quotes from the past week
This past week looks as though it was designed to put many Nigerian sweethearts in bad light. Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra is bitterly complaining about how his former…
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So who are the musicians that will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration?
The last time we talked about American President-elect, Donald Trump's inauguration, we had only confirmed the 16-year-old, Jackie Evancho who will be singing the National Anthem at the 20th of…
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