Category: Cover Stories

Brave Women: Febisola Okonkwo is touching lives

Nigeria has one of the highest populations of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the world; now estimated at 17.5 million, which is 24.5% of all children under the age…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 28th of March

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 27th of March

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YNaija Editorial: Forget his motives, El-Rufai’s memo is exactly what Buhari and Nigeria need

Two weeks ago, a memo written by Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai to President Muhammadu Buhari was leaked to the press and published on many blogs and news sites. The…

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Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: How do we recover – urgently – our dignity as Nigerians?

by Chude Jideonwo Let me tell you about my driver of seven years. The first sign of trouble when he was recommended was the fact that he didn’t have a…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 27th of March

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Brave Women: Too brave to be 30 | Sola Obagbemi profiles Tricia Ikponmwonba

Tricia Ikponmwonba is a brand strategist, a brand coach for SMEs, and founder of StayInSchool, an organisation which aims to provide access to education for vulnerable children in underdeveloped communities…

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How do you solve a problem like Dino Melaye? | The latest YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators

If noise and visibility were the only measure of success for a Nigerian lawmaker, then Dino Melaye would be ahead of every single one of his peers this week on…

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Geoffrey Onyeama remains on top on the latest YNaija Ministers Ranking

Fresh off his first week at #1 on our list, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama retains the top spot in a week that sees him maintaining positive visibility -…

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Governor Ambode slips all the way down to the bottom on the latest YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Governors

People may disagree on the specifics of what the most important aspects of the job of government are supposed to be, but the one thing that is certain is that…

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Brave Women: The rise and rise of Linda Ikeji

Linda Ikeji, 36, is Nigeria’s highest paid blogger who took to the medium as a pastime in 2006. In this entry, Festus Iyorah profiles her rise to stardom from little beginnings.…

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 25th of March

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SPECIAL EDITORIAL: The Otodo-Gbame Evictions by the Lagos State Government cannot be swept under the carpet

A week ago, bulldozers of the Lagos State Government rolled into Otodo-Gbame, a fishing settlement outside Lekki which the state government terms “illegal” and demolished houses and properties there. By…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 25th of March

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 24th of March

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PROFILE: Who is afraid of Ibrahim Magu?

by Wilfred Okiche “In the light of the foregoing, Magu has failed the integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption stand of the current government.” Thus…

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 24th of March

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 23rd of March

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 23rd of March

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The YNaija cover this evening – the 22nd of March

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The Media Blog: ThinTallTony needs to STFU once and for all

If you can make it through the entirety of this interview without smashing something, congratulations to you. Your willpower is the stuff of legend. But. Goodness. How does he not…

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UPDATED: Senate calls for resignation of Customs boss, Hameed Ali

by Azeez Adeniyi The Senate has asked Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali to resign. Ali had failed to appear before the Senate on Wednesday. The upper…

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[The Alausa Blog]: Banning live bands in Lagos bars and restaurants is a contradictory move by the state government

In its bid to eradicate what it called "needless noise making" in the state, the Lagos state government has placed a ban on live band performances in bars and restaurants…

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Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: How it came to be that Jonathan is an option in 2019

by Chude Jideonwo I got a lot of panicked responses after my last piece; the panic focused on one small nugget of information buried within it: the fact that, as…

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The YNaija cover this morning – the 22nd of March

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ABU to release statement on Melaye’s certificate scandal today

by Azeez Adeniyi The Management of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has said it would release a statement on Wednesday addressing allegations that Senator Dino Melaye did not graduate from the…

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Closure of Abuja airport has brought hardship on Nigerians – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said there is no doubt that Nigerians have experienced hardship due to closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. Mohammed said this…

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The YNaija Cover this evening – the 21st of March

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Nigerians celebrate people with questionable wealth – Buhari

by Dolapo Adelana President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said Nigerians with questionable wealth are the ones being celebrated. He stated this during the 65th Annual Council Meeting of the West…

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Brave Women: From rags to riches, the story of Madam Burgess

by Festus Iyorah After the death of her husband 17 years ago, her in-law took everything that belongs to her husband and left her with nothing. Mrs Ernestina Okwuchukwu popularly…

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