Anyone who actively follows the conversation around the government’s response on the Coronavirus pandemic must have been very confused by the events of yesterday. After weeks of arm chair analysis about the limitations and ineffectiveness of the government pronounced lock down on Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states, the original states to record Coronavirus cases, the...
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Balyesa is now on total lockdown after the state recorded a case of the coronavirus. This was ordered by Governor Diri. The index case who is a 47-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and diabetes, presented herself at the Bayelsa Specialist hospital in Yenagoa with a history of poor appetite, fever, headache, cough, chest...
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With the state of governance in Nigeria and exacerbated by the coronavirus crisis, former running mate to erstwhile presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, started trending on social media today. So much so that he’s been praised and encouraged to run for the 2023 Presidential election. Check out our major stories today: ...
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Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here are the ones we saw today: 1. NEWS: Buhari to address Nigerians in a “Live” broadcast at...
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On last night’s episode of the TV show, #WithChude, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, Executive Director of Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER), a youth-led organisation advocating against gender-based violence, opened up on her painful experience with sexual abuse during her national youth service. In a sit down with show host, Chude Jideonwo, the Commonwealth 2019 Young...
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First question: why the fuss? We get surprised easily and forget that we are still in a country where there is basically no database for anything, where ‘let’s do it anyhow‘ is the principle by which we run our government. The Future Africa Team Lead, Bukonla Adebakin said in a Rubbin’ Minds episode: “We are...
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On last night’s episode of the TV show, #WithChude, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, Executive Director of Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER), a youth-led organisation advocating against gender-based violence, opened up on her painful experience with sexual abuse during her national youth service. In a sit down with the show’s host, Chude Jideonwo, she talked in...
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Hey guys! Welcome – again – to another tile in the Share of Voice scrabble board. With Share of Voice, we aim to tell stories of and have conversations with CEOs, Directors, C-Suite Execs, Brand Managers, Media Personalities, influencers across industries. We have had conversations with people like Samuel Ajiboye (Alpha and Jam), Adenike Fagbemi (Nixxhash...
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On Sunday, the Director General of the Nigeria for Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Chikwe Ihekweazu announced on Twitter that Nigeria is in desperate need of testing kits, to the chagrin of Nigerians who have told the NCDC to look at the testing model adopted in other African countries that have significantly higher cases of...
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Nigeria is struggling in its attempts to contain the COVID19 pandemic. It is important we acknowledge this truth before we continue with this article. We have been struggling since we first closed our borders, months after we should have and have struggled since to test enough people, contain enough people and provide palliative measures for...
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Yesterday, several thousand Nigerians gathered on the Bolanle Austen Peters Youtube channel to relive, Moremi the Musical, shown for the first time outside of the Terra Kulture theatre. Excellently edited to cut out all the stage changes, Moremi the Musical suprisingly held up to scrutiny with stand out performances from Femi Branch, Lala Akindoju and...
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By Aisha Tofa I was looking at life ten years ago; I was a broken young girl, ripped away from a lot of dreams. I had goiter at 17 and it led to a surgery and to taking drugs for life. I had my thyroid gland removed; this was a gland in charge of fertility,...
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Each week here at YNaija, we round up the best Nigerian writing on the internet, highlighting the stories, profiles, interviews and in-depth reporting that rise above the daily churn. Here are the ones that caught our attention: Making Great Rap Music and Making Money Are Not Mutually Exclusive – Dennis Ade Peter In Nigeria’s needlessly segregated...
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FirstBank mourns as we confirm the loss of our staff, Abdullahi Lawal who until his passing worked at our Kano Main Branch. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time as we do all that is necessary to support them. We ask that all necessary courtesies be extended to the family so...
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by Faith Life can be hard. Life can hurt. Life is messy. Things happen. Things are happening. Things will continue to happen. How will you choose to navigate through life’s uncertain, undulating ups and downs? Will you react to every twist and turn or proactively choose joy? Sometimes, it’s really not as complex as we...
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by Ore Fakorede We think too much when we’re alone. We drown in our thoughts when we’re alone and we don’t know when we’ll have company again. I’m underwater now and damn, clarity is a scary thing. I’m seeing parts of myself for the first time and wondering who the hell this person is. More...
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We are still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic. We are also living in the world of Tiktok videos and ceaseless internet challenges. The crisis hasn’t exactly spelled doom for influencers as we have seen them adapting to the lockdown. An increase in social media usage, and the deliberate seeking out of content that...
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Since the Abuja 2000 Political Declaration on Roll Back Malaria, global efforts have dramatically reduced the global malaria burden. Unprecedented partnerships and high-level political alliances such as African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) demonstrated shared responsibility and regional as well as global solidarity, enabling the scale-up of effective interventions and better data for evidence-informed policies and...
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Lately, the leading Covid-19 interventions database, BeatingCorona.ng has seen an uptick in intervention activities from the government, individuals, and non-governmental organizations. The database has just recently recorded interventions that have been made in Niger state. This is news because the North Central state has been the only state in Nigeria without any recorded interventions until now. You...
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Following the burial ceremony of Late Abba Kyari, which broke the internet and unfortunately, the rules of social distancing, the former Chief of staff to the President who died from Coronavirus complications has again been remembered by Nigerians as a result of Mamman Daura’s tribute to him. “Few people knew that over 10 years ago,...
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Barely one week after the death of Abba Kyari, the late chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, nephew to the president, Mamman Daura, penned down an eulogy about the former politician, describing him as a dependable companion. Kyari died from COVID-19 complications and was buried right away. There has been a plethora of personal...
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Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here are the ones we saw today: 1. Finally, after so many letters, the government has dug 3...
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Daily updates on newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the country have become as much a part of our lives as the certainty of day and night. The National Centre for Disease Control has remained consistent in that regard. As at 23:30 WAT, April 23rd, 2020, the centre reported an additional 108 new cases of...
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Omoni Oboli has just announced that her 2019 film Love Is War is coming to Netflix. Omoni Oboli, whose birthday was days ago, has made this a birthday gift to her fans and lovers of Nollywood cinema. Written by Chinaza Onuzo and directed by Omoni Oboli, Love Is War is about a married couple competing...
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Fellow traveller, We love reading your emails, thoughts, and feedback about the TDV pieces you read. We are blessed to be part of your life, every day, in the most honourable way. We look forward to holding one another as we do life together. We’ll share one of the feedback from this community. In response to: Love and...
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We must have done something terrible as Nigerians to deserve the kind of leadership we have been subjected to over the last 21 years. There is no other logical explanation why we have leaders who are caught stealing millions of dollars from their own states and are still voted back into office for a second...
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Thursday as many other days ended with another Lockdown Special on the Nigerian social media space, as the timelines from Twitter to Facebook and even Instagram were buzzing with reactions to a viral video where a Zambian was recorded by his wife furiously slapping his son for failing his exam and been absent for his...
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Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their funny rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here are the ones we saw today: 1. After all these he'll round up with something...
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It’s easy to get caught up in the uniformity of conventional activities that make up our daily lives, so much so that when something as unimaginable and bizarre as a pandemic threatens to disrupt that normality, we dismiss it as nonsense. Such is the unfortunate case of Kano. Kano, like every other state in the...
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