From late February to the last day of March, conversations and expectations around governance in Nigeria has been centered around the effectiveness of state governments across Nigeria to contain the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). There were also quite a number of political drama which confirmed the pattern of intolerance to opposing voices, moving...
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The Coronavirus pandemic has turned all our news cycle into a round the clock barrage of perilous content, so much so that it would be easy for us to miss that a lot of great things are also happening for young Nigerians in creative disciplines. This week, the Virginia Commonwealth University announced its 20 writer...
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Last week, the federal government announced, in line with crashing oil prices, that it was lowering the financial peg for fuel prices in the country by N20, bringing it down from N145 to N125. It made logical sense that the government would reduce prices, considering it was spending millions of dollars in subsidies to keep...
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When a relationship or friendship turns sour, it can create one of the most bitter and ugly rivalries one can ever experience. Such is the case for Presh and Chris. As humans, it is of utmost importance that as we let people into our lives, we take into consideration if the said person’s character is...
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Ondo state govt bans social and political gatherings over Coronavirus The Ondo government has placed a 14-day ban on all political, religious and social gatherings in the state. A statement by Donald Ojogo, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, described the new development as part of the effort to stop the spread of Coronavirus in the...
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by Kara Cutruzzula Yesterday I had a nice long list of things I’d like to accomplish. I did…two things? And those two things felt good, they felt like something. But then I thought, what exists beyond my list? So I wrote some lyrics and shared them with a friend. And that one thing felt good, that felt...
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The scare and panic over the raging Coronavirus has reached alarming heights in Nigeria. After we went to bed on (what may pass as one of the weirdest) Sundays in Nigerian history, following arguments for and against Christians going to Church to safeguard their health spiritually, amidst government regulations restricting same in Lagos and the...
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The latest COVID-19 updates will scare you more than you can’t panic. As much as not everyone acknowledges the existence of a Supreme Being – or has lost faith, everyone prays for this to pass. As at today, Monday, March 23, 2020, Nigeria has confirmed thirty-six (36) cases. Two cases have been discharged, and with...
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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. I think Burna boy is helping Naira Marley manage his...
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Whether the Love Guests are aware of it or not, the Covid-19 virus has spread it’s tentacles into the Love Pad. It would seem like the corona pandemic is beginning to influence the structure of the entire show following everything that ensued on Sunday during the live eviction show. It began when Aunty gave a...
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With a live update of the day to day count of recorded cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria that keeps steadily rising, it is beginning to appear that the growing panic in the country is more than justified. As if the rising official number – now at 35 with 1 recorded death – is not bad...
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In a recent tweet by Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential elections, he disclosed that his son has tested positive to Coronavirus and is currently receiving treatment at the Gwagwalada Specialist Teaching Hospital in Abuja. Following this tweet, pandemonium increased across the country and it would...
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As you self isolate this week, we feel its our duty to scour the interwebs and get you on to shows you might have missed simply because they hadn’t been moved to an easily accessible screening platform or they just weren’t on the radar like that. Obi Emelonye tackled the medical melodrama with ‘Heart and...
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Last night, the last person anyone would have expected to be personally affected by the spread of the Coronavirus gave a statement via Twitter. Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has been one of the country’s foremost statesmen and has been proactive about the Coronavirus pandemic, advising citizens to self-isolate and practice social distancing and pressuring the...
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Turkish club Trabzonspor has reacted to former player John Mikel Obi’s comments suggesting club chairman Ahmet Agaoglu preferred winning the league title with Trabzonspor than preventing the spread of coronavirus. Obi only joined the club as a free agent last summer, having penned a two-year dea, but ended his contract after falling out with the...
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When it comes to TV shows, it’s easy to pay attention to the most eccentric and interesting characters, the people that have such an outstanding identity it’s almost impossible not to notice them. From baby face characters that we all love to love to characters that we all love to hate, we mostly focus on...
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As the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirms 10 new cases of COVID-19, Nigerians are slowly coming to grips with this newly-hatched global pandemic. Although a little too late, the federal government has shut down international airports (Enugu, Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja and Lagos), effective since midnight and with the exception of ”emergency and essential...
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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: We Should be Giving More Props to Sound Engineers in AfroPop – Dennis Ade Peter Considering their significance, it’s...
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Like the invisible thread that holds the tapestry of development together, 50 women working actively in development across Africa were selected and celebrated to commemorate the International Women’s Day. They represent a truly pan-African diversity from over 10 African countries. The list highlights 50 rising stars who are actively leading change impacting their local communities...
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This Sunday on Rubbin’Minds International Women’s Month Special powered by Lipton features award-winning theatre and film director, Bolanle Austen-Peters; the Queen of Waka, Salawa Abeni and MD, Cadbury Nigeria, Oyeyimika Adeboye. Last week, the special had female achievers including the former senator, Florence Ita-Giwa; veteran journalist and founder of Genevieve Magazine, Betty Irabor and the...
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Thursday evening was unexpectedly eventful, so eventful in-fact, that the drama of the day boiled over to the next day. The love guests were still in shock at what had transpired the night before, between Jay and Arnold. No one in the house could have predicted that Jay held that much animosity towards Arnold, especially...
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The last one week has been a hectic one for Nigerians all over as the COVID-19 pandemic reached a near-alarming rate in the country, following the confirmation by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that 9 new cases had tested positive in Lagos and one in Ekiti. This aforementioned development, the news of the...
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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. You saw me coming with Suya that I bought with...
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At the rate the university has been at the top of the trend for all the wrong reasons in recent years, one would hope that for it to get on top of the trend in these times of panic over the Coronavirus pandemic, it would be for something huge, say a cure discovery. Far from...
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Another day, another mess of a situation in the Love Pad, this time, between to supposed friends, Jay and Arnold. Words do have a way of hitting our sensitive spots, and it is paramount that, as adults, we try to filter the things we say as much as possible. Often times, the hurtful things that...
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It was another Thursday in the Love Pad and Aunty pays a visit to the Love Guest to do her weekly rounds. Every week Aunty comes into the House to get some insights on how the her Housemate’s relationships are coming along, the highs and the lows, and yesterday the housemates had a lot of...
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The feeling of dread keeps rising. The internet is breaking down. Life, as we know it is nearing a destabilizing breakdown and Covid-19 still looms over our heads at every passing hour. You might have read that slightly fictionalized illustration of how Covid-19 spreads in the New York Mag or watched videos of affected persons...
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First Bank of Nigeria Limited is taking steps to ensure that women and women-led businesses are empowered. The bank has, through its FirstGem; FirstMonie and First Women Network empowered and brought several unbanked women into the financial system. This it proved during this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) celebration, writes COLLINS NWEZE. Empowering women through...
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First Bank of Nigeria Limited was recently presented with the Oil and Gas Banker of Year 2019 award at the Patrons’ Dinner and Industry Awards of the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit held recently at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The four-day event, comprising conference and award dinner, is acclaimed to be Nigeria’s Government official platform for the petroleum industry gathering...
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