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September 5, 2019

From worst to best, we rank the tweets from Nigerian celebrities against #xenophobiaattacks in South Africa

Check your social media feed. Till now, the dust is yet to settle following a recent wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa against Nigerians and other African nationals, resulting to chaos and looting of shops and businesses. The origin story of this latest xenophobic act is quite nebulous – a South African taxi driver... Read More
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September 5, 2019

Access Bank partners Lagos State Government to launch N10billion loan portfolio for women

Africa’s largest retail bank, Access Bank Plc., yesterday collaborated with the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) to launch the LSETF W Initiative aimed at economically empowering women in Lagos State. The initiative, which has a total loan portfolio of N10billion, is targeted at women-owned businesses (with at least 50% ownership share) in operation for... Read More
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September 5, 2019

5 Things that Should Matter Today: Seyi Makinde has slashed Oyo’s unrealistic budget by N103bn

Whenever governor of Oyo Seyi Makinde is in the news, you can bet that he’s done something good. Since installed as governor of the state, he’s been revolutionising politics in Nigeria and setting a solid example for others to emulate. Yesterday, he signed the 2019 Oyo State Appropriation Review and Finance Bill after looking critically... Read More
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September 4, 2019

The YNaija Cover – 4th of September

Follow the links below to check out our latest stories: 5 Things that Should Matter Today: Chigozie Obioma’s ”An Orchestra of Minorities” has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 ”Walking With Shadows” is proof that Funmi Iyanda is still invested in telling human interest stories Sanctions not retaliations are how we need to respond... Read More
Cover Stories
September 4, 2019

‘The Wives,’ a stage play featuring Kate Henshaw, Jide Kosoko, Shaffy Bello, Binta Ayo Mogaji and Kemi Akindoju opens tomorrow

‘The Wives’, a stage play produced and directed by Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju, opens tomorrow Thursday, 5 September, 2019 at the Agip Hall, Muson Centre, Lagos. The comedy which was written by Professor Ahmed Yerima, tells the story of four women who have to deal with consequences of lies by their billionaire benefactor, including an uncomfortable... Read More
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September 4, 2019

”Walking With Shadows” is proof that Funmi Iyanda is still invested in telling human interest stories

It is a long way from Lagos to London, but when the 63rd London Film Festival unveiled its programme for this year’s event, three Nigerian feature length films made the cut. One of them, Walking with Shadows, the debut film production by television icon and media darling Funmi Iyanda stands out easily. Adapted from the 2005 novel by Jude Dibia, Walking with Shadows unspools a story that can be described... Read More
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September 4, 2019

5 Things that Should Matter Today: Chigozie Obioma’s ”An Orchestra of Minorities” has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019

The Booker Prize 2019 shortlist was announced yesterday on the Booker website, and author Chigozie Obioma made the final cut for his sophomore novel An Orchestra of Minorities, so congratulations are in order. He isn’t the only Nigerian on the shortlist, though. Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Women, Other, and also heavyweight authors like Margaret Atwood (The... Read More
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Xenophobia
September 4, 2019

Sanctions not retaliations are how we need to respond to SA’s xenophobia

For nearly a week before the 1st of September, news filtered in from South Africa that the country’s black male citizens were planning attacks on African immigrants. Their reasons were plenty and fueled by xenophobia; they believed (as purportedly suggested by their political leaders) that immigrant Africans had seen the social benefits Indigenous black South... Read More
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September 3, 2019

The weather forecast says it’s a shady season!!! Here’s the season 3 trailer for Accelerate TV’s ”Shade Corner”

The Delightful Nut Job, Side Eye Ambassador and Knight in Shading Armor Welcome the Unapologetic Baby-girl in Season 3 of Shade Corner. It’s about to get really shady in these parts! Our queen and Kings of shade-throwing Akah Nani, Noble Ezeala, Tamara Aihie and Bayo Oke Lawal are back like they never left. Accelerate TV... Read More
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September 3, 2019

5 Things that Should Matter Today: There’s a war on women in South Africa and men are the perpetrators

The rate of domestic violence against women in South Africa is so shockingly high, crimes perpetrated by South African men to their partners ranging from rape, disfigurement and murder. This is a fact that can be corroborated with a quick Google search. Yesterday, social media was awash with reports on the rape and murder of... Read More
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Lagos review
September 3, 2019

Is @TheLagosReview going to succeed where Creetiq failed?

The ‘review’ as a concept has never been stronger. International media platforms like Rotten Tomatoes and Vulture are built solely on the idea that audience members have preconceived notions about their favourite films, music and literature and are looking for platforms with ‘authenticity’ and ‘authority’ to either validate those claims or refute them. With the... Read More
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September 2, 2019

The YNaija Cover – the 2nd of September

Follow the links below to check out our latest stories: Funmi Iyanda is bringing stories of acceptance to the 2019 BFI London Film Festival 5 Things that Should Matter Today: Respecting Bobrisky’s pronouns will cost you absolutely nothing With journalists being arrested for treason, Nigeria dips further into a dictatorship
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September 2, 2019

Funmi Iyanda is bringing stories of acceptance to the 2019 BFI London Film Festival

This year’s BFI London Film Festival starts in October, and already the line up will parade movies from Martin Scorsese (The Irish Man), Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Robbert Eggers (The Lighthouse), and promises a spectrum of cinematic offerings that will appeal to audiences. Interestingly, Nollywood isn’t excluded as media personality Funmi Iyanda takes Walking With... Read More
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September 2, 2019

5 Things that Should Matter Today: Respecting Bobrisky’s pronouns will cost you absolutely nothing

Following reports of the police shutting down the venue for Bobrisky’s birthday on Saturday, social media had a melt down processing and reacting to the news. Amid conversations on the need for LGBTQ equality and how Bob has literally committed no crime, there was a noisy pocket of internet users generating tired, bland jokes about... Read More
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Dictatorship
September 2, 2019

With journalists being arrested for treason, Nigeria dips further into a dictatorship

Just last week, we were publicly decrying the decision of the federal government to forcefully arrest AAC presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore for ‘daring’ to organize a nationwide protest to demand well needed revolution under his #RevolutionNow platform. We did so because it reminded us of the tactics of the dictatorships of the Nigerian military regimes.... Read More
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September 1, 2019

Here are the best Nigerian articles of the week

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: 1. No more insufficient funds – Adewale Oloworekende  ”There is a long-standing association of Nigeria with cyber-fraud. The origin... Read More
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August 30, 2019

Yemi Alade, Juliet Ibrahim, Timini Egbuson, others at the launch of The Future Awards Africa 2019

Musician and songwriter, Yemi Alade; actors, Timini Egbuson and Juliet Ibrahim; Mohammed Yahaya, resident representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and Hon. Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports, were among the personalities at the launch of The Future Awards Africa 2019 which held at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.  The event, which took place on Monday,... Read More
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August 30, 2019

Here are the 10 ministers whose performance we are looking forward to

It’s more than a week since President Buhari installed a new ministerial cabinet that, up until then, took him a long time to put together. The ministers themselves aren’t a breath of fresh air, largely recycles names that sparked conversations online and what this could mean for Nigeria’s next four years under President Buhari. At... Read More
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