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While speaking at a media round table discussion on regional security summit, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Friday, said that there is no need to put a time frame on when Boko Haram terrorism will end. The US official advised government to focus more on correcting the underline issues that led... Read More
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has defended his request for N13 million from the NBC to facilitate a trip to China. The request was made public when a memo written by NPD Dama, the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, of the Ministry requesting for the said funds was leaked from the office of the... Read More
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Here are five things to know about the Most Reverend Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Secretary-General of the Anglican Communion, the administrative head of the wordwide Anglican communion, who met with Buhari in the United Kingdom this week. He was ordained a an Anglican priest in 1971 Idowu-Fearon was consecrated into the holy orders in 1971. Nineteen years later,... Read More
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Friday, called on the Nigerian government to revert the price of fuel to N86 per liter or prepare to face a nationwide strike that will halt the economy of Nigeria. The NLC made their position known after holding a National Executive Council (NEC)... Read More
Deaths have been allegedly reported following the collapse of a four-storey shopping mall still under construction at Itokun in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday. Many were also still trapped and alive under the rubbles. The shopping mall is said to be constructed by the Ogun state government but there has been any statement from the government. See... Read More
A lecturer at Lagos University of Technology (LAUTECH) set this as questions to his exam yesterday. Lol, so a lecturer set this test for 500L SLT students in Lautech today… Please take ur time to read it. pic.twitter.com/cLRmrdbTyp — The Creative ® (@thecreativexx) May 12, 2016 Did you read the instructions well? Or did jump to conclusion... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari who is in London declared on Friday, May 13 that the monies recovered from looters will be made account for in his first anniversary broadcast on May 29. On May 29, President Buhari’s government will officially be a year old and he plans to highlight the milestones reached by his administration in a... Read More
We reported earlier in the week that George Zimmerman put the gun he used in killing 17 year old unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin up for an auction on Gunbrokers.com. The website however pulled the gun down from its page but the 32 year old Zimmerman decided to take it to another webiste called Unitedgungroup.com... Read More
The Queen’s College Lagos teacher, Olaseni Oshifala, who was accused of sexually molesting female students will walk free, because the panel set up by the ministry of education to investigate the sordid affair couldn’t find any evidence to indict him. Oshifala was accused by the mother of JSS2 student of attempting to forcefully kiss and... Read More
New FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has appointed a Nigerian-based Senegalese United Nations diplomat, Fatma Samoura, as the first female secretary general Samoura, who is 54 years old, has no previous experience in sports, and was appointed to the FIFA number two position as a way of bringing fresh air into the organization that have faced... Read More
Nigerians are still talking about leak of a memo from Lai Mohammed to the NBC requesting for N13 million loan to travel to China for tourism promotion. Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture had sent a memo to the National Broadcasting Commission asking to be given the said funds for his journey- to... Read More
Cool Fm, OAP Daddy Freeze has shared his own take on the recent removal of fuel subsidy. Here is what he shared on his Instagram page on Friday, May 14 “The pain of the poor Nigerian at such a time as this is beyond unbearable. I have always supported this government so I took the slow... Read More
That’s the problem with gravity. And economics. No matter where in the world you are, its principles hold true for you. Your country is not ‘exceptional’. There is no ‘homegrown solution’ to be found, no box to think out of. Sometimes, there is only one option. President Buhari has spent nearly all of his first... Read More
Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed has said that the recent increase in the price of pump petrol will create 200,000 jobs and secure 400,000 more. The minister stated this at the inauguration of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN) marketers’ conference in Lagos on Friday, in a statement read by his media aide Segun... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has agreed to demands to devalue the Nigerian currency to N290 against the dollar, according to SaharaReporters. This is coming just barely a day after removal of fuel subsidy by the Buhari administration, increasing the price of fuel to N145 a liter. According to the report, President Buhari made the decision together with... Read More
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour recently interviewed the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari during his visit to London for the anti-corruption summit. In the interview, the president answered questions regarding the UK Prime Minister’s comment about Nigerian being a ‘fantastically corrupt’, the abducted Chibok girls, among others. If you missed it, watch it below. My full interview with Nigerian President Muhammadu... Read More
Still on the netizens’ reaction to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s letter regarding the removal of fuel subsidy, these series of tweets by @TexTheLaw capture what most Nigerian ‘know-alls’ have been ‘trying to say’ for the ‘past year or two’, regarding the current situation in the country. Take a look. When people smirk about... Read More
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wrote a letter to Nigerians on Friday evening explaining why the subsidy placed on petrol was removed by the Federal Government on Wednesday, May 12. This didn’t exactly go down well on social media. Even though the vice president, in the letter titled, The fuel pricing debate: Our story, said that this... Read More
You thought the sharp increase in fuel prices was due to ‘fuel subsidy removal’. Well, someone made a different case just this evening. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has written a letter to Nigerians attempting to explain why the subsidy placed on petrol was removed by the Federal Government on Wednesday, May 12. The vice president,... Read More
The internet threw a question at us and we decided to answer it. A few days ago, the Minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, announced that the federal government will remove subsidies on fuel and allow market dynamics to determine the price of the product. Expectedly, this will result in an increase in... Read More
The CEOs of Speedmeals Kitchen Limited, Titus and Tobias Igwe, have launched the Yeast Project, a sustainable job creation initiative developed to assist and empower young unemployed people in securing gainful employment as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility to address the high rising youth unemployment in Nigeria. The project will involve a Seminar series,... Read More
The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) is set to launch a new discussion series, UNTOLD FACTS, moderated by TV host and media personality Moses Omoghena. The 20-minute discussion show developed and produced by TIERs is geared towards enhancing the visibility of human rights, particularly sexual rights and sexual health rights in Nigeria. It hopes to encourage... Read More
The Prime Minister of the Green Campus Initiative, Bankole Temitayo Samuel released a video titled “A Green Nigeria. Here is an excerpt from the 2-minute video: “Imagine a future where the people and the planet matters. Imagine a society where youth are at the forefront of decision making. Imagine an economy that is not dependent... Read More
Famed music writer, Jim Donnett is geared up for his first ever audio-visual release following the uber-reception of his debut music single titled “Him”. The enchanting picture was shot in choice locations around the metropolis of Lagos, and was directed by the highly talented and fast-rising visual maestro, ‘TP’. Find a careful selection of the... Read More
“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on tape telling the Queen ahead of the anti-corruption summit organized by the UK Government, this week, which was attended by Nigerian President,... Read More
Welcome to the first edition of The Slab with Isime. The Slab is a weekly gabfest offering a newsroom perspective on the week’s trending topics. In this edition featuring Adebayo, Chuks, Emeka and Anire – the YNaija crew – talks about a series of topics trending this week. Take a listen below. Subsidy Removal https://soundcloud.com/the-slab-with-isime/subsidy-removal-debate ... Read More
Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has an interesting story of forgiveness to share. Okupe, on Friday, May 13 took to his Facebook page to chronicle how he humiliated himself to get the forgiveness of former president Olusegun Obasanjo for his frolic with the Jonathan administration. Okupe... Read More
Following the ruling of a Federal High Court given by Justice Ibrahim Buba restraining the Peoples Democratic Party from going ahead with its scheduled South-West zonal congress, the party has announced that the congress will not hold. The National Secretary of the party, Wale Oladipo, stated in an interview with Punch on Friday, May 13... Read More