by Peregrino Brimah 18 is not a date enforced under the child rights UN act. It is only a recommended date; to maintain signatory to the act, a state can adopt an age of choice as its age of majority, above or below 18. If you tell a lie one hundred times, it does not... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Nigerian athlete, Blessing Okagbare made history after setting a new African record of 10.79sec in the 100m women’s sprints at the London Anniversary Games International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League International Athletics championships which took place in the Olympic Stadium, London on July 27, 2013. Okagbare won the race beating... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Ghanaian born Chelsea player, Michael Essien showed his cheeky side recently when he took pictures of his teammates in various sleeping positions and posted them online. It’s always amusing to see photos of people asleep especially famous people and Essien struck internet gold by combining all the photos which has so far... Read More
by Chi Ibe The All Progressive Congress has refused to consider a name change, new reports say. Yesterday, YNaija reported on how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may suspend the registration of opposition party, All Progressives Congress, due to an acronym battle with the African Peoples Party but the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has... Read More
by Chi Ibe About 1,404.27 hectares of cannabis farmland was destroyed in 2012 in Nigeria’s South-West geopolitical zone alone making it the largest cannabis plantations in the country, the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said. Ekiti State alone had 764 hectares of cannabis farmland making it the state with the highest number of cannabis plantations.... Read More
by Obi Nwakanma To put this very mildly: Lagos was built by Nigerians with massive Nigerian resources, and it is a migrants’ city. Fashola’s administration cannot hide its dirt-poor under the carpet and by forced deportations. Once again, the Lagos state government deported Nigerians from a Nigerian state; an action that is as lawless as... Read More
by Femi Aribisala Have you ever had the experience where a man literally drives you off the road and, as he speeds away, you see the inscription on his windscreen declaring: “Jesus is Lord?” How does reckless driving testify to the lordship of Jesus Christ? How does reckless driving testify to the lordship of Jesus... Read More
by Tunde Fagbenle No president in the history of Nigeria made greater mockery of the seat and personalised the presidency more than Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of whom I should say no more. Nigeria is a peculiar country. Peculiar and sad. The more one looks at the country, her political structure and her leadership, the more... Read More
by Chi Ibe The ex-governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has made some pretty strong allegations in an interview with The Punch’s Allwell Okpi. Fayose was recently suspended from his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the role he allegedly played in the invasion of the state secretariat by hoodlums. But in this interview, Fayose says... Read More
by Simon Kolawole President Goodluck Jonathan has spoken a lot about the need to focus our energies on agriculture. Ministers are reciting this like nursery rhyme. Governors have been quoting it like a proverb. At the level of talking, we have done extremely well. Can you believe it? Some readers actually thought I was taking... Read More
Merritt Landry, 33, allegedly shot an unarmed 14-year-old in the head, thinking he was going to rob the homeowner. Landry was charged with second-degree murder. A 14-year-old New Orleans boy was shot in the head early Friday morning after a homeowner said the unarmed teen was trying to break into his house. Homeowner Merritt Landry,... Read More
A man cut his throat with a knife in a benefits advice office in a protest about the controversial bedroom tax. The middle-aged man said he was ‘sick of all this s___’ then dragged a blade through skin from his ear down to his throat on each side of his neck. The wounds left him... Read More
by Oge Okonkwo Two students of the Army Day Secondary School, Eburutu Barracks and Technical Secondary School, Ikot Effanga Mkpa, Calabar have been arrested by the police on suspicion of murder. The two students Godwin Ekpo (20) and Francis Jonah (19) were said to have conspired to kill one Boniface Odinaka, the labour prefect of Army Day Secondary... Read More
She’s been showing off her body and sexy side ever since The Apprentice ended last week. But it seems Luisa Zissman may have showed off more than even she bargained for on Thursday evening. The businesswoman had spent the evening at the CelebBoutique launch in Stratford’s Westfield shopping centre, initially standing out in a super... Read More
POLICE HANDOUT Case would not have been able to descend into the store even if he were slender enough to reach the chimney’s bottom, as it’s sealed off. Only Old St. Nick can pull off this trick! A would-be burglar got stuck in a chimney as he tried to bust into a Harrison, Ark., pawn... Read More
The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it would seal up any building where residents displayed their clothes outside indiscriminately. The state Commissioner for Environment, Mr Tunji Bello, gave the warning while speaking with newsmen shortly after monitoring the monthly sanitation exercise in Egbe-Idimu area of the state. He said spreading of washed clothes on... Read More
by Isi Esene The engagement ceremony between Taiwo Oyebanjo and Cool FM On-Air-Personality, Dotun took place today at the Remo Majestic Hotel, Sagamu, Ogun State. The ceremony was a colourful one with family, friends and well-wishers dressed gaily in traditional attires. The church wedding holds next weekend on August 3. We say a very hearty congratulations to... Read More
by Isi Esene International music superstar, D’banj was on hand to show so much love to his sister, Taiwo Oyebanjo who got married to Cool FM On-Air-Personality, Dotun today in Sagamu, Ogun State. The traditional wedding was attended by friends, family and well-wishers with the cute looking bride dressed in a lace material and lovely... Read More
by Oge Okonkwo Information Nigeria an Information portal focused on providing interesting Nigerian content has hit the 750,000 fans mark on Facebook and has been acknowledged by Socialbakers.com (A social media analytics website) as the fastest growing Facebook page in Nigeria. The Information Nigeria Facebook page has overtime become a very interactive platform where Nigerians... Read More
Hotel worker who stabbed a 16-year-old girl to death in a frenzied sex attack after luring her to a hotel with the promise of a job was jailed for a minimum of 35 years today, David Minto, 22, who nicknamed himself ‘The Demon’, used Facebook to entice young women to the seaside B&B where he... Read More
We recently saw new mum, Mercy Johnson transform into a high school student for a new movie and then we’ve came across photos of Nollywood actress, Oge Okoye channel the geek chic look on the cover of Jemima Magazine. The actresses... Read More
A teen who went missing in Los Angeles in April was discovered a month later in Northern California, having been kidnapped and used as a sex slave on a marijuana farm. The Los Angeles Police Department decribed the 15-year-old girl as a runaway. They believe she was kidnapped by Ryan Balletto, 30, and his associate... Read More
by Krystle Crossman Allow yourself to feel the pain. If you hold your emotions in and don’t grieve properly, you could be hanging on to lingering feelings and hurting yourself more in the end. When a relationship is over, sometimes it is hard to just let go and move on. There are many different ways... Read More
A young mother was shot dead on her son’s third birthday. Jazzmine Wash, 23, was killed outside her Long Beach, CA, home Thursday morning while on the front steps to retrieve her son’s diaper bag just hours before a party she had planned. She was shot multiple times in the upper torso, officials said, and... Read More
The South African Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will never worship a ‘homophobic God’ and would rather go to hell than find himself in a ‘homophobic heaven’. The retired archbishop said the fight against homophobia in South Africa was similar to the campaign waged against racial apartheid in South Africa. Archbishop Tutu,... Read More
by Okwanya Pius-Vincent It must first be argued that God is not religion and he is not religious. Religion relates to the worship of God and since God does not have any other being to worship, then He could not be religious. Let us make one thing clear, man’s attempt is strictly man’s attempt. The... Read More
The engagement ceremony between Taiwo Oyebanjo and Cool FM On-Air-Personality, Dotun took place today at the Remo Majestic Hotel, Sagamu, Ogun State. The ceremony was a colourful one with family, friends and well-wishers dressed gaily in traditional attires. The church wedding holds next weekend on August 3. We say a very hearty congratulations to the cute couple.... Read More
by Leigh Newman Yes, you have a job, a car and a condo with a reasonable mortgage. So does he. But sooner or later, one of you is going to have to move if the two of you want things to work. 1. Love Is Location You might have learned this one before, when you were... Read More
by Chi Ibe Candidates who took part in the 2013 Post-Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination (P-UTME) screening exercise at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka can now visit the university portal, www.unnportal.com to check for their results, the university has announced. UNN announced the release of the results yesterday after exams were taken at the Nsukka Campus of the... Read More
Mina Ogbanga: For the love of country – 10 steps to addressing the transition dilemma (Y! FrontPage)
by Mina Ogbanga …citizens (have) become like a woman that is being raped, called for help, help came and elbowed the rapist but continued none the less in the same act. When I was approached by the editors of YNaija to join its popular Y! FrontPage series I asked my four “W” questions; What is... Read More