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: No strange number will call you today sis, put your...
Read More
Peak Milk has once again demonstrated what nourishment with quality dairy nutrition can accomplish as the Nigerian Para-powerlifting Team emerged overall winners at the just concluded Abuja 2020 Para-powerlifting World Cup tournament, held between 5 – 7 February 2020. Having also served as qualifiers for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games, the championship ended with...
Read More
If there is one trait the Nigerian government shares across federal, state and local government levels, it is their unrealistic policies. Last year the Federal government closed the borders because they wanted to ‘stimulate’ the local rice economy by removing foreign competition. All that yielded was a price hike, substandard local rice and more smuggling....
Read More
When it was announced in December 2019 that a new virus, the Coronavirus had started to affect citizens in Wuhan city in China, there was widespread worry that the world was about experience another epidemic similar to the bird flu epidemic that spread across Asia and threatened the health of the world. As a precautionary...
Read More
By Ifedayo Adeleye & Isime Esene In the whirlwind of events that seems to accost us from every sphere of our lives, it’s easy to completely tune out and just take things as they come. Trends come and go, we hear of the new popping restaurant or amusement gaining momentum online and offline. It’s easy...
Read More
The 2020 Social Media Week Lagos is already upon us. It feels like just a few months ago when all the media folk of Lagos gathered together to network and dish on innnovations in the media industry. Time flies and so does innovation and this year, the topics reflect the new directions in which the...
Read More
Oshiomhole rejects Supreme Court judgement which sacked David Lyon The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has reacted to the Supreme Court which sacked his party’s candidate David Lyon as the winner of Bayelsa governorship election. In a statement made available to newsmen, the APC Chairman pointed out that the People’s...
Read More
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 two emails from this community. Keep them coming; we read every...
Read More
Barely 24 hours to the inuaguration of governor elect David Lyon of Bayelsa State, five justices of the Supreme Court presided over by JusticeMary Peter-Odili nullified the election of mister Lyon on the grounds that his deputy, Senator biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo provided false information to INEC. In a judgment delivered by Justice Ejembi Eko, the apex court...
Read More
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: how do you people just casually chill at home in...
Read More
Let’s take a quick stroll down TECNO’s Valentine memory lane. We will start from 2018 to 2020 and not go too far. For 2018 Valentine’s Day, TECNO called for entries from Nigerians to suggest who they would love to give a lovely, romantic surprise and why. Three entries were randomly picked, and here is how...
Read More
Friday 31st January 2020; Football icon and Guinness Ambassador, Rio Ferdinand, threw football fans into a frenzy when he flew into Nigeria for the spectacular Guinness Night Football event. The Pan African tournament finale saw players from Cameroon, Uganda, and Kenya enjoy a sensational night of friendly rivalry in Lagos, hosted by Rio. The ultramodern...
Read More
The Lagos Bookhouse Party blends music, games, dance and other fun activities to make the ultimate book weekend. From Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th February, The Lagos Bookhouse Party will be hosting hundreds of book lovers and fun lovers to a weekend of literary beauty. The event, organized by Bookhouse Nigeria will have authors and...
Read More
Nigeria’s media ecosystem is on a burgeoning roll. Diversifying, layering on preexisting entertainment mediums, monetizing previously dormant platforms, and simply creating new spaces for authentic Nigerian stories removed from the outside gaze. All of these with very little governmental support, at least not until the (sketchy) CBN creative fund came around, piracy culture, and an...
Read More
by Pelumi Shittu What do you do when you miss a loved one? What do you do when you sorrowfully remember the death of a loved one and wish you can bring them back? What can you do, when it is the time you need someone the most but they are not there for you?...
Read More
Suspected Boko Haram attack Maiduguri hours after Buhari visit Suspected Boko Haram members have struck Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state just few hours after President Buhari paid a condolence visit to the governor of the state. According to reports, the sect members came around 7:05pm after the Muslim prayer time to Jiddari Polo general area...
Read More
Davido has had a phenomenal last 12 months. After a few missteps in 2017, Davido returned to the drawing board and mapped out a new plan for his career. He began releasing music focused on his core Nigerian audience, and let that music take him global. A new record publishing deal with Sony followed. Since...
Read More
The last one month appears to have been horrible for citizens in major parts of the North(ern part of Nigeria) with increasing cases of banditry, kidnappings, heinous murder and bombings by Boko Haram terrorists. One of the worse cases recorded was the January 8 abduction of Michael Nnadi, an 18-year-old seminarian along with three other...
Read More
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: It's a different calculation. Some calculations come with heartbeats like...
Read More
by Ado Aminu My mother, if she remembers this incident [from what I shared yesterday], might muse not without a certain amount of wonder, about how I have contrived, or if it is more acceptable to her to lay the blame at fate’s feet for how my life has turned out, how fate has contrived...
Read More
Are you looking for ways to maximize the productivity of your workforce? Do some of your employees want to become remote workers? Or, are some of them insisting on work-from-home flexibility options? Remote working is an up and coming trend in the workspace and has been gaining a lot of buzzes, especially with the advent...
Read More
Electricity in Nigeria is for the elite – NNPC GMD – Mele Kyari The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari has expressed disappointment with the state of power generation in Nigeria. Speaking at the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit which provided opportunity for the signing of a $1.1 million grant between Nigeria and the...
Read More
As the world scrambles to uncover a lasting cure for the new Coronavirus (which is a mutated strain of the common cold), many have asked what Nigeria’s academic institutions are doing to contribute to the scientific research that will eventually lead to this breakthrough. This question is one that is asked often, and often answered...
Read More
The nominations for the 7th Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards were announced last weekend, and there were quite a number of surprises. It was clearly a slow year for African cinema because many critics voiced their concerns that about the fact that quite a number of the films nominated had not been officially released in...
Read More
The First Lady Aisha Buhari, has met with her predecessor, Mrs Patience Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja and shared experiences on issues relating to women’s development in the country. The first lady said, their discussion centered on issues affecting the growth and development of women in the country, especially girl-child education, women’s participation in...
Read More
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: Seeing so many tweets about cishetero-something is just making me...
Read More
In December 2019, the personal data of numerous taxpayers in Lagos State was leaked on the payment portal of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), violating not only their right to privacy under the Constitution but also the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) 2019 issued by National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)...
Read More
Andela, the engineering-as-a-service business that helps companies build teams quickly and cost-effectively so they can ship faster, hosted 50 students from selected Nigerian tertiary institutions at Epic Towers, Lagos, on the 8th & 9th February 2020, in partnership with UNODC and Facebook. The winning team, Predex, made up of students from Covenant University and UNILAG,...
Read More
The influencer economy in Nigeria is expanding – more people are realising that they can leverage on their internet following and fill in the space between brands and consumers. Twitter and Instagram are arguably hold a promising talent pool of influencers rejigging the rules internet marketing and the ones cultivating influencer-worthy platforms. This month, here’s...
Read More
Yesterday, Fireboy DML released the music video for ‘Vibration’, one of the more popular singles from his genre defining debut album. Fireboy is signed to the YBNL label owned by rapper and media mogul Olamide, and was one of the few signees that bucked the traditional trend of signing rappers for the label. Ever since...
Read More
15
49.0138
8.38624
arrow
0
arrow
0
4000
1
0
horizontal
https://ynaija.com
300
0
1
