Tag: America
Olympic Games: ‘Customs fail to release donated kits,’ TAMPAN summons Yomi Fabiyi over controversial movie | 5 Things That Should Matter Today
Across Nigeria, these are the five top news stories you shouldn’t miss. Nigerian citizens to participate in the amendment of ...
Burna Boy’s ‘Destiny’ selected for Biden-Harris inauguration playlist
With the inauguration of presidential-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris on the horizon (tomorrow, January 20, 2021), no ...
Why Trump’s ‘threat of violence’ on the Black community could be disastrous
The murder of an unarmed black man, George Floyd by police officers in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota days ago ...
Stans of Davido in ‘glory party’ as singer becomes first Nigerian artiste to break another international record
It increasingly becomes a fact that to be considered a successful artiste one must have an international audience. This concept ...
Nigerians take to Twitter, demand from NCDC answers to COVID-19 puzzles
The Coronavirus by now is something the whole world is familiar with, and whether or not one has had a ...
YNaija Analysis: Following America’s new threat to the world, what should Nigeria prepare for?
by Alexander O. Onukwue “The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in ...
The Thread: Former US VP Joe Biden has always been a sexual predator | Twitter shows receipts
Christened “Uncle Joe” by America, former US Vice President Joe Biden projected a personae of being warm and funny and ...
The Sexuality Blog: America just elected its first transgender lawmaker
What a difference a year can make. It has been approximately a year since President Donald Trump was elected into office ...
Wole Soyinka returns to America after ‘destroying’ Green Card
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka is traveling back to America a year after he tore his Green Card, following the victory of ...
“Freedom is from God and not government” | 5 things we learnt from Trump’s Heritage speech
President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night addressed the Heritage Foundation President’s Club on the importance of tax reform for ...
Opinion: America’s mad obsession with guns
by Tony Ogunlowo Again another psychotic madman strikes killing over 50 people and injuring more than 500 in the Land ...
Vera Ezimora: Houston should be called Little Nigeria
First of all, I want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with people who were affected by the ...
The Thread: “59 dead is a miracle? WTF are you smoking???” | Americans spew vitriol on Trump
America has been taking hits from different directions in the past couple of months. From Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, ...
The Thread: “Get that son of a bitch…” | Did President Trump just prove that he’s racist?
President Trump has made a mess of things again. Now we know such an announcement probably does not come as ...
The Thread: “Nuclear wars speech at the UN?” “Trump’s speech is despicable trash” | Americans lash out
The 72nd United Nations General Assembly had world leaders deliver speeches on the theme ‘Focusing on People: Striving for Peace ...
The Thread: “Enough with the Sean Spicer Rehabilitation Tour!” | Twitter drags Spicer for Emmy appearance
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, brought the house down in more ways than one with a surprise appearance ...
Opinion: This is why Nigeria must restructure
by Fidel Albert Can we restructure…….? California is the 6th largest economy in the world. It’s economy is larger than ...
President Trump welcomes Emir of Kuwait to the White House
The White House has disclosed that President Donald Trump has welcomed Amir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, the leader of Kuwait ...
Down with DACA: America is getting darker, isn’t it?
by Alexander O. Onukwue As reasons are being given for and against the decision by the Trump administration to put ...
Can the US Congress save the 800,000 DREAMers in just six months?
by Alexander O. Onukwue The announcement of the scrapping of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy on Tuesday ...
What DACA cancellation makes you think of as a Nigerian
by Alexander O. Onukwue There are sure to be many Nigerians affected by the cancellation of DACA announced by the ...
Cancelling DACA: A definite cruelty or has it always been a deferred certainty?
by Alexander O. Onukwue Shifting slightly from the effects of Hurricane Harvey, national focus and the news media in the ...
Fact Check: Jeff Sessions’ has it all mixed up on crime rate in the US
President Trump – Potus 45- is known globally for one thing: a penchant for prevarication. Be it dressed up as ...
Here’s the letter Obama wrote to Trump upon leaving office
The details of former President Barack Obama’s final few words for his successor in an enveloped letter on the Oval ...
Our worn out global village of landslides, floods and hurricanes
by Alexander O. Onukwue The landslides that ravaged Sierra Leone a week ago took north of 1000 lives. About the ...
What Hurricane Harvey should remind us about Nigeria’s education
by Alexander Onukwue Amidst the devastation that has been produced by the category 4 tropical cyclone known as Hurricane Harvey, ...
America in narration: “…And after the eclipse came the hurricane”
by Alexander O. Onukwue Less than a week after it witnessed its first total Eclipse of the sun in a ...
The Thread: Twitter shuts down this man who turned Hurricane Harvey into a gender war
The “500-year” hurricane, Harvey devastated Houston Texas from Friday to Wednesday before moving on to Louisiana and Port Arthur. Americans ...
The Thread: “Apparently he can’t afford compassion” | Twitter blasts Pastor Joel Osteen
Pastor Joel Osteen who runs Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas is taking fire on Twitter for withholding charity to flood ...
Everything you should know about President Trump’s Phoenix rally
by Wareez Odunayo U.S President, Donald Trump at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday threatened to shut down the ...
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YMonitor
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- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy