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January 12, 2017

FG grants citizenship to 335 foreigners after 4-year break

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved citizenship of 335 foreigners and disqualified 165 others. This was revealed by the Minister of Interior, AbdulRahman Dambazzau after the FEC meeting in Abuja. He said the approvals were given based on the recommendation of an advisory committee comprising representatives of the Department of State Security and Ministries... Read More
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November 23, 2016

#Impact365: StartUP6 provides a platform for young entrepreneurs to grow their business using social media influencers

StartUp6 is a unique initiative that targets small businesses by providing a platform for them to connect with social media influencers who can use social media tools to expand these businesses. Chaste Inegbedion is the Chief Product Officer of StartUP6 and an alumnus of Microsoft Cloud Start-Up Academy. In this interview with YNaija’s Impact 365,... Read More
Citizenship
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November 2, 2016

BLOOD MONEY XV: Life in the unsettled kingdom

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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November 2, 2016

BLOOD MONEY XV : The River is a Desert

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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November 1, 2016

BLOOD MONEY XIV: GodKnows Tamuno lived only four days

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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November 1, 2016

BLOOD MONEY XIII: The architect who became a boatman

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 31, 2016

BLOOD MONEY XII: Atomisation of agitation [Ijaw youth Council]

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 31, 2016

BLOOD MONEY XI: The monarch’s death

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 30, 2016

Re: Pastor Sam Adeyemi | The mental riddle of the Nigerian thought process

If there ever was a book written to try to capture the Nigerian thought process, it would definitely have not some but all (and some more) of the following as themes: Na God I sabi pass you Racing to conclusions selective amnesia There are others -“suffering and smiling” and resilience – that should never be left out... Read More
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October 30, 2016

BLOOD MONEY X : The gift is a curse

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 30, 2016

BLOOD MONEY IX: The alarm clock

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 29, 2016

BLOOD MONEY VIII: They called him Isaac

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 29, 2016

BLOOD MONEY VII: The Asaba massacre

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 28, 2016

BLOOD MONEY VI: Diamond in the rough

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 28, 2016

BLOOD MONEY V: The Tompolo Foundation

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 27, 2016

BLOOD MONEY III: 16 years a runner-up – The story of Great Ovedje Ogboru

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 24, 2016

BLOOD MONEY I: Did President Buhari lie about the cleanup of Ogoniland?

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 24, 2016

Introducing ‘Blood Money’, this month’s special citizenship series from YNaija.com

by Isime Esene, managing editor Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. “There are too many untold stories across our country, too many incomplete stories,” this paper’s editor-in-chief noted in announcing the series. “To tell these important stories, tragedy porn... Read More
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October 7, 2016

It’s today! The Future Project and YNaija present Conversations on ‘We Survived Boko Haram’ stories

The Ford Foundation and The Future Project in partnership with Y!/YNaija.com will be holding a 2-hour program tagged Conversations on ‘We Survived Boko Haram’ stories. This is a gathering of engaged citizens with interest in solving the challenges faced by people living in the peace-challenged North-East area of Nigeria. It affords you an opportunity to... Read More
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September 19, 2016

The Thread: Is international exposure a prerequisite for change in Nigeria?

Social commentator and music analyst, Tola Sarumi who tweets as @AfroVII caused a bit of ruckus on Twitter today when she posted a thread about international exposure being a requisite for better leadership and governance. The conversation surrounding this thread is informed and worth being the topic of a discourse on a larger scale. Read... Read More
Opinion
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September 5, 2016

Editor’s note: Why YNaija.com is telling stories you don’t hear about – from across Nigeria

This morning, we begin a story series on YNaija.com called ‘We Survived Boko Haram’. Over the past month, we have sent a reporter to the North-East of Nigeria to tell stories you don’t usually read, or hear – in between the din of breaking news, news as porn, and then as commodity. This reporter went... Read More
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September 1, 2016

#30Days30Voices: ‘People are hungry but ….’ | Man assesses the Buhari administration

With the critical Forex situation, crashing oil prices and the volatile situation of the economy, there appears to be a sense of frustration from Nigerians about the change the present administration led by President Buhari, promised. Nigerians are beginning to get uneasy as they feel the government has still not fulfilled its set of promises... Read More
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August 31, 2016

#30Days30Voices: I think he can do better | Lagosian scores Ambode

Accountability in government is highly essential and citizens are the unofficial monitor of the government, often measuring the progress of a particular administration and also calling for redress of a particular issue. On today’s #30Days30Voices, we took to the streets of Lagos to find out from a citizen what he thinks about the government of... Read More
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August 21, 2016

From Rio to Manilla, here are the top 10 photos from the past week

From the victors at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio De Janeiro to the heavy monsoon rains in Manilla that have had a cataclysmic effect on the populace, here are the top 10 photos of the past week from around the world. Here’s for you Nigeria – John Mikel Obi celebrates as the Nigeria Dream Team VI... Read More
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April 27, 2014

Sonala Olumhense: How Nigeria defines citizenship

by Sonala Olumhense Predictably, when Mr.  Jonathan’s meeting was over last Thursday, the government vowed to find the girls, as if it took an unwieldy meeting of dignitaries in Abuja to prepare a vow.  By the time you read this, the 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity would have been rescued. I do not... Read More
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July 21, 2013

Egghead Odewale: Child marriage – Let’s elevate this discussion

by Egghead Odewale I dare say that in the face of the multitudes of adversity confronting Nigerians daily and the pervasive discontent within the polity, a good number of Nigerians, given the free chance, would renounce their citizenship well ahead of this age whether or not it is a wise decision to make. Senator Ike... Read More
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July 20, 2013

Myne Whitman: Child marriage – Where we ALL got it wrong!

by Myne Whitman It is said that a large number of Nigerians don’t really know the law or their rights, and I think the lawmakers fall into this category. Those who pushed to delete section 29(4)(b) did it on the grounds that it infringes the right of a child by allowing early marriage but I think otherwise.  If... Read More
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June 19, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Citizenship participation is a necessity in the fight against corruption (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa  Corruption will continue to grow in size and effect as long as citizens remain detached from fighting it. I am a believer in the power of technology as a tool to fight corruption. Corruption has been with Nigeria for a long time but some would argue it has never been this daring.... Read More
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March 13, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: #OccupyNigeria – Fueling the Nigerian awakening for active citizenship (Y! FrontPage)

We cannot continue to throw our empty bowls before the West and expect that we will attain prosperity on their charity. We must endure the pain and pleasure of earning our own wealth and prosperity, and enjoy the fruits of our own labour. #OccupyNigeria: Fueling the Nigerian Awakening for Active Citizenship As presented at Free... Read More
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