In a swift response to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the country’s leading newspaper, Daily Trust, has addressed the controversy surrounding its cover page story published on Thursday, June 1, 2023. The newspaper had reported on the devaluation of the Nigerian Naira by the apex bank, highlighting the shift from N461.6 to N631 against... Read More

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Daily Trust, devaluation of the Naira

December 12, 2020

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Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah dies at 58

Media mogul, serial entepreneur and politician, Sam Nda-Isiah, is dead. According to a statement by the family confirming his demise, the 58-year-old pharmacist passed on in Abuja, late Friday, after a brief illness. “We are deeply saddened to announce the news of the passing of the chairman of LEADERSHIP Group/National Economy, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah.“He died... Read More

Blogs

Daily Trust, Leadership Newspaper Group, Leadership Newspapers, ll Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, Sam Nda-Isaiah

August 26, 2020

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The FFK ‘Short Circuit’ may not be a one-off afterall | The #YNaijaCover

Critic and former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has come under heavy criticism by Nigerians including the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Rights Organisation, Amnesty International and after a viral video showed him verbally assault a Daily Times journalist, Eyo Charles, asking to know who was ‘bankrolling’ his recent tour of states during a recent... Read More

Cover Stories, Satire

Daily Trust, Eyo Charles, Femi Fani-Kayode, FFK

August 12, 2020

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The YNaija Rankings: Top News Web Platforms (January – June)

News outlets are continually engaging in the never-ending struggle of breaking the news first, creating the best content, and attracting the most extensive viewership. There are a plethora of news media platforms in the vast Nigerian online content ecosystem. From the churn, YNaija has collated two separate rankings of the top 10 news media web... Read More

Rankings

channels tv, Daily Post, Daily Trust, guardian, Legit News, nation, pm news, Premium Times, punch, Sahara Reporters, The Cable, Vanguard

January 8, 2019

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The Late 5: Don’t re-elect governors who failed to pay salaries, Buhari tells Nigerians; PDP suspends its Deputy Chairman Babayo over anti-party activity | Other top stories

Here are the stories that drove conversations today Don’t re-elect governors who failed to pay salaries, Buhari tells Nigerians Speaking to the Hausa service of the Voice of America which was aired Tuesday morning, President Buhari called on Nigerians not to re-elect governors who failed in their first terms, especially those who failed to pay civil servants... Read More

Featured, The News Blog

Daily Trust, Gamawa Babayo, International Press Institute, Nigerian Air Force, World Bank Group president

May 16, 2017

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Reuben Abati: The First Class degrees galore

by Reuben Abati The Daily Trust newspaper has published an interesting feature story (May 15), on the sudden surge in the number of First Class degrees being churned out by Nigerian universities. Daily Trust reports that its investigation reveals that in the last five years, 16 Nigerian universities have produced a total of 3, 499... Read More

Opinion

Daily Trust, education, First Class degrees, nigeria, opinion, reuben abati

April 10, 2017

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[The Legislative Blog]: “The Customs boss uniform issue is unimportant” | 7 things we learnt from Bukola Saraki’s interview

Senate President Bukola Saraki recently spoke to Daily Trust Newspaper in an exclusive interview and he touched on some of the issues that are currently trailing his position and the Senate as a whole. From the Senate’s rift with the Executive to the Customs duty controversy, his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, the... Read More

The Legislative Blog

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August 1, 2013

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Alkasim Abdulkadir: Gov. Wamakko’s great wall of Sokoto (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir These funds can be spent in the re-channelisation of the water ways, building of higher embankments and aqueducts to also aid in irrigation farming. One of the most important phrases unifying modern states was the statement made by President Ronald Reagan in a speech to the then Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev... Read More

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August 1, 2012

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Above the law: We are not bound by the FOI Act, says NNPC

by Stanley Azuakola One of the frustrations of ordinary Nigerians is the feeling that some people are above the law. Despite the words of assurances from various governments, the evidence on ground points to the fact that members of the elite select the laws to obey. Still, it is uncommon to hear them openly voice... Read More

Daily Trust, Freedom of Information, nnpc, recruitment exercise