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#NationalRedLine: How far did Buhari go in crossing it?

by Alexander O. Onukwue In the second paragraph of the address made by President Muhammadu Buhari to the nation, he said the following: “I was distressed to notice that some…

April 29, 2013

Debo Adejugbe: There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Corruption is now a staple in our homes. Tribalism -acknowledged or not- is now a seam in our national fabric. I finally read Chinua Achebe’s “There Was…

December 31, 2012

Professor strips naked in class, the Ojukwu tribute, our very own Hauwa Gambo… See the Top 10 YNaija stories of 2012!

Folorunsho Alakija by Isi Esene We brought our readers a whole bunch of topical stories in 2012. That's why it's quite difficult choosing the our top stories for the year.…

December 10, 2012

Tolu Ogunlesi: May things continue to fall apart in Nigeria (YNaija FrontPage)

They buy jets and fund projects from the sweat of the bottom-billion, who know that one day Jehovah Lojiji, the God of Suddenly, will make an Expressway where bushpaths used…

December 10, 2012

Opinion: Biafra and the Up-NEPA generation

by Hounge We should learn to tolerate each other and stand firm as one, just like we did during Occupy Nigeria. A crisis created by the ego trip of men…

December 9, 2012

Report: The secret life of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu’s love-child, Tenny Hamman

by Isi Esene Nigerian Civil War rebel leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu recently shocked many even in death when it was revealed in his will that he had a love-child - Tenny…

December 9, 2012

Igbos are their own enemies – Ayo Adebanjo

A close associate of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Ayo Adebanjo in his interview with ALLWELL OKPI, refutes the claims of Chinua Achebe in his recent memoir. He speaks of…

December 4, 2012

Nigerians only have sex, and more in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

It is no surprise then that despite all the noise about Vision 20-20-20, our real economy is simply not growing. One thing that I will have to give to our…

December 4, 2012

The Ojukwu Wars: Bianca cannot be a director of OTL – Transport firm insists

by Isi Esene A director of the Ojukwu Transport Company Limited, Ifeukwu Ojukwu, has stated that Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of the late Biafran warlord, Emeka Ojukwu does not have…

December 3, 2012

Up NEPA! and some hot gist – in today’s news round-up by Cheta Nwanze

Life, that thing which all of us possess, and can be snuffed out in an instant as has become a Sunday-Sunday ritual in parts of the country north of the…

December 3, 2012

My father’s love child was a “hidden agenda” for the North – Debe, Ojukwu’s first son

by Isi Esene Late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu's first son, Debe, has revealed that Tenny Harman whose name was mentioned in his Will among the inheritors of his property is his father's…

December 2, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Beyond sacking civil servants

...we cannot be building a new Presidential Banquet Hall at over N2 billion and be complaining about “no money”. A few years back when I was in the UK, my…

November 27, 2012

Adewale Sogunro reviews Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’

by Adewale Sogunro Chinua Achebe I was hoping that he would look beyond the ethnic divisions, while rendering language to heal the wounds between ethnic groups in Nigeria from the…

November 17, 2012

Ken Wiwa reviews Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’

by Ken Wiwa "...I had to be careful about the way I handled someone else’s words or opinions… Even when there was strong disagreement, one had to remember to be…

October 28, 2012

Gowon on Achebe, “He is talking from a position of ignorance”

by Isi Esene Nigeria's Civil War president, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd.), has hit renowned writer, Chinua Achebe, very hard over the content of his recently released book on the Nigerian…

October 7, 2012

Saro-Wiwa reviews Achebe’s “There was a Country”

by Noo Saro-Wiwa But many Nigerians resented it, and Achebe admits that the Igbo could be cocky, brash and materialistic, though he rejects the popular suspicion that there was a…

August 31, 2012

I will deliver on my election promises in 2013 – President Jonathan

by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan called on Nigerians to be patient with his administration promising to deliver on his promises before the end of his tenure. He said this,…

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