Fisayo Soyombo

December 23, 2024

Last year it was Rema, and this year Fisayo Soyombo is Chude Jideonwo’s Culture Icon for 2024

Filmmaker and host of the viral talk show #WithChude, Chude Jideonwo has announced his Culture Icon for 2024 – it’s award-winning investigative journalist and founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Fisayo Soyombo. Similar to the Person of the Year recognitions by media organisation, Jideonwo’s annual piece honours the one person in the culture who most signified what it meant to... Read More

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December 29, 2020

#YNaija2020Review: Chimamanda, Okonjo Iweala, Afrobeats to the world…10 Moments that made us proud this Year

Being Nigerian is hard enough. But these breakthroughs felt like collective wins and made it a little bit easier to believe in project Nigeria. Afrobeats to the World Nigerian music continued its quest for worldwide domination with wins erupting from several corners. Burna Boy scored a second straight Grammy nomination in the global music album... Read More

2020 Review, Lists, Rankings

#YNaija2020Review, 10 Moments that made us proud this Year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ezra Olubi, Fisayo Soyombo, Kiki Mordi, Olasunkanmi Opeifa, Olatunji Ololade, Oluwaseye Ogunsanya, Onyema Ogbuagu, Philip Obaji, Shola Akinlade, Taiwo Adebulu

November 18, 2020

Journalist, Fisayo Soyombo brings to light; terrible rot in Nigeria’s tertiary health facilities

It is becoming clearer by the day why the political class prefer to jet out to seek medical attention rather than make use of local healthcare facilities which they have left in a sorry state over the years. Just recently, investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo who has been at the forefront of exposing the rot in... Read More

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October 19, 2020

#EdoPrisonBreak: Hoodlums attack two Edo prisons, free inmates | #TheYNaijaCover

Protests have been ongoing in various parts of Nigeria for more than a week now. The demonstrations have shown to be peaceful and non-violent then all of a sudden reports began to tell a different story. Unnamed individuals appeared to cause mayhem; attacking the protesters and killing scores. On Monday, it got worse. News reports... Read More

‘The more dysfunctional a system is, the more the need for intentional journalism’ | Hot takes from #ThursdayTalks

“The job of a journalist is to hold people in power responsible; to hold a mirror to society,” Kadaria Ahmed’s words warmed the audience into a truly riveting, educational and entertaining July edition of Thursday Talks. This edition was tagged Journalists and Social Change, moderated by Fisayo Soyombo, featuring two other distinguished journalists and editors;... Read More

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Fu’ad Lawal, Fisayo Soyombo, Wana Udobang…Here’s the #YNaijaPowerList2020 for Media

Editors Note: A young-world revolution is unfolding before our eyes, rupturing the idea that only experience can change the world. Increasingly, young people are participating actively in all aspects of human life, and changing the way we think, look and do what we do. At YNaija, we know these stars from across Nigeria – the... Read More

#YNaijaPowerlIst, Rankings, The Media Blog

#YNaijaPowerList, Didi Akinyelure, Edirin Edewor, Fisayo Soyombo, Fuad Lawal, Idia Aisien, Joey Akan, Laylah Ali Othman, Olutimehin Adegbeye, Shola Lawal, Timilehin Bello, Wana Udobang, YNaija Powerlist 2020

Kiki Mordi

January 21, 2020

More wins for @KikiMordi as she & Fisayo Soyombo receive the 2019 PJP Awards

As with many media based professions, journalists often have to deal with the misconception that they suddenly achieved fame. In reality, years of grueling groundwork paves the path for a journalist to find an execute the career affirming work that leads to public recognition and global recognition. 2019 was definitely that year for Kiki Mordi.... Read More

Fisayo Soyombo, Kiki Mordi

November 16, 2018

#YNaijaPowerList2018: Mercy Abang, Fisayo Soyombo, Instablog9ja… See the 10 most powerful young persons in the media space

For the seventh consecutive year, YNaija brings you its annual ranking of the most powerful young persons under the age of 40 who are getting things done in the media space. From investigative journalists telling the difficult stories, to entrepreneurs building potential media empires, these are the 10 that matter the most. Mercy Abang Mercy... Read More

#YNaijaPowerlIst, Featured

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Fisayo soyombo

The good and bad of Buhari’s June 12 declaration

It took 25 years to happen — long enough for the dream to have evaporated — but Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola has finally taken his place in history as the number-one martyr of Nigerian democracy. Before now, six former leaders could have made it happen: Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru... Read More

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January 3, 2018

#YNaijaPowerList2017: Stephanie Busari, Uche Pedro, Fisayo Soyombo… See the most powerful young persons in the media space

In 2017, YNaija committed a big part of its time and resources towards carefully documenting the big stories happening in the country and on the continent and highlighting the efforts of young Nigerians and Africans challenging the tired narratives around the continent through personal achievement and social good. Sometimes these stories are forgotten, buried under... Read More

#YNaijaPowerlIst, Featured

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Fisayo soyombo

December 19, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: Is this $1bn fund to fight the “technically defeated” Boko Haram really just for Christmas?

There is something inherently unsettling about the 12 to 18 months preceding an election year, particularly when a sitting president is seeking re-election. It is a period of sure governance missteps. It is the period when even the strongest leaders slacken their political will and allow politics rather than governance dominate their decision-making. It is... Read More

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December 4, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: Will PDP squander its golden chance to become Nigeria’s ‘necessary evil’?

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo We know already that life is filled with ironies, but no one would have imagined that the most important elective convention in the life of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would coincide with the International Anti-Corruption Day. PDP and anti-corruption are like daylight and night-time; ordinarily, their paths should never interweave. Without... Read More

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November 20, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: What is the worth of a Nigerian migrant’s life?

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo In April, a former Nigerian public official lost his daughter under questionable circumstances. The young lady’s death was avoidable, and who knows, maybe her spirit is already haunting a UK hospital and another one in Nigeria. A hospital in Birmingham misdiagnosed her condition; the one in Nigeria performed surgery on her... Read More

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November 13, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: El-Rufai and Shehu Sani’s feud is our problem too. Here is why

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo For as long as one is the Governor of Kaduna State and the other is obsessed with unseating him, Nasir el-Rufai and Shehu Sani will never see a coin from the same side. No, scratch that. So long el-Rufai sees a coin form a certain side, Sani can never see it... Read More

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October 30, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: The men who shouldn’t be in Buhari’s government

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo This piece is laden with unsolicited advice. It ordinarily should not have been written, but for recent evidence that the quality of advice available to President Muhammadu Buhari is questionable. Friends of people in power often speak in hushed tones about how the President never listens, about how difficult it is... Read More

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Maina

October 23, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: What the return of wanted ex-Pension boss, Abdulrasheed Maina says about Buhari

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo Abdulrasheed Maina cannot hide forever. Neither he nor the people who helped him circumvent justice in 2013 gave this a thought when he escaped to Dubai. But as he must have found out already, retreating from justice is big damage to self rather than the law; and no matter the wealth... Read More

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October 9, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: Paul Le Guen, Gernot Rohr and Super Eagles World Cup qualification without the calculator

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo At the blast of the referee’s final whistle on Saturday, some half-a-dozen Super Eagles players were spotted locked in an embrace with Gernot Rohr, their coach. Afterwards, they grabbed the fragile German, threw him up, and caught him mid-air. Over and over they repeated the process to the adulation of fans at... Read More

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Opinion: Is Nigeria on the brink of another civil war?

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo On August 1, 1966, after the collapse of last-ditch attempts by Nigeria’s power brokers to prevent the impending Civil War, Lieutenant-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, the man who would later declare Biafra a secessionist state, said only one thing would make the rebels cease fire: “that the Republic of Nigeria be split into its... Read More

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October 23, 2013

Opinion: ASUU, FG stalemate – It’s like the pretender fighting the deceiver

by Fisayo Soyombo More than three years into the Presidency of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, I am still unconvinced that he is the man. At his last media chat, for example, his responses on the state of tertiary education and the whereabouts of wanted terrorist Abubakar Shekau betrayed his underwhelming understanding of a country he ought... Read More

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