The Thread: “See who’s talking about corruption” “How many private jets do you have?” | GEJites clap back at Tinubu

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos state and godfather to our Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, had stinging words for Goodluck Jonathan at a book launch in Aso Rock recently. He said: “One minister and her rogues’ gallery picked the pocket of this nation for billions of dollars. While poor at governance, these people could... Read More

Opinion

GEJ, nigeria, Politics, The Thread, Tinubu

November 9, 2017

The Thread: President Buhari just repeated the same mistake GEJ made

BBOG activist, Oby Ezekwesili has served President Buhari another dose of bitter truth: his administration is just as bad as that of Jonathan. You will recall that in the early days of the Chibok Girls kidnap, then President Goodluck Jonathan spent some time dilly-dallying, calling the kidnap something orchestrated by his detractors. Also, many felt... Read More

Opinion

Buhari, Chibok girls, GEJ, Migration, Oby Ezekwesili, The Thread, trafficking

November 2, 2017

Opinion: Dasuki’s memory loss — A $2.1 billion fraud charge can do that to you

by Fredrick Nwabufo Before I go into the meat of this article, let me state this for the purpose of record. The case of Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), will become one of Nigeria’s unsolved mysteries. His trial will become a poltergeist of how power is exacted for submission and not for justice.... Read More

Opinion

corruption, dasuki, EFCC, GEJ, nigeria, opinion, Politics

May 22, 2017

Peregrino Brimah: Right of reply | Evidence that GEJ recovered most towns from Boko Haram before Buhari

by Peregrino Brimah In an attempted rebuttal of my recent article, “Jonathan defeated Boko Haram while Buhari mopped up,” a certain “Anthony Kolawole,” wrote the article captioned “Boko Haram: Of sugar coated lies and poisonous potions” which has unusually successfully appeared in Nigeria’s top mainstream dailies including the Vanguard and TheNation. In this piece, I attempt to further the... Read More

Opinion

boko haram, Chibok girls, GEJ, nigeria, opinion, Peregrino Brimah, terrorism

May 13, 2017

The Thread: IBB shuts down Minna like he did in Lagos, 1989 [PHOTOS]

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida gave out his daughter, Halima Babangida in marriage to Auwal Abdullahi, a businessman, at the Hilltop mansion in Minna yesterday. The event was quite the crowd puller. ThisDay captioned it “10 Hours of Laughter, 10000 VVIPs, 35 Private Jets, Tons of Bi-partisan Goodwill in Minna”. The operative words are bi-partisan goodwill,... Read More

Opinion

Auwal Abdullahi, GEJ, halima babangida, IBB, Ibrahim Babangida, nigerian weddings, Political weddings, The Thread

April 14, 2017

Insiders: The Malabu figures are lies only to be taken seriously by illiterates

The Malabu oil scandal has pitched the Insiders into two camps of those that are for investigations and those that just see this as another media trial and propaganda. “The Malabu oil issue is just one of the numerous items in the coolers of the current government to agitate the public and distract Nigerians. When... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

diezani, Diezani Alison Madueke, GEJ, Goodluck Jonathan, Insiders, malabu oil

April 12, 2017

The Thread: Was the Malabu oil well actually sold for the right amount?

Social media has experienced a bit of an uproar today over new revelations about the Malabu oil deal. President Goodluck Jonathan and Etete have been taking hits for being ‘fantastically corrupt’. Arguments have raged over the fraudulence of selling off a 500BN oil well for a paltry sum of 1.3 BN. Figures are all in dollars.... Read More

Opinion

corruption, Etete, GEJ, Malabu, Malabu Scandal, Shell Oil, The Thread

April 12, 2017

EXPLAINER: What exactly is the Malabu Oil controversy and how did it come to be?

The Malabu Oil controversy is not exactly breaking news as it has raged on and off for more than a decade. But from time to time, a new piece of information regarding it is made public and it resurrects the issue, the latest being the accusation by one of the parties involved that former President... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

diezani, GEJ, Goodluck Jonathan, Malabu

April 12, 2017

The Thread: Will Goodluck Jonathan walk free despite alleged coordinated looting in Malabu deal?

After major oil corruption scam involving former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Etete and other members who were in the higher echelons of power has been exposed by foreign media, do PDP wailers still believe Jonathan is a hero of anything? This and more, Ogbeni Dipo inquires after. Do see below: https://twitter.com/OgbeniDipo/status/852049894898638848 https://twitter.com/OgbeniDipo/status/852050371178639360 https://twitter.com/OgbeniDipo/status/852050998193467392 https://twitter.com/OgbeniDipo/status/852051325126934528 https://twitter.com/OgbeniDipo/status/852051778677952512... Read More

Opinion

corruption, GEJ, goodluck ebele jonathan, Malabu, nigeria, party politics, The Thread, wailing wailers

April 8, 2017

Opinion: 2017 UTME registration hitches validate Nigeria’s perpetual state of unpreparedness

by Abayomi G.Omotayo Nigeria: actually good people and supposedly great nation. This is a sufficiently apt slogan that we should adopt rather than the not-so-true ‘Nigeria: good people, great nation’ slogan that we have come to adopt. Why? Because great nations don’t unabatedly display unpreparedness. Every sphere of our lives is marred by this very... Read More

Opinion

GEJ, JAMB, nigeria, oil boom, opinion, Rio's disaster, shagari, Visionless leaders

April 6, 2017

Governor Yari’s excuse for meningitis, and 5 other times Nigerian politicians blamed God for their incompetence

by Tolu Omoyeni God will be sitting on his throne going about His business jeje and Nigerian politicians will just bring their loose mouths and drag the Almighty into matters that utterly do not concern Him. On Tuesday, Zamfara state’s Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar attributed the outbreak of Type C Cerebrospinal Meningitis in his state to... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

APC, David Mark, Doyin Okupe, GEJ, Gov. Yari, Ibrahim Shekarau, John Oyegun, Muhammadu Buhari, PDP

March 8, 2017

ANALYSIS: Between the Buhari administration and YouWIN

by Mark Amaza Yesterday, the Federal Government on Twitter announced plans to continue with the Youth Enterprise with Innovation (YouWIN!) program that was started by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. The scheme gave young people up to the age of 40 grants of between N1million to N10 million to start or expand their businesses,... Read More

Thinking Through

Buhari, GEJ, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, youwin

February 8, 2017

The Thread: Are Goodluck Jonathan and President Buhari really the same?

As Twitter NG tries to navigate the events surrounding the Presidents health, folks on different sides of the divide are taking potshots at each other, particularly at those whom they feel are responsible for Nigeria’s current affairs because they brought PMB to power. Their new tagline, ‘I told you so’ seems to be the latest... Read More

Opinion

GEJ, nigeria, OBJ, pmb, Politics, The Thread, Twitter politicians

January 22, 2017

The Thread: Are President Buhari’s aides actively championing divisive politics?

We are in Trump era now, so really almost anything is permissible. Some say that Trump drove a wedge between the American people by the words he said on the campaign trail and tweeted. Others reckon he merely took advantage of the division that already existed and amplified it to his advantage. Bringing it... Read More

Opinion

Garba Shehu, GEJ, nigeria twitter, Politics, tolu ogunlesi

January 6, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: Don’t forget what GEJ did when he needed a Hail Mary

Welcome to 2017 and in a few months, the second year of President Buhari’s tenure as president will be gone. Save for a handful of projects and state governors who have impressed. The majority of the promises on which Buhari sailed to power have remained that, promises. The economy in the throes of Nigeria’s biggest... Read More

Thinking Through

Evil West, Gay Agenda, GEJ, Goodluck Jonathan, LGBT, Muhammadu Buhari, pmb, Religion, sticky, The Sexuality Blog, TIERs, TSB

October 26, 2016

Opinion: Unmasking Jonathan’s speech

by Anthony Ademiluyi The defeat of King Harold by the Norman William the Conqueror in the Battle of the Hastings in 1067 saw the ascent of French culture in England. French became the language of the court with the English language being reduced to the vernacular not to be spoken in public by the Nobles.... Read More

africa, donald trump, Fela Kuti, GEJ, goodluck ebele jonathan, nigeria, Oxford University, politicians, Youth entrepreneurship

October 26, 2016

We’re paying attention to Goodluck Jonathan’s new sense of style. What’s with the suits?

Yesterday, former President Goodluck Jonathan gave a speech at the Oxford Union of the University of Oxford, England with the theme: ‘promoting youth entrepreneurship’ and a number of Nigerians have found a few faults in his speech but that’s not even why we’re here. While critics were running through the length of his speech finding flaws, we... Read More

england, fashion, GEJ, Goodluck Jonathan, Oxford Union, president, suits

October 13, 2016

Opinion: Random thoughts on Ken Nnamani’s electoral reform committee

by Jideofor Adibe Early this month, the Buhari government, through the Attorney General of the Federal and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, inaugurated a 24-member committee on Constitution and Electoral Reform, which it called “Constitutional and Electoral Reforms Committee”. The Committee is headed by former Senate President Ken Nnamani. The AGF said he was “directed... Read More

Buhari, Confab, GEJ, Justice Uwais Committee, Ken Nnamani Committee, nigeria, PIB

September 7, 2016

Is Buhari handling #ChibokGirls issue like Jonathan did?

One of the most difficult responsibilities passed on to the Muhammadu Buhari administration from the tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan is to secure the release of over 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. A few of the girls have escaped in the last two years but majority are still missing and the... Read More

Featured, The News Blog

#BBOG, boko haram, campaign, Chibok girls, GEJ, insurgents, president buhari

September 6, 2016

Ayo Sogunro: On faith and the Nigerian experience

Chinua Achebe, in his classic analysis of Nigerian socio-politics, The Trouble With Nigeria, describes the Nigerians of the 1970s as having cargo cult mentality. This mentality, Achebe explains, is “a belief by backward people that someday, without any exertion whatsoever on their own part, a fairy ship will dock in their harbour laden with every... Read More

APC, Buhari, Faith, GEJ, PDP, Politics

August 27, 2016

5 things we learned from Shehu Sani’s tirade against Soludo

by Tolu Omoyeni Speaking at a lecture in Kaduna, former CBN governor, Prof. Charles Soludo condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s approach in tackling the economic crisis facing the country. In his speech, he recommended that the economy should restructured from consumption-driven to a production-based. He also said President Buhari was dealing with the “symptoms” of corruption... Read More

APC, Charles Soludo, economy, GEJ, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, nigeria, PDP, pmb, Politics, Shehu Sani

August 22, 2016

Opinion: Dele Momodu is 100 per cent wrong on Tinubu, PDP and 2019

by Fejiro Oliver If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing – David Douglass If there are ten men I hold in high esteem when it comes with the dribbling of the pen, it’s Dele Momodu. I grew up reading him and since I picked up the... Read More

APC, Buhari, Dele, facts, figures, GEJ, jonathan, Momodu, PDP, Tinubu

August 11, 2016

Audu Maikori: It is not enough to regret or gloat about Buhari, we need to act

by Audu Maikori I have been reading up on some staunch PMB supporters recanting and apologizing for supporting Buhari. I recall during the elections last year, people called me all sorts of names and labelled me anti-patriotic because of my post about why I would support Jonathan in 2015. For those who have forgotten here’s... Read More

Audu Maikori, Buhari, Change, GEJ, jonathan, pmb

August 10, 2016

Feyi Fawehinmi clarifies: There is nothing to apologize for in voting GEJ out

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. So let me try to clarify. With hindsight, they were 2 bad choices. Voting out GEJ was not a bad move at all. It was worth it if only to be able to do the same thing to Buhari later. For that, there is really nothing to apologise for. Nobody... Read More

APC, apologies, CBN, election, GEJ, Godwin Emefiele, Muhammadu Buhari, nigeria, Politics

July 9, 2016

Jude Ndukwe: Governor Shettima’s and the shameful IDP situation in Borno

The IDPs have been languishing from hunger and dying in droves while Nigerians out there have been made to believe all along that the victims were being taken good care of. At least, that was what the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima had made us believe until Nigerains came to know the truth. As... Read More

Borno, GEJ, government, hungers, IDP, jonathan, malnutritiion, Politics, Shettima

June 26, 2016

Fani-Kayode ‘attacked in EFCC custody for praying?’

Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode who is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was reportedly assaulted by on of the agents of the commission. According to several sources on social media, Fani-Kayode alongside other detainees were attacked by a certain Kabiru Suleiman from Kebbi state for praying while in custody.... Read More

The News Blog

aviation, Buhari, EFCC, fani-kayode, GEJ, jonathan, Magu, tyranny

June 7, 2016

Morning Devotion: GEJ in London, FG meddling in banks & lives lost at Elegushi

Joachim MacEbong discusses former president Goodluck Jonathan’s London engagement as well as the continuous retrenchment by banks despite FG’s warnings and also the sad new of two lives lost at Elegushi beach in Lagos. Take a listen. https://soundcloud.com/ynaijaonline/morning-devotion-episode-20

Featured, The News Blog

banks, Elegushi, FG, GEJ, joachim macebong, lives lost, morning devotion

June 2, 2016

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top 5 stories to monitor today 1) The return of Jonathan Former President, Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday evening returned to the country and was given a rousing welcome by supporters and family. He even got to have a Twitter trend, #GEJWhileYouWereAway 2) Buhari visits Rivers state President Muhammadu Buhari will today visit... Read More

The News Blog

army, Buhari, GEJ, jonathan, lai mohammed, militant, Ogoni, PDP BoT, wike

May 20, 2016

Buhari fires head of the Christian Pilgrims Commission who praised GEJ as “a man of wisdom”

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack of the executive secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), John Opara. This was disclosed today by Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation, in a statement. “His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has in the exercise of his powers, approved the disengagement of Mr. John... Read More

The News Blog

Babachir Lawal, Executive Secretary, GEJ, John Opara, Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, president, president buhari

The Thread: “See who’s talking about corruption” “How many private jets do you have?” | GEJites clap back at Tinubu

The Thread: President Buhari just repeated the same mistake GEJ made

Opinion: Dasuki’s memory loss — A $2.1 billion fraud charge can do that to you

Peregrino Brimah: Right of reply | Evidence that GEJ recovered most towns from Boko Haram before Buhari

The Thread: IBB shuts down Minna like he did in Lagos, 1989 [PHOTOS]

Insiders: The Malabu figures are lies only to be taken seriously by illiterates

The Thread: Was the Malabu oil well actually sold for the right amount?

EXPLAINER: What exactly is the Malabu Oil controversy and how did it come to be?

The Thread: Will Goodluck Jonathan walk free despite alleged coordinated looting in Malabu deal?

Opinion: 2017 UTME registration hitches validate Nigeria’s perpetual state of unpreparedness

Governor Yari’s excuse for meningitis, and 5 other times Nigerian politicians blamed God for their incompetence

The YNaija Cover this evening – the 25th of March

ANALYSIS: Between the Buhari administration and YouWIN

The Thread: Are Goodluck Jonathan and President Buhari really the same?

The Thread: Are President Buhari’s aides actively championing divisive politics?

The Sexuality Blog: Don’t forget what GEJ did when he needed a Hail Mary

Opinion: Unmasking Jonathan’s speech

We’re paying attention to Goodluck Jonathan’s new sense of style. What’s with the suits?

Opinion: Random thoughts on Ken Nnamani’s electoral reform committee

Is Buhari handling #ChibokGirls issue like Jonathan did?

Ayo Sogunro: On faith and the Nigerian experience

5 things we learned from Shehu Sani’s tirade against Soludo

Opinion: Dele Momodu is 100 per cent wrong on Tinubu, PDP and 2019

Audu Maikori: It is not enough to regret or gloat about Buhari, we need to act

Feyi Fawehinmi clarifies: There is nothing to apologize for in voting GEJ out

Jude Ndukwe: Governor Shettima’s and the shameful IDP situation in Borno

Fani-Kayode ‘attacked in EFCC custody for praying?’

Morning Devotion: GEJ in London, FG meddling in banks & lives lost at Elegushi

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

Buhari fires head of the Christian Pilgrims Commission who praised GEJ as “a man of wisdom”

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