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Omoleye Omoruyi July 31, 2020

Adebo Ogundoyin, Israel Adesanya, Sugabelly…Here’s the #YNaijaPowerList2020 for Politics, Sports and Culture

Editor’s 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…

Editor May 18, 2018

Chioma Chuka wants to know if we are prepared for the 2019 elections. Are you?

The Future Project's National Symposium for Young and Emerging leaders is just 10 days away and as this year's symposium leads into an election year, there is an urgency in…

Omoleye Omoruyi January 31, 2018

Today’s Noisemakers: Hamzat Lawal, Korede Bello, Aisha Yesufu, others

Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters,…

Editor January 3, 2018

Chimamanda Adichie, Banky W, Toke Ibru, others make YNaija inaugural #Woke100 List

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…

Op-ed Editor January 9, 2017

Hamzat Lawal: Code and the politics of ‘us’ versus ‘them’

by Hamzat Lawal “If you ever think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito!” – Wendy Lesko, Executive Director, Youth Activism…

Op-ed Editor December 20, 2016

Open letter to Mrs Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment

by Hamzat Lawal Dear Honourable Minister, I wish to use this medium to congratulate you on your appointment as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is an…

Op-ed Editor November 25, 2016

Hamzat Lawal: The dilemma of trading places

by Hamzat Lawal “Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our…

October 14, 2013

Opinion: Young people and climate change in Nigeria

by Hamzat Lawal As the next COP meeting scheduled to hold in Warsaw in November is weeks away, we as young people wonder what is Nigeria’s negotiating position to this…

September 18, 2013

Opinion: #SaveBagega – The winding road to tracking government spending

by Oludotun Babayemi In the dry season of 2010, an unprecedented epidemic of lead poisoning was discovered in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. More than 2,000 children were severely poisoned and…

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