The victimisation of the Nigerian youth within Nigeria can make up an entire thesis in itself. From the profiling of any young person confident enough to be expressive to the absence of young people in positions of power, to high levels of unemployment in the country, young Nigerians can’t seem to catch a break. To... Read More

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December 28, 2018

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Abba Makama’s ‘Green White Green’ has now been added to the Harvard University Student Library

Abba Makama’s feature film Green White Green has now been successfully catalogued into the Harvard University Student Library, under the cinema of sub Saharan Africa. Nollywood to the world! That said, the 2016 comedy is heavy for its symbolism of national unity of the major ethnic groups. Its patently patriotic title aside, the movie is... Read More

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August 18, 2017

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Ahmed Alimi wins 7Up Harvard Business School Scholarship

Ahmed Alimi has been unveiled as the latest winner of the 7UP Harvard Business Scholarship, an Initiative of 7Up Bottling Company Plc which was started in the year 2010. A UNILAG Alumnus, Alimi will be adding a Harvard education to a list of achievements which include founding an NGO focused on mentoring young people at... Read More

Entertainment Roundup: Beef is over! Falz and 9ice have lunch together (WATCH), Akon signs Samklef to his record label | More stories

Happy July 4th, guys! Here are the biggest stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing on Entertainment Roundup this morning. Look who Akon just signed on to his record label… It’s Samklef! The music producer responsible for some of the biggest hits in Wizkid and Olamide‘s years... Read More

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June 6, 2017

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Harvard withdraws students admissions over offensive memes on Facebook

At least ten students have reportedly lost the opportunity of attending Harvard College after posting “obscene memes” to a private Facebook chat, the main Harvard student newspaper says. The memes shared as part of a private Facebook chat, included jokes about paedophilia, child abuse, sexual assault, and the Holocaust. Two of the incoming students agreed with... Read More

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May 21, 2017

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Harvard student, Obasi Shaw, submits rap album as final year thesis

by Omoleye Omoruyi A Harvard student, Obasi Shaw, has become the first in the history of the university to submit a rap album for his thesis. Shaw, who will graduate from the university next week, produced his album, Liminal Minds, while his mates worked on novels, poems, and short stories. The 10-track album is inspired by Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales with the current race... Read More

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April 10, 2017

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Harvard students launch 4-week course on Trump resistance

by Itunuoluwa Adebo Students at Harvard on Wednesday, resumed the first day of Resistance School , a 4-week course in anti-Trump activism created by progressive students at the university’s Kennedy School of Government. Through four in-person and live-streamed sessions, followed by interactive homework assignments, organizers of the program say they hope to train activists “to... Read More

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April 5, 2017

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Nigerian-born teenager, Ifeoma White-Thorpe gets accepted into 8 Ivy league schools

by Dolapo Adelana Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a Nigerian-born teenager schooling in New Jersey has been accepted into eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Ifeoma, 17, White-Thorpe, a senior and student government president at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, was accepted by Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown. The teenager... Read More

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February 4, 2017

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Who is ImeIme Umana? | The first black woman President of the Harvard Law Review

Former US president, Barack Obama made history as the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. 27 years later, ImeIme Umana makes history as the first FEMALE black president of the Harvard Law Review. At a time when women’s voices are increasingly getting louder in most parts of the society, this spells... Read More

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Soyinka wants to draw blood with the nastiest book he's ever written | YNaija.com

May 6, 2015

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#EmpiricalEvidence: Twitter Reacts to Soyinka’s Outburst

by Clifford Orji Excerpts from Wole Soyinka’s recent lecture, “Predicting Nigeria? Electoral Ironies”, at Harvard have finally trickled down to the Nigerian media and given its polarizing content, #NigerianTwitter hasn’t taken too kindly to it. The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will... Read More

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October 29, 2014

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@1amazingtoyin: It is time to say goodbye to Former President Goodluck Jonathan

by Toyin Dawodu Americans have a saying: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” That saying is absolutely true. Research teams at both Harvard University and MIT confirm humans automatically make snap judgements about others within three seconds of meeting them. We judge not only their level of danger and friendliness,... Read More

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August 29, 2013

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Opinion: As UI School of Business debuts

by Sunday Saanu Indeed, the new School of Business offers opportunities in academic and professional Masters of Business Administrations for both full-time and part-time MBA candidates. It also offers short-term certificate courses as well as specific courses that meet special needs within the private and public sectors. University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria’s Premier University is... Read More

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July 24, 2013

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$1 billion! 90,000 sq.ft! Tens of thousands of dollars! YNaija Investigates Jumia vs Konga (Conclusion)

by Adegoke Oyeniyi, for YNaija On the first anniversaries of Nigeria’s leading (and feverishly competing) e-commerce companies, we go beyond the deluge of Google and Facebook adverts, and look at the character, future and people behind these attractive brands [READ: Jumia vs Konga – Who is winning the war? YNaija Investigates the numbers, the hype,... Read More

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July 24, 2013

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Jumia vs Konga – Who is winning the war? YNaija Investigates the numbers, the hype, and the CEOs

by Adegoke Oyeniyi, for YNaija On the first anniversaries of Nigeria’s leading (and feverishly competing) e-commerce companies, we go beyond the deluge of Google and Facebook adverts, and look at the character, future and people behind these attractive brands On 17 June this year, Jumia Nigeria announced its first anniversary – reeling out plans to... Read More

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June 1, 2013

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Media mogul, Oprah Winfrey faces lawsuit over her use of trademarked phrase, ‘Own your power’

Reuters photo. Oprah Winfrey delivers a commencement address at Harvard. Oprah Winfrey must face the music in court for her use of the phrase “Own your power.” Oprah Winfrey will have to defend her use of the phrase “Own your power” in her magazine and on her website, a U.S. appeals court said Friday.Overturning... Read More

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December 19, 2012

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Revealed: Sir Alex Ferguson teaches Harvard academics how he became the most successful manager in British football history

Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed for the first time the secrets of how he became the most successful manager in British football history. The Manchester United manager opened up and provided a fascinating insight into his 26-year career at Old Trafford. Ferguson, who will be 71 on New Year’s Eve, collaborated with academics at the... Read More

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October 27, 2012

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Opinion: Did Harvard really reject Jay-Z as a business role model? I sincerely hope not

by Dr. Boyce Watkins Another thing that most business school faculty don’t understand is struggle. Most of the faculty at Harvard University or any other business school would not have been able to start where Jay-Z began and make it to adulthood as a healthy individual who wasn’t either dead or in jail. Maria Lloyd... Read More

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September 8, 2012

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Opinion: An inside look at Harvard’s cheating scandal

by Eric Kester We are a society obsessed with success. We don’t like to admit it, but success often trumps character today. Yes, Zuckerberg may be arrogant and his IPO flopped. But he was Man of the Year, and we want to be him, or something like him. I am a recent Harvard grad who... Read More

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July 2, 2012

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Tolu Ogunlesi: “Simply and squarely a failure of …” (YNaija FrontPage)

It has been three decades since that Chinua Achebe’s ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’ appeared. That is the book in which Mr. Chinua Achebe, stumped by the state of his country, declares: “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.” Today, disagreeing with that line has since become a mini-industry of its... Read More

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Harvard withdraws students admissions over offensive memes on Facebook

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Harvard students launch 4-week course on Trump resistance

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@1amazingtoyin: It is time to say goodbye to Former President Goodluck Jonathan

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Opinion: An inside look at Harvard’s cheating scandal

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