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Chude Jideonwo: Why DJ Switch is the Culture Icon of 2020
I cannot forget that evening in October when a dear friend rushed into the room to show me the video of DJ Switch (Obianuju Catherine Udeh) who had turned on…
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#YNaijaEssays: Grief and tragedy are a constant in Nigeria, but how does it change us as people?
The past week was both unpleasant and horribly depressing for Nigerians. On Saturday the 23rd of May, 86 indigenes of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area according to police reports -…
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[The Injustice Blog] Why History must return to our schools
Nigeria is rife with misinformation. It is the very lifeblood of our political class, the primary way with which they have been able to navigate our nationhood especially since the…
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[The Injustice Blog] Ken Saro-Wiwa, House of Representatives and its lack of moral courage
Nigeria's National Assembly has been on the receiving end of accusations of incompetence over the years thanks to the many internal and external scandals that members of the assembly have…
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[The Injustice Blog] 22 years after the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa, a sad reflection on the state of Niger-delta
November 10, 1995 the Military junta under the leadership of the late dictator General Sani Abacha executed the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa prize for book review calls for entries
In continuation of a legacy project that the Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, promoters of the annual Lagos Book & Art Festival , LABAF, launched in 2015, we hereby call…
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BLOOD MONEY XV : The River is a Desert
Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger…
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The YNaija Tracklist: Power sector debts hit N809bn | How robbers killed Mimiko’s CSO | PDP congratulates new Oba of Benin |
From the papers this morning - a Tracklist. I used 15 years to save frozen $15m – Patience Jonathan - YNaija "It's a plot to destroy me politically", Amaechi replies Justice…
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You played a major role in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death, Avengers tell Buhari
Militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) says President Muhammadu Buhari should quit celebrating the Ogoni clean-up programme as he played a major role in the problem facing the community.…
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The Film Blog: We want to remember Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr for ‘Nowhere to run’
A number of people have tweeted tributes to the amazing Ken Saro-Wiwa, who no one has a nasty word to say about. There is nothing more to add, really. Except…
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3 things you should know about the man Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr
His father will never be forgotten - Ken Saro-Wiwa. A name never to be missed out in Nigeria's history. Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been reported dead after suffering a stroke on…
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#ForTheRecord: My father may not have died in vain | Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr on justice for the people of Ogoni
by Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria. When the…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa’s son dies at 47
Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr, Son of famous Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is dead. According to SaharaReporters, Saro-Wiwa suffered a stroke and died in a London on Tuesday morning. Saro-Wiwa Jr was was…
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Dele Momodu: Another homecoming to Nairobi Kenya
Fellow Africans, to say I love Africa is an understatement. It baffles me how most Africans hardly know Africa outside their individual domain. The owners of Africa hardly appreciate the…
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Police brutality: Like America, like Nigeria
by Joachim MacEbong Thanks once again to social media, the world has had yet another opportunity to see the brutality of America’s police force against black males. This morning, it was…
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Opinion: Nigerians want to see the real change
by Ray Ekpu Before July 23, 2014, Muhammadu Buhari thought the Boko Haram insurgents were a bunch of near-harmless agitators calling for the killing of Western education in Northern Nigeria.…
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How Abacha betrayed Nelson Mandela
Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, who served as president after Nelson Mandela, has recounted how former Nigerian Head of State and Dictator, General Sani Abacha, betrayed him, his country…
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20 years after, we remember 10 things about Ken Saro-Wiwa
by Adebayo Emuleomo Today we remember one of our own, a true hero, the definition of a selfless activist, a patriot by all standards and a Nigerian who died 20…
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Opinion: Today, Ogoni remembers the dead and the atrocities on our land
10th November 1995, that was the day Abacha’s henchmen went to work on 9 Ogoni sons; Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel,…
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Gov Wike renames Rivers Polytechnic after Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers state has renamed the State Polytechnic, in Bori, after late author and environmental rights activist from Ogoniland, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Wike explained that the institution…
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Okechukwu Ofili: Nigeria – Our history of forgetting history
by Ikechukwu Ofili Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter - Chinua Achebe The first time I heard about Biafra was…
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Opinion: Ogonis are the most exploited people on earth
by Saatah Nubari The Ogoni ethnic nationality have contributed approximately 30 billion dollars... All they can boast of is the murder of their son Ken Saro Wiwa by the Abacha regime…
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Tony Afejuku: Questions I wanted to ask Chinua Achebe
by Prof Tony Afejuku How did he take the pathetic death of Ken Saro-Wiwa? Why did he not, as our leading writer in the United States, lead an international…
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Dele Momodu: Special tribute to our freedom fighters
by Dele Momodu From one crisis to another, we trudged on and foolishly imagined that each one brought us closer to our destination and liberation. Little did we envisage that…
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“They should be shown no sympathy” – Memo of Abacha approving execution of Saro-Wiwa [DETAILS]
by Isi Esene The death of writer and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and others who were killed in 1995 under the military regime of General Sani Abacha has continued to…
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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…
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