10 Best Spots To Propose In Lagos

Love Chronicles: Dating in Lagos

Whether you’re meeting someone through a dating app, at a lively nightclub, at a friend of a friend’s party, or on your street, dating in this city is an experience that’s as exciting as it is complicated. The Journey of Modern Dating in Lagos Gone are the days of awkwardly passing notes or meeting someone... Read More

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Love, Media

10 Nollywood Romance Movies To Watch With Your Lover on Valentine's Day

February 13, 2025

10 Nollywood Romance Movies To Watch With Your Lover on Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to cuddle up with your significant other and enjoy a romantic movie. Nollywood has produced incredible love stories, from heartwarming dramas to passionate rom-coms. Whether you’re looking for something lighthearted, deeply emotional, or a mix of both, these Nollywood romance films will set the mood for your special night... Read More

The Film Blog

entertainment, Love, nollywood, Romance films

Places in Lagos to Propose to Your Lover

October 31, 2024

Places in Lagos to Propose to Your Lover

According to D’Banj, “Love is a beautiful thing” and must be treated as such, especially when looking for places in Lagos to propose to your lover. The idea of proposing to your lover is one that many have researched and pondered about since time immemorial as there are many things to consider when proposing. You... Read More

Lifestyle

events, Love, Places in Lagos to Propose to your lover, Proposals, wedding, wedding proposals

August 8, 2024

8 Ways To Get Over Your Heartbreak

Lately, something in the air has been putting what God joined together asunder. Heartbreak is a common phenomenon for all who have dared to share their feelings with someone else, and even the singletons are not immune to this (those with situationships must be shaking right now). Relationships are ending at almost every corner you... Read More

break up, healing, heartbreak, Love, Relationships, romance, Topics

November 8, 2023

Controversial Food Critic Opeyemi Famakin Advises Lovers on Marrying Within Their Class

Opeyemi Famakin, the self-acclaimed biggest food critic in Nigeria, took to social media to explain why people (men) should always marry within their class. In the trending video, he drew a scenario whereby, in a Nigerian home, if a father is suddenly financially unable to fend for his family, the entire family shuts down because... Read More

The Media Blog

Love, Marriage, Opeyemi Famakin, relationship

August 25, 2023

The Weekend Watchlist: Here are 6 movies/series you need to see this weekend

The weekend is underway, and in true Ynaija fashion, we are committed to helping you have the most relaxing time ever. So, again, we’ve done the work, compiled the movies, and given you a list that will keep your weekend fun, entertaining, and engaging. Our mantra is “no dull moment.” So, here are six movies... Read More

Blogs

Ahsoka, Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, Hulu, Invasion, Love, movies, netflix, Ragnarok season 3, series, Sex & 30 Candles, The Weekend Watchlist, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

February 9, 2023

Bill Gates finds love again just two years after his divorce

US business magnate and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has apparently found love again after being divorced for almost a year. The 67-year-old billionaire is reportedly in a relationship with Paula Hurd, the widow of Mark Hurd, the former co-CEO of Oracle, who passed away in 2019. Both Gates and Paula are rumored to have been... Read More

Blogs

bill gates, dating, divorce, Love, Mark Hurd, MElinda Gates, oracle, Paula Hurd, widow

August 21, 2021

#PrideMonth: Long distance Relationships as an Aesthetic of Queer Love

By Damilola Aremo A few months ago, someone had asked a question on Twitter. It was one of those question-type tweets that eventually go viral because their intention is to garner engagements by triggering responses from the readers, many of whom are eager to share about those experiences. I had seen it the first time... Read More

LGBT+, long distance relationship, Love, Queer Love

June 30, 2021

#PrideMonth: Long distance Relationships as an Aesthetic of Queer Love

LGBT+, long distance relationship, Love, Queer Love

June 30, 2021

#PrideMonth Special: True story of two men who thought they could love openly

By Omoleye Omoruyi “Ade! What are you saying? Tell me, what are you saying?” Ade’s mom shouted on top of her voice. She looked afraid and already had tears in her eyes. This was too much for Mama Ade, who is known to be conservative and religious. Two concepts that should not ordinarily be in... Read More

LGBT Pride, LGBT+, Love, Out and Proud

June 28, 2021

#PrideMonth: Love will liberate us

By Ado Aminu Aminu In exploring love, we often fixate unhealthily on one kind of love – romantic love. It is a fine thing no doubt, having someone to share the burden of existence while sharing as many pleasurable interludes as the two of you can indulge in, but however much momentarily satisfying this kind... Read More

LGBT+, LGBTQ Nigerians, Love, love always wins

June 17, 2021

#PrideMonth: Love is everything but love; a queer Muslim man’s experience with love

By Phaysal Phagge It is difficult to write about love when everything you know about it has been anything but, Harder still when you have reached a point of mental drain from yearning for the kind of love you know you deserve, and in that place of utter exhaustion, you have resolved that love is... Read More

humanity, islam, LGBT+, Love

March 24, 2021

3 LGBT+ Nigerians share the story of their gay awakening

“The onus shouldn’t be on queer people to come out,” said YNaija’s Bernard Dayo while responding to this piece we published last week, “the onus should be on cis-heterosexual people to interrogate heteronormativity – the belief that heterosexuality is the default or ‘normal’ sexual orientation.” It is the human thing to do certainly, but it... Read More

gay rights, Heteronormative, Heterosexuals, human rights, LGBTQ Nigerians, lifestyle, Love

February 15, 2021

Nigerian gay couple share how they spent Valentine’s Day

Public discourse about romance in Nigeria never goes beyond the socially acceptable love of cis-heterosexual (cis-het) Nigerians, and why not? Nigeria is still foot-dragging where it isn’t violently opposed to the notion of homosexual love. It is no accident that Nigeria is the number one most dangerous country in the world to be gay. For... Read More

gay lovers, Love, love and relationships, nigeria, relationship, romance, Valentine's, Valentine's stories

November 11, 2020

On the street of heartbreak | #TheYNaijaCover

As with all trends on social media, young Nigerians always have things to say. Experiences on heartbreaks and relationships fallouts dominated internet conversations, ranging from the mild to the deranged.

Cover Stories

heartbreak stories, Love

July 14, 2020

#YNaijaNonBinary: Death comes for everyone, love should too

The current world population as of July 2020 is 7.8 billion, and all 7.8 billion of us, are going to die. Whether we accept or reject it, we will all leave earth someday. We can eat healthy, exercise, take pills that have scientists have promised will make us live longer, and hopefully many of us will, but... Read More

#YNaijaNonBinary, Love, Non Binary Day, Queer

July 9, 2020

The NFVCB is obsessed with conformity and it is stifling the creativity of Nollywood

It is hard to understand what the motives of the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board are in its interactions with Nollywood, the country’s film and television industry. At some points, the NFVCB seems very supportive of the industry, creating initiatives like this one to help filmmakers finance their projects. Then they turn around and... Read More

The Media Blog

Ife, Love

December 22, 2017

The Thread: This is one love story with the saddest ending possible

Regardless of how Biafrans like to romanticize war, there’s nothing good about it: blood is spilt, generations are wiped out, hunger turns human beings into kwashiorkor patients, people are displaced, terror reigns, plans people had for their lives are upturned and love becomes a casualty. See below: So once upon a time… I move to... Read More

Gist

Germany, heartbreak, Love, refugees, relationship

December 11, 2017

The Thread: “Hey! Akara and bread girl” | This Nigerian Cinderella story will blow you away

We have to tell you straight up: we love love; so when we encounter stories where everything just falls into place just so, it thrills our heart. This real love story is so sweet, it will make you a believer in fairy tales, Cinderella and justice. Let’s not ramble, see below: Being romantic exhausts me.... Read More

Gist

A Cinderella story, Love, The Thread, True life stories

November 29, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] It is not Toke Makinwa’s job to make anybody’s daddy service his debts

If you’ve been following the entertainment and gossip blogs, then you’ll know Toke Makinwa is back in the news. This time around she is being accused of sleeping with a Nigerian billionaire, Festus Fadeyi and apparently ‘squandering’ money he borrowed for his company Pan Ocean Corporation from Skye Bank Nigeria. The gossip attributes her new... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Festus Fadeyi, Love, rape, The Sexuality Blog, toke makinwa

November 6, 2017

The Thread: How do you say “I love you” in your language? Here are 3 amazing ways

Language is such a beautiful thing, and love even more so, that the great Michael Jackson sang “love is magical”. So Twitter thought to share just how magical both can be. Cue Kush: https://twitter.com/keeperoftheday/status/925462401952112640 Soniya took it up a notch: https://twitter.com/Sonyeee07/status/926742379230502912 Then brought it crashing down because she was only clowning around. In spite of... Read More

language, Love, The Thread

October 28, 2017

The Thread: “Never be afraid of new beginnings” | How to fall in love again

??We’ve got the fever! December is around the corner, and for those in Naija, it’s prime wedding season. That means couples are either preparing to walk down the aisle and say their vows or hit each one of those part spots to hook themselves a significant other. Luck is in their favour. Cupid appears ready... Read More

commitment, Love, Marriage, relationship, The Thread

October 28, 2017

The Thread: “Twitter relationship standards and real life are miles apart”

It’s relationship Saturday, thanks to Cardi B who set the ball rollig with her surprise engagement to offset last night. Twitter has been buzzing about the couple since then, and we were gracious enough to capture all the hilarious, dare I say epic reactions to the event. “[In case you missed it]: ” A hood... Read More

Love, Marriage, relationship, The Thread

October 27, 2017

The Thread: Twitter Ladies are challenged to ask their crush on a date. The reactions are epic

Some days ago, we featured a lady in our Noisemakers piece who bragged about snagging herself a husband by “setting a trap” for him. Oloni decided to take further by asking ladies who are silent admirers to “shoot their shot” in the DMs. Unlike Banky W, who recorded amazing success with Adesua, a good number... Read More

Gist

#DateChallenge, Love, Relationships, The Thread, TwitterNG

September 25, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Nakhane Toure’s new video is all you need to see today

There aren’t that many openly Gay African public figures, especially in the entertainment world where the projection of heterosexuality can be the difference between a record deal, meaty film role or even an endorsement. But things are changing, Bobrisky allegedly has an endorsement in Nigeria of all places. But before Bobrisky, there was a South... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Love, Nahkane, Queer Love, TheSexualityBlog

September 21, 2017

The Thread: This is the saddest love story you ever read

They say love comes along once in a lifetime, so when people are privileged to have a love like that in the story below, a love that goes beyond butterflies and mushiness, you can bet they are never letting go. Afterall, it is better to have loved and lost than to never loved at all.... Read More

heartbreak, Love, Marriage, Relationships, sorrow

September 9, 2017