Tag: Love

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

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.…

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Places in Lagos to Propose to Your Lover

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…

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8 Ways To Get Over Your Heartbreak

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,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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#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…

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#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…

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#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…

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#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…

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#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…

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LGBTQ Nigerians

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…

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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…

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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.

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#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…

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NFVCB

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…

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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,…

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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…

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This couple celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary and Instagram couldn’t stop falling in love

Their daughter took to Instagram to share a beautiful message that has us running round the street, screaming GOALSSSS! …

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Toke Makinwa

[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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Nakhane

[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…

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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…

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[The Church Blog] Morning Devotion: The Gift of Love

Happy Sunday. Enjoy!

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Flavour was the first man I fell in love with – Anna Banner

Former beauty queen, Anna Banner who has a child with singer, Flavour has said she still love the artiste. In an interview with Punch, Banner said she didn't intentionally get…

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Opinion: Conquering the debilitating menace of sickle cell in Nigeria

by Gideon Arinze   Until the government steps up measures to tackle sickle cell, it will continue to ravage the country. Sickle cell is a global health issue that is…

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The Thread: These are the consequences of playing games with a woman’s heart

"Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus" is the saying people use to explain the acute differences between the sexes and the mystery that is a woman. Are…

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