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Top 5 Stories Of The Day | Federal Government Announces Public Holiday for Eid-Ul-Adha
Federal government announces public holiday for Eid-Ul-Adha FG drops tax charges against Binance executives The naira loses value against the US dollar in the official and black market Reps and…
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This is an updated plan for Nigerian youth in President Buhari’s strategy
In 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari criticised the attitude of some Nigerian youth, saying "more than 60 per cent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven't been…
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The Thread: How to move and work abroad without headache
In the wake of the Libyan crisis, it's imperative that Nigerians who still want to migrant abroad find alternatives routes.This thread details the best way to go about it. See…
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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 1st of December
Follow the links to read the stories and analyses on YNaija:
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AU, EU, UN set to establish a task force in Libya to tackle slavery
The African Union (AU), European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) are set to establish a task force in Libya to check migration. The AU’s Moussa Faki Mahamat, EU Commission…
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242 Nigerians return from Libya
242 Nigerians returned from Libya on Tuesday evening. The federal government had on Monday, promised to intervene and rescue Nigerian migrants in the North African country, as they called for…
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26 countries have shown interest to participate in 2017 Calabar Carnival
About 26 countries are participating in the 2017 Calabar carnival, a Commissioner in the Carnival Commission in charge of Media and Publicity, Ikobi Ikobi has said. The list, in part:…
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FG sets up panel to investigate death of 26 teenage girls who died on the sea
The Federal Government has set up a cabinet committee to investigate the circumstances of the death of 26 teenage Nigerian migrant girls found dead in the Mediterranean in early November.…
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The Thread: President Buhari just repeated the same mistake GEJ made
BBOG activist, Oby Ezekwesili has served President Buhari another dose of bitter truth: his administration is just as bad as that of Jonathan. You will recall that in the early…
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Olusegun Adeniyi: Oh Lord, release my visa- A horror story [Pt II]
by Olusegun Adeniyi If We Stay Here We Die! According to Mark Twain, there are two types of speakers: those who get nervous and those who are liars. So let…
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Olusegun Adeniyi: Oh Lord, release my visa [Pt I]
by Olusegun Adeniyi Following the overwhelming reactions I got to my lecture titled, “If we stay here we die” at the 2015 edition of Platform, I decided to document…
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Rebuilding the Berlin Wall: How Europe’s anti-migration agenda threatens stability in Africa
by Mercy Abang On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic built a wall between East and West Berlin. The intention of that action to…
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Brexit to affect 1.2m migrants
by Adedotun Michael With the first full week of Brexit negotiations poised to start today in Brussels, Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of Migration Watch has given a warning revelation.…
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Opinion: How Lagos may be underdeveloping the rest of Nigeria
by Chinedu George Nnawetanma While much has been said about the diversification of Nigeria's economy from petroleum, very little has been mentioned about its diversification from Lagos. About one in…
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Trump ‘invents’ terror attack in Sweden during Florida rally speech (WATCH)
by Dolapo Adelana US President Donald Trump appeared to have invented a terror attack in Sweden during a campaign-style rally in Florida. During the speech Trump launched attacks on the…
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Ayo Sogunro: The moratorium on migration
by Ayo Sogunro “Our intelligence has recently provided us with awesome powers. It is not yet clear that we have the wisdom to avoid our own self-destruction. But many…
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LONG READ: What you must know before arguing about the slave trade in Libya
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…
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‘Europe has more Nigerian nurses than Nigeria’ – EU
The Head of European Union Delegation to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Michael Arrion, on Thursday, said there are more Nigerian Nurses in Europe than there…
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Aylan Kurdi and the migration crisis
September 3. In a red shirt and dark lilac knickers, Aylan Kurdi, 3, also in coffee-brown baby boots, lied lifeless, washed ashore a beach in the Turkish city of Bodum.…
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Important message to YNaija viewers
Your Internet newspaper for young Nigerians, YNaija, has been offline for 48 hours now, and we owe you, our raving fans, an apology. Over the last few weeks we had…
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92 Migrants from Niger including women and children die of thirst in Sahara Desert
by Rachel Ogbu More than 90 migrants have been confirmed dead as they tried to cross the Sahara Desert from Niger. Rescuers recovered the bodies of 52 children, 33 women…
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Royal gone rogue: Nigerian prince accused of massive immigration scam in the UK (PICTURED)
Accused: Dr Yilkyes Bala, 54, allegedly ran a huge illegal immigration racket in the UK A Nigerian prince ran a huge illegal immigration racket in the UK, a court…
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Opinion: Boko Haram and a woman born in Zaria
by Patience Akpan-Obong If you are non-white or have a ‘foreign’ name, you’re constantly encountering people who dismiss the fact that you might have been born in a hospital down the…
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Short story: Losing my voice, by Chika Unigwe
by Chika Unigwe Photo by Rengim Mutevellioglu/Getty When I left Nigeria for Belgium, I made my husband’s home my own. But homesickness lodged like a stone inside he year I…
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