Opinion: Nigeria’s democratic culture and development challenges

The Thread: Before you think of committing suicide…

Kimmy €, who tweets @808s_n_cupcakes reveals what her family has lived through after her brother committed suicide 7 years ago. It is a sad, gripping read. https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779695636111319040 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779696205471289344 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779696785946189824 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779697480380416000 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779698209983717377 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779698786364948482 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779698912160518145 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779699318743789568 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779699677860098049 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779700343118651392 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779700622392188928 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779700733071548418 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779701043110244353 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779701196244283393 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779701643529089024 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779701874500960256 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779702234028335105 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779702476052303872 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779705224160284677 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779705605586051072 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779705718622552064 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779705937238040576 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779706448079183872 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779707138851475456 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779707313997217793 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779707439985766401 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779707844501188608 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779708500129624064 https://twitter.com/808s_n_cupcakes/status/779708797409304576... Read More

depression, grief, mental health, nigeria, suicide

Opinion: Create solutions that are so good they cannot be ignored

by Segun Adeyemi This is a very short story about Sekou. Background info: I run a payment company that helps Nigerian businesses accept and manage recurring payments online. Sekou is a close friend from high school and university. Recently introduced to Uber. Sekou is highly exposed and educated but swore a long while ago never... Read More

economy, entrepreneurship, nigeria, online transactions, start-ups, Uber

Conversations: Nigerians react to Bobrisky’s announcement that he isn’t gay

Following the release of Bobrisky’s interview with TV veteran and TW Magazine publisher, Adesuwa Onyenokwe, the internet has been buzzing about Bobrisky’s emphatic reveal that he is not gay. Popular gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi also put out a video on Instagram expressing his annoyance and disappointment that Bobrisky is not in support of gay... Read More

Bisi Alimi, Bobrisky, cross-dressing, nigeria, Transgender, Transvetite

Opinion: 3 tech products we need built in Nigeria

A few weeks ago Mark Zuckerberg came Nigeria sightseeing and checking up on his investments (Andela and the millions of the ‘un-facebooked’ citizens of Nigeria). It was a good opportunity to showcase tech solutions being built here via Cc-Hub and his meetings with entrepreneurs. He even got to see a Demo Day at the Presidential... Read More

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YNaija Editorial: Only failed systems allow police officers play God

The recent report by Amnesty International that exposes inhumane behaviour and gross human rights abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), an elite unit of the Nigerian Police Force set up to combat the country’s alarming crime rate is only the latest by the international human rights watchdog to report on abuses in the country’s... Read More

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PROFILE: How dare you compare Denrele Edun to Bobrisky?

by Emeka Nwankwo Nigeria’s 15-year veteran of television is more than his shoes, his bags, his make-up and his chains… I was at Denrele Edun’s house at exactly 3:55pm but it would take another one hour before our interview would begin. He took me around the house (which he got early this year but only... Read More

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Entertainment Roundup: AY premieres new movie | ‘Beef’ in South African music industry | More stories

Here are some stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are now buzzing this morning in today’s Entertainment Roundup. AY premieres new movie, A Trip to Jamaica Comedian, AY Makun, has premiered his highly anticpated movie, A Trip to Jamaica. The movie premiere took place at the Filmhouse IMAX cinema in... Read More

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I have no idea when recession will end – Adeosun

Minister of Finance Mrs Kemi Adeosun says she has no idea as to when the current recession will come to an end. She made the remark during an interview in Abuja stating, “I don’t want to predict when we will get out of recession. Let me tell you that we will get into growth and that’s... Read More

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Music Makes The People: Lights Camera Africa starts this September [DETAILS]

Lights Camera Africa Film Festival is set to commence from September 30 to October 2, 2016 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. The festival will this year feature 23 films from 14 countries and celebrate 1 Lagos, 1 Nigeria and 1 Africa with the theme ‘Music Makes The People…” The festival is a display... Read More

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The Media Blog: Lai Mohammed is going to court – over a scandal that doesn’t even make sense

No one is asking our opinion, but if they did, we would tell them the truth: the entire kerfuffle over the ‘Change begins with me’ campaign is ridiculous. First, because the campaign itself is dead on arrival. It’s a hastily conceived, unprofessionally rolled out, accident of governance that terribly mismatches the slow-train messaging of a... Read More

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The Film Blog: Ladies and gentlemen, a tsunami is coming to the cinemas this week

We feel sorry for every Nigerian film that’s in the cinemas this week. We feel sorry for It’s Her Day. And we feel sorry for our favourite Nigerian movie ever – 93 Days. Because something deep and furious will be hitting all 30-something cinemas in Nigeria this week. And it will be hitting everything that... Read More

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Farooq Kperogi: ‘Change begins with me’ campaign is a bait-and-switch scam

The Buhari government’s “Change begins with me” campaign is perhaps the cheekiest bait-and-switch governmental scam in Nigerian history. When I said this on Facebook last week, a few people thought I was being harsh. But my choice of words is deliberate and well-advised. Bait-and-switch scams are kinds of confidence tricks where unsuspecting customers are lured... Read More

Moses Ochonu: Buhari’s problem is unhealthy personal loyalty

Buhari’s problem can be summed up in two words: personal loyalty. He is loyal to a fault to those who are loyal or allied to him. He rewards loyalty with unquestioning loyalty. That is a potentially fatal flaw of leadership. His appointees know this weakness of his. They know that he is too loyal to... Read More

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Pius Adesanmi: Inspired by the proud young farmer

I had barely settled down at work on Monday, Sept 19, 2016, when the young man breezed into my office. It was an African visit: I was not expecting him; he walked in like he owned the space; his decibel level was above the standards officially approved for social interaction by the West. I tell... Read More

agriculture, economy, nigeria, young people

Cheta Nwanze: On moving house and how it applies to Nigeria’s recession

Now consider the following scenario — you are moving house, you see a place that you really like, and pay the rent. Then you find that the house has no mosquito nets, in this, malaria endemic region. You fail to buy nets, and move your family in, then worse, do not administer antimalarial drugs to your kids.... Read More

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The Film Blog: 2 ‘Old Nollywood’ directors have something to say about ‘New Nollywood’

Posted without comment. PS: See anything worth talking about on the ins and outs of the media business in Nigeria on TV, radio, print and online (could be news, tweets, photos, op-eds etc) send us a mail on info@ynaija.com titled TMB. Let’s share the insight together!

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$12 billion; N441 million… | The 5 numbers that mattered this week

$12 billion – The amount allegedly smuggled out of Nigeria by telecoms company MTN between 2006 and 2016. This is according to Sen. Dino Melaye. 2 million – The number of people freed by the military from members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect. N441 million – The amount received by Kano Pillars football club following striker, Ahmed Musa’s move... Read More

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PODCAST: ‘Oga Police IG should lie with wisdom please…’ + more on The Slab with Isime

Chuks, Tolu, and Elsie – who is representing Emeka this week – join The Slab with Isime to talk about the Nigerian Police IG, Ibrahim Idris’ Al-Jazeera interview; Borno governor’s leadership moves in the North East; and militants threatening to attack oil facilities if Patience Jonathan is prosecuted by the EFCC. The Police IG had claimed that... Read More

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Dele Momodu: Believe me, this Buhari cabinet isn’t flying

Fellow Nigerians, let me start by thanking all the blogs, WhatsApp groups, Facebook and Twitter wizards who make the incredible efforts and sacrifice to mass-circulate my Pendulum column every week. I’m sincerely grateful for your abiding faith in the written word. Let me assure you that you push me to write this piece regularly no... Read More

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Because Reno Omokri just can’t stop, he came up with #16MonthsofAPCV16YearsofPDP

For those who don’t know, Reno Omokri was former President Goodluck Jonathan’s social media aide. That administration is over and we are in a new dispensation but Reno Omokri is still actively performing social media duties on behalf of his former boss and their party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Indeed, eyes have not seen... Read More

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[The Legislative Blog]: Senator Joshua Dariye’s journey to “sainthood” at the APC

Yesterday, amidst the lengthy debate about Senate plans at the Upper Chamber, Senator Joshua Dariye representing Plateau Central announced his decision to defect from the PDP to the APC. The news of Senator Dariye’s decampment did not quite come as a shock to many as the man who is the former Plateau state governor is in... Read More

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Recession: The rich will keep getting richer and there’s nothing we can do about it

According to President Muhammadu Buhari, “there is no crisis without an accompanying opportunity”. Our current economic crisis has presented an opportunity for people to get richer. It is a paradox actually. To think that everyone should be suffering the setbacks of the current state of our economy but then realise that there a few people-the... Read More

Capitalism, Great Depression, nigeria, recession

Gimba Kakanda: The partisans’ portrayals of the critic as a hater

Perhaps it’s sub-clinical, but partisanship as exhibited by Nigerians appears to be no more than just uncritical loyalty to a political party. It’s a psychiatric dilemma. Perhaps again this is only my lack of an explanation for, or an understanding of, the kneejerk reference to critics of the government as “haters” by those who were themselves... Read More

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The Thread: This tweep breaks down Nigeria’s issues in the most simple terms

Every other day, we come to this space to talk about the current state of Nigeria’s economy and honestly, it’s become a tad… well, not tiring. We won’t stop until we get it right as a nation so here’s yet another solution thread provided by this oh so benevolent social columnist @sleezebreeze88. The message he’s... Read More

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economy, nigeria, recession, solutions, thread, twitter.

Forget FG, these state governments are doing impressive jobs

With the current deplorable state of the economy and the pressure on the federal government to deliver on its promises to citizens, it is very easy to miss out on the meritorious work being done by some state governors in the country. Here are some of the ones to pay well deserved attention to as... Read More

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