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Gbolabo Amusan: Lagos has a culture- it is hustle [Nigerian Voices]
by Gbolabo Amusan "Don't Be Stupid, Don't Be Slow, Don't allow yourself to be taken for a fool", words on the plinth of the three Elders (Agba Meta) statue at…
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Boluwatife: The present in my past [Nigerian Voices]
by Joshua Boffin As I penned down my signature on the register, it dawned on me that life was really dynamic. Life was funny and if only we knew what…
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Otasowie Christabel Ogiemwonyi: When the curtains do not fall [Nigerian Voices]
by Otasowie Christabel Ogiemwonyi **************** Sometimes, you crave for solitude but you find out you are with company. The peripatetic bunch of memories won't go away. They pay impromptu visits,…
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Eziaghighala Chinaza Ebere: Looking for utopia [Nigerian Voices]
by Eziaghighala Chinaza Ebere Empty streets like a ghost town except for the orange outfits or savage bike riders who break every rule imaginable due to suffering and sadness. The old…
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Ali Toyin Abdul: Diary of a dreamer boy [Nigerian Voices]
by Ali Toyin Abdul My life had been that of awe and grappling confusion. I found myself wobbling in fantasies – of illusion, complacency, and naivety. As a young man, I…
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Jonathan Mairiga: Times and seasons [Nigerian Voices]
by Jonathan Mairiga Most times in life, the picture we get from events and situations are not exactly what they seem to be until we find ourselves in similar a situation,…
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YNaija.com’s ‘Nigerian Voices’ competition continues this December | Winner gets N50,000
Following the successful completion of the debut edition of Nigerian Voices in September, YNaija.com, and the follow-up edition in October, the internet newspaper for young Nigerians has launched a new…
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Adeyemi-Bisileko Gboyega: A tale of beginnings…a tale of becoming [Nigerian Voices]
by Adeyemi-Bisileko Gboyega It was in that house that life began, from the moment of conception and swimming in that belly-river and being delivered in Golden Mother Maternity Home, it was…
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Nwachukwu Olusegun Nwachukwu: Choices [Nigerian Voices]
by Nwachukwu Olusegun Nwachukwu Gray day. The sky and the earth had kissed once more, for the sky seemed to miss the earth—and it expressed this as it poured rain incessantly.…
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Michael Ehinmowo: Possessing possession [Nigerian Voices]
by Michael Ehinmowo There has not been light. I charge my phone at the petrol station close to my house. Apart from charging at the filling station, the manager and…
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Bomi Ehimony: Friends are like blindfolds [Nigerian Voices]
by Bomi Ehimony On most days, I haven’t the slightest clue as to who I am. I have ideas, of course, I have a plethora of ideas. But definitively, I…
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Ikechukwu Yadi: Bola [Nigerian Voices]
by Ikechukwu Yadi I sat in class drawing on an exercise book. Someone sat beside me. “How far your church girl?” “Titi?” “No, Mary Magdalene.” “She came to my house…
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Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto: I saved my marriage [Nigerian Voices]
by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto That was my wife, Chiamaka, approaching. People thought her puerile and naïve but I deemed her exquisite. She was blithe and permissive, carefree and lax. We had…
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Talius Dike: My tale in all its shades [Nigerian Voices]
by Talius Dike When I first came across this contest two weeks ago, I didn't know what to write; I had no base to lay my anchor, especially because the organizers…
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YNaija.com’s ‘Nigerian Voices’ competition winners get prizes in Lagos [PHOTOS]
After a month of collating entries from across Nigeria, the editors of YNaija.com announced the winner for the month-long writing competition ‘Nigerian Voices’: Nnamdi Jude Atupulazi. His winning piece was…
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The woman in the other room
by Olufemi Babalogbon When she is raped, it’s for nudity No judgment for the villain himself She gets pregnant in school, lost sympathy Of people who aren’t holier than her-self…
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Frances Ogamba: The tribute [Nigerian Voices]
by Frances Ogamba Obum, Every day, I wonder what I was doing the very moment you leapt into the waves the second time? Was I looking at the sun’s hot…
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Stanley Chidiebere Okonkwo: No one told us [Nigerian Voices]
by Stanley Chidiebere Okonkwo I had wondered why people cry when someone dies. For some people, it is so natural. Mother’s acrobatics when her mother was let down the grave could…
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Raheem Oluwafunminiyi: Fleeing terror [Nigerian Voices]
by Raheem Oluwafunminiyi The second half of my stay in Adamawa marked a period of both hope and fear. First, there was nationwide strike early in the year but by the…
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Adaobi Ezeodum: The struggles of the not-so-average Nigerian woman [Nigerian Voices]
by Adaobi Ezeodum It was December 26, 2015. My aunt woke me up around 10 am to tell me that there would be a family meeting in the next thirty…
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Ibrahim Oga: Home is still a faraway dream [Nigerian Voices]
by Ibrahim Oga I don’t have a home—not really. When I left for the university, home, where I grew up, where mom, dad and my kid sisters live, ceased to…
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Ferdinand Mozie: My first kiss [Nigerian Voices]
by Ferdinand Mozie Eighteen years back, when I was twelve, then I was in JSS2 in my school. I used to be a mummy's boy and people around who…
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Nnamdi Jude Atupulazi: Tea Mornings, 1997 [Winner of Nigerian Voices Competition]
by Nnamdi Jude Atupulazi Mummy was a teacher. She lived far away from us because the government would not grant her a transfer so she could be with Daddy and us.…
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Ayo: Smack dab in the theatre of insurgency [Nigerian Voices]
by Ayo We slid across the rough ground on our elbows and thighs, barely raising our helmet protected heads above the trenches. The dry Harmattan winds coursing through our army…
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Opeoluwa Odunlami: The rejected stone [Nigerian Voices]
by Opeoluwa Odunlami "How good you start is important, how well you end is what is more important." I did not have a good start in life. Before I was…
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Abraham Isaac Oluwatimilehin: Poetic justice [Nigerian Voices]
by Abraham Isaac Oluwatimilehin *Click* This is me staring at you, wide-eyed, the first time we met. I find this photograph weird for a number of reasons. There’s Doyin, at the…
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YNaija.com’s ‘Nigerian Voices’ competition continues this October | Winner gets N50,000!
Following the successful completion of the debut edition of Nigerian Voices in September, YNaija.com, the internet newspaper for young Nigerians has launched a new season of the competition to run…
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Mfon Iquaibom: Jewel in the rubble [Nigerian Voices]
by Mfon Iquaibom Talking about victories, battles, successes and accomplishments, turmoil, confusion, beauty and inspiration and the likes, I would like to tell my story in three parts; childhood, teenage…
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Akerele Oluranti: Begin your long walk to freedom [Nigerian Voices]
by Akerele Oluranti I started out life as a nondescript kid. One who never did home works; hardly knew a thing in school; the carry first from back child, slow…
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Ekeziem Hamilton: The best lessons are taught in life v[Nigerian Voices]
by Ekeziem Hamilton The lecture room is filled to the brim, but I still manage to secure a standing spot close to the board, or so I thought; because shortly…
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy