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YNaija September 24, 2024

As Russia & Saudi Arabia fight over oil prices, a poorly prepared Nigeria will suffer

Over the last few years, Nigerians have lived in fear of fluctuating oil prices. Despite the efforts of successive governments to diversify the Nigerian economy and wean citizens and governments…

Bernard Dayo April 8, 2018

Ifeoma Chukwuogo is addressing the soot crisis in Port Harcourt with her short documentary “Collateral Damage”

When I first heard of the Soot in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, my initial reaction was that it felt something ripped out from a horror movie. Residents of the state…

Azeez November 3, 2017

Just In: Avengers return, vow to resume “bloody” attacks

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has announced that it would resume attacks on oil assets, suspending its ceasefire agreement with the Federal Government. The group's spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo in a statement…

Ezinne October 14, 2017

The Thread: Why the Senate needs to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill

This week has seen the NNPC, the nation's oil corporation, under the microscope for fraudulent contracts and ethnic politics. President Buhari has taken the brunt of the criticism, being the…

Azeez September 28, 2017

UK oil executives arraigned over $400m fraud in Nigeria

Former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Afren, Osman Shahenshah and Shahid Ullah have been charged with criminal offences over payments of over $400 million they received via secret companies in…

Editor July 31, 2017

[The Activism Blog] This NEITI report finally proves why Nigeria doesn’t need oil

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has done an audit of Nigeria's Oil and Gas industry in 2014, and a couple of observations were made. Of prominence is that…

Editor July 25, 2017

Opinion: We’re drinking our oil and eating our children’s future

by 'Fisayo Soyombo In 2007, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was desperate to solve a conundrum that was nearly as old as Nigeria’s independence. It was an especially recalcitrant…

Azeez July 14, 2017

Creative industry is Nigeria’s new oil – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said the creative industry is Nigeria's new oil. Mohammed said this in Lagos on Thursday when he spoke about the Creative Industry…

Oludolapo Adelana April 12, 2017

Nigeria will be so doomed in the next 10 years if we don’t stop depending on crude oil – Comedian Alibaba

by Dolapo Adelana Ace comedian, Alibaba says if Nigeria does not develop entertainment, tourism, agriculture, education, information technology, broadcasting, fashion and culture sectors in the coming years it will be…

Azeez April 1, 2017

Osinbajo should stop coming to Ijaw land – Asari Dokubo

by Azeez Adeniyi Former militant leader, Asari Dokubo has told Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to stop coming to Ijaw land. In an interview with Vanguard, Dokubo described Osinbajo's visits as…

Isime Esene January 25, 2017

Analysis: VP Osinbajo’s answers at Davos give cause for worry

by Mark Amaza For the second year running, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo led the Nigerian government delegation to Davos, Switzerland for the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF), the yearly talk…

Oludolapo Adelana November 14, 2016

We need oil to get out of oil – Osinbajo

Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria needs oil to get out of oil. Osinbajo made the remark on Monday at the presentation of three books written by Honourable Minister of…

Oludolapo Adelana November 3, 2016

The challenges I met made me want to abscond – Buhari

President Muhammau Buhari says he felt like absconding when he resumed office. Buhari said this on Thursday at the State House when he received participants of the Senior Executive Course 37…

Isime Esene October 19, 2016

#ForTheRecord: My father may not have died in vain | Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr on justice for the people of Ogoni

by Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria. When the…

Isime Esene October 3, 2016

YNaija Editorial: To a better 57th Independence Day anniversary

56 years is a lifetime in the life cycle of any nation. For one whose union has been severally tested by momentous events such as a crippling civil war, an…

Isime Esene September 30, 2016

Chevron, others have a case to answer over $12.7bn undeclared crude

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today, September 30, 2016 struck out the preliminary objection filed by Chevron Nigeria Limited seeking to have the suit by the Federal Government…

Oludolapo Adelana September 29, 2016

The YNaija Tracklist: ‘Our most valuable resource is not our oil, it is our people’ – Atiku | Dangote truck carrying Indian hemp intercepted by Police | Nigeria has nothing to celebrate at 56 – Balarabe Musa

From the papers this morning - a Tracklist. BREAKING: INEC shuts print, online journalists out of collation centre - YNaija #EdoDecides: Results to be collated on Thursday - INEC - YNaija Aisha…

Oludolapo Adelana September 29, 2016