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December 17, 2012

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: NLC keeps missing the point

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu …what should preoccupy the NLC is how the federal government can cut its wage bill ...

December 16, 2012

Simon Kolawole Live!: Such a hard road to travel

But despite all the work being done over the years by FRSC, we are still battling ...

December 12, 2012

Opinion: 3 ways to renew your energy

by Akan Inyang As we go through phases at work and generally in life, we have to renew and get ...

December 10, 2012

Shola Okubote: 7 things you should do when you break up with a friend

I know how to move on after breaking up with a lover, I don’t need to have a truck-load of ...

December 6, 2012

Rotimi Fawole: Your side-mirror has become an endangered specie (in Lagos)

by Rotimi Fawole 73% of Lagos-based cars find it harder to concentrate for the first 13 months after an assembly-line ...

November 2, 2012

Opinion: 6 things rich people need to stop saying

by David Wong All of a sudden, it’s like you can’t make huge amounts of money without people getting all ...

October 31, 2012

More opinion! More issues! More debate! YNaija.com introduces the Y! Superbloggers – See List

by Isi Esene In line with the Y! brand essence that focuses on issues and ideas that central to the ...

October 26, 2012

Looking for Mr. Right? 10 men that are right under your nose

Is it better to have a great guy,who may seem boring to some people, or is it better to be ...

October 26, 2012

Elnathan John: How to run a Nigerian NGO

by Elnathan John Do one of two things: One, give your NGO a broad name that can cover two or ...

October 7, 2012

Opinion: My degree is better than yours

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Many Nigerian students want to school abroad, but their return can cause tensions in the workplace. ...

September 28, 2012

Akin Akintayo: No vexatious customer

by Akin Akintayo Social media can at once be both aggressive and effective. Many have put it to good use ...

July 25, 2012

#CareerHelp: 5 Common mistakes you make during job interviews

by Maria Lloyd The best way to get a job is to fight for it with your confidence, your experience, ...

July 5, 2012

Olusegun Adeniyi: N422 billion – The real Subsidy Scam exposed by Aig-Imoukhuede

by Segun Adeniyi The more the investigations into what passed for fuel subsidy payments, especially in 2011, the more the ...

July 4, 2012

Opinion: Nigeria? This house must stand!

by Oma Djebah Nigeria is going through a rather rough patch. At the heart of the country’s current political turbulence are ...

OluwapelumiJuly 3, 2012

Alibaba: Slippers get size: Aristos and the young babes

Which begs the question: why don’t these guys (40-60) date their female age-mates (40-60)? Why the small-small girls? You hear ...

July 1, 2012

Femi Owolabi: Is the Pentecostal dress-sense invading the Catholic Church?

I may not be theologically correct, but at least I should make a little sense, morally speaking—or writing. The ubiquitous public ...

OluwapelumiJune 28, 2012

Temitope Shittu-Alamu: I’ve got questions… Who’s got answers?

Maybe I’ll just keep observing from a neutral angle. Maybe a prostitute really has genuine reasons, maybe marriages usually get ...

June 26, 2012

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Can connections change Nigeria? (YNaija FrontPage)

I have always wondered what Nigeria would look like if more business people co-operated to lobby government for policy that ...

June 25, 2012

Story of My Life: ‘I slept with my driver just to have children for my husband’

When the twins were born, the girl took ill for some time. Philip and I insisted that blood test be ...

OluwapelumiJune 24, 2012

Opinion: Choose to be happy

by Gloria Ogunbadejo ‘A man is what he thinks all day’ – Emerson Of recent, there has been so much ...

June 22, 2012

Kathleen Ndongmo: Service Delivery Woes: We pay, they play (YNaija FrontPage)

Until this point, I had always thought we had a sensible regulator. A watchdog; until I realized that the “watchdog” ...

OluwapelumiJune 20, 2012

Opinion: We are the cause of our own problems

Of course, every leadership is a product of its citizenry. They do not fall from the skies. It is from ...

June 18, 2012

Opinion: Bridges and Barricades- Music in Africa

by Onyeka Nwelue Today, I return to Portugal, a country that has very strong colonial ties with Nigeria. This is ...

OluwapelumiJune 13, 2012

Opinion: Mourning Dana victims is hypocritical

by Ola-Abraham Emmanuel Too bad that the life of the rich is more valued than that of the poor, even ...

June 9, 2012

Lucas Togan: I was in a plane crash – and I died in vain

by Lucas Togan My Death. Let me tell you about the day I died. I was in a plane crash. ...

OluwapelumiJune 8, 2012

#DanaCrash: Politeness is killing us by Toni Kan

Since Sunday June 3, 2012 I have come to realize that we fly across Nigeria borne not on planes powered ...

June 6, 2012

Opinion: Apropos of nothing – How to sell poison

by Feyi Fawehinmi Been meaning to share this for a minute now. As the title suggests, this post hasn’t been inspired ...