Earlier today YNaija reported a meeting taking place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja with President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in attendance. The closed-door meeting which started at 2pm took place at the President’s office, but it is not immediately clear what the agenda of the meeting was. See... Read More
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi were today in attendance at a meeting to chart a course for the peaceful conduct of the forthcoming elections into the Senate and the House of Representatives in the state. The Tuesday night meeting which was reportedly convened by the Acting Inspector General of... Read More
by Joachim MacEbong The Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge railway was opened for business by President Buhari and other government officials today in Abuja, and they took a ride to Kaduna to commemorate it. While that was on however, Nigerian Twitter was busy debating about who should take credit for the achievement. Abuja – Kaduna Rail projectOBJ-... Read More
Twitter has been set ablaze by Michelle Obama‘s powerful speech at the Democratic national convention on Monday night. The First Lady of the United States has been praised by many on the micro-blogging platform and some think she is capable enough to run for the White House come 2020. Well if she does, these Twitter... Read More
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has said that calls demanding his resignation are unnecessary and baseless as he was duly elected and has no desire to forfeit given to him by his colleagues. Ekweremadu was reacting to the insistence of the All Progressives Congress that he should be removed. Speaking through his media aide,... Read More
If you were a lover of reggae music in the 1970s, you would certainly know “Time Hard”, a hit song by The Pioneers, the Jamaican three-man band. “Every day,” they sang, sonorously, “things are getting worse.” That song was released in 1972. At the time, Nigeria was producing two million barrels of crude oil per... Read More
by Sufuyan Ojeifo Many Nigerians, especially Edo indigenes and residents, had patiently waited for the gubernatorial campaign flag off of the All Progressives Party (APC) in Edo State, so as to make some sensible inference and possibly a starter-opinion-projection on the likely candidate to beat in the September 10 election. This was after the Peoples... Read More
by Jumai Abubakar The Nigerian political scene has presented Nigerians with one form of drama or the other since May 2015 when the Buhari administration was sworn in. From the anti-corruption fight and interesting testimonies from detained suspects, to the protracted legal battle against Senate President Bukola Saraki and more recently, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.... Read More
by Isime Esene The Speaker of the House of Representative, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has reacted to a statement by the sacked Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin accusing him and other leaders of the House of corruption. In a series of tweets monitored by YNaija hours ago, Jibrin said he was victimized... Read More
by Isime Esene Abdulmumin Jibrin, the Former House Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation has called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara to resign. Jibrin made this assertion in a series of tweets on his Twitter timeline accusing Dogara and other leaders of the Lower Chamber of corruption and essentially... Read More
by Tajudeen Sanusi Even though the last general election was just a year ago, the race to occupy the Oke-Mosan Governor’s office of Ogun State has begun in an unprecedented pace. In what seems like a planned move, potential contenders have started composing campaign teams and many already mapping out strategies on how to clinch the... Read More
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has denounced a publication claiming he has defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement released on Thursday by Special Assistant, New Media to President of the Senate, Bamikole Omishore, Saraki said he is committed to the APC-led government. “The attention of the Senate President’s Media Team... Read More
by Saatah Nubari I rented an apartment about a week ago and the compound had a big generator house—that was part of the building plan—where tenants kept their generators. The owner of the compound had already done the generator connections for every flat, so all I had to do was to search the generator house... Read More
Former chairman of the House committee on appropriation Abdulmumin Jibrin has denied media reports that he was sacked. Earlier today it was reported that the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara had sacked Jibrin as the committee’s chairman. Honourable Jibrin made the clarification via his Twitter account (@AbdulAmbJ), saying he stepped down in the interest... Read More
by Ololade Ajekigbe Two lawmakers butt heads and engage in a war of words on the floor of the upper legislative chamber. One is the controversial Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, while the other is the lawmaker representing Lagos Central and wife of the equally controversial former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of... Read More
By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Preamble I have read and watched on several platforms the ceaseless accusation and damaging allegations of fraud against Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the immediate past governor of Rivers State and the incumbent Minister of Transportation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by some misguided, demented and disgruntled minds, misinformed... Read More
by Baba Oladeji Practise Politics of Needs, not Politics of Party Do not be tempted to copy the West with their Left or Right politics, for they have gone beyond problems of epileptic power supply, bad roads and unclean water. Instead, relentlessly focus on needs, needs and needs of the people. In parliamentary debates about key... Read More
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday in Abuja debunked claims that he was summoned or queried by his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr. Atiku made this known in a statement released by his Media Adviser (Media), Paul Ibe. There were insinuations that the former VP had been under fire from party officials after... Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to zone national offices within the party. Senator Abdul Ningi, a member of the National Caretaker Committee announced that the committee would be inaugurated on Friday July 22, 2016 at the Yar’adua Centre in Abuja. The National Caretaker Committee of our party has approved the... Read More
The gross incompetence of the Trump campaign is laid bare: Melania said on video that she wrote the speech ‘with as little help as possible’. Now that it has been proven that part of it was plagiarized from a Michelle Obama speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, does she step back from that claim?... Read More
The internet has been going hard on Melania Trump after it was discovered her speech at the Republican National convention on Monday night was a plagiarised version of the speech First Lady Michelle Obama gave at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. YNaija has collated 10 hilarious tweets that would get the potential First Lady... Read More
By Olalekan Alabi Without any doubt, the events of last week in the Nigerian Senate which led to the altercation between Senator Oluremi Tinubu of Lagos Central Senatorial District and her colleague, Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West senatorial District as well as subsequent reactions of several other Senators has left a bitter taste in... Read More
By Haris Aliyu The four development traps established by Paul Collier is not the only answer to the rapid underdevelopment of third world countries like Nigeria. Development traps as a concept has been widely used in various fields within the social science discipline. Under the political microscope, Nigeria is one of the nations with little... Read More
Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will on Thursday, meet to discuss the way forward through the crisis that is plaguing the party as well as the programmes put in place by the caretaker committee, headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, for the party’s convention and forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. Prior... Read More
Late Tuesday night, Nigerian musician CharlyBoy penned down an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, lamenting about the state of the nation- which is not so encouraging from his letter. Here is what he wrote on his Instagram page. “Mr. President Sir, Once again I am compelled to voice out my bewilderment at the stumbling and wobbly... Read More
Prof. Pat Utomi, has lamented the way Nigeria’s democracy is being run, stating that the biggest challenge on our democracy is the overrating of government and politics. Utomi who spoke on Monday, during a programme organised by a group of youths under the aegis of YALI Network, said it was unfortunate that everything in the... Read More
The IDPs have been languishing from hunger and dying in droves while Nigerians out there have been made to believe all along that the victims were being taken good care of. At least, that was what the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima had made us believe until Nigerains came to know the truth. As... Read More
Umaru Shinkafi, a titan in the political landscape of Nigeria has died. Shinkafi, also known as the Marafan of Sokoto was the vice-presidential candidate of Olu Falae in the APP/AD alliance in 1999 in the election which was eventually lost to Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party. He was also the head of the Nigeria Security Organisation (NSO),... Read More
The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) has warned politicians in the area to desist from dragging the names of Nnamdi Kanu, Alex Ekwueme and Peter Obi “into their dirty and imaginary dream world.’’ The group, in a statement released by its founder, Elliot Uko, described the attempt by some politicians to cause disagreement between the aforementioned... Read More
From the papers- a tracklist US warns of possible terrorist attacks Punch Over 9,000 ghost workers discovered in Kogi state YNaija CBN says Nigerian banks are healthy Nation Don’t turn Nigeria into an Islamic state- HURIWA DailyPost Avengers accuse impostors of working for the government YNaija Kidnapper arrested after picking up ransom Vanguard Nigeria Police... Read More
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