In 2017, YNaija committed a big part of its time and resources towards carefully documenting the big stories happening in the country and on the continent and highlighting the efforts…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Having just experienced Nigeria for myself for the first time in several years, I am convinced there can be neither change nor true progress without a fundamental…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense But while the PDP was cut, cut up, and cut down, it has proved since Buhari’s assumption of office that it is not dead. The goat eats…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense We need students, parents, schools, civic and professional associations putting down the pens and pencils of criticism, and replacing them with the rakes and shovels of…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Has change come to Nigeria? Not yet, but Nigerians have changed. They have regained control. They have asserted that the country belongs to them, not to any…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense “I don’t have money to give you…If I had I would not give you because the destiny of Nigeria is not negotiable,” What does Muhammadu Buhari owe…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense If you want to marry a husband, never you marry a wakabout. If you marry a wakabout o, tomorrow trouble-trouble-trouble. Trouble-trouble trouble. So so palava, na so…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense The Bible tells the fascinating story of how the devil engaged Jesus Christ in a contest of wills. Face to face with the Lord, who had fasted…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense “It will be insensitive to the point of absurdity for any leader, or any political party to be toying with Muslim-muslim or Christian-Christian ticket at this juncture,”…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense “I must tell you that we have caught some high-profile double registrants and we may be able to start with them in terms of prosecution,” a high-profile…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense I join the praise of Nigeria ruler Goodluck Jonathan over the country’s handling of the Ebola virus. Last July, when news broke that the feared virus had…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense That was a familiar Nigerian greeting last week as the country marked its 54th year. But the greeting could only have been applied as a joke. We…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Last July, the Government of Nigeria announced it had placed orders for the Nigeria Air Force of 40 helicopters, towards ending the routing the insurgents in the North of…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Hopefully, for his own sake, Nuhu Ribadu will become Adamawa State’s next governor, following his decampment to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) last week to run for…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Disclaimer: I do not write this article in favour of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), which last week gave President Goodluck Jonathan an October deadline to rescue…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Hopefully, Washington has a solution for leadership indifference and hypocrisy. Otherwise this week’s summit has only a relevance span of one month. Tomorrow in Washington, DC, the…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Instead, Mr. Jonathan, wearing sweet-smelling scents and smiling broadly, will seek to deploy his snakeskin oil charm, telling them he understands their agony. In two days, Nigeria’s…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense It is no coincidence that each time we enjoy a little success, our old structural and administrative devils return to haunt us, as they have in the…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense I join all of those who have congratulated Fayose, a man who defied all forecasts and his fragility at the edge of a waiting political burial by…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Mrs. Oduah? Her legacy is not of service but of corruption and scandal, including status-forgery, for she was the one who smuggled herself into a Ministerial chair…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Mrs. Jonathan did not specifically say her husband was coming home in tears every night, but clearly, her appeal was made because the “insults” were inflicting some…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense At greater stake is Mr. Jonathan’s credibility, which is in tatters, shredded by errors of omission and commission. When President Goodluck Jonathan steps off the presidential jet…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense Wendell, unmasked as a manipulator and liar in the earlier days of the unraveling, had failed to tell Oga that country Internet gives, but may not forgive,…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense The Economist warned: “The incompetence of Nigeria’s president and government is hurting the country’s reputation at home and abroad." As it turned out, we needed foreign assistance…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense The look on President Jonathan’s face in that hospital in Abuja last week did not exactly expose such impatience, but his actions were even more abysmal. Shortly…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense I have no doubt that the Jonathan government is more committed to the electricity question than his predecessors since 1999. Last June at the International Conference Centre…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense More than anyone else, these countries know exactly what is behind the atrocious governance in Nigeria, and why we find it difficult to develop. Mr. Obama has…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense What is the way out? The government cannot move forward, let alone lead anyone, if it cannot do anything about the corruption that is eating us alive. …
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense But here we are: 2014, and the SNB seems to be the latest proof the President intends to postdate his 2011 electoral pledges. He has already said…
Read Moreby Sonala Olumhense If the objective of the US is to help the people of Nigeria, it needs to bear in mind that the challenge of recovering looted funds, indeed…
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