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Civic Monitor launches Know-Your-Candidates tool to help voters compare presidential candidates
Civic Monitor, a civil society organisation driving a new wave of engagement in the democratic process, today unveiled its Know-Your-Candidates (KYC) tool - for Nigerian voters. With just over a month…
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Stanley Azuakola profiles Kashim Shettima: The Comforter-in-chief (Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2016 Nominee)
In late September 2016, the governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, gathered his closest aides and relocated to Bama town, 70 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, with one promise…
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Chude Jideonwo: What’s our biggest accomplishment at RED?
I was asked in an interview (with my co-founder, Adebola Williams) a month or so ago: What is our biggest accomplishment in RED? I have been asked many times before…
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The Future Enterprise Support Scheme presents Young Writers’ Network, a 5-day master class. Register Now!
The Future Enterprise Support Scheme (TFESS) is a series of seminars, workshops and conferences that serves as a bridge towards skill acquisition and capacity building. These training sessions have a…
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YNaija hosts the smartest guys in the room for the gubernatorial elections on Saturday
by Jewel Stephen YNaija, the internet newspaper for young Nigerians, will be organising a gubernatorial election Situation Room on Saturday, April 11, 2015. The YNaija 2015 Election Situation Room show will…
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Zainab Balogun, Korede Bello, Denola Grey, Stanley Azuakola & more! YNaija presents our annual list of ‘The New Establishment’
Every year YNaija.com/Y! Africa Magazine scouts the breadth of the country to uncover the freshest and youngest Nigerians who are blossoming in spite of the odds that appear to be…
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Hello, fans of Rubbin’ Minds! Y! Radio launches ‘The Frontpage’ on Radio Continental
by Jewel Stephen Building on the runaway success of Rubbin' Minds, which is now the nation's number one talk show for young people, Y!/YNaija.com in collaboration with Radio Continental has…
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The ScoopNG partners BudgIT to launch polling Nigeria
by Temitope Onitiju A new platform, Polling Nigeria, has been launched to sample the perceptions and opinions of Nigerians on various issues affecting them and the polity. Polling Nigeria…
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Leadership loses it? Newspaper asks Guardian to apologise over a SATIRE piece
by Hauwa Gambo Tony Amokoedo and Chibuizor Ukaibe, Leadership reporters This would be funny, if it weren't also deeply troubling - that one newspaper's editors would clearly miss the satire…
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GEJ and First Lady are not having a divorce… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola GEJ And First Lady Not Having A Divorce Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, has denied reports that President Jonathan and his wife are about to get a divorce.…
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GEJ deserves at least 12 more terms… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola When Nigerians called the president out on “the lie,” they defended their incompetence by claiming it was a “notorious fact” they got from a paper. Osun PDP…
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Ahmadu Ali sues Facebook people… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola “How come they don’t see that we are the luckiest people on earth, so lucky in fact that our president is called Goodluck. The only other nation…
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Is there hope for youth in the PDP? Yes, but children below 40 are not allowed – All in last week’s news… with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola As long as the opposition keeps acting like spoilt kids, the PDP would be celebrating a landslide in 2015 Tinubu Mythology Contest The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola is sponsoring…
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Committeocracy! The government of the committees, by the committees and for the committees- All in last week’s news… with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola Those who pledge to Nigeria in the open but seek to pauperize it in the dark shall stumble and awkwardly fall until daylight reveals their underpants. FG…
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Has the President got his ‘Goodluck’ back? All in last’s week’s news…with a pinch of salt
By Stanley Azuakola Interview questions leaked A committee has been set up to investigate the immediate and remote causes responsible for the leak of the general knowledge interview questions for…
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“Our president, the general” – Jonathan vs #OccupyNigeria: Lessons learnt, by Stanley Azuakola Part 2
by Stanley Azuakola In my last piece, I mentioned three out of five valuable lessons gleaned from the January Occupy Nigeria protests across Nigeria. I said the protests gave us…
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“Nigeria’s six arms of government? Executive, Legislature, Cabals, Protesters, Judiciary and Terrorists” – all in last week’s news… with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola Nigeria's six arms do battle Nigeria's six arms of government -executive, legislature, cabals, protesters, judiciary and terrorists- have been engaged in a weekly battle for supremacy over…
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President Obama and President Jonathan to debate? All in last week’s news…with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola Obama takes on Jonathan` The United States presidential elections season is in full gear and already candidates from the opposition Republican Party have squared off in 19…
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Government Officials make plans for 2015, all in last week’s news…with a pinch of salt
By Stanley Azuakola A Pinch...refuses to believe that any god is sadistic enough to demand the lives of innocent men. President Jonathan unmoved by unpopularity These are not the best…
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Subsidies and extravagances, all in last week’s news…with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola Nollywood producer shoots in Aso Rock It's no longer news that President Jonathan plans to spend N140 million this year irrigating the garden at the presidential villa. What…
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“This generation is different from the last” – Did Stanley Azuakola predict the revolution 3 months ago?
It is now a cliche, but it is still true – this generation is different from the last, and there is much to celebrate They will no longer patiently wait…
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#FuelSubsidyRemoval, the government and the people, all in last week’s news…with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola "...our police now have the opportunity to shine and show themselves again by manhandling protesters..." Shun SURE, embrace CURE Protesters in Nigeria have rejected the government's Subsidy…
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Father-in-laws and new government laws, all in last week’s news…with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola Lagos father-in-laws revolt The Association of Professional Father-in-laws, Lagos branch, has said that from April 2012, after fuel subsidy is removed, bride prices for their daughters would…
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Laws and prophesies for 2012, all in last week’s news…with a pinch of salt
by Stanley Azuakola Investigations have shown that some public officials are frantically lobbying to have T. B. Joshua of The Synagogue Church of All Nations prophecy concerning their offices. Kidnapping…
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This week on ‘A pinch…’ is our top 10 Denials of 2011
by Stanley Azuakola "I am not a lion. I am not a king. I am not a general.” –President Jonathan Dino Melaye nominated for Nobel Prize Hon. Dino Melaye, the…
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