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January 9, 2017

YNaija Editorial: The Federal Government needs to act in unison

A few days before Christmas, the Federal Operations Unit, Ikeja of the Nigerian Customs Service announced the seizure of a shipment of rice, which upon testing, turned out to be plastic pellets shaped in the form of rice. Expectedly, this seizure dominated the news headlines with Christmas festivities approaching and demand for rice, Nigeria’s staple... Read More

Featured, Opinion, Thinking Through

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January 9, 2017

Chude Jideonwo: This is why I completely love my job at RED

by Chude Jideonwo In October, I was invited to two events on the same day. The first was a gathering of Nigerian creatives convened by Tony O. Elumelu. Actors, singers, designers, stylists, movie producers and directors old and young gathered at the National Theatre. The second was the launch of Ndidi Nwuneli’s latest book ‘Reaching... Read More

Featured, Opinion, Thinking Through

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January 8, 2017

Oby Ezekwesili: Chibok Girls – Painful memories of a thousand days

by Oby Ezekwesili On that 30th April 2014 when diverse citizens gathered to march in solidarity, no one could have imagined that any out of our 219 Chibok Girls abducted from their secondary school in April 2014 would remain in captivity of terrorists 1000 days after the tragedy. One recalls pictures of distressed parents supported... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Opinion

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January 8, 2017

Tears, joy, anger, anxiety… | We bring you 1,000 days of the Chibok girls abduction in 15 pictures

It’s day 1,000. On 14 April, 2014, heavily-armed Boko Haram terrorists attacked Government Girls’ Secondary School in a Borno town called Chibok. The insurgents made away with 276 female students from the boarding school and next time anyone heard of the teenage girls, they were paraded by the terrorists in an unknown location. This was... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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January 8, 2017

YNaija Says: 1,000 Days after – The FG must do more to rescue abducted Chibok girls

Today makes it 1,000 days since 276 girls preparing to write their final exam were abducted from the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok town of Borno State by the Boko Haram terrorist group. The abduction marked a turning point in the five-year war against the terrorist organization, and the silence and poor handling of... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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January 8, 2017

Album review: Aramide’s Suitcase is packed full of goodies

by Wilfred Okiche Gifted vocalist, Aramide has been around for a spell now, since her runner-up finish at the 2006 edition of talent hunt show, Star Quest. She’s had a spell with eLDee’s Trybe records, before finding kin with Baseline records. Active on the underground scene for a long time, Aramide has gotten high-profile notices... Read More

Featured, Reviews, Thinking Through

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January 7, 2017

PROFILE: Is Solomon Dalung the worst minister ever liveth?

by Wilfred Okiche After securing a historic mandate, President Muhammadu Buhari finally named his ministers in October of 2015, completing a five-month period in which he made Nigerians wait and squirm. The whole unnecessarily drawn out song and dance that trailed the President’s choice of policy drivers was considered an anti-climax once the long-awaited list... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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Abba Kyari

January 6, 2017

Timeline: The many ‘sins’ of Pres. Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari

“Go and sin no more”, Jesus told the woman caught in the very act of adultery. Off she went and nothing related to adultery was ever mentioned about her ever again. But this cannot be said of Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. Of all the persons in Buhari’s cabinet, Kyari’s name has... Read More

Thinking Through

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January 6, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: Don’t forget what GEJ did when he needed a Hail Mary

Welcome to 2017 and in a few months, the second year of President Buhari’s tenure as president will be gone. Save for a handful of projects and state governors who have impressed. The majority of the promises on which Buhari sailed to power have remained that, promises. The economy in the throes of Nigeria’s biggest... Read More

Thinking Through

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January 4, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: Have you ever stopped to wonder why people are born ‘straight’?

Nigerians everywhere are slowly coming to terms with the reality that not everyone is heterosexual. That first sentence is phrased that way deliberately because in discussions here about sexuality, one thing is always taken for granted; for sexual minorities to exist, there has to be a majority, and that majority is overwhelmingly heterosexual. Especially here where pressure... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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SERAP

January 4, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] All the allegations leveled against President Buhari’s officers

One thing the pastors have obviously omitted in their 2017 prophecies is the fact that this is the year of pro-active participation in governance by citizens. We led the way here when we prepared a must-do list for the President and we had even given him pointers earlier on how we’d like to be impressed... Read More

The Presidential Blog

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January 3, 2017

These are the best and worst Nigerian senators in 2016

It’s the start of a new year, and the upper chamber of the National Assembly will soon begin buzzing with activities – proposing legislation, signing bills into law, and jostling for positions. But before this, we look at the performances of every member of the upper legislative chamber – from Senator Gershom Bassey (Cross River... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Thinking Through

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January 3, 2017

These are the best and worst Nigerian ministers in 2016

Nigerians online and offline appear to be of the opinion that a cabinet reshuffle is one of the things President Muhammadu Buhari needs to do 2017. We don’t know if he will heed the call or not, but what we know is that his cabinet needs regular assessment to evaluate their performance. We have set... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Thinking Through

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January 2, 2017

YNaija Editorial: What President Buhari must do in 2017

At the start of every new year, there is a burst of hope and optimism that the year will be better than the ones before it. Goals are set and plans are made to make the hopes of a great year a reality. The year 2016 was a pretty rough one for Nigeria: for the first... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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January 2, 2017

Album review: Bez’s Gbagyi Child is the sound of home

by Wilfred Okiche Bez Idakula wowed the world with Supersun, his Cobhams Asuquo produced 2011 debut disc that made the case at the time for a wider embrace of broader musical tastes and at the same time, supplied proof that a different kind of alternative music exists, one that is rooted in home culture and... Read More

Reviews, Thinking Through

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January 1, 2017

Class of 2016: These are the 100 most influential Nigerians on Twitter

by Chi Ibe For the first time in a very long while, the conversation on TwitterNG has ceased to be monopolized and dominated by tweeps with thousands of followers who believe they reserve the rights to set the pace on what is important and what is not. 2016 has seen the coming to fore of... Read More

Featured, Reviews, Thinking Through

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December 31, 2016

LONG READ: How The Wedding Party became the biggest critical and commercial Nollywood success story

by Wilfred Okiche On Boxing Day, Hafiz, 32, felt like a visit to the movies with his fiancé. They headed to the Silverbird Cinemas at the Ikeja City Mall. They both wanted to see The Wedding Party, the star-studded Nollywood romantic comedy directed by Kemi Adetiba. Apparently so did everybody else. Hafiz and fiancé braved... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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December 31, 2016

Editorial: Why The Paralympic Team – the champions among winners – is the Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2016

by our Editors 2016 has been a dismal year for sports and its administration. The beret-wearing sports minister is a disaster. The Leadership of the Football Federation brings new meaning to the term incompetence. The Dream Team VI was stranded in Atlanta on the way to compete at the Olympics in Rio. The Super Falcons... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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December 31, 2016

The Paralympic Team is Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2016

The editorial board of Y! – TV, Magazine & Online – has announced its pick for Person of the Year 2016 – and it is the Nigerian Paralympic team. The Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year is in its sixth year and is awarded to individuals who have most visibly influenced the Nigerian society for good in... Read More

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December 30, 2016

Isime Esene profiles Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II: The blue-blooded maverick (Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year nominee)

Wearing multiple hats and playing diverse roles may be difficult to many, but not for the Emir of Kano. Coming from a family of rulers, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (as he then was) has always been in and around royalty. Being the grandson of the 11th Emir of Kano and son of Muhammad Lamido Sanusi, a... Read More

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December 30, 2016

Isioma Osaje profiles AY Makun: Man of the hour, every hour (Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2016 Nominee)

Guinness world record holder In a world where metrics like the longest kiss can get you into that good book, it’s comforting to know that A.Y is in there for “substantial” reasons. A.Y currently holds the Guinness world record for the highest grossing Nigerian film in Nigerian cinemas. N164,243,946 million*, that how much his first... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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December 30, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: We will not watch while a generation is wiped out | Chocolate City boss, Audu Maikori speaks on the killings in Kaduna

The Catholic Archdiocese of Kafanchan has put the number of deaths to 808. In three local governments in Southern Kaduna, Fulani herdsmen who have become what the Federal Government of Nigeria continues to deny branding them – terrorists, have ruined lives, property, hopes and everything the people in these parts could lay claim to. Although... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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December 29, 2016

The Media Blog: The fall of NaijaGistLive has been spectacular to behold

Who would have thought? A news story on a major canadian network about a Nigerian gossip blog? But, it happened. We watched. With caution. Same way we did when we heard the ‘co-founder‘ of the site in question, NaijaGistLive had been captured, after which, before we knew what happened, the infamous Matharoo sisters had been roped... Read More

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December 29, 2016

Osarumen Osamuyi profiles The Nigerian Techie: Selling Gala in a recession (Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2016 Nominee)

It has been brought to my attention that Gala now sells for ₦70. Please permit me to say, “hay God. HAY. GOD!” The great traffic trifecta has been disrupted so if you doubted it before, we are now certain Nigeria is in a recession. Before now, with a single ₦200 note, you could buy two... Read More

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December 28, 2016

JJ Omojuwa profiles Dapo Olorunyomi: The truth in defiance of power (Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2016 Nominee)

Speak truth to power, so goes the adage commonly used by activists and civil societies in holding governments accountable and in the demand for a just and equitable society. But speaking truth to power requires knowing what the truth is. Therein lies the power, and attendant risk, associated with investigative journalism. As such, a common... Read More

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December 27, 2016

I wake up sometimes and wonder what the hell I’m doing – Chude Jideonwo

Managing Partner of RED, Chude Jideonwo says he never planned to become an entrepreneur. In an interview with The Maverick on Accelerate TV, he described how he started in the media space and rose through the ranks over the past sixteen years. Speaking further, he said, “I tell people I never really wanted to become an entrepreneur.... Read More

Featured, The News Blog

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December 27, 2016

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 — to remain there until “a good number” of buildings, schools, clinics and markets destroyed by Boko Haram had been rebuilt. Bama is Borno’s second... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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December 26, 2016

SPECIAL EDITORIAL: It appears Pres. Buhari doesn’t understand that things have fallen apart

Most people who voted in Buhari in 2015, if asked about the situation of things at present, would say it is not a reality they had expected. Things have either been the same or gone downhill since the general elections in 2015. In Buhari’s defence, not everything he caused, but everything he had the opportunity... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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December 26, 2016

Concert review: With Bez Live, the Gbagyi child shows us how it’s done

by Wilfred Okiche Every once in a half decade, Bez puts out an album. Since he became a recording artiste, he has released two of them, 2011’s Supersun, and Gbagyi Child released last month. Every once in four years, he will put up a live concert. To promote the album specifically, but also tangentially, to... Read More

Featured, Reviews

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December 26, 2016

#YNaija2016Review: Budget padding, thieving judges, Tiwa starts to talk… See the Top 10 Scandals of 2016

All the world loves a good scandal. This year these were the biggest of the best. From the cringe worthy to the outright depressing, these are 2016’s infamous 10. 10. Was #SaveMayowa a scam or not? The whole country rallied on social media for Mayowa Ahmed, a 31 year old citizen battling with ovarian cancer.... Read More

Featured, Reviews, Thinking Through

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