Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Why I am an entrepreneur in the business of nation building (2)

by Chude Jideonwo Then there is the long-term advantage – and this is the more important one for the future of our nation: what roles can business thinking and the entrepreneurial spirit play in reshaping the Nigerian society? To answer, you may first ask the more fundamental questions: what is the role of business,... Read More

Featured, Thinking Through

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October 3, 2016

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YNaija.com launches ‘New Voices’ daily column today | Arit Okpo, Aderonke Adebanjo, Ore Fakorede, 11 others take the lead on conversations that matter

The editors of YNaija.com today announced a fresh new column, ‘New Voices’ today – a daily column that presents the very best of a new generation of Nigerian writers sharing on the Nigerian experience, our everyday realities and what you may call the human condition as it relates to our country and its people. “As... Read More

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September 30, 2016

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#Impact365: Temie Giwa’s LifeBank is solving Nigeria’s blood crisis

Temie Giwa is the chief executive of LifeBank, a five month old startup that is using technology to solve the problem of blood shortage across Nigeria. In this interview with YNaija’s #Impact365 series, Giwa tells us more about LifeBank Can you tell us more about LifeBank? Yes, LifeBank is a technology and logistic company. And... Read More

Citizenship, Featured

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August 11, 2016

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Lifebank founder, Temie Giwa has NO regrets voting for Buhari – and she explains why (TWEETS)

This is the season of apologies and regrets as many young and influential Nigerians have come out to publicly denounced President Buhari’s administration and apologize for supporting Buhari. Despite this, one person remains unapologetic for voting President Buhari. Temie Giwa, the CEO and founder of Life Bank, in the following tweets explains why she has... Read More

The News Blog

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October 19, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Plane crashes – The act of God in the hands of men (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The recent drama about the N225 million BMW shopping spree is ironic and incredibly sad, especially when one considers reports that the NCAA, agency in charge of airline safety, air worthiness standard, aerodrome and airspace stands, air transport regulation, and consumer protection might be cashed strapped. About a year ago, I needed... Read More

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September 28, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Extra-judicial killings in Nigeria – Show me your particulars (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Here is the remarkable fact, they are killing us. All of us. They kill us in our cars, at our shops, in our homes sometimes just negligently but often deliberately. If it hasn’t touched you, it is easy to dismiss this… On April 16th 2013, a small town that normally wakes to... Read More

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September 14, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Conversation on class (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa ….the fascinating conversation died out when the proponent of the ‘Child not bride’ initiative focused on moral outrage while ignoring the huge elephant in the room: inequality and poverty. What does girl child marriage, deportation of destitutes in Lagos, and many other major conversations Nigerians have been having recently have in common? On... Read More

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June 29, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Blood donors – The givers of life (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Blood from volunteer donors is often the difference between life and death yet Nigerians hardly donate blood voluntarily. Consider these facts: Blood means life but in Nigeria access to safe blood is rare. About 10% of all HIV cases are caused by unsafe blood transfusion. Volunteer blood donors can help save the... Read More

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June 22, 2013

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Temie Giwa: The doctor ordered primary health care (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Primary health care in Nigeria is truly horrific… Clinic filled with overworked and underpaid staff members, who are so prone to mistakes that if Nigerians were remotely litigious, lawyers would suddenly become overnight celebrities and billionaires. The International Finance Corporation claims that $4.5 billion investment is needed to repair Nigeria’s health system... Read More

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May 18, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Go back to your village (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The other reason I have spent my life wandering around the world is to take up a chance to make my fortune and I am still work in progress. I assume most people who leave their homes have similar reasons. It happened Wednesday afternoon at around 5pm on the Lekki-Epe expressway. A... Read More

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May 4, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Nigeria – The rampaging cancer scourge and how we can fight it (Y! FrontPage)

There are some viral infections such as HBV/HCV and HPV that are responsible for up to 20% of cancer deaths in low- and middle-income countries. Cancer is here to stay; it is growing and plans to take million more lives with it. They call it the emperor of all diseases. It comes silently, quickly morphs... Read More

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April 27, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Baga – The war of hearts (Y! FrontPage)

The dead are dead, the people of Baga have buried their women and children, but as the burnt livelihoods are being cleared away, the lesson of Baga remains for those of us who live still… The fact that the death of about 180 citizens on Saturday was at the hands of two groups supposedly fighting... Read More

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April 22, 2013

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Opinion: The difference between a feminist and a nuisance

by Nana Nwachukwu We need to stop fashioning a feminist box. There is no formula to feminism and feminism is not a threat to masculinity. Feminism…hmmn, what does it mean? I am not going to define it from any dictionary rather I am going to follow this from the perspective that makes me gladly say,... Read More

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April 20, 2013

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Temie Giwa: This is what a feminist looks like (Y! FrontPage)

In other to change this status quo, most of us must become feminists. Many women are not satisfied with staying at home and raising children, no matter how fulfilling this is. Women want to participate fully in the running of Nigeria. Feminism has been in the news recently and since I spend a lot of... Read More

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April 13, 2013

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Temie Giwa: 2015 – Who will bell the legislators? (Y! FrontPage)

In order to get 2015 right, a shift in perspective is required for us to slightly move away from our historical obsession with the Executive branch of government, and towards the people’s representative. Nigeria is behind. The signs and indicators that Nigeria is behind and that we have all failed each other are endless. Unfortunately,... Read More

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March 23, 2013

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Temie Giwa: The oil masters (Y! FrontPage)

Were the representatives aware of how much the delay of the PIB will cost Nigeria? How is it that they have been complicit in deferring the passage of the bill until Nigeria has lost all investment in the oil sector? Was this their goal all along? Who is the enemy of the Nigerian people? During... Read More

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March 16, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Corruption – Nigeria needs to protect its whistle blowers (Y! FrontPage)

…it is a warning to those who might yet choose to stand with the people, that their government will not stand for them… Nigeria must learn to treat her whistle blowers with more respect and they must be protected at all cost. The man works at a bar and when he heard a presidential candidate... Read More

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March 9, 2013

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Temie Giwa: How to make a baby homeless (Y! FrontPage)

Are we fine with paying for high-rise apartments or gleaming new malls with the homelessness of a baby? Is this a price we are willing to pay for development? Are we all wiling to live in a society willfully devoid of all mercy and human empathy, a hyper efficient but largely soulless state? Nigeria has... Read More

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February 23, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Donating blood is giving life (Y! FrontPage)

Saving Nigerian lives from preventable deaths requires action from the government, international partners and from citizens like you. I think a lot about citizenship and what that entails. What does it mean to be a citizen? What are the responsibilities of a member of a community to the collective health of that community? These are... Read More

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February 2, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Rape and responsibility (Y! FrontPage)

In further defense of the editors, it also posted right at the bottom of the piece, like it always does, that the opinion shared in every opinion piece is not necessary that of Ynaija. In short, retweets are not endorsements. Is it not a bit narcissistic to believe that my analysis or opinion should matter... Read More

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January 26, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Stealing from the police (Y! FrontPage)

So if we spend so much on the Nigerian police, how come the state of the Police Colleges are so bad? Last week, it seemed that the Presidency was set on a course to reform the Nigerian police, starting with the institutions that trains new recruits. The documentary created by the Channels Television station promised... Read More

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January 19, 2013

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Temie Giwa: The Great Police Reform (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Last Friday afternoon, a young Nigerian doctor, Irawo Adamolekun, was shot to death in his car on a Lagos road. Although his shooter was not a member of the Nigerian Police Force, one can infer that his weapon was procured from a member of that force. The direct or indirect murders... Read More

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January 12, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Here comes the state police (Y! FrontPage)

The only thing that will save our police force is better training and better remuneration. The very same thing that will save Nigeria’s teachers, health workers in fact the entire civil service. Some months back, I read a public service announcement in the Nigerian Vanguard newspapers. Using information from the Nigerian police, the article stated... Read More

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January 5, 2013

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Temie Giwa: Befriending the Nigerian police (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The stories of killings, tortures, and extortion against the Nigerian police are so many that it is almost a cliché to mention these. Nigerians are generally not safe but the police make us even less safe from harm. He was shot by a stray police bullet after calling the Nigerian Police to... Read More

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December 22, 2012

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Temie Giwa: Boko Haram spreads its wings (YNaija FrontPage)

The problem of Boko Haram is coming to all our homes faster than we can imagine. Days before the splintering began, the Boko Haram faction, still whole, had created a list of all its public enemies. These men represented all they felt was wrong with their world and contained those that could be traced to... Read More

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December 15, 2012

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Temie Giwa: Prevention is better than dialogue (YNaija FrontPage)

Every Nigerian with an AK47 is being given an incentive to unleash terror on innocent folks, to kill and maim them, then demand ‘dialogue.’ It is a business model Nigeria is unsafe and most of us who live here have known this for a long time. Roads, airports, offices and entire regions are deadly places... Read More

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December 8, 2012

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Temie Giwa: We need to talk about the North (YNaija Frontpage)

When death comes in waves to people who look like us all, it cheapens the lives of the living; and makes cheap death probable for us all. It is very early morning in Kano city. The dawn peeps in and drives away the thick blanket of Northern sky that covered Kano through the night. I... Read More

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November 24, 2012

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Temie Giwa: The Nigerian political opposition’s poison (YNaija FrontPage)

The opposition’s strategy is to steal the Sout-West and the North from PDP by presenting a northern favorite through CPC and a South-Western winner through the ACN. The plan seems foolproof and might work in the end but there are a few holes in this strategy. The fight for the presidency has begun with the... Read More

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November 10, 2012

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Temie Giwa: The kabal and their overlord (YNaija FrontPage)

I have news for Mr. President; the Nigerian people do not find these findings “incomplete or useless”. It confirms all that we have suspected about his administration since the beginning. It confirms the rot and the systemic waste of public resources while the majority of Nigerians can barely make ends meet on $2 a day.... Read More

#OccupyNigeria, crude oil, fuel subsidy protest, nnpc, Oil, Temie Giwa

November 3, 2012

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Temie Giwa: Citizens awake! Watch our national spending (YNaija FrontPage)

In fact, I believe that a public budget is the most important tool that citizens can use to gauge the seriousness of purpose of their government because it shows it cares about, its philosophies and its weaknesses. I have always believed in a government’s unique opportunity to change a critical mass of lives. One can... Read More

Budgeting, citizen participation, citizen watch, public budget, Temie Giwa, ynaija, YNaija Frontpage

Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Why I am an entrepreneur in the business of nation building (2)

YNaija.com launches ‘New Voices’ daily column today | Arit Okpo, Aderonke Adebanjo, Ore Fakorede, 11 others take the lead on conversations that matter

#Impact365: Temie Giwa’s LifeBank is solving Nigeria’s blood crisis

Lifebank founder, Temie Giwa has NO regrets voting for Buhari – and she explains why (TWEETS)

Temie Giwa: Plane crashes – The act of God in the hands of men (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Extra-judicial killings in Nigeria – Show me your particulars (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Conversation on class (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Blood donors – The givers of life (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: The doctor ordered primary health care (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Go back to your village (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Nigeria – The rampaging cancer scourge and how we can fight it (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Baga – The war of hearts (Y! FrontPage)

Opinion: The difference between a feminist and a nuisance

Temie Giwa: This is what a feminist looks like (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: 2015 – Who will bell the legislators? (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: The oil masters (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Corruption – Nigeria needs to protect its whistle blowers (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: How to make a baby homeless (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Donating blood is giving life (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Rape and responsibility (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Stealing from the police (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: The Great Police Reform (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Here comes the state police (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Befriending the Nigerian police (Y! FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Boko Haram spreads its wings (YNaija FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Prevention is better than dialogue (YNaija FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: We need to talk about the North (YNaija Frontpage)

Temie Giwa: The Nigerian political opposition’s poison (YNaija FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: The kabal and their overlord (YNaija FrontPage)

Temie Giwa: Citizens awake! Watch our national spending (YNaija FrontPage)

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