by Lekan Olanrewaju Regardless of what team you support, or if you couldn’t even be bothered to bat an eyelash over football at all, you’ll have to agree, yesterday was one for the books. From the glimmer of hope Manchester United enjoyed (or suffered, depending on how you want to look at it), to Arsenal clinching... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya @segzee01: FG pay us our allowee and scrap dis none sense NYSC #OccupyNYSC Pay Us our allowee #OccupyNYSC @rmajayi: I can’t understand why #Nigerians think uni. graduates should spend a year cleaning toilets, buying food & giving sex! #OccupyNYSC These are just a tiny sample of the angry tweets that have flooded the twitterverse as young Nigerians vent their anger over... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] Lanre Dabiri, who we love to call eLDee the Don, is a lot of things – record label owner, producer, songwriter, recording artiste, father, and husband. Yesterday, Henry Okelue (@4eyedmonk) took charge of our weekly Friday interview, and got him to answer several questions. Here’s an excerpt: @YNaija: The #YNaijainterview starts... Read More
by Daniel Essien A few days back, a Twitter handle, @9jafacts, which was registered this week trended in Lagos. And the reason was simple: it tweeted a lot of witty, hilarious and even mean ‘facts’ about Nigeria and Nigerians. The account has been suspended but we were able to get some of the tweets before... Read More
by Daniel Essien Many businesses offer ‘brick and mortar’ products and services. This basically means what they offer can be experienced directly by potential customers. The question that begs for an answer is, how can you take your service to a realm that enables your output to be experienced by people you may never meet?... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] Sunday morning, some residents of Lagos woke up to rains and gale storms. By the time everything calmed down, it was revealed that it had left a few people dead, properties damaged, vehicles vandalised and unending traffic. Some of the tweets included: @moj2ride2010: Alert Authorities dat due 2 d heavy Rainfall dis... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] Knock, knock, knock! Who’s here? It’s Ali Baba, the king of comedy himself. Yes, we kicked off our weekly #YNaijaInterview on Twitter today and @ALIBABAGCFR was our first interviewee. The interview was moderated by Aziza Uko, Y!’s Editor-at-Large, @azizauko . Here’s a full transcript of the interview we had with... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] The Nigerian Police has joined the social media craze, as they’ve registered a Twitter account with the handle – @policeng. Apparently, the account had been opened since January 21 this year, but it just got all the buzz today. And after ten minutes after YNaija tweeted it, it was already trending... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] and Wilfred Okiche @1soulmusicfilm: “@DONJAZZY pls don’t talk again…” Two days back, Don Jazzy trended briefly at number 3 worldwide. And no, it wasn’t for dropping another party banger, the ace producer made news for engaging in the sequel of verbal wars with some of his followers. He posted a tweet... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang [@Ifreke] Nigeria’s pop sensation, Tiwa Savage got into a fight with a fan yesterday. The cause of the fight was not immediately ascertained but it appears a certain @solidbrodas tweeted an insult at Miss Savage and she couldn’t hold herself back from replying. Below is an excerpt of the exchange they had... Read More
by Wilfred Okiche If there has been one boogey-man for some of the young people, especially on social networks, angry about the fuel subsidy removal by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, it has been pop icon and music entrepreneur Dapo Oyebanjo, known as D’banj. It is easy to understand. He endorsed the president, re-mixed... Read More
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