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February 24, 2014

Collins Uma: Deaths and the dearth of governance in Benue (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Benue is known as the Food Basket of The Nation and this appellation depends on the activities of farmers in places like Guma, Gwer West, Agatu and other farming communities. With these attacks, the farmers have abandoned the farms and the few that remain do so at great risks to their lives.... Read More

benue, cattle, Collins Uma, dearth, death, good governance, nigeria, opinion, tiv, usman, ynaija, YNaija Frontpage

December 19, 2013

Alkasim Abdulkadir: What Jonathan must do in this stormy season of letters (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir One argument that continues to run through the conversation is space on the moral authority of Obasanjo to write President Jonathan such a letter, for many people it has been a case of take message but shoot down the messenger. Nigeria’s public space has been inundated with a series of letters and speeches... Read More

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Hauwa Gambo: Tony Elumelu must not give Celestine a penny more (Y! FrontPage)

by Hauwa Gambo Wonders shall never cease o. Apparently, last year, banking guru and venture capitalist, Tony O. Elumelu gave $5,000 as seed-money to various technology start-ups in a partnership with the Co-Creation Hub. One year later, what is the thanks he gets? One of the young people, Celestine Ezeokoye of Tiketmobile, who was so... Read More

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Cheta Nwanze: We are not our brothers’ keepers, Nigerians (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze In August 2011 when it was announced that cleaning up Ogoniland in the Niger Delta region would cost at least $1 billion, and would take up to a generation, only two of Nigeria’s online media outlets considered the story worthy of being their lead as soon as the report was released.... Read More

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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: We need to change the way we teach (Y! Frontpage)

by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji The world often tends to follow a power law distribution or what is more popularly called the 80-20 rule or the Pareto principle. This phenomenon of power law distribution has proven itself in the growth of Internet users, investment returns and even corporate sale. However, one area where it will be interesting... Read More

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Hauwa Gambo: I tire for this our nyama-nyama president (Y! FrontPage)

by Hauwa Gambo We have a president who, in the same year, declared that he is “not a lion” and has no need to be, only for him to turn round and declare that he “does not give a damn”. That statement still rankles me now as it did last year. I find it disrespectful,... Read More

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Akintunde Oyebode: Let’s talk about Bayelsa (Y! FrontPage)

While we laughed and ranted about the headlines from our friends, the most alarming headline about Bayelsa State went relatively unnoticed. It is very rare to see three men who governed the same state at different times dominate the headlines of Nigerian newspapers. Last week, the biggest news in the country was the pardon President... Read More

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February 5, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Free expression: The process to change (Y! FrontPage)

I could play the background I could play the background Cause I know sometimes I get in the way So won’t you take the lead, lead, lead? So won’t you take the lead, lead, lead? And I could play the background, background And you could take the lead – Lecrae (Background) For the last... Read More

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January 20, 2013

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Let’s talk about irresponsible government (Y! FrontPage)

by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu I was in the car with my brother’s driver heading out to get fuel and noticed the queues were back sometime last week. We hadn’t heard about any strikes or disagreements between government and tanker drivers or any of the petroleum sector employee unions. In spite of all that, it still... Read More

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January 19, 2013

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 16, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: For bloggers only – Part 1 (Y! FrontPage)

So yes, if you have a real job and make a living off that I am glad for you. There are folks who don’t even have any. This article is for bloggers who want to make a living out of the art. I will say some things here that’d portray me as proud but what... Read More

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January 12, 2013

Hauwa Gambo: There was a president, and his name was Olusegun (Y! FrontPage)

by Hauwa Gambo Whatever good this man accumulated in his time in office, he wasted and squandered towards the end of his legitimate term. He became entitled and foolish, a bull in a china shop, suddenly convinced about his own inevitability and immortality, even perfection. By the time he began to dance naked in the... Read More

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January 12, 2013

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 9, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Nigeria’s number one problem remains the same (YNaija FrontPage)

Pay attention to the history of nations and corporations, wherever there was a monumental leap in the fortunes of a people, there was a leap in the class of leadership. In a country like Nigeria where everywhere you look you find problems resulting from problems of yesteryears, one is tempted to think these problems in... Read More

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January 8, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Who will document the failure of #OccupyNigeria? (YNaija FrontPage)

So here is my plea to Nigerian writers. Save us the displeasure of another horrid review of “There was a Country”. Give us an authoritative account of what happened in Ojota and Kano last January. During the holidays, I watched one of the best movies I believe I will ever have the pleasure of seeing... Read More

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January 2, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: The celebration is now over (YNaija FrontPage)

The beauty of a year is not in the new number you add to your age or the activities you get involved in but what you effectively get done! Welcome to 2013. First off I’d like to appreciate my most dedicated readers from March of 2012. I will be the first to admit that keeping... Read More

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January 1, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Goodbye to the disaster that was 2012 (Y! FrontPage)

The final and I believe the most important lesson of 2012 is that despite all of Nigeria’s doom and gloom, there is still incredible opportunity. You can’t imagine how glad I am that 2012 has finally come to an end. It was nothing short of a nasty gruesome year. Between Boko Haram, the airways and... Read More

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December 26, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: #My2012Lessons: Evolve and forget your certificate (YNaija FrontPage)

I am ruling the world yet but I can assure you I am on the way there and you can be too. Have my best wishes for 2013 and than you for reading my works. Blessings. Happy holidays! This is my last entry for the year. I have written mostly about our country, and... Read More

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December 24, 2012

Tolu Ogunlesi: The definitive list: Nigeria’s Top 5 good news items for 2012 (YNaija FrontPage)

Read my most recent YNaija piece for details. For the masses of Nigeria, every squabble between the members of an oppressive elite is good news. What better way to end the year than on a note of good news. I get accused all the time, by deeply and genuinely patriotic Nigerians, of not being positive... Read More

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December 22, 2012

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 19, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Activism 3.0: One part of a dynamic evolving phenomenon (YNaija FrontPage)

Digital Activism must speak a better language than noise, we must speak in terms of policies and alternatives to ideas we do not want. The times have changed and are indeed increasingly on the change. In times past a few citizens called activists made change happen, today, societies are a lot more inclusive than that.... Read More

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December 16, 2012

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: We can’t continue like this, seriously (YNaija FrontPage)

I don’t know about you but I worry for a country that wants to celebrate the death of a human being not because he was insanely wicked to humanity but because of his religious beliefs while he was alive. As the news of the helicopter crash filtered in yesterday and I heard that... Read More

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December 13, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: Be prepared (YNaija FrontPage)

For Bankole Taiwo, who is being buried today, we can only pray that the road rises to meet him and that until we meet again, may God hold him in the palm of his hand. For the work he did while he was among us, he deserves no less. I joined the Boys Scout in... Read More

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December 12, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Activism 3.0: The power of synergy and amplification (YNaija FrontPage)

…Governments around the world for one reason or the other fear bad news from abroad than they do bad news from within. They don’t want to be fought from outside because they have no control over what happens outside. In life, people who engage the force of synergy are more likely to succeed and do... Read More

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December 11, 2012

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Nigeria may never be home (YNaija FrontPage)

by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji You’ve been put on this earth to be all you can be, like the reserves. – (Jay- Z) Lost Ones. I couldn’t help noticing the kidnap of Ngozi Iweala’s mother’s dominate the headlines this week. It is just one of many stories of how like a murderous sow, Nigeria continues to... Read More

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December 10, 2012

Tolu Ogunlesi: May things continue to fall apart in Nigeria (YNaija FrontPage)

They buy jets and fund projects from the sweat of the bottom-billion, who know that one day Jehovah Lojiji, the God of Suddenly, will make an Expressway where bushpaths used to be. Calm down, it’s not a curse. It’s a prayer. A prayer for the good of the country that we all love dearly but... Read More

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December 8, 2012

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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December 7, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: Folorunso Alakija – The trials of a Tailor (YNaija FrontPage)

by Hauwa Gambo If you didn’t know about Folorunsho Alakija a week ago, well now you do. Since a new magazine called VENTURES made the best business decision in its short history and declared her the richest black woman in the world (at least $3.3 billion rich) – one who had beaten down the almighty... Read More

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December 6, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: Sing while you’re winning (YNaija FrontPage)

I don’t envy the men paid to defend the image of the Nigerian government, and wish them the very best with their impressive imitation of Joseph Goebbels. Edward Bernays will not ring any bells, and is one of those men you are likely to hear about in a Pub Quiz but forget about after consuming... Read More

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December 5, 2012

Japheth Omojuwa: Focusing the sun on our activism (YNaija FrontPage)

I call this the National Distraction Album in Nigeria. This is the predictable tactic of those in government to always divert attention from one issue to the other till they end their mandate on a platter of promises delivered on nothing. In Nigeria, when it rains it pours. There are just more than enough issues... Read More

boko haram, government, Insecurity, japheth omojuwa, nigeria, YNaija Frontpage

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