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Akintunde Oyebode: For love or country (YNaija FrontPage)
Many skilled Nigerians are torn between their determination to remain in the country and the lure of endless possibilities around the globe. Despite the best intentions of the government, the…
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Japheth Omojuwa: Activism 3.0: Activism, Reactivism and the necessary new order (YNaija FrontPage)
Activism would even be okay where activists are actually able to offer practical options and alternatives but there is more often than not a sad reality of a group just…
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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Cutting the fat in our politics (YNaija FrontPage)
...we don’t have to settle for the mediocre compromise that most of Nigeria’s mainstream political parties represent. Last week, we talked about the concept of lean startups and what would…
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Tolu Ogunlesi: Life ain’t some James Bond sh-t (YNaija FrontPage)
We licked our wounds, swapped stories, stewed in our numbness, picked spent bullet shells as though we were harvesting grain. Around midnight on Saturday 11 November (make that Sunday 12…
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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…
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Hauwa Gambo: Now that it’s our turn to “participate” in politics (YNaija FrontPage)
Because change doesn’t happen because one set of people is replaced by the next. Change only happens because one set of philosophies is replaced by another. When democracy returned to…
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Japheth Omojuwa: Activists and active citizens: A new order (YNaija FrontPage)
When I get referred to as an activist and I remember the stories of the real heroes of our democracy, I apologize to their memory because I am not worthy…
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Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: The Abuja delusion/illusion (YNaija FrontPage)
I look at all these evidently important roads and wonder what really the government is doing. Then I realize that they’re actually busy constructing 10 lane highways from the airport…
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Temie Giwa: On self government (YNaija FrontPage)
America has its problems, many of them major and possibly fatal, however its democracy seems to work most of the time and when it doesn’t, it self corrects. So why…
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Hauwa Gambo: The truth about Tunde Bakare (YNaija FrontPage)
Save for fire and brimstone, no one can distil in a nutshell what exactly Tunde Bakare and Buhari were going to do better than Jonathan and Sambo. Let me quickly…
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Akintunde Oyebode: The city that never sleeps (YNaija FrontPage)
As Walter Miller wrote in A Canticle for Leibowitz, “to minimize suffering and maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became only ends…
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Japheth Omojuwa: The Nigerian opposition and the quest for Nigeria’s alternative (YNaija Frontpage)
Nothing is to say the coming together of the parties will guarantee them a win against the PDP in 2015 but that is a prerequisite for a chance of that…
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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: How to get our youth working (YNaija FrontPage)
First, there is quite obviously the silly mindset of a lot of young Nigerians have that certain jobs are beneath them. Some young Nigerians still believe their degree gives them…
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Hauwa Gambo: All I want to say is, thank you, America (YNaija Frontpage)
Whether the rest of the world hates America's guts or not, they have to admit those guys know how to run a democracy! On Wednesday, the Olympics of politics finally…
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Akintunde Oyebode: From Uncle Sam with love (YNaija FrontPage)
The way Dame Patience Jonathan was unleashed during the Presidential campaign suggested women were a clear target. I am convinced her stuttering grammar during the election was also a ploy…
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Japheth Omojuwa: My landlady and our grab-your-own mentality (YNaija FrontPage)
A society moves forward if the people learn to solve problems that affect everyone and not when individuals look to find their own ways around such. Look at the Boko…
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Tolu Ogunlesi: The beggars, the fence and the country (YNaija Frontpage)
From another perspective it is super-depressing news. President come president go, fuel scarcity remain, corruption remain. Nigeria’s problems seem destined to outlive every Nigerian, and certainly every government. I’m currently…
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Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Scrap the Ministry of Information (YNaija Frontpage)
Simply put, the Minister needs to see that scarce funds are being wasted on this pointless tour of states, which will not change any Nigerian’s perception of government performance. As…
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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…
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Akintunde Oyebode: A paradise for maggots (YNaija FrontPage)
Many years ago, a young Nigerian chose to become a police officer instead of a lawyer at the NNPC. I am thankful he chose the less travelled road. Mondays are…
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Hauwa Gambo: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, you have a message (YNaija FrontPage)
In the South-West which it dominates, the ACN has ambled along with juvenile irredentism (Rauf Aregbesola, Osun) arrogant elitism (Babatunde Fashola, Lagos), oblivious inaction (Ibikunle Amosun, Ogun), wanton profligacy (Abiola…
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Temie Giwa: And the floods came (YNaija Frontpage)
We are at a crossroads again. Nigeria could choose to do the right thing and engage in building those buffer dams that is so needed or we could ignore it…
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Hauwa Gambo: What the world desperately needs now (YNaija FrontPage)
It kind of answers the question as to why, these days, leaders continue to chose easy fame over hard-slog decisions. It explains why, from David Cameron to Jacob Zuma, this…
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Akintunde Oyebode: The Verbal Kint in all of us (YNaija Frontpage)
Like most government documents, the Sure and Steady Ready Report reads like a propaganda document, like an artist blowing his trumpet before learning the notes. I remember that day vividly.…
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Hauwa Gambo: Of Omojuwa and those like him (YNaija FrontPage)
But, you see, unlike Omojuwa and his passionate young friends, they actually end up doing nothing. It’s all sound and fury, signifying nonsense, masking their own impotence. They are…
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Akintunde Oyebode: Revolution 2.0 (YNaija FrontPage)
The lessons from Egypt were immense. It is now obvious that ordinary people can deliver extraordinary results. Whenever Wael Ghonim visits Nigeria, I will be honoured to buy him a…
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Japheth Omojuwa: Give the President a break… (YNaija FrontPage)
One would assume a lot of you are jealous of her Chris Aire blings but then I also know some of you have funny ideas about the house of corruption, otherwise…
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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: It’s time to take over from the cowboys (YNaija Frontpage)
It’s amazing that I made it through the maze that I was in Lord forgive me I never would’ve made it without sin -…
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Tolu Ogunlesi: BREAKING: Nigeria now “closer than ever” to discovery of GAWD! Particle (YNaija FrontPage)
The Nigerian Government this morning announced that it was now “very close” to discovering the elusive “GAWD! Particle.” In an exclusive chat with this reporter Presidential spokesperson Rubu Bati said…
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Temie Giwa: Nothing will happen if we do not change the governance system (YNaija FrontPage)
…the vast majority of the people, 98%, will be dishonest and will cheat if they can get away with it There are two concepts I must introduce to explain today’s…
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy