Tag: YNaija Frontpage

Akintunde Oyebode: “What’s in a name?” ( YNaija Frontpage)

These men, who should be listening to the sonorous voices of mosquitoes in prison, sat pretty among the crème of the society. Last Sunday, as my wife and me prepared for church, I…

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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: “Tear down this cement wall!” – Aliko Dangote and Nigeria’s Accidental Billionaires (YNaija Frontpage)

        “I’m like Che Guevara with bling on, I’m complex”       - Jay-Z (Public Service Announcement) Last week, Forbes released a report that showed Aliko Dangote’s personal worth of…

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Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Yellow Fever (YNaija Frontpage)

  Ebuka Obi-Uchendu When the drama with South Africa over yellow fever cards blew up, diplomacy took the front burner while the underlying and more important sad tale of how…

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Temie Giwa: Building incentives for good governance (YNaija Frontpage)

The election period is a chance to make some money and the politicians make it clear that they are willing to buy votes. Demand meets supply and our democracy becomes…

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“Uncouth, uncivilised, indecorous” – A Rejoinder to Kathleen Ndongmo’s YNaija Frontpage article

by Isi Esene (@iDova) I read Kathleen Ndongmo’s piece on YNaija Frontpage, a platform (not unlike ThisDay Backpage) provided for selected young men and women to articulate their perspective and…

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Kathleen Ndongmo: Nigeriaphobia- Continental Ambivalence? (YNaija Frontpage)

Kathleen Ndongmo While the shakiness of the African brotherhood at government level comes as no surprise, the online eye rolling and the sense of; “Oh, those Nigerians again.” is worth…

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Japheth Omojuwa: “Give me a good head…” (YNaija Frontpage)

You want to turn around a nation? Fix the head. Any man with a good enough head will argue universal principles with you and turn them on their head. It…

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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: “If the people lead, the leaders will follow” (YNaija Frontpage)

“I seen people abuse power, use power, misuse and then lose power. Power to the people at last, it’s a new hour” -Kanye West (Power Remix ft. Jay-Z) Lent has…

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Tolu Ogunlesi: “This ‘Youth’ of a thing!” (YNaija Frontpage)

I suspect it’s high time we cured ourselves of a certain blind optimism in the power of the ‘youth’. Julius Malema, the man who until recently was the controversial President…

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