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A week to his 52nd birthday, we profile the rise and fall of Farouk Lawan (YNaija Long Read)

by Nchekwube Efunesi As he listened intently - from where he stood in the dock - to the court registrar reeling out all seven counts accusing him of seeking a…

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Chika Nwobi: Meet the god of Nigeria’s mobile and Internet space (YNaija Long Read)

by Goke Oyeniyi Nigeria's mobile tech pioneer who founded MTECH, West Africa's largest mobile content company, is producing the country's next generation of elite entrepreneurs and internet companies - and…

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Why Goodluck Jonathan is the president we deserve (YNaija Long Read)

by Wole Olabanji If you happen to see a woman leaving the Federal Secretariat (Phase I) in Abuja with a bottle of liquid and assume, because of a certain yellowish…

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Eko for show: An interrogation of the Fashola legacy (YNaija Long Read)

by Nchekwube Efunesi On a cool, breezy morning in January 2013, Babatunde Raji Fashola, the charismatic Lagos State governor, arrived the site of the Iganmu Light Rail Station. He wanted…

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When the elections come – How will the North vote in 2015? (YNaija Long Read)

by Mark Amaza In the week of Christmas 2013 the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Jigawa held rallies in the three senatorial zones of the state to drum up support…

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The journey to Wakanow: How one tech company is making it happen – quietly and steadily (YNaija Long Read)

by Goke Oyeniyi Obinna Ekezie, CEO, Wakanow, photographed by Opeyemi Balogun for GO Media Like Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, the former LA Lakers legend-turned business-mogul-worth- $500 million, Port Harcourt-born Obinna Ekezie…

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The Goodluck Implosion: How this Presidency went from favourite to unpopular in 3 years (YNaija Long Read)

by Wole Olabanji   On April 7, 2013, twenty-five months after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan and crippled the Fukushima power plant, a skiff which was part of the…

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The Princess Diaries: How Stella Oduah got away with everything (YNaija Long Read)

by Wole Olabanji The crowd in the terminal is as thick as toothbrush bristles, total strangers packed so tightly that they are literally breathing down each other’s necks. The angst…

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