Tag: YNaija Person of the Year
Editorial: Why Ayodeji ‘Wizkid’ Balogun is YNaija Person of the Year 2021
Afrobeats to the world. This vote of confidence in the crossover potential of Nigeria’s music industry has been a thing ...
Taking Afrobeats to the world: Wizkid is Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year
The editorial board of Y! (TV and Online) is pleased to announce music superstar, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known as ...
Abimbola Adebakin wins popular vote in YNaija Person of the Year 2021 poll | Editor’s Pick to be announced Friday
Abimbola Adebakin, one of the country’s foremost purveyors of medical solutions has emerged popular vote winner in a poll conducted ...
Profile of ‘Nigeria’s Youth’ | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
The great Spanish artist; Pablo Picasso once said, “the young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they ...
Profile of Mo Abudu | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
Within the entertainment business in Africa, very few (if any at all), can make boast of enjoying as much success ...
Profile of Ayo ‘Wizkid’ Balogun | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
If you ever in search of a single word to describe this personality, it will be ‘transcendent.’ Taking a cue ...
Profile of Hon. Justice Doris Okuwobi | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
Honorable Justice Doris Okuwobi (Rtd.) is a highly accomplished legal practitioner, who since the start of her career has made ...
Profile of Dr. Akintoye Akindele | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
A Nigerian entrepreneur and investor in the Africa tech ecosystem, Dr. Akintoye Akindele is very passionate about the development and ...
Profile of D’Tigress | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
Few years ago, Basketball icon, LeBron James took a political stand against racism in the United States; leading journalist, Laura ...
Profile of David ‘Davido’ Adeleke | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
As the popular saying which emphasises the importance of music goes, “music is medicine for the soul.” Nowhere in the ...
Profile of Abimbola Adebakin | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
With a career spanning the length and breadth of the health sector, Abimbola Adebakin has become one of the country’s ...
Profile of Kamaru Usman | YNaija Person of the Year 2021 Nominee
There’s momentary greatness and there’s lasting greatness; one so immense and sure to go down in the history books. Following ...
Profile of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Nominee for YNaija Person of the Year 2021
When you speak about inspiration to women, it doesn’t get any higher than what Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala represents. A volley ...
Wizkid, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Mo Abudu, others make Y!/YNaija Person of the Year nominees list
Y!/YNaija.com, Africa’s foremost youth-centered web and social media platform, today released its Person of the Year 2021 nominees list. The ...
The man is not a kid: Wizkid is Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2017
2017 was a splendid year for Nigerian musicians working at top-flight level. Following decades of grinding work and minor successes ...
Osagie Alonge profiles Wizkid: The real starboy (Y!/YNaija.com Person of The Year nominee)
Where do you go after a record-breaking run of breaking the barriers of popular sound? How do you reach for ...
Ayo Sogunro profiles Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo: The Steward-Leader (Y !/YNaija.com Person of The Year nominee)
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president of Nigeria, needs no introduction. At least, not to anyone who has kept an ...
The undisputed King in the North: Salihu Tanko profiles Governor Dankwambo (Y !/YNaija.com Person of The Year nominee)
The miraculous survival of Gombe Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, during the powerful Buhari whirlwind of 2015 when the ruling ...
Dami Ajayi profiles Lola Shoneyin: The cultural activist promoting African literature (Y!/YNaija.com Person of The Year nominee)
Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet, novelist and cultural activist. One of the most influential women of our time, she ...
Biola Kazeem profiles Nigeria’s Bobsled team: The fearless ladies making history (Y!/YNaija.com Person of The Year nominee)
When the Winter Olympics kicks off next year in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Nigeria’s flag, for the first time ever, will soar ...
Osinbajo, Wizkid, Lola Shoneyin, Nnamdi Kanu are nominees for Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2017 – Voting starts now!
The editors of Y! – TV, Magazine & Online – today announced the shortlist for Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year ...
The Nigerian Paralympic Team presented with the YNaija Person of the Year 2016 award
Paralympic gold medalists, Kehinde Paul and Bose Omolayo were at the Y!/YNaija.com office on Monday, January 30, 2017 to receive the ...
Isioma Osaje profiles AY Makun: Man of the hour, every hour (Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2016 Nominee)
Guinness world record holder In a world where metrics like the longest kiss can get you into that good book, ...
Fu’ad Lawal profiles Bukky Shonibare: The placard woman who makes sure we never forget (Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2016 Nominee)
It’s a new day. Take a deep breath. Think about the Chibok girls that have gone. Think about all those ...
The man who put even optimists in the shade | Naz Onuzo profiles AY Makun, Y!/YNaija Person of the Year 2016 popular vote winner
Between his sold-out comedy shows, his blockbuster film and his popular sitcom, it’s probably clear to all YNaija readers why ...
See who won the popular vote for Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2016 | Overall winner to be announced on December 31
And we have a winner – at least for the popular vote! The Y!/YNaija.com voting for Person of the Year ...
Who deserves to win YNaija Person of the Year? | @ToyinO1 campaigns for the Paralympic team
In the spirit of campaign season, Lawyer and consultant, Toyin Olankanpo, is campaigning for another nominee to win the YNaija ...
YNaija Editorial: Aliko Dangote is YNaija Person of the Year 2012… Let’s tell you why
… there is Aliko Dangote – a man who has created more wealth, expanded more economic spaces, pushed more entrepreneurial ...
Ezekwesili? Okonjo-Iweala? Bakare? D’banj? Who will be YNaija Person of the Year 2012? Vote now!
by Akan Ido Mimiko? Bakare? Okonjo-Iweala? D’ban’j? Who will be YNaija Person of the Year 2012? It’s that time ...
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