YNaija Says

October 16, 2017

YNaija Says: Buhari, nobody cares about you and your little friends

On Monday, the presidency released pictures and videos of President Muhammadu Buhari meeting with three “young friends”. These friends paid a courtesy visit to Buhari in Aso Rock accompanied by their wards. Buhari’s meeting with his little friends is a presidential publicity stunt gone wrong. Reactions to it on social media show many Nigerians, especially those... Read More

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August 20, 2017

YNaija Says: President Buhari’s return is nothing to be excited about

103 days after the Nigerian President took off abruptly on his second medical trip of year 2017, he returned – with perhaps, a little too much pomp and flare for a convalescing 70-something year old who is yet to figure out how to deliver on the promise he made to change things for the better... Read More

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Donald Trump and Putin’s first meeting will be ‘lit’ but not for the reasons #FakeNews told you

The global news cycle is already saturated with stories – mostly speculations – about Donald Trump‘s relationship – or the lack thereof – with Russia’s strong but controversial Vladimir Putin. There’s either something between the two that they are not sharing with the world (Americans, to be honest) or left-leaning anti-Trump Americans are just hell-bent... Read More

Donald Trump, Thinking Through

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YNaija Says: The proposed Amnesty Law for treasury looters is complete madness

The proposed amnesty law for treasury looters currently before the House of Representatives can only be best described by one word: madness. The law which proposes that looters be free of any probe, inquiry or prosecution for a period of three years or more provided that they fulfil conditions which include payment of a tax/surcharge... Read More

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YNaija Says: We are stunned at the request to shut down Al Jazeera

Since the beginning of June, there has been a brewing diplomatic crisis in the Middle East as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates cut off diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing the latter of sponsoring terrorism. Many other reasons have been posited as being responsible for this crisis, such as Qatar’s increasingly growing friendliness... Read More

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YNaija Says: The 2017 budget has been passed but the delay was unnecessary

Six months after President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly and a month after it was passed by the both houses of the Assembly, the 2017 budget has been finally signed into law. In this period, the budget was subjected to numerous intrigues, delays and controversies that were unnecessary and... Read More

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YNaija Says: The Northern Youth groups issuing ultimatums must be stopped

On Tuesday, 16 Northern youth groups met in Kaduna and issued a three-month ultimatum to all Igbo people living in Northern states to vacate the region by October 1, 2017, as well as calling on all Northerners in the South-East to return to the region. To these groups, such a call has become necessary as... Read More

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YNaija Says: Nigerians should really start listening to Prof Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is having his second stint as Acting President while President Muhammadu Buhari is on medical vacation in the United Kingdom. In his first stint, he undertook a tour of the Niger Delta, meeting with stakeholders and scoring points for seemingly understanding their agitations. He also loosened restrictions on the naira. He... Read More

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YNaija Says this 2017 budget is driving us mad

The 2017 budget can best be described as a special gift that keeps on giving, and not in a good way: although it has finally been passed by the National Assembly five months after it was presented to them and it includes the breakdown of the budget of the federal legislature itself for the first... Read More

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YNaija Says: The National Assembly has finally done the right thing with its budget

After years of relentless pressure and advocacy, the National Assembly has finally released the breakdown of its budget (pdf) in the 2017 Appropriations Bill which it just passed. This is a break from its tradition where it only included a single-line item of how much it was allocating to itself without giving a detailed breakdown... Read More

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YNaija Says: The Rann bombing victims deserve a lot better than N10,000 compensation

Almost two months after a military jet mistakenly bombed a camp for internally displaced persons in the town of Rann in Borno State, the Federal Government through the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI) presented a cash support of N10,000 to 58 victims of the bombing. Expectedly, this support was met with criticism... Read More

Citizenship, Cover Stories

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YNaija Says: The DSS is in need of urgent reform

The Department of State Security has been in the news a lot recently, and unfortunately, for the wrong reasons. First, it was the arrest of entertainment mogul Audu Maikori, taking him to Abuja from Lagos and then releasing him a day later with no explanation for the arrest. For the past week, the DSS has... Read More

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February 7, 2017

Opinion: Why are we lying to ourselves? What 2Baba did is unacceptable

by Halima Bello I came across this YNaija article that was released just after 2face Idibia announced the cancellation of the anti-government protest march scheduled for Monday. The article came out in such a hurry that it made we wonder why YNaija was so quick to come to the defence of this man who... Read More

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February 5, 2017

YNaija Says: We are proud of you, 2baba and proud of you, EiE

Tomorrow, 6 February had been highly anticipated as pop music star, Tuface Idibia (2Baba) had called for nationwide protests against the Federal Government for the rising economic hardship in the country. The protests were billed to be huge as civil society groups, most especially EnoughIsEnough (EiE) had joined him in the desire to protest and they had... Read More

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January 27, 2017

YNaija Says: On Southern Kaduna killings, Audu Maikori is not the problem. The government is

For the past few months, the communities of the southern part of Kaduna State have been turned into killing fields due to attacks by militias of Fulani herdsmen followed in some cases by reprisal attacks by the locals. Like previous attacks by these militias in parts of Benue and Nassarawa States, many Nigerians have protested... Read More

Opinion, Thinking Through

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January 19, 2017

YNaija Says: The Police raid on Premium Times is despicable and dictatorial

One of the signs that a country is in a dictatorship is the manner in which law enforcement and security agencies operate with rascality and not in accordance with the rule of law. The raid on the online newspaper Premium Times yesterday evening by the Nigeria Police is an act that belongs only in a... Read More

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January 14, 2017

YNaija Says: Shame on you, Governor Ajimobi. Shame on you.

For the past eight months, the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso in Oyo State has been shut down, the reason being that the staff were not being paid their salaries for up to 13 months because the two states that own the university, Oyo and Osun States were not providing the required funds... Read More

Featured, Opinion

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January 13, 2017

YNaija Says: On BBOG, this government still refuses to get it

Ever since the abduction of 287 schoolgirls from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok in April 2014, the group Bring Back Our Girls has emerged as a pressure group to sustain pressure on the Federal Government to not relent in efforts to rescue the girls. The constant embarrassment they caused the administration of former President Goodluck... Read More

Opinion, Thinking Through

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December 22, 2016

YNaija Says: The Kaduna killings must stop

On the 19th of December 2016, youths came out in their numbers in Kafanchan, Kaduna State to protest the incessant and unabated killings carried out in their communities by faceless Fulani herdsmen. Their peaceful protest was however disrupted when another group attacked their protest. This lead to several injuries and the destruction of several properties... Read More

Featured, Opinion, Thinking Through

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December 20, 2016

YNaija Says: Arik Air is a disgrace, an embarrassment, and should be shut down

Arik Air has to be the worst airline to come out of Nigeria in recent times. Their incompetence is on a whole different level and it appears they are either oblivious to it or they just do not care. For a company that prides itself as Nigeria’s biggest airline and the ‘Wings of Nigeria’, they... Read More

Featured, Opinion, Thinking Through

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December 8, 2016

YNaija Analysis: After two attempts, Nana Akufo-Addo is the new Muhammadu Buhari

Couple of weeks ago when former vice president, Atiku Abubakar turned seventy, the President, Muhammadu Buhari didn’t just wish him the customary ‘happy birthday’ and it’s overflow of merry prayers. He made it a welcome message: welcome to the seventies club, Atiku. It was as thoughtful as it was suspicious. But above all, it was... Read More

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October 26, 2016

YNaija Says: Leave Bobrisky alone

At the center of everything, what Idris Okuneye, popularly called Bobrisky, is, is a cross-dresser. But that’s not the real center. That’s what you see when all you do is look. The core is something else: a young man who expresses his masculine identity in non-traditional ways and in a severely restrictive country, has found... Read More

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YNaija Says: Enough is enough, it is time we take mob actions seriously

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell The gruesome killing of Bridget Patience Agbahime, 74, by a religious mob in Kano has left a sour taste in our mouth and a tragic image in our minds. It is... Read More

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