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Solomon Osadolo: Your kid is gonna hate you (Y! Superblogger)

by Solomon Osadolo I'm not even kidding right now. I'm just trying to save you from yourselves. You're setting yourselves up to be the uncool dads and mums of the…

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Dele Momodu: Nuhu Ribadu and the rest of us

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, it has been a week of serious fireworks and heavy bombardment against one of our own on social media. The brouhaha erupted over what should…

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Ikemesit Effiong: The National Conference is a failure – Here is why

by Ikemesit Effiong In case you may not have noticed, the most colourful circus in our nation’s history, the 2014 National Conference, has finally come to an end. Trust me,…

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Opinion: Nigerians and the five basic laws of human stupidity

by Bamidele Ademola-Olateju   Third (and Golden) Basic Law: A stupid person is a person who caused losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving…

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Akin Osuntokun responds to the APC | “Dark souls who branzenly conjure quotes from the pit of hell”

by Akin Osuntokun Now what do we make of this? Am I being condemned because PDP was defeated by the APC in the Osun State election and the result was…

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Dr. Raymond Ijabla: The Doctors are fighting the wrong fight

by Raymond Ijabla  In writing this, I am breaking a promise to self and my family to keep quiet about the ongoing strike by doctors. I feel compelled to write this…

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Adedunmade Onibokun: How to register your company without a lawyer (Y! Legal)

by Adedunmade Onibokun Many people have always toyed with the idea of registering their own companies and organisations, with SMEs sprouting up like wildfires in Nigeria and the drive for…

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Michael Orodare: Wanted! Ribadu, Tambuwal as models for the younger generation… (Y! Politico)

by Michael Orodare I like Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and my love for the young Mallam could be traced back to when he held sway as the Chairman of EFCC. My…

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Alkasim Abdulkadir: Ebola in a season of uncertainty (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Sitting in the train cabin last week in Netherlands, the Dutch man who sat across from me looked eager to start a conversation, he got a chance…

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Chidi Anselm Odinkalu: The Ameyo Adadevoh I know

by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu I spoke to Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the senior Consultant Endocrinologist and Physician, who has just died of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), to schedule a previously…

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Opinion: This is how to fight the Ebola Outbreak

by Dr. Bayo Okelana The cure for Ebola has been published multiple times in medical literature.[1,2,3,7] Animal and human models have consistently shown that antiserum from convalescent and survivor patients dramatically…

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Ife Adebayo: #RipKunleOlaifa- Dear Nigeria, how many more will you kill? (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo I got a chat message from a friend yesterday saying “we lost Kunle Olaifa to an accident”. The only reply I could give was “WHAT???”. I met…

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Umari Ayim: An angel and a reflection- Episode 15 (Y! Fiction)

by Umari Ayim   I swallow and tell Chika that Paulette has something to do with them. Chika frowns quizzically at me, trying to understand my words because her mind…

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Tope Olofin: The 10 commandments of smartphones (Y! Superblogger)

by Tope Olofin I am on the verge of assuming that very soon there will be more mobile phones than there are human beings, especially in the Nigerian environment. This…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Why Stella Adedavoh should be buried like a hero

by Olusegun Adeniyi  However, the challenge of the moment is to remove the stigma element from those who are unfortunate to have caught the bug. And I see no better…

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Ayokunle Odekunle: This is why armed robbers are killed (Y! Legal)

by Ayokunle Odekunle Are you an aspiring armed robber? Do you look up to armed robbers as role models? Well I have news for you. The offence of armed robbery…

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Abimbola Adelakun: Who is Marilyn Ogar working against?

by Abimbola Adelakun By tomorrow, Friday, August 22, the kidnapped girls of Chibok would have been unwitting ”guests” of Boko Haram for 130 days. Between their kidnap and frightful escapes,…

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Soyombo Ayomikun: #BringBackOurGirls – Have we betrayed them? (Poem)

by Soyombo Ayomikun May it Be said That We never Betrayed #Chibok With our Silence 1.May we not forget That the Chibok girls Are innocent and beautiful souls That should…

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Opinion: Dear Jonathan, sack Ebola, not the doctors

by Garba Shehu Last week’s sack of 16,000 Resident Doctors by the Federal Government is careless, unscrupulous and clearly an indefensible action. It could turn out to be a social…

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Opinion: The Nigerian Government is a greater threat than Boko Haram

by Udoka Okafor Our car gallops through the bumpy road, as night fast approaches. The glimmer of the sun is fading fast, and the stars are starting to illuminate our…

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Ogaga Ifowodo: Why are elections military operations?

by Ogaga Ifowodo By all sober reckoning, Professor Attahiru Jega has done quite well in his last two outings as Nigeria’s chief electoral officer and, so, democracy’s chief midwife in…

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Opinion: The danger of a single tweet – What Mayowa got very wrong about #Sugabelly

by Ikemesit Effiong So Twitter (or more appropriately, social media) has been all the rage over last Wednesday’s edition of a popular relationships discussion session, No Holds Barred Interactive –…

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Uche Okorie: This is a generation of political cowards (Y! FrontPage)

by Uche Okorie My generation is all of these things I have described and perhaps more, but has this one tragic flaw. We are political cowards. That is simply what…

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Nana Nwachukwu: That ‘harmless’ prank may land you in jail! (Y! Legal)

by Nana Nwachukwu We have seen kids sent to jail for April fool jokes et al. You know those pranks you send out on your smartphones? Those ones that end…

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Opinion: Dear Ribadu, leaving APC is not the problem

by Gabriel Femi-Olatunji The same lack of values and ideology is the reason a top civil servant will resume on a Monday morning and ask the accountant to write that…

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Chris Bamidele: Places in my dream- Episode 2 (Y! Fiction)

by Chris Bamidele   I could see pain in Dad’s eyes now and I noticed he was not happy talking about mum’s family, but I wanted to know more. “So…

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Edward Israel-Ayide: Rebranding- A coat of paint or soul searching? (Y! Business)

by Edward Israel-Ayide “Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's…

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“Nigeria should sanction America over Dr Adadevoh’s death”: Top 10 tweet tributes (READ)

by Kolapo Olapoju As first reported by YNaija, Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh of First Consultants Hospital has died from the Ebola Virus Disease. Since the news of her death hit…

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Opinion: #Ebola- And this is how myth triumphed over common sense

by Omozuwa Gabriel About a fortnight ago, a thought-stultifying myth created mass hysteria in Nigeria. Many Nigerians based on hearsay eagerly embraced the salt-water bath as otherworldly vaccine against Ebola.…

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Opinion: How primary school teachers are suffering in Akwa Ibom

by Inibehe Effiong If there is a class of civil servants in Akwa Ibom State that have been perennially marginalized, deeply stigmatized and greatly insulted, it is teachers in the…

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