Entertainment Roundup: Yemi Alade kicks off Mama Africa world tour, Mel B accuses estranged husband of physical abuse and battery | More stories

Here are the top stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing on today’s Entertainment Roundup Yemi Alade kicks off world tour Mama Africa, Yemi Alade will be touring major world cities this summer. Yemi Alade will be performing alongside her OvaSabi band on the Mama Africa... Read More

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April 5, 2017

#BBNaija: Debie-Rise gets a shot at the Head of House title, Bisola now knows TTT is married? + more highlights

There are only four days before the Big Brother Naija reality show draws the curtains. The theme for this final week is Nostalgia and the five remaining housemates have getting along so well, participating in old tasks, reflecting on their past and talking a lot about everything the future holds starting Sunday. Because Biggie understands... Read More

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April 4, 2017

Sambo Dasuki, El-Zakzaky, Nnamdi Kanu: Can the President tell us why these Nigerians are still being held against court orders?

by Roqeebah O. The five governors of the South-East made public their plans to visit the President to discuss the continued detention of the leader of the secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. It’s very unlikely that that meeting has taken place going by the updates that we have from the Presidency... Read More

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April 4, 2017

Move over Boss Nation! Team Debie-Rise is on ghost mode and they’re ready to steal the show

We all watched the Underdog story yesterday. Trust that we were just as shocked as you when Boss Nation released a video detailing TBoss’ journey on the show with emotive text that ended with gratitude to voters. Nice play! But how can we tell the Big Brother Naija underdog story without talking about Debie-Rise?! Just... Read More

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April 4, 2017

BEYOND BIAFRA: From the heart of Aba, a food revolution is coming

by Victor Akhidenor Agbai Amarachi is on a mission. She is a student of the department of Food Science and Technology at Abia State Polytechnic, Aba and she wants to take the world, Nigerians at least, on a new adventure. “I’m working on the proximate analysis of cassava flour blended with African yam beans flour... Read More

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April 4, 2017

BEYOND BIAFRA: Stories of innovation, grit and tenacity from the South-East

This month’s citizenship series on YNaija is focused on the South-East part of Nigeria. Keeping in line with our commitment to focus on the people that matter and their stories, our reporter, Victor Akhidenor has unearthed several narratives, with both breadth of scope and depth of focus. From breakthroughs in food to stories about finding success... Read More

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April 4, 2017

Entertainment Roundup: Runtown speaks at Harvard University, J.Lo officially introduces her new boyfriend to her mum | More stories

Catch up on all of yesterday’s top entertainment stories and others that unraveled over the night – and are sure to buzz all day today. Runtown speaks at Harvard UniversitySurely, we now have more cause to be “mad over” Nigerian pop act, Runtown. The singer was a guest at Harvard University where he spoke to... Read More

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April 4, 2017

#BBNaija: “How big is this show?” It’s Davido-big, Bisola opens up to TBoss on her personal life + more highlights

It’s Day 71 in the Big Brother Naija house. First off, there are only five days remaining in the competition, secondly we have our final five contestants. And since Biggie has announced the theme for this week as Nostalgia, the housemates will be taken on a ride through memory lane as they would participate in... Read More

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April 3, 2017

#BBNaija: A video? TBoss’ #BossNation is not even playing around [WATCH]

We cannot talk enough about how tight this race is. The fact that TBoss has managed to make it through the weeks of snide comments and the general feeling of dislike makes this end game even much tighter. She made it into the final 5 with a whopping 2.9 million votes last weekend but her... Read More

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April 3, 2017

#Impact365: “We can engage more women in leadership roles” | Fame Foundation commits to empowering girls and women

In 2016, the Nigerian Senate blocked the Gender Parity and Prohibition of Violence against Women. The bill which seeks equal rights for women in marriage, education and job did not see the light of day at the time. In this clime, women are still undermined in most parts, girl children are daily abused and in the... Read More

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April 3, 2017

So I met the James Bond of journalism, Anas Aremeyaw Anas (READ)

by Rachel Ogbu It was the first standing ovation of the day, the final talk of the evening, it suddenly strikes me how far away from the “real” reality most of us are. Scanning the latest news on my phone every day didn’t capture a fraction of what was actually going on in Africa- on the... Read More

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April 3, 2017

YNaija Editorial: On this trial of students for protesting, UNILAG is playing with fire

In September 2015, students of the University of Lagos brought activities at their school to a halt when they came out to protest an invasion of their halls of residences by bed bugs and mosquitoes. The university responded by fumigating the heavily-infested hostels as well as replacing infested mattresses with new ones. Normalcy was thought... Read More

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April 3, 2017

The Thread: Arab employer records video as Ethiopian housekeeper falls from seventh floor while cleaning

It is nothing short of sadistic for an employer- any employer- to be playing camera man as their employee freefalls to her death. This is the story of an Arab employer and her Ethiopian housekeeper. Apparently, the region is riddled with domestic abuse cases. According to the online paper, Middle East Eye, “The oil-rich Gulf... Read More

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April 3, 2017

#BBNaija: There’s some pathetic misogyny being spewed by #TeamEfe and Noble Igwe has just the right words for them

It’s drawing to a close and the race is tight. Weirdly, there has been a lot of talk about how the final housemates – Marvis, TBoss, Efe, Bisola and Debie-Rise – are a surprising bunch. Like that’s not how competitions end – an eclectic mix of the expected, unexpected, the underdog and the super player.... Read More

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April 3, 2017

Entertainment Roundup: #BBNaija draws to a close as final five contestants emerge, Brad Pitt is shockingly skinny in new photo | More stories

Here are the biggest entertainment stories from the weekend and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing this Monday. Bally bows out of Big Brother Naija, five housemates left in the finals Last night’s eviction show marked the end of the journey for BBNaija housemate, Bally. After one week of... Read More

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April 3, 2017

YNaija Analysis: It’s official, the powerful are now using the courts to intimidate new media players

The past few weeks have been quite interesting ones with respect to the number of court cases that have emerged as a result of postings on social media that generated controversies. First, it was Sahara Reporters, the controversial citizen-journalism site tweeted allegations that Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West – APC) never graduated from the Ahmadu... Read More

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April 2, 2017

#BBNaija: This is why you love TBoss even when you think you don’t #BossNation

Make no mistake, Big Brother Naija remains as fickle as they come – complete with all the intrigues, antics, hate-to-love and love-to-hate and almost every other thing on the spectrum that comes with a show such as this. But as we have already said, we do not know of any other thing that has completely... Read More

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April 2, 2017

#BBNaija: TBoss surprisingly makes it to the finals…can she win the prize money?

Tonight’s eviction show is the most shocking we’ve seen so far on the show. Bally was let out of the House in one of the tightest voting results. He earned the lowest percentage 23.76% of the total votes cast and what has viewers talking is how fellow nominated housemate, TBoss managed to gain more votes... Read More

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April 2, 2017

Is it our Ministers’ turn to go missing? | The latest YNaija Effectiveness Ranking

Our Senators going missing is nothing new, so even though we were disappointed back when they left us with no choice but to make that assessment, we weren’t entirely surprised. But this week it’s the turn of our Ministers, who remain exactly as they were last week. [Read also: Are our lawmakers in hiding? | The... Read More

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April 2, 2017

Dino Melaye is the worst Senator in Nigeria | The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators

Was it too much to ask for Senator Dino Melaye to conduct himself with some level of grace? Clearly so. Not even the genuinely good work he was doing, which got him to the #1 spot last week, was enough to get him to reason with himself. But just as we commended him for responding... Read More

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April 2, 2017

The Thread: “TBoss destroyer of men, slayer of kingdoms, silencer”, “Based on logistics, Bisola will win” | Reactions to tonight’s show #BBNaija

by Dolapo Adelana Tinight’s eviction show of Reality TV show, Big Brither Naija saw former housemate, Bally sent home. Bally got the least amounts of votes from the nominated housemates. But the reactions on Twitter leaned towards accusations of rigging. Many Twitter users accused the organisers of favouring TBoss, as others just went ahead to... Read More

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April 2, 2017

The Thread: Nigerian porn still end with ‘to God be the glory'”, “Don’t let your girlfriend stop you from finding true love” | See the greatest tweets from TwitterNG

by Dolapo Adelana Twitter NG is a place of wit, pun, and outright madness. So getting the best tweets from the microblogging site is surely an arduous task. But thanks to Twitter user, @Ekanem94 who did a fantastic job searching out these tweets. See tweets below: https://twitter.com/Ekanem94/status/848291465478516737 On behalf of who? Did we send... Read More

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April 2, 2017

“Keep the change bruh”, “this jamboree by the vice president is funny” | See our top 10 quotes from the past week

Honestly, we cannot wait to get right to the meat of it but first, mark the 30th of May on your calendar. Maybe even fix a public holiday outing because… oH WAIT! Here are our top 10 quotes from the past week: “On the 30th of May 2017, as it is now the tradition since... Read More

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April 2, 2017

#BBNaija: Bally has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija show

Bally has just been evicted from the Big Brother Naija reality TV show in the most tension-filled eviction show ever. Live show host, Ebuka announced on stage that rather than name the evicted housemate, the family member or friend of that housemate would go in to the house to fetch him or her. As the... Read More

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April 2, 2017

The Thread: Few days after breaking the internet with #KeepTheChangeBae, TwitterNG comes for @Missmoshiku #5kBae

by Dolapo Adelana Anyone who has been on the streets of Twitter Nigeria long enough should know that it holds no allegiances when it comes to dragging people and mockery. With a tweet, @Missmoshiku was a Twitter star as she trended for hours. Getting endorsements from brands. Last night, Sublime Lounge tweeted a picture of... Read More

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April 2, 2017

Did Dino Melaye keep a spare set of eyes on his cabinet handle? | See our top 10 photos from the past week

There’s hardly anyone who can say, after the events of this past week, that he/she does not know what Senator Dino Melaye shares in common with his office cabinet – or a 7-year-old, if you please. But do you know what Facebook now has in common with Snapchat? [In case you missed it: Does Senator... Read More

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April 2, 2017

The YNaija Ranking: Inspiration FM moves up into the top 10 on our top 25 radio stations countdown

There’s a curious thing that a lot of people experience when a new building springs up somewhere. It’s expressed most succinctly in the question: what was there before? It’s particularly common in Lagos where, if asked what previously stood in the locations of any of the malls around, dwellers would be hard pressed to provide an... Read More

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April 2, 2017

Sen Dino Melaye, Omoni Oboli, Ali Ndume, 5K bae | Here are the winners and losers from the past week

by Tolu Omoyeni We could just put up the name of our biggest loser for the week, summarize all his recent atrocities and we’d be so done with this post but nahh! The Senate gave us the most entertaining yet abominable drama this past week, Governor Ayo Fayose was shockingly silent all week – sore... Read More

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April 2, 2017

#BBNaija: Housemates party to stupor with three DJs in one night, Efe’s Legend-induced meltdown + more highlights

This may just pass as the most litttt party you’ve seen on television. Now, the posters were everywhere. We knew to expect three DJs at this Saturday’s party but no one told us to prepare to be turnt to stupor. No one did! Although we had reservations regarding the number of housemates left in the... Read More

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April 1, 2017

#BBNaija: Efe rules at the Arena games, Bisola and Debie-Rise squash their beef like adults + more highlights

Day 68 was just as eventful with the six housemates currently in the house; there was a fight, a task of games, the Friday night Arena games and some heat. Early on in the day while the housemates lazed around getting ready for the day’s task, an unfamiliar song blasted through the PA system and... Read More

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Entertainment Roundup: Yemi Alade kicks off Mama Africa world tour, Mel B accuses estranged husband of physical abuse and battery | More stories

#BBNaija: Debie-Rise gets a shot at the Head of House title, Bisola now knows TTT is married? + more highlights

Sambo Dasuki, El-Zakzaky, Nnamdi Kanu: Can the President tell us why these Nigerians are still being held against court orders?

Move over Boss Nation! Team Debie-Rise is on ghost mode and they’re ready to steal the show

BEYOND BIAFRA: From the heart of Aba, a food revolution is coming

BEYOND BIAFRA: Stories of innovation, grit and tenacity from the South-East

Entertainment Roundup: Runtown speaks at Harvard University, J.Lo officially introduces her new boyfriend to her mum | More stories

#BBNaija: “How big is this show?” It’s Davido-big, Bisola opens up to TBoss on her personal life + more highlights

#BBNaija: A video? TBoss’ #BossNation is not even playing around [WATCH]

#Impact365: “We can engage more women in leadership roles” | Fame Foundation commits to empowering girls and women

So I met the James Bond of journalism, Anas Aremeyaw Anas (READ)

YNaija Editorial: On this trial of students for protesting, UNILAG is playing with fire

The Thread: Arab employer records video as Ethiopian housekeeper falls from seventh floor while cleaning

#BBNaija: There’s some pathetic misogyny being spewed by #TeamEfe and Noble Igwe has just the right words for them

Entertainment Roundup: #BBNaija draws to a close as final five contestants emerge, Brad Pitt is shockingly skinny in new photo | More stories

YNaija Analysis: It’s official, the powerful are now using the courts to intimidate new media players

#BBNaija: This is why you love TBoss even when you think you don’t #BossNation

#BBNaija: TBoss surprisingly makes it to the finals…can she win the prize money?

Is it our Ministers’ turn to go missing? | The latest YNaija Effectiveness Ranking

Dino Melaye is the worst Senator in Nigeria | The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators

The Thread: “TBoss destroyer of men, slayer of kingdoms, silencer”, “Based on logistics, Bisola will win” | Reactions to tonight’s show #BBNaija

The Thread: Nigerian porn still end with ‘to God be the glory'”, “Don’t let your girlfriend stop you from finding true love” | See the greatest tweets from TwitterNG

“Keep the change bruh”, “this jamboree by the vice president is funny” | See our top 10 quotes from the past week

#BBNaija: Bally has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija show

The Thread: Few days after breaking the internet with #KeepTheChangeBae, TwitterNG comes for @Missmoshiku #5kBae

Did Dino Melaye keep a spare set of eyes on his cabinet handle? | See our top 10 photos from the past week

The YNaija Ranking: Inspiration FM moves up into the top 10 on our top 25 radio stations countdown

Sen Dino Melaye, Omoni Oboli, Ali Ndume, 5K bae | Here are the winners and losers from the past week

#BBNaija: Housemates party to stupor with three DJs in one night, Efe’s Legend-induced meltdown + more highlights

#BBNaija: Efe rules at the Arena games, Bisola and Debie-Rise squash their beef like adults + more highlights

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