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March 21, 2017

What signs? It looks like Senator Udo Udoma does not know what he’s saying again

Senator Udo Udoma, the Minister for Budget and National Planning has just said that he – and probably some other visionary planners and Federal Government goons – have started seeing signs. Signs that this recession plaguing the country will end soon. We say #NaWash! These are the signs he says he’s seeing: Marginal reduction in... Read More
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March 21, 2017

Entertainment Roundup: Nicki Minaj makes billboard hot 100 video, Falz releases video with RMD and other Nollywood legends | More stories

Catch up on all the top stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing on Entertainment Roundup this Tuesday morning. Nicki Minaj now has more billboard hits than any female artist Rapper, Nicki Minaj has just made history for having the most Billboard 100 hits by a woman,... Read More
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March 21, 2017

#BBNaija: Don Jazzy is the ultimate star, housemates are in for an eventful week, Bisola is over TTT + more

Day 57 started out like it was going to be super boring with one housemate less and a pretty fun one at that, Bisola’s tears and the general post-eviction mood in the house. Bisola had teared up at the announcement of TTT’s eviction on Sunday night, the tears were uncontrollable, she was in bad shape... Read More
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March 20, 2017

#BBNaija: Ultimate HoH, Efe nominates four housemates for eviction based on logistics

Based on logistics, yes! Whatever that means to Efe. But based on common sense? We’re not sure if Efe made a smart move with tonight’s nominations. Recall that after ThinTallTony’s eviction last night, Biggie got the housemates into the arena for their Head of House task. It was the most hectic we’ve seen so far... Read More
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March 20, 2017

Did Dino graduate before he was born? | 3 other questions we have about Senator Melaye’s latest scandal

Sahara Reporters has literally “come again” as they say. Today the subject of their exposure series is Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West. According to the online news medium, Senator Dino Melaye did not meet the requisite points that would have enabled him graduate from his geography programme at the Ahmadu Bello University when he... Read More
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March 20, 2017

#BBNaija: Nigerians are still celebrating TTT’s eviction and you have to see how

Sunday night’s eviction show saw the end of the journey for Big Brother Naija’s most controversial male housemate, ThinTallTony. He was nominated alongside Tboss, Debie-Rise and Efe and managed to garner only about 11% of the total votes sent in by viewers across the continent. ThinTallTony’s eviction was anticipated, a large number of Nigerian viewers... Read More
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March 20, 2017

#Impact365: WARIF opens its doors to women and young girls who have survived sexual violence

Findings from a National Survey carried out in 2014 on Violence Against Children in Nigeria confirmed one in four females reported experiencing sexual violence in childhood with approximately 70% reporting more than one incident of sexual violence. In the same study, it was found that 24.8% of females’ ages 18 to 24 years experienced sexual... Read More
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March 20, 2017

“We will change the advertising industry in the next 18 months with our new Renaissance project” – TROYKA Group COO, Dr Ken Onyeali Ikpe

by Tolu’lope Omoyeni “It is easy to take for granted the transformation that has happened with advertising in the country in the past two years. It is easy to take the role Troyka and Insight have played in that revolution for granted these days. But then, there was a time when none of this was... Read More
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March 20, 2017

LONG READ: Toke, Tiwa, Tonto… Are we having a marriage crisis?

by Wilfred Okiche For those whose tastes run towards the scandalous spectrum, with regards to the news that they consume, the crisis presently rocking the two year old marriage of Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh and hubby, Oladunni Churchill has been a slice of heaven. Playing out across countries, plus live on Instagram posts and Youtube... Read More
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March 20, 2017

EDITORIAL: Is it just us or is President Buhari’s anti-corruption fight flying off the rails?

When President Muhammadu Buhari finally won the presidential election in 2015 on his fourth attempt, Nigerians were excited that he will finally put his anti-corruption crusade into action by bringing the political will to fight corruption and also aligning government agencies with that purpose. The initial days of his administration came with an excellent start... Read More
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March 20, 2017

Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Will the third party candidates please stand up?

by Chude Jideonwo Nigerians talk a good game about third party candidacies, especially Nigerians on social media.   They speak often about this utopia where Nigerians have had more than two options for president of Nigeria, and we could have chosen any of these options instead of what they consider less-than-ideal alternatives in our last... Read More
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March 20, 2017

Entertainment Roundup: Tonto Dikeh’s estranged husband insists actress uses marijuana, TTT admits his marriage after eviction | More stories

Here are all the top entertainment stories from the weekend and others that unraveled while you slept through Sunday night – and are still buzzing this morning. Big Brother Naija housemate, ThinTallTony joins the list of evicted contestants After an intense eviction show last night, 35-year-old housemate ThinTallTony was evicted from the Big Brother Naija... Read More
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March 19, 2017

“Kayode. Grow up. You can…Foolishness is not an editorial policy” | Read our top 10 quotes from the past week

 The past week was undoubtedly dominated by the Magu confirmation hearing at the National Assembly that went awry. We have ll the important quotes from that but there was more to the week other than that drama including a very interesting Twitter brawl between two Nigerian literary club members. See our top ten quotes below:... Read More
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March 19, 2017

The Thread: “Anyone who knows me knows I’ll never steal jokes” | Snikoggs responds to tweets theft; shades #BBNaija’s Kemen

by Dolapo Adelana Twitter user, Snikoggs has responded to allegations that he stole tweets from fellow tweep, @DanielEdison_. Edison had early Sunday provided screenshots of tweets by him that were stolen by Snikoggs. Reacting to the allegation, Snikoggs said he needed to speak up because he was being treated like Kemen of Big Brother Naija.... Read More
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March 19, 2017

The Thread: The ‘disappointing’ story of a Yuri pun thief named Snikoggs

by Dolapo Adelana Early Sunday, Twitter was agog with the news that one of their favourite tweeps, @Snikoggs was allegedly accused of stealing tweets. A 20-year-old comedian, Daneil Edison called out Yuri for stealing some tweets as far back as 2015. See Daniel’s tweets below: I've just discovered an account (@Snikoggs) who's been stealing my... Read More
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March 18, 2017

Film Review: In Dare Olaitan’s Ojukokoro, greed is good

by Wilfred Okiche In the 1997 Hollywood film, Devil’s Advocate, Al Pacino, playing a human incarnation of Satan, mischievously named vanity as his favourite sin. For Dare Olaitan, writer and director of the offbeat black comedy/thriller, Ojukokoro, there is nothing quite as grand as greed. It isn’t just the title of his debut film,- Ojukokoro... Read More
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March 17, 2017

Geoffrey Onyeama takes the top spot on this week’s YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Ministers

Majority of our Ministers do well to maintain the status quo this week, with Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama edging Minister of Justice & Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami out for the top spot. Onyeama’s rise, interestingly enough, is due to something that might be seen as the purview or Malami, as he declared... Read More
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March 17, 2017

Apparently, we don’t pay enough taxes, and this is how the Federal Government intends to fix that

Apparently, we do not pay enough taxes. And we don’t even mean to sound sarcastic. It’s just that there’s been so much noise about unemployment and non-payment of workers’ salaries and just general lack of financial happiness that it never crossed our minds that people owe the government anything from their empty pockets. But that’s... Read More
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March 17, 2017

3 hilarious responses from @officialefcc that tell us just how the EFCC took Magu’s rejection

Since the country won’t stop murmuring about Ibrahim Magu’s rejection by the Senate as the Chairman of the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission on Wednesday and to be fair, it’s hard to get over considering the effect that that rejection has on the President and his presidency, Senators under corruption trial, the Department of State... Read More
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March 17, 2017

Governor Ambode slips hard, Yahaya Bello sinks to the bottom completely | The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Governors

The Kogi State Governor received several knocks this week for appointing 54 Senior Special Assistants in the state. Yahaya Bello, who has been, for some time, locked in a bizarre feud with Dino Melaye, has been the subject of much criticism which, while harsh, is perfectly reasonable. Perhaps there could genuinely be some use for... Read More
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March 17, 2017

We found our Senators, but we’re not sure we should have | YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators

Last week was a confusing one. It looked like we couldn’t find our Senators. Good news – we located them. But in even more confusing developments, we realized they were in Morocco, of all places. Some of them, anyway (including Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye.) It’s tempting to say it would have been better for all... Read More
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March 17, 2017

Who is Ahmad Ahmad? The man who just ended Hayatou’s 29-year reign as CAF President

It only took 29 long years after but the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has witnessed the emergence of a new leader, Ahmad Ahmad. At a presidential election that held on Thursday in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, Ahmad Ahmad won 34 of the 54 votes cast leaving former president Issa Hayatou with 20 votes. But if... Read More
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March 17, 2017

“It clearly demonstrates the conflict within the Presidency” | Insiders speak on the Magu-Senate debacle

There has been a cocktail of views on the Senate’s rejection of Magu, the acting EFCC chairman for the second time. This rejection, which came swiftly after a surreal confirmation hearing, has sparked up controversy in different quarters, particularly regarding the rationale behind the actions of the Senate. Many have argued that the fact that some... Read More
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March 17, 2017

Brave Women: “A testament to what is possible when you have the guts to chase your greatness” | Arese Ugwu profiles Toke Makinwa

by Arese Ugwu The first time I met Toke was at my leaving do in London, I was moving back to Nigeria and it turned out we were in the same NYSC batch. We were fast friends, we went through the rigors of NYSC camp together, did driving school together and she was one of... Read More
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March 17, 2017

Entertainment Roundup: Mayorkun premieres new single ‘Sade’, Bonang Matheba has a new reality show, Selena Gomez covers Vogue | More stories

Catch up on all the top stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are still buzzing this morning. Mayorkun premieres new music with a video to go DMW artiste, Mayorkun has returned in a second outing this 2017 with a single track titled “Sade”. The dance track is just as... Read More
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March 16, 2017

Still on the Matter: Maybe we should all let TBoss come home on Sunday #BBNajia

The first nomination in two weeks at the Big Brother House produced four housemates up for eviction on Sunday night: Thin Tall Tony, Efe, Debbie-Rice and Tboss. ThinTallTony was nominated by Efe, Debie-Rise, Bally and Marvis while, Tboss was put up by Bisola (of course), Efe, Bassey and Bally. Meanwhile, outside the house and here... Read More
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