Author: Kola Muhammed
How the ICC investigations can help the #EndSARS movement
A lot has transpired in the course of getting justice for victims of the #EndSARS movement. From what started as ...
The LCC boss has confessed but there are obvious time gaps | #EndSARS
As proceedings of the Lagos judicial panel continue in the wake of the #LekkiShootings, the latest development involving the long-awaited ...
This is why the government, maybe not the police, is the problem | #EndSARS
For years since the clamour to #EndSARS began, before it eventually became a full-blown movement, the central idea has always ...
7 talking points from Tiwa Savage’s interview with Ebuka (part 1)
Widely dubbed the queen of Afrobeats, Tiwatope Savage, better known as Tiwa Savage, is no doubt a leading voice on ...
Northern governors join push for social media regulation and the reasons are obvious
There seems to be something about social media that Nigerian leaders are wary about and the latest move from Northern ...
How the success of the US Navy Seal made a mockery of us
Despite all kinds of scrutiny that security agents have been subjected to in the past weeks owing to the #EndSARS ...
How Burna Boy is taking the fight against corruption global
Since the days of Fela Kuti, music has been a weapon to fight corruption, injustice and infrastructural decay. He was ...
Top albums to watch out for before the year runs out
The first disruption of activities witnessed this year came with the global outbreak of coronavirus as social and economic activities ...
Is it time we got a Davido-Wizkid collaboration?
The rivalry between Wizkid and Davido is perhaps the most pronounced in Nigeria’s entertainment space and one thing that has ...
There’s riot police to control chaos but IGP Adamu wants officers to ‘fight back’ instead | #EndSARS
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has been the subject of national and international scrutiny in the past weeks as the ...
#MadeInLagos or London? Wizkid’s new album speaks to a surprising audience
There was a slight feeling of deja vu 11:11 pm, October 29, when there was no development concerning the release ...
After report of an international music deal, can Cynthia Morgan pull off a career comeback?
Although nothing has been heard from her stable in a while, only few would imagine that a once burgeoning music ...
Let’s examine if we should blame the #COVID19 palliatives ‘looters’ for being greedy – or not
It was a historic moment when the very generation that was thought to be more concerned with social profiles than ...
Desmond Elliot needs to be reminded that Nigerian youth are not the problem
Desmond Elliot is back in the headlines and this time, he is on about erosion of culture on the part ...
Music concerts can also help push youth political participation
In an alternate reality where there is no such thing as a coronavirus pandemic, #EndSARS protests, carnage, socio-political tension nor ...
Tribute to Tope Alabi at 50: How the gospel music industry never recovered from ‘Ore ti o common’
Nigerian Gospel musician and icon, Tope Alabi, is unarguably one of the greatest to grace the Nigeria gospel music scene ...
Banky W’s latest single, ‘Talk and do’, highlights the need for more conscious music
Given how events in the past week have played out, with many Nigerians left exasperated, many musicians have continued to ...
There is no better time for social influencers to become political influencers than now | #EndSARS
The horrid drama performances as the assumed epilogue of the #EndSARS protests have been nothing short of astounding. From express ...
How Prophet Peruzzi saw the coming of Detective Fashola
Whether it is Detective Fashola, Nigerian Sherlock Holmes, Fashola Holmes or Agent Fash, the new reality is that one person ...
Kunle Afolayan’s intention to script #LekkiMassacre is a path other creatives should follow
The evening of October 20, 2020, at the Lekki toll gate plaza, Lagos, is a gory moment which will be ...
2baba and Blackface continue ugly spat but political comparison is totally unnecessary
Since the fallout of the defunct music group, Plantashun Boiz, made up of Faze, Blackface and 2baba (formerly 2face), spats ...
How Mo Abudu helped to seal Oscars pidgin recognition for Nollywood
While agitation for reforms across sectors continues to inform gatherings on Nigerian streets and roads, a clamour which was made ...
Many aides, little aid: Is President Buhari’s silence on #EndSARS being encouraged or discouraged?
As one hand is put on a Holy Book and the other raised up, Femi Adesina, the incoming Special Adviser ...
How #EndSARS protest is proving the youth as the better hope of a One Nigeria
If we can all do a quick poll of one of the reasons why Nigerians appear to be disunited, our ...
Peruzzi is crowned Inspector General of Police to tell the FG why reforms are necessary | #EndSARS
Singer and songwriter, Tobechukwu Okoh, popularly known as Peruzzi, is the new Inspector General of Police. How so? Well, the ...
#EndSARS vs NLC strikes: Older generation-inclined Labour Unions can learn from a youth-led movement
If we were to go down history lane, we will realise that ‘industrial strike actions’ – the threats of strikes ...
Bringing back Fela: Why it is time for artistes to also speak through their art in the #EndSARS movement
Even the most insentient person in the country knows that a revolution is already being brewed. Such is the magnitude ...
#YNaijaEndSARSupdates: Dear Nigerian Creatives, we need you for this #EndSARS movement | #EndSWAT
Every possible weapon in the arsenal has been brought out in the ongoing historic fight against police brutality and youth ...
#YNaijaEndSARSupdate: Silence is a crime, Nigerians call out their favourites for being passive
In just a matter of days, #EndSARS has grown from just another trend on social media to a worldwide movement. ...
#SARSmustEnd: Davido to meet with the IGP; wave of leadership from entertainers commendable
It felt like a moment of relief and victory when the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, announced the disbandment of ...
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