As a nation, Nigeria is known for its resilience. Having survived Western colonisation, eight distinct military regimes, and consistent incompetence from our leaders, the country still pushes on with the hope that one day things will get better. Could that be what is killing us? Between 13 and 15 May 2026, armed attackers raided schools... Read More
Content creation in Nigeria has grown far beyond people making videos for fun online. Over the years, creators across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, podcasts, and X have built communities, influenced conversations, and changed what entertainment and storytelling look like on the internet. Whether through comedy skits, commentary, lifestyle content, food reviews, fashion, or everyday, relatable moments,... Read More
*NRC says it can’t account for 168 passengers from the Kaduna train attack *Bandits invade Zamfara town, kill many *CBN to penalise banks over deposit of bad naira notes *Angelique Kidjo wins at the Grammys – again *Obasanjo says Buhari’s government is overwhelmed Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the... Read More
It is quite unfortunate that as Nigerians, we don’t prioritize mental health or acknowledge mental illness. Here mental illness is an enigma, we only acknowledge the worst forms of mental illness like Schizophrenia or dementia, illnesses that manifest as a complete regression into violence or childhood like cognition. This invisibility continues to hurt millions of... Read More
Last weekend, a 13-second video of Timothy Owoeye, the Osun State Assembly Majority Leader was released online. In the clip, Owoeye, who was naked was being queried by some individuals on why he was without his clothes at the middle of the night. Several reports say the lawmaker was seen taking a ritual bath with blood,... Read More
Sometime in 1910, a young black dental student Walter Clement Noel from the island of Grenada studying in Chicago had gone to see Dr James B. Herrick, a cardiologist, complaining of pain episodes, and symptoms of anaemia. Herrick had his medical resident, Dr Irons look into it and Irons found an anomaly in Walter’s red... Read More
It has been 89 years since the world’s first television broadcast. It may not have looked like the future then, with its grainy images and limited reception, but the small box has since been used by world powers like America to influence, impact and ‘Americanise’, if you will, the world. Buttered and bred on “Queens English”,... Read More
Recently, a video surfaced of Nigerian designer, Tope Abiola of Frock it and Rock it where she suggested that instead of Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode investing in capital projects, he should build a wall between the Lagos Island and Mainland and that the mainlanders would need a visa to visit the island. It seemed a... Read More
Millennials (Generation Y), a term first coined by historians Neil Howe and William Strauss in 1991 when generational study wasn’t yet a fad, refers to the set of children born directly after Generation X, between 1980 and 2000. To terminate controversy, The Pew Institute this year defined the cut-off point for millennials as “Anyone born... Read More
Over the weekend, a tweet with an image from a children’s book was shared widely on Nigerian Twitter. Picture courtesy of @childbodysafetyng on Instagram. These days, it’s vital that as parents we read everything before our kids get to read them. Imagine this “children’s book”… ? pic.twitter.com/gTePUoNZz1 — Chxta (@Chxta) August 3, 2018 In the... Read More
If we’re being factually accurate, then Nigeria’s first contact with film was in 1903 when Herbert Macaulay invited Balboa and Company who was then doing an exhibition tour of silent films on the West African Coast to Nigeria. The films were shown at the Glover Memorial Hall, Lagos in August of that year. The success of... Read More
There are few events that can come to define a nation’s identity quite like how it approaches elections. This is because elections expose the priorities and motives of the men and women who seek to lead their country and reveals the electorate’s ethno-religious biases. This is true, even for long-established democracies in seemingly progressive countries... Read More
As a presidential candidate, Macron painted a striking picture of a progressive thinker on western imperialism and other sundry African issues. He termed French colonisation a “crime against humanity” suggesting that France should “offer apologies to all those toward whom we directed these acts.” Granted, this is more than any of his predecessors have publicly... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has been riddled with scandal after scandal. Mainagate, grass cutting, budget padding are just a few of the scandals which have completely muddied the pristine white agbada of anti-corruption Buhari rolled into office with. Last week, Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s Finance Minister joined the throng of cabinet ministers who’ve made a sham... Read More
Falz’s This Is Nigeria seems to have become the de-facto counterpoint to Childish Gambino’s genre-bending self-examination as a black musician transitioning into mainstream spaces and having his identity suddenly become relevant to his music. Where Childish’s music is personal, Falz’s take spans a whole country. However, one of the major arguments is that somehow Falz... Read More
The past week was both unpleasant and horribly depressing for Nigerians. On Saturday the 23rd of May, 86 indigenes of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area according to police reports – a figure disputed by Plateau Governor, Simon Lalong, community leaders and the Christian Association of Nigeria, who put the death toll at over 200 –... Read More
Last week, Nigeria as a nation celebrated the post-humous honour granted to Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola and the recognition that was given to the 1993 elections. However, much of this joy seemed restricted to certain age demographics. Specifically, only the people who had lived during his own run for the presidency seemed to suggest... Read More
Last week, Nigeria as a nation celebrated the post-humous honour granted to Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola and the recognition that was given to the 1993 elections. However, much of this joy seemed restricted to certain age demographics. Specifically, only the people who had lived during his own run for the presidency seemed to suggest... Read More
Last week, Nigeria as a nation celebrated the post-humous honour granted to Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola and the recognition that was given to the 1993 elections. However, much of this joy seemed restricted to certain age demographics. Specifically, only the people who had lived during his own run for the presidency seemed to suggest... Read More
It is important to note that women have always fought against oppressive social structures. It is the very nature of humans to rail against perceived injustice and to act accordingly to liberate themselves from the sources of such injustice. However, women’s struggles for equity and equality wasn’t always called ‘feminism’. The movement as it is... Read More
Last weekend, the internet went crazy about Yahoo boys, after information surfaced on the internet that some suspected yahoo boys had been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The circumstances around the arrest (like everything else here) was incredulous. The EFCC operatives waited in the parking lot for the suspected Yahoo boys,... Read More
Isn’t it amazing how some people achieve remarkable financial success in a relatively short time and somehow plummet into bankruptcy in a shorter time than the money was acquired? Celebrities, actors, athletes – are the major culprits in this instance. When many celebrities achieve the pinnacle of success, they often fail to recognise it. You... Read More
The concept of human rights has its history in the creation of the United Nations. Following the devastation from the second world war, a war that involved more than 30 countries and lasted, six awful years (1939-1945), sovereign nations came together and vowed that they would not allow such unregulated use and abuse of power... Read More
As we are down to the last week of Big Brother Nigeria’s third season that has been trailed with controversy and conspiracy theories, sex and outrage. Why does Big Brother (Africa and Nigeria) appeal so much to us that we form support groups, fight strangers on the internet and become obsessed with other people’s lives?... Read More
There is no easy way to say this, the reality of present-day Nigeria is this; there are only a handful of women in policy-making positions today, and a good percentage of those women have their positions and independence compromised by their affiliation to several high powered men within the Nigerian political sphere. The future of... Read More
Nina Simone’s life and legacy looms across the world, and indeed Africa, to which she returned when she was at her lowest, disillusioned by racism and classism and misogynoir. Reports suggest Simone was at her happiest during her time in West Africa and there are pictures of her on the beach in Lagos, jiving away.... Read More
It was obvious from the very first promo images that the Wedding Party was going to be big. Everything about the film seemed big, from the extravagant bejewelled crown a keening Adesua Etomi wore in the promo pictures, to the outsize fame of Banky W finally making the jump from music to film. The Wedding... Read More
The beauty of democracy is not exactly in the numbers or in the outcome of an election, but in watching the alternative prevail over the norm, in having a new order overthrow the establishment just because the citizens have the capacity to wield such powers. It is this very character of democracy that is rare... Read More
The man who promised to drain the swamp The single most polarising event in the last decade happened over the course of two days in November 2016. After months of one of the most divisive election campaigns in the United States’ history, Americans went to the polls to elect a new president. Already the 2016... Read More
Before ever Joro Olumofin and his motley crew of assistants ever thought to put out that first Instagram post doling out advice to anonymous inquirers, John Dunton a British author and publisher wrestled with a very particular problem. He had been unfaithful to his spouse and had reneged on his marital vows and wanted to... Read More
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