Category: Counter Culture Blog
When will Nigeria stop stigmatizing suicide and suicidal people?
Last weekend, there were two high profile suicides. One was of Caroline Flack, the former presenter of viral reality show ...
Tim Omotoso will go on trial today, as will organized religion which aided & abetted him
Over the last year, religious Nigerians had to contend with the outsize influence religious organizations within the country have had ...
Its been 3 years since #EndSARS began & we are no closer to reform
This week, footballer Tiamiyu Kazeem became the latest hashtag in a long and depressing string of abuses of power by ...
New Zamfara state probe reveals more skeletons in Yari’s closet
Graft is a feature of Nigerian governance. It corrupts every part of the governing process, from the local government chairman ...
Privilege corrupts everything in Nigeria, even getting an I.D card
Yesterday, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) put up this post announcing that Nigerian born British boxer Anthony Joshua had ...
TIERS is taking on conversion therapy in a new research project
When we discuss human rights, especially for people in minority communities, it is hard to have a robust conversation without ...
Following report exposing corruption TETFUND revokes funding for Nigerian lecturers
Nigerian lecturers are about to learn the hard way that ‘there is rice at home’. Last we wrote about how ...
Uber & Taxify have no place in @JideSanwoolu’s mega-city
Over the last 3 weeks the Lagos state government has made life extremely difficult for poorer Lagosians. Starting with the ...
First they came for #Okadas, now they’re coming for your SIM cards
If there is one trait the Nigerian government shares across federal, state and local government levels, it is their unrealistic ...
Coronavirus: As expected, Nigeria has failed its citizens in Wuhan
When it was announced in December 2019 that a new virus, the Coronavirus had started to affect citizens in Wuhan ...
Are Remote Workers More Productive Than Traditional Office Employees?
Are you looking for ways to maximize the productivity of your workforce? Are some of them insisting on work-from-home flexibility ...
Forget innovation, Nigerian universities must first conquer corruption
As the world scrambles to uncover a lasting cure for the new Coronavirus (which is a mutated strain of the ...
Never mind Nigeria’s closed borders, we have a new visa policy
Nigeria is quite the country of contradictions. Mid-2019, the Nigerian Customs authority, with express consent from the Presidency chose to ...
Tobacco is coming under the microscope with new regulations & enforcement
A few days ago, people across the world commemorated World Cancer Day. While activities to mark the day in Nigeria ...
Olatunji Omirin is the latest Nigerian journalist to be arrested by Nigerian forces
At this point, it has become common place to hear of Nigerian journalists, arrested either by the DSS or Nigerian ...
The new Trump travel ban will allow you visit America, but not live there
Over the last week, a number of opinions have been expressed about the newly announced expansion of the ‘Trump Travel ...
Dividends of Democracy: Gokada lays off most of its staff
The Lagos State government will have you believe its sudden ban on micro transport (motorcycles and kekenapeps) was done for ...
It’s almost payday in Nigeria. A senator will get his first N13.5 million salary in prison this January
by Ifedayo Adeleye Every month, each Nigerian senator receives about N750,000 as a basic salary, according to the current Senate ...
Honourable Ado Doguwa wants you to know he is a strong man
The last thing anyone could have thought was that the newly elected senate would make Nigerians nostalgic for the active, ...
Sanwo-Olu shows he is a true Lagos governor by banning kekes & okadas (again)
When Nigerian governments have a problem they cannot solve by ignoring it, they choose instead to ban it instead. We ...
Joseph Odok, charged with terrorism by Ben Ayade finally gets bail
Terrorism seems like a ridiculous charge to bring against a lawyer, but this is the Nigeria we are living in ...
The Tarkwa Bay jeopardy is just another pointer to a failed humanity
When Nigerians (who are often in underserved communities and are barely able to get by) are asked to evacuate the ...
Tarkwa Bay makes it 24 beachfront communities illegally evicted by Lagos state
I start this article with Olutimehin Adegbeye’s TED Talk, Who Belongs In A City, because with each month it becomes more ...
The EFCC should do its job but are these dehumanizing methods of arrest really necessary?
For a while now, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has continued to reiterate its’ unbending stand on fighting ...
Ganduje continues in Kano as Supreme Court affirms his election
Many hopes were dashed this morning as the Supreme Court of Nigeria affirmed the re-election of Governor Umar Ganduje of ...
#ImoWantsIhedioha: The South-East protests to reject the Supreme Court ruling on Imo state
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. #imowantsihedioha 💪🏿💪🏿 pic.twitter.com/aZz6wc2hCS — Mundus (@mundus01) January 19, 2020 This is one ...
Protecting lives should be the priority of everyone in power and this includes governors
By now, we ought to have seen the widely acclaimed Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun) getting about their duties, if of ...
Maybe Kano can learn a thing or two from Jigawa’s Hisbah board
Hisbah, the para-security organizations created to implement Shari’a law in many of the Northern Nigerian states has gotten a bad ...
Nigeria remains one of the most dangerous places to work for journalists
Yesterday, journalist Maxwell Nashan lost his life. Nashan worked with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and was preparing ...
On this Armed Forces Remembrance Day, we cannot forget the war we are yet to win
On the 15th of January every year, we remember the members of the Nigerian armed forces, who have for the ...