Category: Counter Culture Blog
#Covid19: Wild animal consumption was just banned in China, should Nigeria follow suit?
Yesterday, the Chinese city of Shenzen became the first in the People’s Republic to ban wild animal consumption. China is ...
Ganduje is prepared to flout the law to keep his emirs
After months of deliberations the Federal Courts have ruled in the civil case brought before it about the legitimacy of ...
Luxury vehicles; that’s where Nigeria’s senate priorities lie during #COVID19
In case you were wondering what stringent measures the Nigerian House of Representatives have initiated in light of the global ...
Excellent images shot with the TECNO CAMON 12 featured on National Geographic, leading photography magazine
Whether you know photography or not, you must have heard of National Geographic. It’s a leading photography magazine in the ...
Abba Kyari has the coronavirus yet Nigerian politicians refuse to hear word
How did we manage to vote so many incompetent callous people into places of political power. Across the three arms ...
Should Nigerian oil marketers be punished for hoarding fuel in Corona times?
Last week, the federal government announced, in line with crashing oil prices, that it was lowering the financial peg for ...
Former VP Atiku Abubakar’s son has the Coronavirus, people this is not a drill
Last night, the last person anyone would have expected to be personally affected by the spread of the Coronavirus gave ...
Coronavirus won’t stop COZA from holding Sunday service, and maybe it’s time to push the panic button?
As the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirms 10 new cases of COVID-19, Nigerians are slowly coming to grips with ...
Yahoo boys are evolving: Love scams are out, fake news is in
From Naira Marley to President Buhari, everyone has been talking about online fraud and how intertwined with Nigeria’s public image ...
In the wake of #EndHomophobiaInNigeria, here’s a way to keep up the pressure
Last week, reports of the murder of a young Nigerian man from Imo state surfaced on the internet. The reports ...
How do you handle a global pandemic? Combine forces with Twitter
Today, the Nigerian government just announced that its third potential Covid-19 patient, a person who showed symptoms in Enugu state, ...
The tragedy at Abule Ado is a reminder that nothing insulates you from Nigeria
Yesterday, Lagosians woke up to a gas explosion at Abule Ado in Festac Town. In the era of the Coronavirus, ...
As Russia & Saudi Arabia fight over oil prices, a poorly prepared Nigeria will suffer
Over the last few years, Nigerians have lived in fear of fluctuating oil prices. Despite the efforts of successive governments ...
We cannot sacrifice poor people in our fight to curb the Coronavirus pandemic
Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it was upgrading its classification of the Coronavirus as a pandemic. It has ...
Maryam Augie-Abdulmumin: Child education – An obligation, not an option
Children all over the world and especially in Nigeria, no matter their social status, socio-economic situation, circumstance or location have ...
#EndHomophobiaInNigeria is sweeping through the internet and ignoring it makes you complicit
For 24 hours, Twitter has been abuzz with #EndHomophobiaInNigeria – a reaction to a gay man murdered in Imo which ...
Nigeria is doing everything right with its response to the Coronavirus
On Monday, July 9th, the Federal Ministry of Health announced that the country had recorded its second case of Coronavirus, ...
Maybe something good will come out of the Nigerian Premier League tragedy last weekend
Last weekend, during a routine Nigerian Premier League match between the Nassarawa United team and Katsina United, a Nassarawa United ...
I am Generation Equality: #EachForEqual, RED | For Africa C.O.O. Bukonla Adebakin sends special #IWD message
I am Generation Equality; EachForEqual The topic of equality is so vast and so broad, attempting to tackle it successfully ...
The South-South finally joins the regional security force bandwagon
Since 2015, Nigeria has struggled with increasing insecurity. It has worsened as clashes between herdsmen and farmers led to several ...
Ebola is finally history for the Democratic Republic of Congo
In the mass hysteria of the Coronavirus and the West’s confusion as to how the virus has not infiltrated Africa ...
Nigeria’s House of Reps are planning a Coronavirus inspired holiday
If there’s anything to be proud of in the global panic that has enveloped the world caused by the spread ...
Meet Senator Ibrahim Gaidam; sponsor of the new Boko Haram Bill
Nigeria has had more than its fair share of controversial senators since it returned to democratic rule in 1999. From ...
Almajiri bans are not what Sokoto or any other state in Nigeria needs
If there is anything that seems consistent about Nigerian governments at the federal and state level; its the reality that ...
Nigeria has discovered its first case of Coronavirus, but no need to panic
In the late hours of February 27th, just two days after a previous suspected case of the Coronavirus was cleared ...
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 ...