Category: Counter Culture Blog
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 ...
Hanan Buhari is not having a great week in the media
For most of General Buhari’s first term as president, his son Yusuf Buhari and his daughter Zahra Buhari spent a ...
The Nigerian police raises an important question about Amotekun
Who has the right to bear sophisticated arms? That is the question the Nigerian police representatives in Ekiti, Ogun and ...
Somebody help! There’s fire on the mountain and all we see are commiserations
Between January 7 and January 10, 30 fire cases were reported in Osun, and 39 in Lagos state. This is ...
‘Amotekun’ initiative is the paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for to combat Nigeria’s growing insecurity challenge
Imagine a group of security personnel made up of people who live in our neighborhood or have a comprehensive understanding ...
Does NERC need a prophet to know that electricity tariff hike is disadvantageous to the livelihood of the average Nigerian?
The steep poverty level an immense number of Nigerians live in, and the minimal steps set up to combat that ...
The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is supposed to clean up Nigerian oil, but will it?
Global news platform, Al-Jazeera recently put out a micro-documentary that caught our interest. At 7 minutes long, the explainer manages ...
It’s 2020 and NDA cadets shouldn’t be bullying helpless citizens, except we are a lawless country
For Nigerians, the abuse of power by the Nigerian army and the humiliating treatment of everyday persons whom they find ...
Dear Governor; bad roads and not bad cars are the major causes of Lagos gridlocks
Lagos has a serious and historical problem with traffic congestion and gridlocks that often run for hours and has been ...
The arguments are over but the rights of LGBTQ Nigerians are still not taken seriously
The LGBT discourse which made the rounds on Twitter late last week after Feminist, Gender-Equality advocate and award-winning Documentary filmmaker ...
We’re going into 2020 with an infrastructural funding crisis
One of the major campaign promises of the Buhari administration during its first and second election runs was the promise ...
We thought the year of ridiculous policies was finally over, but Kano says no
This year saw quite a number of preposterous bills and laws getting proposed and enacted. From the social media bill ...
More than we ever thought, domestic workers in Nigeria need stronger protection
About five days ago, a video of a woman pushing a little girl out of a car and going on ...
Borders in Nigeria are staying closed for the foreseeable future
Earlier this year, the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Authority, Hameed Ali announced the country was closing its land ...
The judge assigned to Omoyele Sowore’s suit has resigned, so what next?
the last 4 months, the entire country has followed with trepidation the case of journalist, activist and presidential candidate Omoyele ...
All we want for Christmas is Leah Sharibu
February 2018 started like a normal day for Leah Sharibu, but by then end of that day, she had joined ...
Difficult to believe but the federal government is empowering a lawless generation
When the highest branch of authority in the country fails to uphold an elevated standard of order and respect for ...
Shina Peller was arrested by the Nigerian police, this is Nigeria in 2019
We are at the end of a decade, and everything that has happened in the last year tell us that ...
#YNaija2019Review: 10 moments that proved that Nigeria is a jungle
Forget what you’ve heard, Nigeria is a jungle and the shame is ours ANA owing young writer Every time this ...
For Nigerian men, dark humour means trivialising women’s oppression
So here’s the thing for many Nigerians (read men) on social media spaces: clout reigns supreme. Nothing else really matters ...