Category: Counter Culture Blog
Long after Saraki called it ‘Dead On Arrival’, the Nigerian senate revives social media bill
It does feel like we are in an endless hamster wheel with the Nigerian Senate. Pressing issues that affect the ...
Akwa Ibom takes a stand on #SexForGrades and other universities can learn a thing or two
Ever since news of the #SexForGrades documentary broke, tearing social media apart and abruptly ending the philandering careers of a ...
Isn’t Crazeclown too big a brand to be engaging in misogynistic jokes?
Nigerian comedy really is in the dumps, with the exception of a handful of truly talented comedians (Maraji mostly) the ...
Religious organizations should not be allowed to administer mental health treatment
If you watched Ruona Meyer’s “Sweet Codeine”, the documentary that won her an Emmy nomination and showed the true impact ...
Davido’s recent actions are a reminder that corruption is not just a government problem
As with everything Davido related, last week a video of two girls addressing the popstar went viral. Both seemed livid ...
Like taxes and death, the Nigerian government has come again about regulating social media
It feels like with every cycle of oppressive behaviour, the Federal government remembers that social media is a tool of ...
What is the ministry of education’s response to #SexForGrades? ‘Read Your Books’
Unless you’ve been living in a rock in Ghana or Nigeria, then you have heard of #SexForGrades. Journalist and OAP ...
Just a reminder: Children cannot consent to sexual activity
When we have conversations about rape culture, we do so to dismantle the deeply ingrained belief systems that enable sexual ...
‘Operation Positive Identification’ is discrimination in action
Ever since President Buhari won his second term, Nigerians across the country have worried that the President and his cabinet ...
The new UNDP report on African migration in Europe makes sense if you are a Nigerian
The United Nations Development Program recently released a report on the migration patterns of African immigrants to Europe, a very ...
If you want a university education, then you better go get your NIN
There hasn’t be a project that showed Nigeria’s incompetence as consistently as the National Idenitification Number Scheme (NIN) . Chaired ...
Closed borders and USSD charges, is this how to grow Nigeria’s economy?
“All goods, for now, are banned from being exported or imported through our land borders and that is to ensure ...
According to NMAC, 1 in 4 Nigerians are illiterate
65 million Nigerians that cannot read or write. That’s the number that Prof. Abba Haladu, the Executive Secretary of the ...
High ranking policemen getting kidnapped is just how bad Nigeria’s security issues are right now
Is there a more pressing sign that a country’s security has been severely compromised than the state having to protect ...
Isn’t it time France stopped pretending it doesn’t treat francophone West Africa like a colony?
Over the last decade, it has become harder and harder for France to project this air of neutrality and progressiveness, ...
At long last, Karo Omu’s campaign to subsidize sanitary products has the government’s ear
Here at the YNaija Counter Culture blog, we have followed with keen interest the work that activist Karo Omu has ...
Is Minister Adamu of the ministry of education going to speak on #SexForGrades?
#SexForGrades, the BBC investigation chaired by Nigerian journalist Kiki Mordi and Charlie Northcott has the whole of Africa’s millennial population ...
What happens to the AfCTFA now that the borders are closed?
The Nigerian Customs authority has spent the last month ‘experimenting’ with the country’s road borders. But not all the country’s ...
Sanwo-Olu declares a state of emergency but is it enough?
Anyone who lives in Lagos knows what a nightmare traffic has been in the last month. There has been miles ...
Dear Sound Sultan, a personal preference for plus-size women doesn’t make you progressive
Nigerians body shame. It is as much a fact about our country as our love for jollof and our tragic ...
Recent data on sexual assault in Kaduna is a warning that gendered violence is a national problem
As a Nigerian who is concerned about the rights of women and children, you never catch a break. In October ...
#SexForGrades is a reminder that nothing will stop Nigeria’s #MeToo movement
Yesterday, Nigerian journalist Kiki Mordi, in partnership with Premium Times and the BBC released an investigative documentary about the exploitation, ...
Another critic of Governor Ganduje has been arrested for dissent
Nazir Ahmed, otherwise known by his stage name Sarkin Waka was arrested by the Kano State Police command on the ...
An alleged serial killer has killed 9 women in Port Harcourt & the Nigerian police is blaming the victims
The first time I heard about the serial killings in Port Harcourt, it wasn’t from the Nigerian police. There was ...
Don’t be deceived by the recent support for Bobrisky, TERFs are still a big problem
Everyone expected it, but we were all still genuinely surprised when it happened. For nearly a year, Idris ‘Bobrisky’ Okuneye, ...
Sex tourism is thriving in the Gambia, but is it wrong if it is consensual?
West Africa has sex tourism situation. I would ordinarily call it a ‘problem’ but I believe the situation requires more ...
Everyone dies in the end, even Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe, former president of Zimbabwe (for 30 plus years) is dead. No one is really surprised by this, in ...
Sanctions not retaliations are how we need to respond to SA’s xenophobia
For nearly a week before the 1st of September, news filtered in from South Africa that the country’s black male ...
With journalists being arrested for treason, Nigeria dips further into a dictatorship
Just last week, we were publicly decrying the decision of the federal government to forcefully arrest AAC presidential candidate Omoyele ...
Flooding: Nigeria is on the verge of yet another nationwide disaster
As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, its hard not to feel like we all suffer from collective amnesia. A collective ...