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Counter Culture Blog
November 9, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Stranded Rivers students: Why Amaechi must intervene

The case of the stranded Rivers students in the United Kingdom whose scholarships were suspended by the State Government is one where that requires the intervention of former Rivers Governor and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. The scholarship scheme was established when Amaechi was in power through the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency with... Read More
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Senegal
November 8, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Senegal’s abortion laws are causing a rise in infanticide

It is naive to think that the restrictive laws we impose on the bodies and sexualities of women do not have far reaching consequences on our societies. The majority of issues we cover on the sexuality blog, even issues that do not directly affect women can often be traced back to women’s right issues, particularly... Read More
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El-Zakzaky
November 8, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Is our democracy really one if El-Zakzaky is still illegally detained?

In approximately six weeks, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, the illegally detained leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) would have spent exactly two years in confinement at an undisclosed location in Abuja, courtesy of the Department of State Services (DSS). Sheikh El-Zakzaky was arrested after a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and the IMN during... Read More
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Italy
November 8, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: 26 teenage girls died while being trafficked to Italy, when will this end?

According to reports by the BBC, the Italian government has just initiated an investigation into the violent deaths of 26 young Nigerian women aged between 14 to 18 while they were being illegally smuggled to Italy for sex work. Preliminary reports suggest that 23 of the 26 women at the heart of this investigation had been... Read More
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El-Zakzaky
November 7, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] NSCIA, MURIC don’t care about El-Zakzaky and that should worry every Muslim

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and the Muslim Right Concerns (MURIC) are two independent pressure groups created to protect the rights of Muslim in Nigeria and ensure that they are able to practice the tenets of their faith within the provisions of Nigerian and Islamic law. With close to fifty percent of... Read More
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November 7, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] If we are going to rid the Nigerian Police of rot, then we have to start from the top

Everyone knows the Nigerian Police Force is corrupt. It is a truth in Nigeria, rooted so firmly in our subconscious through personal experience and universal anecdote which makes us immediately flinch when we see their distinctive uniforms. It is a rot that grows more pervasive and complex with each successive generation, worsened by the confluence... Read More
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Ezekiel Mutua
November 7, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Ezekiel Mutua thinks lions learnt homosexuality from television and other Africanisms

“Africa is a country.” It seems since African countries started to wrest independence from European colonialists, we have struggled just as hard to redress the indifference with which they dismiss us. To the West, Africa is an amorphous whole, comprised of people whose only distinguishing feature is their dark skin and their perceived ignorance. Our... Read More
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Idris
November 6, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Impunity is the force which drives corruption in Nigeria

In Nigeria, impunity goes hand in hand with corruption. Since the first civil war, Nigerians have had to watch successive generations of people perform unspeakable acts of greed, violence and corruption and face no reckoning or consequence for their actions. Instead these people are rewarded with more opportunities, positions of power/influence and the admiration of... Read More
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Buhari
November 6, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] It’s obvious, Buhari returned to promote indiscipline

The second coming of President Muhammadu Buhari has been quite disappointing, but one of his standing qualities which has remained “untainted” is his insistence on indiscipline. Even his critics begrudgingly concede that Buhari remains unmovable in that regard. However, of what value is Buhari’s discipline if he cannot impress that virtue on the people he has... Read More
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November 5, 2017

[The Activism Blog] Paradigm Initiative condemns arrest of American who ‘insulted’ Mugabe

Digital rights Advocacy group, Paradigm Initiative has condemned the arrest of Martha O’Donovan, an American citizen, who works at a TV station in Zimbabwe by Zimbabwean Authorities. She was alleged to have re-tweeted a tweet by Magamba TV that “referred to a certain Goblin, whose wife and stepsons imported a Rolls Royce vehicle.” Despite the... Read More
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November 5, 2017

[The Activism Blog] Obafemi Martins has scored yet another “goal”

Nigerian international, Obafemi Martins also known as Obagoal scored another goal on Thursday, November 2, 2017. This time around the goal was not scored for his football club, Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C in China rather, it was off pitch. He was at the Lagos House, Alausa Ikeja, to present to the state government through his... Read More
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November 5, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Just like it happened in Queen’s College…

“I would like to report the Management of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos. As I write, the Principal and Vice-Principals have, over a month now, deliberately suppressed several complaints of sexual harassment which my daughter and some other students have consistently reported to their class teacher, their Year Head, the Head of Department of the accused... Read More
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Egypt, Doaa Salah
November 5, 2017

The Sexuality Blog: Egypt just sentenced a TV host to jail for speaking about premarital pregnancy

It is incredible the lengths we will go to on the African continent to uphold a dubious status quo and pretend that life isn’t really happening outside of religious and social beliefs and expectations. All across the continent we hear ridiculous stories of people being punished for choosing to speak plainly and honestly about sexual... Read More
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Female Genital mutilation
November 4, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Despite a ban, Ekiti, Osun still remain hot beds for Female Genital Mutilation

One of the last bills former president Goodluck Jonathan passed into law, was a bill abolishing female genital mutilation and imposing heavy criminal and financial sanctions on persons who still engage in the archaic practice. It was a victory for many human rights and women’s rights groups in particular who had seen first hand experience... Read More
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November 3, 2017

[The Activism Blog] Debola Williams takes the Office of the Citizen campaign to the #ObamaSummit

Co-founder of RED, Adebola Williams was one of the speakers at the just concluded Obama Foundation Summit held on October 31 to November 1, 2017, at Illinois, Chicago, the United States. Mr Williams regaled the attendees with the story of how at eighteen, in partnership with friends, he saw the need to combat the helplessness... Read More
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November 3, 2017

[The Activism Blog] The CJN’s corruption and financial crime committee seems to be dead on arrival

The Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO) set up by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen is expected to drive the National Judicial Council’s new policy on anti-corruption war. The COTRIMCO is supposed to ensure that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) adheres to the rule of law in its... Read More
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Unicef
November 3, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Nigerians have started selling UNICEF branded bags and the government will ignore that too?

In December 2016, the Nigerian Senate special committee investigating the mounting humanitarian crisis in the North East under the leadership of Senator Shehu Sani made a shocking discovery that the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal received the sum of two hundred million Naira (N200,000,000) through his company Rholavision... Read More
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Unicef
November 3, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] What message is Nigeria passing to the world?

In the last few weeks, the world has keenly followed the aftermath of the groundbreaking ruling annulling Kenya’s 2017 presidential elections, and the violent government suppression that has followed. Many have blamed Uhuru Kenyatta for how poorly the post annulment proceedings of the Kenya Presidential rerun have been handled – a wrong message from Africa... Read More
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Nicki Minaj
November 3, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Why is Nicki Minaj staying silent on her brother’s rape case?

There are few people you’d expect certain kinds of behaviour from. Especially if this person has built a career on the liberation of herself from the expectations and ideals of others, the embrace of her sexuality on her own terms and a hunger to best her male contemporaries. Onika Maraj, otherwise known as Nicki Minaj... Read More
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langtang
November 2, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] TheCable’s uncovering of an underage prostitution ring reveals Nigeria’s defective system

There are few things as scandal inducing to the average person than learning about a prostitution ring. It is a confluence of sexual assault, the coercion of a person without the aptitude to make certain decisions, promiscuity, sexual activity and slavery. Thanks to modern media, the images we have of forced prostitution are often those... Read More
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Flex
November 2, 2017

[The Sexuality Blog] Will flavoured condoms make protected sex cooler? The S.F.H. seems to think so

Nigerian commercials tend to be pretty cringey. Perhaps it is because there is a constant disconnect between what we think Nigerians sees themselves as and who they really are, but our commercials are often exaggerated and hard to take seriously.This new commercial from Nigerian sexual health non-profit organization, The Society For Family Health promoting their... Read More
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Saudi
November 1, 2017

Saudi’s Crown Prince wants to return the country to ‘moderate islam’; what does that mean for gender equality

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud recently said as part of his speech at the beginning of the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh that with his guidance, Saudi Arabia will move away from its current socio-political position as a fanatic monotheistic state to a more egalitarian one that... Read More
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November 1, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Lest Lagos falls into an avoidable health crisis

The Governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode government has invested a lot of funds into infrastructural development in the twenty local government and the thirty-seven local council development Authority in Lagos and, has received kudos from many. However, his achievements may soon be clouded by an impending health crisis that is gathering storm in the state... Read More
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