#BBNaijaShineYourEyes: White Money makes ‘revelation’ about his billionaire father

Last night saw a whirl wind of emotions in the Big Brother Naija House; one that somehow managed to suck everyone in. The tension between White Money and Pere, which has been brewing for over two weeks finally came to a head, bringing about one of the ugliest incidents in the House thus far. At... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

BBNaija, Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, Pere Egbi, saga, White Money

August 17, 2021

#BBNaijaShineYourEyes: White Money and Pere finally admit their dislike for each other

Since the second week in the Big Brother Naija House, when Pere and Maria were revealed to be the wildcards, there has been a growing tension between White Money and Pere. Pere in particular has been very passive aggressive towards White Money; a disposition no one in the house is oblivious of. Last night however,... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

AngelBBN, BBNaija, Boma, Maria, PereEgbi, queen, TEGA, White Money

August 17, 2021

“For me it was like, just survive”, Cee-C discusses dealing with negative criticisms and life outside the Big Brother House #WithChude

Navigating negative emotions is difficult for anyone, especially when it has to be done under public scrutiny. This week on #WithChude, reality star, actress, and former BB Naija Housemate, Cynthia Nwadiora, popularly known as Cee-C, discusses life in and three years after leaving the Big Brother house and recovering from COVID-19. Speaking about how she... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

#WithChude, BamBam, Cee-C, coca-cola, Cynthia Nwadiora

August 16, 2021

#BBNaijaShineYourEyes: Maria is to play the role of villain again and here’s what we think

Mondays in the Big Brother Naija House are for the nominations and the Head of House games. While the latter has unfolded with certainty, to the Housemates at least, the former is being used by Biggie to spice the show up a little. This Monday, Maria won the Head of House challenge. Unfortunately, it doesn’t... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

BBNaija, Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, Maria

August 16, 2021

#BBNaija: Did Kayvee’s interaction in the house escalate his health issue?

The Big Brother show, no matter what region of the world it airs, is regarded as a social experiment. As is known to everyone who watches the show, a number of contestants are crammed into one house to see how they interact with each other. During a specified time frame, they are cut off from... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

BBNaija, Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, Kayvee, MichaelBBN, Pere Egbi, Sammie, TEGA

August 15, 2021

#BBNaija: Fans in shock over their own decision, as Arin takes a bow from the house

It’s that time of the week again where housemates and fans of the show bid farewell to one of the contestants. Like every other eviction Sunday; this one was not particularly easy to deal with – dependent on where you stand though. For the housemates, the difficulty in dealing with the eviction of a fellow... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

ArinBBN, BBNaija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, PrincessBBN

August 15, 2021

#BBNaija: White Money gives reasons why he can never fall in love with Maria

During the first week of the ongoing Big Brother Naija Season 6; there was so much talk about the relationship between White Money and Maria. Most fans hoped that the relationship between the two would blossom into a romantic one, but after a while it became clear that these two just have a good friendship... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

BBNaija, Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, Boma, Maria, Pere Egbi, White Money

August 13, 2021

#BBNaija6: Pere may have bitten off the hand that fed him

Since the whole wild card debacle during the second week of Big Brother Naija, Season 6 premiered, the hard feelings between White Money and Pere have been undeniable. Granted, both Housemates have done a splendid job in keeping their feelings under wrap, and remaining civil towards each other, it doesn’t change the fact that there... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

BBNaija, Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, Pere Egbi, White Money

August 11, 2021

#BBNaija: Angel begins to show a new side of her as she promised

Two nights ago, this past Monday, one of the ugliest incidents occurred in the Big Brother Naija since the new season began, and the effects of that night are still lingering till today. Sammie and Angel, who had been an item for some time now, got into an intense fight over a kiss, and some... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

Angel Agnes, BBN, Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes, Liqorose, Maira, Sammie

August 10, 2021

#EndSARS: 2 Queer men and 1 straight man unravel where we went wrong

There are events too traumatic even for the human memory – its evolved glory notwithstanding – to hold in a place it can easily access, hence the forgetfulness that follows a traumatic experience. However, when it is a group trauma like the events of October 20, 2020, that ended the #EndSARS movement in a bloody... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

#EndSARS, Femco, lagos, Lekki Massacre, LGBT+, nigeria, October 20, Queer

August 10, 2021

#BBNaija: Did Sammie slut shame Angel or he simply express how he felt?

Save for the first week after housemates moved into the ‘Shine Ya Eyes’ House, on every other day since the start of this season’s Big Brother Naija show, it feels like the House has been on fire. A fight is sure to erupt as housemates get at each other’s throat. Last night, this trend followed... Read More

Blogs, Reality TV

Big Brother Naija, Big Brother Naija Season 6, Big Brother Naija Shine Your Eyes, saga, Sammie

August 9, 2021

Mannequins and erections | An in-depth view of the Hisbah mannequin ban in Kano

It is a given, that you can’t help but roll your eyes when you read a headline like, ‘Kano Hisbah bans the use of mannequins to display clothes in shops to curb immoral thoughts.’ Also, unless you have immersed yourself in the local culture sans presumptions of what it entails wholly and in part, it... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

Hisbah, islam, Mannequin, News

August 6, 2021

This is the Northern gambit you didn’t know about regarding enforcing Shari’ah

Unless you have a core of steel, shock is a natural reaction to news items like the arrest for blasphemy of Muslims and former Muslims in Northern Nigeria. The news of the sentencing to death of a child for blasphemy – who according to the Shari’ah court that tried his case, “committed the ‘crime’ while... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

blasphemy, blasphemy law, Christians, islam, islamic state, mubarak bala, Muslims, nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Shariah, southern Nigeria

August 5, 2021

What happens when 2 gay and 3 straight men walk into a bar?

If you are going by all the horrible stories of violence against queer bodies across the world – from the dark alleys of Tel Aviv in the apartheid state of Israel to Ho in Ghana – you will be within your right to believe that the world of cis-heterosexuals and that of queer people is... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

Ghana, Heterosexuals, homosexuality, israel, LGBT Ghana, LGBTQ Ghanaians, Tel Aviv

July 22, 2021

Recommendations by South West Governors are compelling evidence of how Nigeria could truly work

The Nigerian federation is at a critical juncture where virtually every citizen agrees that the national political setup needs to change before the progress citizens aspire to see can happen; particularly the kind befitting a nation-state in the 21st century. This has led to various moves by power brokers across the country with the forum... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

1999 Constitution, national assembly, South West governors, South-West Governors’ Forum, Southern Governors’ Forum (SGF)

July 13, 2021

Obituary: Sound Sultan defined the sound for a new generation, here’s why he lives forever

Afrobeats to the world!It is easy to scream that now that Nigerian pop music is making inroads in even the most unlikely spaces. But for the artistes who built the foundations of this sound from the ruins of the economic devastation of the nineties, that moniker must take on a special significance. Sound Sultan was... Read More

Specials, The Media Blog

Chichi Morah, Farida Fasasi, Olanrewaju Abdul-Ganiu Fasasi, sound sultan

July 13, 2021

Usifo Ataga: It’s time the Police applied legal steps rather than ‘meet-and-greet’ rounds

The story of Chidinma Ojukwu and the late Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga is one that most Nigerians are familiar with by now. Even the lady might need no introduction at any Police Station across the country, due to the virality of the case. Weeks ago, news had broken about the gruesome murder of Ataga... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Cover Stories, Deep Dive

Chidinma Ojukwu, Nigeria police, Usifo Ataga

July 12, 2021

Information Blackout: Protest by the Press is alarm on the danger of democracy without watchdogs

A glance at any newspaper stand across Nigeria on July 12 would have brought one striking observation – most of the newspapers in the country bore an identical frontpage – a banner that reads: “Information Blackout “This is what the National Assembly wants to achieve with the NPC and NBC (Media) Act amendment Bills. “It’s... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Cover Stories, Deep Dive, Satire

Anti-Media bill, Federal Government, Freedom of the Press, Nigerian Newspapers

July 12, 2021

Borno IDP Camps: Could Governor Zulum be misplacing the difference between ‘prostitution’ and rape?

On Wednesday, July 7 2021, Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, lamented that prostitution is on the rise within the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps of the terror-ravaged North-East state. The statement could ordinarily pass scrutiny in Nigeria’s cultural clime – one that is largely anti-sex work, but for a number of... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

boko haram, Borno IDPs, IDP Camps, prostitution, sex work, Sexual assault, Zulum

July 12, 2021

Male rape survivors would get help but homophobia wouldn’t allow it

#TriggerWarning; Rape. Every year, millions of boys and girls globally suffer sexual violence. The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reports that 6 out of 10 children experience some form of violence – 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 10 boys have been victims of sexual violence in Nigeria. A very tiny fraction of... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

male survivors, nigeria, rape, sexual abuse, UNICEF, Violence against Persons Prohibition ACT (VAPP)

July 11, 2021

The Sultan passes but his Sound lives on

It was supposed to be a Sunday billed for a gladiatorial spectacle of soccer, and any other issue would be secondary. Even people who are not cut out for ‘all that football conversation’ could not avoid the fliers and banters thrown in their face. No one, save for maybe the doctors of music legend, Olanrewaju... Read More

Deep Dive, The Music Blog

#Fortyfied, 2baba, sound sultan

A picture of demonstrators holding placards at a protest calling for the prosecution Yahaya Sharif - a singer accused of blasphemy in a song. This is to reinforce the subject of the topic.

July 10, 2021

Once again a mob calls for blood in a new blasphemy case in Northern Nigeria

A mob of young Nigerian Muslim men in Sokoto, stormed the palace of Sultan, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, on Thursday carrying placards that read “Isma’il must die,” to demand the arrest and prosecution of one Isma’ila Sani Isah of Gobirawa area. His ‘crime’ is that he allegedly posted a blasphemous comment against the Holy Prophet Muhammad... Read More

Blogs, Counter Culture Blog

blasphemy, islam, Nigeria police, Northern Nigeria, Sultan of Sokoto

July 9, 2021

First cattle, now dogs: Nigeria’s unending drama of fundamental animal rights | The #YNaijaCover

It’s not every time one gets to see the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation come out to tongue-lash people who would see to the restriction of cattle movement across the country. Such a vehement reaction speaks to the esteem with which cattle are held, especially in the North; to the extent that... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Cover Stories, Satire

cat, Cat meat, cattle, change.org, Change.org petition, Dog met, Dog rights, dogs, Natasha Choolun, petition

July 9, 2021

5 Things to do when you get a panic attack

If you can picture this, chances are you have been there before – even if you didn’t have the words to describe the experience: A sudden onset of chills grips the entire body, or a feeling of heat rising rapidly through the body and sweat breaking all over it. The heart races alarmingly. There is... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

Panic Attack

July 8, 2021

The Court may have vindicated Kemi Adeosun but does the ruling erase the blot of forgery?

After the dust appeared to have long settled on the allegation of forgery of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) certificate by former finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, which surfaced two years ago, the recent ruling of the court on the case has reawakened sentiments and criticisms. A report had indicted Kemi Adeosun of forging her... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Deep Dive

kemi Adeosun, nysc

July 7, 2021

Are Nigeria’s Northern elites truly jittery about Southern pacts?

It is becoming a case of cause and reaction. Whenever there is a meeting of the Southern leaders, especially the governors, what follows is a chain of reactions from the Northern elites bothering on uneasiness, if not more. The situation of the country, from whatever perspective you view it from, demands urgent action and intervention.... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Deep Dive

Muhammadu Buhari, Northern Nigeria, Southern Governors Forum

July 6, 2021

Tackling workplace sexual harassment is far easier for organisations than some ad campaigns

Anna’s* career path has been dotted with job switches since she finished NYSC in 2018, for reasons completely unrelated to her competence. Her first job as an accountant for a small firm in Kaduna ended abruptly after 4 months and backbreaking labour to clean up years of shoddy record-keeping and set the firm on course... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

culture, rape, Rape culture, sexual harassment, workplace

July 6, 2021

Southern governors are leading the charge for a restructured Nigeria and we love it

From the arrest and re-arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), nearly four years after he jumped bail and fled the country, to the raid of the Ibadan home of popular Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday ‘Igboho’ Adeyemo, by a joint team of security operatives, it is by all indications... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Deep Dive

Federal Government, Nnamdi Kanu, Restructuring Nigeria, Southern Governors Forum, Sunday Igboho

July 6, 2021

Kaduna School Kidnap: Why time is ripe for state police

There would certainly be no offence taken if one has lost count of the number of times schools have been attacked and students kidnapped in the last one year. The condition has deteriorated to the extent that students abducted from one school would still be atop news trends before another one happens. A rough estimate... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, Deep Dive

Kaduna kidnapping, Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Restructuring Nigeria, state police

July 6, 2021

Where “Out and Proud” does not have to be bare-faced

An acquaintance made a passing remark that started a conversation on whether we can call a public declaration of who you are – as a queer person, pride if you do it behind a face blurring effect that protects your identity. The answer I and a number of other acquaintances gave was a simple but... Read More

Blogs, Non-binary Blog

LGBT+, nigeria, Transgender

#BBNaijaShineYourEyes: White Money makes ‘revelation’ about his billionaire father

#BBNaijaShineYourEyes: White Money and Pere finally admit their dislike for each other

“For me it was like, just survive”, Cee-C discusses dealing with negative criticisms and life outside the Big Brother House #WithChude

#BBNaijaShineYourEyes: Maria is to play the role of villain again and here’s what we think

#BBNaija: Did Kayvee’s interaction in the house escalate his health issue?

#BBNaija: Fans in shock over their own decision, as Arin takes a bow from the house

#BBNaija: White Money gives reasons why he can never fall in love with Maria

#BBNaija6: Pere may have bitten off the hand that fed him

#BBNaija: Angel begins to show a new side of her as she promised

#EndSARS: 2 Queer men and 1 straight man unravel where we went wrong

#BBNaija: Did Sammie slut shame Angel or he simply express how he felt?

Mannequins and erections | An in-depth view of the Hisbah mannequin ban in Kano

This is the Northern gambit you didn’t know about regarding enforcing Shari’ah

What happens when 2 gay and 3 straight men walk into a bar?

Recommendations by South West Governors are compelling evidence of how Nigeria could truly work

Obituary: Sound Sultan defined the sound for a new generation, here’s why he lives forever

Usifo Ataga: It’s time the Police applied legal steps rather than ‘meet-and-greet’ rounds

Information Blackout: Protest by the Press is alarm on the danger of democracy without watchdogs

Borno IDP Camps: Could Governor Zulum be misplacing the difference between ‘prostitution’ and rape?

Male rape survivors would get help but homophobia wouldn’t allow it

The Sultan passes but his Sound lives on

Once again a mob calls for blood in a new blasphemy case in Northern Nigeria

First cattle, now dogs: Nigeria’s unending drama of fundamental animal rights | The #YNaijaCover

5 Things to do when you get a panic attack

The Court may have vindicated Kemi Adeosun but does the ruling erase the blot of forgery?

Are Nigeria’s Northern elites truly jittery about Southern pacts?

Tackling workplace sexual harassment is far easier for organisations than some ad campaigns

Southern governors are leading the charge for a restructured Nigeria and we love it

Kaduna School Kidnap: Why time is ripe for state police

Where “Out and Proud” does not have to be bare-faced

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