Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous.
A conversation about the claim of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, trans and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) community to the rainbow as a piece of iconography has hit the ground running on that delightful microblogging site called Twitter. Twitter user @dawn_immanuel, took to Twitter to lament about how nowadays anyone who goes on Twitter to... Read More
On Sunday, a tweet went viral from user @GbemmyG in Port Harcourt showing her AC filters coated in soot, which reignited conversations about the city’s enduring soot problem and its unpleasant effects on the living conditions of residents. First reports of the state’s encroaching soot emerged in 2016/2017, settling over surfaces in a coat of... Read More
Victims of sexual assault have a hard time coming forward, whether they are male, female or non-binary. The reason for their silence will invariably differ from one another’s due to their different lived experiences, but there is always the overarching link of shame underlying these differences. This is especially pronounced in male victims of sexual... Read More
Poetry was not Logan Toluwalase Akinwale’s first love—music was. Born in 1999, they grew up around a variety of music. Then, when… The post TFAA 15 Prize In Literature Winner, Logan February Is The Youngest To Ever Win A Future Award. appeared first on The Future Awards Africa.
As Lagos guards its status as the epicenter of pop and hip hop discoveries, a parallel movement has been bubbling in Abuja. More often than not, these acts are pioneering divergent sounds drawn from soul, pop, dancehall, rap influences. Enter PsychoYP, an independent artiste who is leaving a blazing footprint with his trap sound that... Read More
Few drives are as noble as ones that compel us to make life better for the largest majority of people. The nobility of purpose is however, not enough to hoist an idea up long enough for the person pursuing it to attain their end goal. Solomon Ayodele, who describes himself as a Boy Rights Activist,... Read More
Nigeria records highest death from COVID-19 since 2020 The single-day count of coronavirus-related fatalities hit a new record on Thursday, 14 January 2021 with 23 casualties. On June 16 2020, the NCDC recorded 21 deaths and this will be the first time after seven months to record a number exceeding 21 deaths within a 24-hour... Read More
I made a tough decision a few days ago; we had to let some people go because they hadn’t performed well. I called one of them and said “I’m so sorry. I know this must be tough, I’m so sorry.” Her response surprised me. “Chude, I could see the tears in your eyes yesterday,” she... Read More
When Music Journalist, Joey Akan, on Wednesday, highlighted the possible chance of blogging platform, Crowee, gaining acceptance among young Nigerians, some of us were beginning to sense a possible inroad for the indigenous app (at least among young people in the North). Joey shared how the app could gain massive followership through the enrolment of... Read More
Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here’s a roundup of the best we saw: 1. Such a long attention span 2. Where’s the lie?... Read More
Announced on Tuesday that Burna Boy will feature on Sia’s Hey Boy remix, off her upcoming eight studio album Music – Songs From and Inspired by the Motion Picture to arrive February 12, 2021, the internet went agog. The album is a tie-in to her film debut of the same name, which the Australian pop... Read More
Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah in his Christmas message of last year accused President Buhari of nepotism, pursuing an agenda to ”stratify and institutionalise northern hegemony,” amongst other things. The Bishop’s mention of a coup, that a coup could have happened if a non-Northern Muslim did a fraction of what Buhari has... Read More
A frantic search for Digital Strategist, Ayodele Bandele – known simply as Dele, which lasted barely a day has turned up a body and a suicide note. The note – left privately for his closest friends, found its way to the internet somehow. While this is a tragedy that is essentially that of Dele’s friends... Read More
If today, you google “Disney in Africa”, you will find news about goats. No kidding. Go on, try it. You will read about how Disney added Nigerian dwarf goats to the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Literally. The reports proceed to explain how the goats are part of a new scene where visitors... Read More
NECO: 233,000 students to retake missed subjects The National Examination Council, NECO, has on Wednesday, 13 January announced the release of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (internal) results – The Punch reports According to the report, a total of 233,000 candidates, who were prevented from taking the NECO examination due to the #EndSARS protests,... Read More
Do you know who I am? In Nigeria, asking that question is often interpreted as ‘do you know how powerful, famous, and influential I am?’ That is precisely the mistake. It’s not about who society thinks I am or what I have. Who I am is the essence of humanity. It is the connection of... Read More
Celebrity blogger, Tunde Ednut, has been suspended by Instagram for the second time in the space of a month. He was initially suspended by Instagram late December, after his account of over 2.6 million followers was reported as ‘Spam’ by another user. Hours after one of social media’s most historic ‘comebacks’ however; amassing five hundred... Read More
Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here’s a roundup of the best we saw: 1. Now we know better! 2. E get why! 3.... Read More
Joeboy’s ascension in the music industry has been lovely to watch, breaking into a new stratosphere with 2019 pop hits like Baby and Beginning with such tender, boyish vocals, dominating multiple charts and radio. None of this could have happened without Mr Eazi’s brainchild emPawa Africa, an Africa-focused talent incubator that launched him into a... Read More
Toke Makinwa is no stranger to controversy – many might even argue her brand is built mostly on that, and while that may be true at face value it is not necessarily so on close scrutiny. Take the controversy she recently got embroiled in after she hopped on the Stingy Men Association trend on Twitter... Read More
The Christmas and New Year holidays certainly looked remarkably different this past year. The disruption caused by the global pandemic put a pause on the usual holiday traditions like partying, attending concerts, gathering with friends and family to eat and drink, traveling on vacation, among many others. Right before the beginning of the holidays, the... Read More
Not too long ago, social media was in an uproar after a certain Tosin Silva posited that Laycon, winner of Big Brother season 5, was unmarketable and won’t get as many endorsements as his other top counterparts. He listed Erica, Nengi, Ozo, Kiddwaya and Dorathy as the ‘marketable’ housemates from Big Brother Naija’s last instalment.... Read More
Ahead of Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday that pits the enduring incumbent Yoweri Museveni against opposition frontrunner and popular singer Bobi Wine, the country has restricted access to social media and other messaging apps. Users started to complain about the blackout on Tuesday. Uganda’s communications regulator (UCC) ordered the country’s internet service providers... Read More
Lagos generates 400 oxygen cylinders daily Mr Gbenga Omotoso, The Lagos State Commissioner for Information has stated that the state generates 400 cylinders of oxygen for the care of COVID-19 patients – The Punch reports Speaking to newsmen, Mr. Gbenga said the number was just enough for patients that were in a state that required... Read More
Chude Jideonwo There are a lot of doctrines I don’t believe in. Some people think that there is one way to be a religious person; that there is only one way to be a Christian, a Muslim, or a Buddhist. I don’t believe that. People believe and assume different things. One of the biggest challenges... Read More
“It is because he is seeing things that critics are not seeing. He is seeing things most people don’t see.” “It is not a tenured appointment. There is no part of the law that says chief of army staff must serve for two years. Then, after two years, he must go. It is no news... Read More
“If it was a girl that was raped now, feminists will be all over this trend,” is a phrase anyone who has been on that strangely thrilling corner of the Twitterverse that is Naija Twitter has come across at least once. Men who are aggrieved by the work that feminists do to fight for equal... Read More
Few human groups are as talked about, dissected, vilified and dismissed nowadays as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and other gender and sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) community. “But they are everywhere, talking, resisting, and ‘being loud,’” you object. And that is exactly the point. For centuries before colonialism, the LGBT+ community thrived side by side with... Read More
Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. Here’s a roundup of the best we saw: 1. Wahala for who nor dey work hard 2. Lol…... Read More