Activism

Feminism, LGBTQ+ Rights & Religion: The Conversations Nigerian Gen Zs Are Having

Feminism, LGBTQ+ Rights & Religion: The Conversations Nigerian Gen Zs Are Having

The conversations Nigerian Gen Zs are having is redefining the cultural and social aspect of the country, and one thing is clear, they’re not afraid to talk about the tough stuff. From feminism to LGBTQ+ rights and the role of religion in society, the conversations Gen Zs are having today are bold, nuanced, and sometimes... Read More

Counter Culture Blog, For The Culture, Gen Z

Activism, LGBTQ, Religion

Is Falz carrying on his father’s legacy with #ThisIsNigeria?

Nigerian rapper, Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana, the scion of legal luminary and human right activist Femi Falana (SAN) has subtly reignited activism in the Nigerian music industry. Music is power and musicians are highly influential personalities but many of them have been silent on the state of the nation in recent times. However, there have been... Read More

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Activism, Childiah Gambino, falz, femi falana, This Is America, This Is Nigeria

2Baba, Timi Dakolo, others attend EiE’s fundraising where personalities were auctioned

When the words “auction some personalities” came up in the brief explainer for the Enough is Enough (EiE) dinner night/fundraiser, it might have sounded strange but we must admit that it is a unique way of raising funds. The EiE fundraiser held yesterday, April 15, at Harbour Point, Victoria Island and (in case you don’t... Read More

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Activism, enough is enough, fundraiser

Interswitch

February 21, 2018

Interswitch in Supporting STEM Education in Nigeria, Introduces SPAK Initiative to Groom Interest in STEM subjects

The Quality of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education in Nigeria is on a steady decline and the causes are not farfetched; poverty, minimal or no investments in the training of teachers, inadequate learning aids, it is a long list. Traditional education is not keeping up with today’s knowledge economy; training our younger generation... Read More

Activism, csr, education, Interswitch, SPAK, STEM

Kemi Olunloyo

January 8, 2018

[The Activism Blog] Kemi Olunloyo is still in custody, and this should worry you

The plight of detained blogger Ms. Kemi Olunloyo who was arrested in Lagos last year after she was accused of publishing a libelous article defaming the Senior Pastor of Port Harcourt based Salvation Ministries, Bishop David Ibiyeomie and was subsequently arraigned and detained in Port Harcourt prison since October 2017 has once again received public... Read More

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Activism, Ibiyeomie, Kemi Olunloyo

Daniel Elombah, Elombah

January 3, 2018

[The Activism Blog] The arrest of Daniel Elombah proves Buhari’s govt is as anti-press as ever

Reactions have continued to trail the arrest of Daniel Elombah the publisher of Elombah.com an online newspaper which started publication in the year 2009. Daniel and his younger brother Timothy were arrested in the wee hours of Monday January 1, 2018 by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad at Nnewi in Anambra state. According to... Read More

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Activism, Buhari, Elombah

Osasu Igbinedion

December 20, 2017

[The Activism Blog] You need to listen to Osasu Igbinedion

TV host, Osasu Igbinedion has joined the list of numerous Nigerians playing a positive role in the lives of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country. She recently hosted about 1000 IDPs to a Christmas party in Abuja as a way of giving back to the society through her Foundation, The Osasu Show Foundation.... Read More

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Activism, IDPs, Osasu Igbinedion

August 12, 2017

[The Activism Blog] Who is afraid of free speech in Nigeria?

The increasing non-tolerance for free speech in Nigeria which we wrote about in our Injustice Blog this week is the core message of Digital Right Activist, Adeboye Adegoke of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) latest publication titled, “Increasing threats on free speech as political terrorism”. He described Freedom of speech as an important tenet of any democracy... Read More

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Activism, enough is enough, Free Speech, nigeria, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria

The Activism Blog: Will Osori be returning to the board of OSIWA?

This just occurred to us yesterday as Ayisha Osori spoke about her experiences in the 2015 elections, where she first was with the People’s Democratic Party and then, over to the All Progressives Congress. She spoke at Enough is Enough Nigeria’s #PartyPolitics101 event. She had an impressive career in her past as an activist, including as... Read More

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Activism, APC, ayisha osori, EiE, enough is enough, OSIWA, Osori, Party Politics 101, PDP

The Media Blog: We like this new thing SaharaReporters just launched

It’s the Civic Media Hub, and it’s modelled after the MIT Centre for Civic Media. It’s a place to incubate all kinds of activist media platforms, which means, if all goes well it will be an explosion of militant SaharaReporters-type platforms. Is that a good or a bad thing? It depends on a lot of... Read More

Activism, Civic Media, MIT Centre for Civic Media, Sahara Reporters, The Media Blog

#BringBackOurGirls: How the Local Agitation for the Release of over 200 Abducted Girls Created a Global Movement

by Adesewa Josh In the middle of the night on April 14th 2014, Boko Haram militants raided a local secondary school in Chibok town, Borno state, North East Nigeria. More than 200 teenage girls were abducted from the school dormitory; it took about 48 hours before the incident was reported in the local media. “What... Read More

Activism, boko haram, bring back our girls, Chibok girls, nigeria, opinion

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to launch anti-Trump resistance organisation

According to CNN, Hillary Clinton, reentering the political limelight months after her 2016 campaign loss, will soon launch a political organisation aimed at funding “resistance” groups that are standing up to President Donald Trump. Clinton, according to sources with knowledge , is currently working with former aides and donors to build an organisation that will... Read More

Activism, Christiane Amanpour, clinton, cnn, Hillary, Texas

February 13, 2017

The Thread: “There is a thin line between activism and witchcraft,” @Omojuwa warns

Japheth Omojuwa is addressing some of the biases Nigerians have about the presidency. See below: If Trump had chosen to speak to two other African Presidents with no Nigeria? Noise! — JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) February 13, 2017 Noted.

Activism, bias, nigeria, omojuwa, President Trump, The Thread, Witchcraft

December 22, 2016

Ifeoluwa Adedeji: Staging the Nigerian state (1) [NEW VOICES]

by Ifeoluwa Adedeji In this piece, I am concerned with the ‘staging’ of the postcolonial Nigerian state and the specific nature of the production process that undergirds the success and applause of such performance. Just as a dramatic performance contains elements of script, audience, improvisation, the state produces a permeating rhetoric of ideas and symbols,... Read More

Activism, Enough is Enough Nigeria and BudgIT, Peoples Democratic Party, postcolonial Nigerian state

December 8, 2016

Hamzat Lawal: Love and the temperament of an activist

by Hamzat Lawal Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies – Aristotle My experience in activism exposed me to serious issues of life at an early age. Some people might not easily understand the reality that activism is not only about raising hell. It is not only about engaging the people that... Read More

Activism, Goodluck Jonathan, Joe Odumaikin, Love, nigeria, Northern Nigeria, young people

October 17, 2016

Hamzat Lawal: It started when I connected to pain

My Life (series) with Hamzat Lawal “As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.” – Adam Smith. It was one of those rainy days in the... Read More

Activism, Bagega, children, ICEED, MSF, nigeria, Non-profit organisation, pain, socio economic policies, Zamfara

Fela

October 12, 2016

Ayodeji Rotinwa: As we Felabrate, let’s remember our music still has no conscience

by Ayodeji Rotinwa It goes without saying what a force music can be, especially in repressive climes such as ours. “Shake”, “Waist”, “Whine”, “Money” and the insertion of plenty of alcohol brand names: Hennessy! Moët! These are the prominent, recurring features that identify the spawn of the Nigerian music industry of today. Sexual perversion,... Read More

Activism, fela, music in politics, nigeria, nigerian musicians

September 6, 2016

Between BBOG group, police and new pro-Buhari group

Having stopped the first silent protest of September 2nd 2016, embarked by the Bring Back Our Girls Group, by the Nigerian Police has, the group rescheduled its cause to Tuesday, 6th September 2016. However, there was a repeat performance by the police as the authorities, once again, obstructed the BBOG group from attending to their... Read More

Activism, BBOG movement, BBOG protest, Chibok girls, pmb, Pro-Buhari group, the Nigerian Police

Ezekwesili fumes over rejection of Gender Equality Bill

Former Minister of Education during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration and foremost activist, Oby Ezekwesili has lambasted the Nigerian Senate for rejecting the Gender Equality Bill. The bill sought to empower women across the country and ensure that they are accorded equal opportunities in the society but the Senate threw it out on the premise that... Read More

Activism, gender parity, senate, women

Opinion: The opposition APC and its concept of change

by Raymond Inkabi Thus, it appears the APC do not want to merely criticize the entire system, nor itself too, or the general political and social conditions under which this system functions. No! Its aim is one. Bring down the government. It is pertinent that issues bordering the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC)... Read More

Activism, APC, government, opinion, opposition, raymond inkabi, utopia, ynaija

Opinion: Nigeria – Why activism without ideation will never lead to change

by Tarila Marclint Ebiede The activists lost the battle for change when they failed to build an enduring narrative around these struggles. I see this as a failure of imagination and ideas. The Nigerian activists saw these rare opportunities as one-time events, instead of a chance to build an enduring movement for change. Growing up... Read More

Activism, activists, idealation, nigerian question, opinion, Tarila Marclint Ebiede, ynaija

Theophilus Ilevbare: #BringBackOurGirls campaign and the evolution of hashtag activism

by Theophilus Ilevbare Granted that hashtag activism oversimplifies the complexities of events abroad, and even if well-intentioned, rarely affect things on the ground but same cannot be said of the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Hashtag online activism has continued to prove critics wrong in the amazingly unique way it amplifies disconsolate unheard minority voices, suppressed or subdued... Read More

#BringBackOurGirls, #Hashtag, Activism, chibok, opinion, President Jonathan, theophilus ilevcbare, ynaija

November 17, 2013

Salihu Lukman: Why ex-ASUU president, Prof. Iyayi made that ill-fated trip

by Salihu Lukman May the death of Prof. Iyayi awaken all of us to the need to discover new ways and methods of solving all our societal problems especially those created by the irresponsible conducts of our governments and leaders. The name Festus Iyayi symbolizes struggle for academic freedom, democratization of our educational system, national... Read More

September 10, 2013

Gbenga Olorunpomi: Kayode Opeifa – The thin line between activism and anarchism

by Gbenga Olorunpomi Opeifa hasn’t been found guilty of any crime and for the activists to treat him like they did is shameful and criminal. They give activism a bad name and displayed a terrible example of how decent people should behave. I have never understood activism as practiced in Nigeria. I understand and support... Read More

Activism, babatunde Fashola, Gani Fawehinmi, Gbenga Olorunpomi, Kayode Opeifa, lagos, Politics

February 27, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Nigeria, if a better tomorrow must come (Y! FrontPage)

We must learn to use our supposed enemies to fight our own battles. There are times we will need them to open doors we cannot open just because we do not yet have the keys they have. It is possible to have a country of many activists but it not possible to change a country... Read More

Activism, Berlin, Goodluck Jonathan, japheth omojuwa, Leadership, nigeria, synergy, Y! Frontpage

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