#EndSARS: Focus on the Government and Get Them to ACT – Bankole Wellington
The honest truth is that people have been pushed to the edge. They have been frustrated, angry and burnt for far too long. And there is not one leader or group to speak to. It is decentralized, organic and spread out.Thousands of angry young people united only in their pain and disappointment in their country. […]
BANNING FSARS, AN OPERATION PROBLEM WHILE THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM LINGERS! – Kenneth Adejumoh
In a democratic government, masses’ agitations are usually orchestrated through peaceful protest to get the attention of the government. This used to be a physical exercise with volunteers on a march to a notable government facility where they would be heard and seen. But the advent of the new media and with the new world […]
ECOWAS COURT JUDGMENT COMPELLING NIGERIA TO REPEAL OR AMEND ITS CYBERCRIME ACT OF 2015 – Olumide Babalola
When in 2016, the trio of Edeaten Ojo (Media Rights Agenda), Gbenga Sesan (Paradigm Initiative) and Adeolu Adekola (EiE Nigeria) approached me to mount a constitutional challenge against Sections 24 and 38 of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act of 2015, little did I know that it was going be a long haul of legal […]
DisCos, Your Customers Can’t Breathe – Adeolu Adekola
The disturbing footage revealing circumstances leading to George Floyd’s death after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA reverberated across the world and sparked protests by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence. The footage showed a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, […]
The Second Quadrannium of Gambrach: Interregnum in Car-Knoe – Rotimi Fawole
Yea, in that day, a great pestilence befell the kingdoms of the earth and a whirlwind of unchill tossed the seas. Some people called it colonialvirus because it struck at the imperial heartlands of Old Europiana. Other people called it cycloneavirus, as it blew unchill all the way from the Woo-Hand Province in Jinpingopia to […]
I Believe I Can Try – Banky Wellington
In the last few months, a good number of the most brilliant, intelligent, brightest and hopeful young minds I’ve worked with in Nigeria, have relocated to Canada. Shortly after my campaign for the House of Representatives ended, two of the most impactful leaders on my campaign team—one a lawyer, and the other an IT professional/Tech […]
So, are we the Turning Point Generation? By Chude Jideonwo
Every now and again I miss those heady days. The raw mix of hope, naivety, time, energy, no-baggage, freshness, ignorance and arrogance that fuels the action that often causes big changes; changes that the wise, who have tried before, tell you won’t’ work out, and the cynical wonder: why bother? I remember how excited I […]
Finally, The Hour is Upon Us – What Now?
The 20th century Russian politician Vladmir Lenin once famously remarked: “There are decades where nothing happens; there are weeks where decades happen.” The past seven day period in Nigeria has been one of those proverbial decade-weeks, with at least three major local and international stories emerging with seismic implications for the country’s future. First, we heard […]
Social Development or Social Destruction? Hajiya Safiya Umar and FCT Social Development Secretariat (SDS) – Akubeze Okocha
On 16th April 2019, 19 children were allegedly abducted from their church in Jiwa, Gwagwa, a small community in the forgotten suburbs of Abuja, by officials of the Social Development Secretariat (SDS), a department of the Federal Capital Development Authority, (FCDA). The children were held in the Unity Orphanage Home and Youth Support Centre in […]
What Lagos Can Learn About Housing the Majority Population from Tokyo – Rebecca E. Roberts
The ongoing debate about the rapid forced and illegal evictions of poor people from their places of habitation in Lagos should primarily also be about the housing shortage mostly affecting the majority population (the poor) in Lagos. Housing deficits are not unique to Lagos, most major cities around the world both in the Global North […]