At this point, we all know the internet is a powerful tool. So powerful that a protest can be started online and then extended offline....
I could tell you a tale of sins. Of how our young men, either out of frustration or greed or a mixture of these, decided the...
My Journey to the Amrica is a 4-part story. If you missed the first part, read it here. *** By my final year, most people were...
It’s been long said that the revolution will not be televised, but we didn’t know it’d be misrepresented, too. A tweet from a journalist Fola Folayan should...
As young people, most times our blood dey hot. However, we must show that we’re very intentional and intelligent. We must also show that we have...
My father and I were speaking on the phone on Saturday morning when I told him I was going to Alausa to join the #EndSARS protests....
Kids will always be kids: happy this minute, throwing tantrums the next. As parents, the way we handle our kids when they misbehave goes a long...
For our #BellaNaijaMCM and #BellaNaijaWCW features this week, we celebrate the Nigerian youth, the men and women who for five days in a row, having taken...
Raising startup capital can be a gut-wrenching process for any entrepreneur. On one hand, it is validation that you are on to something and that capital...
How is it that the Nigerian police has failed to understand the youth and is now failing the #EndSARS movement as well? How ironic, the audacity...
The 10th of October, 2020, was the first time I had ever joined a mass protest. It was important to me that I joined the hundreds of...
The protests of young Nigerians have yielded some results: the Nigerian Police has announced that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is being dissolved. The Inspector General of...
The last known photos of Jimoh Isiaq of Ogiri Compound, Ita Alasa, Ogbomoso, show him standing in shorts and a sweatshirt, palm slippers, watching #EndSARS protesters from...
A long time ago in the late ‘90s, a teenage me sat beside my dad in his Benz 230 wagon, sweating it out on a long queue...
She was going to interview the renowned writer, Chinua Achebe, but it appeared that her interviewee was skeptical about her stance as a journalist who sings. So...
16-year-old Tina Ezekwe is maybe the most recent to make the headlines. A policeman trying to arrest a bus driver who had broken the lockdown curfew shot...
If there ever was a time for our voices to be heard collectively, it is now. Now that we are united against a common enemy –...
Every year the Big Brother Naija reality rolls around, and every year you see older Nigerians bemoaning the youths, complaining that rather than stand for something,...
You probably already know that Nigerians showed up en masse to the streets on Thursday, October 8, to protest the extrajudicial killings and assault by the Special Anti-Robbery...
New work from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is coming! As part of the Amazon Original Stories, Chimamanda’s “Zikora,” a 35-page short story, will be published on Tuesday, the...
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