2020 has been a year! All of us made our way into it with different goals and aspirations, sure it was going to go just as we planned....
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...
It’s important to let you know straight up that we were smoking and high. But that’s not how the story begins. It begins with me in...
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What Oyalowo, Ogunlesi, and Fowler are saying, basically, is that because the informal sector is untaxed, the increase in VAT will not affect the poor. But while...
As if when we see American hackers, they aren't somehow portrayed as cool villains and not common criminals. They know we're the ones scrambling to get visas...
Corruption and abuse of power are intricately sewn into the fibre of our culture, encouraged and to be aspired to. ** Imagine it was you. Don't...
These prophets, besides being from white garment churches, have something in common: their dubiousness is made apparent. In Life As It Is, you hear the prophet...
We celebrate those who have ruined the Nigerian infrastructure, have them sit in VIP sections and invite them onto gilded altars, inside these four walls. The...
Remember the Otedola Bridge fire? Remember how at the peak of its news cycle, the state government released a statement? As a government, we would not...
When the #MeToo movement was at its strongest, in 2017, many a powerful men were brought down in the US, made to face the consequences of...
The music video of Michael Jackson‘s They Don’t Care About Us — the Prison Version; the Brazil Version is a lot more sanitized, with its marching band and...
2019 is here… already! It’s been an amazing year and we can’t help but be grateful for what the BellaNaija team achieved in 2018. Through...
There’s a scene in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s book, Americanah that consistently amuses me whenever I read it. It’s that scene where Chief about to change Obinze’s life,...
Things we know for a fact: homophobia is a norm in Nigeria. Maybe it’s the religion – because, you know, we’re very religious – but we...
It’s basically the culture of middle class Nigerians at this point – have your children in the US. What better gift to give your child than...
I like the patient purgation of Sundays. I know I’m probably the only one, but I enjoy how restful it can be, the feeling of the...
It’s an event every first Friday of the month, the Lagos-Ibadan expressway clogged with cars, all roads leading to what has been christened the Redemption Camp....
There is a growing chasm between employers and people on the Nigerian job market; the former insist people are unemployable, while the latter lament the absence...
In the words of the great Frank Ocean: Why see the world when you got the beach? It’s possible to be so privileged that you become completely blinded...
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