There is so much misinformation in Nigeria today and I really can not understand how the media which was like a Rottweiler under former President Goodluck Jonathan has suddenly turned into a chihuahua. What is going on? A lot of Nigerian journalists have reduced themselves to generators of excuses for President Muhammadu Buhari and I am concerned for the fourth estate of the realm. Really concerned!

Bearing in mind the volatile nature of the Niger Delta region, President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has started toeing a new path to address the myriad of problems there.

Various sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and social historians have attempted to stratify society into a set of hierarchical social categories or classes. They have attempted rather unsuccessfully to agree on the appropriate classes but the most common remain the upper, middle and lower classes.

The world’s second richest pastor commented on Thursday, July 7 that “the era of private universities – championed by the church – came to set standards and right moral codes in our educational system to make it thrive better, devoid of cultism and activism” as reported by Vanguard. However, this statement can also be interpreted to mean that this is another way the Nigerian rich class wants to criminalise activism and deprive the next generation of their right to independent thinking.

By Braimoh Bello It was the morning of yesterday and I felt like having boiled yam and fried egg for breakfast at the hotel restaurant I was staying in Benin City. As I entered, I noticed that the usually-warm waitress was a little pensive and borderline unhappy. I tried to cheer her up, asking her […]

The word “strong” in the body of a piece written by a certain Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s social media activist, lauding the governor’s achievements tickled my curiousity.

Violence begets nothing but violence and peaceful dialogue is the only way to appease a people that have been maligned, cheated and wounded. A word is enough for the wise.

There is no doubt that political developments in the polity have preoccupied the minds of public commentators and pundits. Sensational stories like the 2016 Budget scandal rocking the House of Representatives, unending PDP crisis being fuelled by contradictory rulings of learned Justices of Federal High Courts, the Niger Delta imbroglio and other pressing national issues, have become sources of destraction to the populace.

There is a tenacious debate in feminism and academia about sexual objectification. Sexual objectification is an incredibly touchy and multi-layered issue which has been associated with various societal anomalies and psychological defects in women, including depression, low self-worth, negative self-image, a general sense of hopelessness, etcetera.

The most corrupt people in Nigeria? Men in their 50s – especially the civil servants.

At that age, men have lost their idealism, the stark reality of the Nigerian state stares them right in the face. I had often wondered why, and have always felt embarrassed when, in the past, I passed through Immigration at the Lagos Airport and I’m asked for ‘something’ by the grown men who manned those desks. But now that I get to spend a lot more time in Nigeria, I know why.