Tag: nigeria
Yes, witchcraft accusation is a prosecutable offence in Nigeria
Nigerian feminists have been at the receiving end of accusations of witchcraft for a very long time. It didn’t start ...
#Edo2020: 8 Months pregnant Gold medalist being under scrutiny raises many questions
A heavily pregnant Nigerian athlete, Aminat Idrees, has won Taekwondo gold medal following her victory at the ongoing National Sports ...
The ache of silence | Intimate partner violence in LGBT+ relationships
It is an open secret that the laws against same-sex relationships notwithstanding LGBT+ people find ways to love in Nigeria. ...
A jail-break card in perpetuity for abusers | Dissecting the Pete Edochie interview
Unless you have not been paying attention lately, you must have come across the recent spike in nuggets of ancient ...
‘Accused of blasphemy and burnt to ashes’ | The tragic tale of Talle Mai Ruwa
In case you missed it, Talle Mai Ruwa is the latest victim of fanatical religiosity (blasphemy), only he doesn’t make ...
Suicide is on the rise and all we have is a mindless political leadership
How do you convince a government to declare a state of emergency on the increasing rate of suicide? Specifically, how ...
3 years after the Disability Act became law, accessibility is still less than ideal
In a commendable win for people with hearing impairment, Nigeria’s federal government, in February, ordered the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) ...
Why affirmative action is needed to close the workplace gender gap
There was pandemonium on Twitter last week following a tweet by a new generation bank announcing an internship opportunity for ...
#HerStory Series: “I am trapped in a loop of pain” – 34-year-old Samirah shares how she was forced to marry her rapist
Nigeria declared a state of emergency on sexual and gender-based violence last year following the rape and murder of 22-year-old ...
#IWD2021: In honour of Nawal El-Sadawy, the woman who inspired me to rethink Allah
by Asiya Hameed There are many reasons to write about the plight of women at any given time and not ...
YouTuber Victor Emmanuel is protesting against the SSMPA with a hunger strike. How will it play out?
Nigerian YouTuber, Victor Emmanuel, popularly known as VicWonder has gone on indefinite hunger strike in a protest calling for the ...
3 LGBT+ Nigerians share what inspired them to come out of the closet
Human beings have an ever expanding list of wants, these things vary from person to person and more often than ...
Kanye West is a successful ‘mad person’ | What this means for people living with mental illness in Nigeria
There are a thousand and one reasons to centre conversation today around America’s richest ever black billionaire, Kanye West. For ...
Exploring gender through the viewpoint of Igbo Spirituality
by Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem There is a story told of Area Scatter, a crossdresser who played an ornamental thumb piano ...
#IWD2021 Special: Reflections on time and gender by a nonbinary woman
By Alexandra Maduagwu In many ways, this [life] journey has always been about finding and naming myself. Looking back, there ...
The unlawful detention of Itunu Babalola in Cote d’lvoire is rooted in xenophobia
Today on social media, many Nigerians galvanised to push the #JusticeForItunu hashtag after journalist and political critic David Hundeyin posted ...
#HerStory Series: “I wanted my baby to shut up, forever.” | Women’s Month Special
As difficult as it is to believe, nay conceive of, while we talk about women’s achievements in Nigeria over the ...
Saadat Aliyu reminds us why we need to be intentional about preventing the erasure of women
On February 15, 2021 international news agency, Reuters attracted huge backlash after tweeting a piece announcing the election of former ...
When Nigeria is ready to tackle child marriage, this might be the first step
Child marriage is still an ongoing menace in Nigeria that does not appear to be going away any time soon. ...
The list outing Nigerian male celebrities hurts both heterosexual and LGBTQ people
A list of gay/bisexual men in Nigeria, compiled by self-styled investigative journalist known only as Queen Aisha, has made the ...
Here’s why Sowore is perhaps, an unwitting champion of African Spirituality
Embattled pro-democracy campaigner and founder of online news agency Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, is many things to many people. Until ...
Here’s why cases of domestic violence would continue to rise in Nigeria
Despite the paucity of reliable data, the tons of cases of domestic violence that make the news are enough confirmation ...
Fatphobia, male centering | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria this week
Conversations along the themes of the non-binary blog, while sometimes few and far between, continue. We compiled some of the ...
Surprise! Traditional African spirituality is regaining ground among young Nigerians
The first time I found out about African spirituality was not in a Social Studies class. That deliberate less than ...
300+ days of illegal incarceration, reversed prison sentence | What to learn about anti-blasphemy in Nigeria
Less than 10 weeks from today, outspoken ex-Muslim Mubarak Bala, would have spent a full year in illegal detention for ...
Nigerian gay couple share how they spent Valentine’s Day
Public discourse about romance in Nigeria never goes beyond the socially acceptable love of cis-heterosexual (cis-het) Nigerians, and why not? ...
On blue collar jobs, Nigerian parents still want to pass on archaic dogmas and it’s sad
There is a cultural problem in Nigeria that normalises looking down on service industry workers. It is almost a rite ...
Witchcraft and the tragedy of street kids in Nigeria
A matter of great concern that rarely takes the centre stage in Nigeria’s public discourse is the tragedy of homeless ...
Gay Rights for all | US Government memorandum on global LGBT+ rights could backfire
One of the bitterly memorable legacies of the Donald Trump presidency was his alignment with the Christian Right – even ...
Cut the camera | Nigeria’s cultural attitude towards orphans may be evolving
The apathy of Nigerians for child adoption is a statistically established fact. A study published by the Nigerian Journal of ...