Estimated Reading Time: 7When you go to bed as a Nigerian citizen or business, especially in the media space, you are more likely to wake up as a criminal in violation of a new ridiculous law than you are likely to wake up at all. Your level of criminality is[Read More…]
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Special Report: Nigerian Catholics and the hesitation towards COVID-19 vaccines
Estimated Reading Time: 12We examine vaccine hesitancy among Catholics in Nigeria and why a proclamation from The Pope is not a strong enough influence for Nigerian Catholics to accept the vaccine. It is 8am, worship time in Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Trans Ekulu, Enugu, a city in Nigeria’s Southeast. Inside[Read More…]
Special Report: Despite high poverty, Nigerians are in love with Ponzi schemes
Estimated Reading Time: 6by: Yusuf Akinyemi On Sunday, March 28, 2021, Nigerians on social media expressed their dissatisfaction on Racksterli, a ponzi scheme disguised as an investment platform. This was after its CEO, Micheal Chidiebere Oti, a.k.a Blackgold, spoke to the over 300 thousand subscribers on his Instagram live. Racksterli[Read More…]
Investigation: Nigerian Journalist, Pelumi Onifade and the Shrinking Civic space
Estimated Reading Time: 10On October 24, 2020, Pelumi Onifade, a journalist intern at Gboah TV, was one of those assigned to cover the unrest at Oko-Oba area of Agege, Lagos. Police officers attached to the Lagos State Task Force arrived at the scene and started shooting live rounds to disperse[Read More…]
REPORT: Debunking COVID-19 misinformation from the pulpit
Estimated Reading Time: 5By Emiene Odaudu-Erame “There are some places you enter, you come out, you could have been infected but your immunity had been built. Now taking the vaccine kills all that.” These words were part of a sermon on April 21 2021, by Pastor Joy Amenkhinian a pastor[Read More…]
#TwitterBan is social media regulation through the backdoor – SBM Intelligence
Estimated Reading Time: 5Nigeria’s geopolitical intelligence platform, SBM Intelligence says the ongoing suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the Federal Government is ill-advised and serves as a sinister plot of the government to enforce social media regulations through the backdoor. SBM claims this in a Monday report titled ‘Through[Read More…]
SPECIAL REPORT: Challenging Yahaya Bello’s Covid-19 Disinformation
Estimated Reading Time: 4Pastor Enoch Adeboye, a respected cleric in Nigeria created a major concern for officials promoting adherence to global health protocols and public vaccination against the coronavirus when he publicly endorsed the activities of Yahaya Bello, a sitting governor in Kogi state, North Central Nigeria. The pastor who[Read More…]
Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates
Estimated Reading Time: 4Rising violence in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state is causing a humanitarian crisis, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. MSF is calling for an urgent humanitarian response for people in the region, who are desperately short of food, drinking water, shelter, protection and[Read More…]
“Nigeria Is a Failed State” – John Campbell says government has lost control and Garba Shehu fires back
Estimated Reading Time: 4 John Campell, the former US Ambassador to Nigeria in his Op-ed for Foreign Policy says “Nigeria has long teetered on the precipice of failure. But now, unable to keep its citizens safe and secure, Nigeria has become a fully failed state of critical geopolitical concern. Its[Read More…]
SPECIAL REPORT: Human Rights, Justice Suspended, As Nigeria’s Courts Goes Under Lock And Key
Estimated Reading Time: 10Doctor, Anuoluwapo Adepoju, of the MedContour Services Limited is a controversial cosmetic surgeon in Nigeria who has been in the news since at least 2019. She was arraigned in Lagos State, South-West Nigeria last year (2020) after a failed cosmetic surgery that allegedly led to the death of a client, one Miss Nneka Onwuzuligbo.[Read More…]
