This year’s Big Brother Nigeria made the headlines but mostly for all the wrong reasons. Except for the purists though, it probably was a record-breaking performance for the organisers of the reality show that continues to divide opinion in equal …
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I had just received through the kind consideration of a Nigerian academic based in South Africa, a report on the state of South African research and was busy with it when the British Broadcasting Corporation. (BBC) aired its report on …
Herman Wasserman, University of Cape Town; Audrey Gadzekpo, University of Ghana, and Chris Paterson, University of Leeds An enormous and increasing portion of the foreign development aid coming into Africa annually is for media development. Foreign aid funds diverse projects, …
When Olamide shocked live and watching audiences with his rant at the 2015 Headies Award by boasting, ‘street ti take over,’ he very well may have been speaking to the emerging trend of digital hate mobs. Some recent events and …
For the second time in less than two months, Nigerian journalists are at the centre of a needless and embarrassing controversy. Some of the reactions to the appointment of a Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President of …
President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments at 13th Convocation ceremony of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, early last month was spot on, not because they revealed something we don’t already know but because they exposed Nigeria’s inadequacies in a profoundly …
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes something new to remind you that Nigeria is one exciting and complex place where anything can happen. Or how else does one make sense of that viral video of Success …
A new study by the Pew Research Centre has painted a scary picture of life in Nigeria as it shows nearly half of all Nigerians are making plans to leave the country within the next five years. The report says …
You’ve heard the myths about Social Media and its influence over OccupyNigeria; now it’s time to try and make sense of what role Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms played during those protests. I’ve been on the whole project of how …
Just two days before the Ethiopian Airline flight crashed and ended the lives of 157 people, I was teaching a Tutorial Class of Year 2, Media Studies, where we discussed the ‘Algorithm Culture’ and how it’s shaping communication in the …
