AKIN OLANIYAN

The re-election of Governor Ademola Adeleke was a high-profile as elections come in Nigeria with the dominant narrative being that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was hell-bent on taking the state. The political emotions aside…

The fact that the digital mob spent a whole weekend "dragging a bank" for taking action against one of its staff who misused social media on-premise should leave no one in doubt that in the ever-evolving landscape of online communication,…

The suspension and eventual sacking of Ezra Olubi from Paystack, a company where he was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, over resurfaced tweets from a decade ago, is not surprising. If you understand social media and its…

We have to agree with those who think that a nation’s deepest fissures are often revealed in the most unscripted moments. Why then are people surprised that a piece of property under construction in Abuja’s Gaduwa district became the scene…

I try to steer clear of debates about the military strength of a threat, and this article isn’t meant to dig into the geopolitical side of a possible U.S. intervention in Nigeria. While those discussions have their place, they can overlook…

Social media is a brutal battleground, and it is no surprise that some of the debates around the age-old question of what truly constitutes value take place online rather than in more sacred places. The recent public spat pitting…

Recent events within Nigeria’s vibrant and often chaotic social media space are forcing us to confront serious issues about the systematic erosion of the once-clear distinction between fame and infamy. The appointments of fuji artiste,…

Watching the moments when two hitherto unknown, young Nigerian women were forced into our collective consciousness reminded me of what media scholars have been saying for a while: we are all accidental journalists now. The worrying thing…

There is no way we can know everything, but at least, when it comes to social media, we know that the most harmful lies are disguised in slick but poisonous bottles of certainty, pushed by smiling charlatans pretending to be specialists.…

TikTok has never been my thing. I avoid that platform not because some of the viral videos have no cultural value, but because the fleeting nature of most of them somehow reminds me of the generally annoying, dumbed-down standard of social…