Women
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Featured
TOKENISM: The Inclusion of Women for Facade of Gender Equality
“While diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programmes are great, they offer partial solutions to systemic oppression, they are half-baked reliefs, they are not end points. Hence, effort should go further than quota systems and seek…
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Politics
Patriarchal Politics: Senate Removes Senator Natasha as Diaspora Committee Chairperson
In a show of injustice and deep reinforcement of patriarchal structure in the Nigerian political realm, the Senate has removed Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the chairperson of the Senate committee on Diaspora and NGOs during…
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Opinion
Ode to Nigerian Men: You Are Not at War, You Are on Twitter
There are over 200 countries today, and fewer than ten countries are engaged in formal war (a war between sovereign states and which is usually the type invoked in online discourses). By contrast, 250 babies…
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Fact Check
No, bras do not cause breast cancer
Claim: On September 26, 2024, X user @chude__ posted: “These bras cause breast Cancer?” This question reflects a widespread online video of a doctor stating that wearing bras, especially underwire or tight-fitting ones, may lead…
