Feature Archives

Will Nigeria Ever Get Sports Administration Right?

One of the clearest indicators of Nigeria’s failing sports ecosystem is that Nigeria does not produce its own talents, nor does it have a system to do so.

Favour Bamijoko

1 month ago

Sex Diaries: I Slept With My Brother’s Best Friend And I Did Not Die

Sex is never just sex. Every week, we follow a thread of desire into stories about connection, vulnerability, and the twisting logic of intimacy. This week’s diary entry comes from a woman who crossed a boundary she had long believed was untouchable when she slept with her brother’s best friend. I knew, from the moment […]

Culture Custodian Editorial Team

1 month ago

“A Good Call”: Five Lessons Behind Nollywood’s Highest-Grossing Film of 2026

In 2018, Nigerian actress and filmmaker Uzoamaka Power worked as a customer care agent at a call center. The lead actress and writer of Dammy Twitch’s directorial feature debut, Call of My Life, has shared this story multiple times. The first time, to my knowledge, was at the film’s post-AMVCA premiere, which attracted industry players, […]

Seyi Lasisi

1 month ago

On Gendered Chart Success in Nigerian Music

Both home and abroad, there appears to be a substantial gap in the frequency with which male and female artists appear on the charts.

John Eriomala

1 month ago

Rixel Studios Wants to Make Guinness World Records History With “Black Market”

Just over a year after making its feature film debut with Red Circle, Rixel Studios is aiming even higher. The studio has announced Black Market, a new Nollywood feature directed by Fatimah Binta Gimsay and slated for release on September 26, 2026, at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. And this time, Rixel is attempting something […]

Naomi Ezenwa

1 month ago

The Benin-Niger Border Might Reopen Soon

Whether that border reopens on schedule now depends on whether Cotonou and Niamey can turn their agreement into an enforceable defence and intelligence-sharing arrangement, something neither government has fully delivered on before. The deeper outcomes of these visits may take years to emerge, but for now Wadagni is giving intra-African co-operation a shot, at a time of growing geopolitical fragmentation.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

1 month ago

The Republic of the Mob: Nigeria’s Jungle Justice Problem

None of the men who killed the Aluu Four, or dragged Deborah Samuel from a security room to her death, burned the hunters passing through Uromi, or handed Ummulkhair Usman to an angry mob would likely describe themselves as murderers. They would describe themselves as instruments of justice. That self-deception, multiplied across hundreds of participants and normalised by years of impunity, is the moral failure at the centre of this phenomenon: a society that has quietly agreed to believe that ordinary people, in a state of rage and with no evidence beyond rumour, are more reliable arbiters of guilt and punishment than the police and courts they no longer trust.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

1 month ago