Weekly newsletter: Change begins with...

[View this email in your browser] Passenger: Conductor, give me my change Conductor: How much is your change? Passenger: Fifty Naira Conductor: I don't have change. Change begins with you. On that note, you are welcome to our weekly roundup of the major news items and conversations for this week. The Paralympics Latifat Tijani and Roland Ezuruike have [won silver] and gold respectively in weightlifting for Nigeria. Well done to them. Change begins with…who? Yesterday, the Federal Ministry of Information launched #ChangeBeginsWithMe, a campaign that is supposed to exhort Nigerians to have a ‘paradigm shift in the way we do things’ according to [Lai Mohammed]. We think that this initiative, like many others, is [doomed to fail], because the government is yet to take its own advice. Edo elections postponed At 3pm yesterday, INEC had said that the Edo governorship elections [will go ahead], despite the security concerns by the Police and SSS. A few hours later, it was postponed till September 28th. because of the withdrawal of the NYSC members who make up a significant part of the election personnel. It seems the security agencies have had their way. This is a bad [omen]. We survived Boko Haram This week, we began our series of stories from the survivors of Boko Haram’s violence in the North East. In the first of those, Eromo Egbejule encounters a boy from the town of Bama in Borno State who fled a Boko Haram attack. [Here is what happened next]. [Fati Abubakar], more popularly known as Bits of Borno, documents life in the state with her camera and has faith that things will improve. A woman with five children discovers that after surviving Shekau, the [next battle is one against hunger]. Jibrin was left permanently disfigured as a result of a Boko Haram attack in 2014 that killed his father. Here is [his story]. A banker based in Yola says [he cannot leave the city], it’s like home to him. Aluta Continua for the BBOG movement The Bring Back Our Girls movement had another protest on Tuesday, but this time were [confronted with two police barricades] and a pro-Buhari protest group calling the movement a ‘scam’. It sounded eerily familiar, making us recall their nearly identical treatment at the hands of the Jonathan administration. Chi Ibe [notes here] that President Buhari has not learnt any of the lessons of that period, which is a shame. Indeed, [Ibrahim Idris is the new Joseph Mbu]. Sanusi Emir Sanusi is never shy of calling things exactly the way he sees them, and his Instagram post from Monday night contrasted Lagos with the Niger Delta, and said the former [the direction in which Nigeria should go]. Expectedly, it drew a bit of flak, but we [ran the rule] over those comments and decided that he is spot on. Abacha loot on its way The US is [about to return $458 million to Nigeria], following a ruling by a US District Court sitting in the District of Columbia. Yay! The Media Blog Our media blog has noticed that Premium Times is [killing it with the banner ads], and also stumbled on perhaps the [most salacious] Nigerian gossip blog to date. ‘93 Days’ ’93 Days’, a movie about Nigeria’s fight against Ebola, premieres next week. This week though, there was a private screening at the US Department of Health and Human Services. [Here are photos] from that event, as well as [seven things] you should know about the movie. Are you excited? We are! The police is (not) your friend If you are out on the town tonight, this is the kind of story you may be familiar with. A group of friends go out at night in Lagos, and end up in a nightmare involving the Nigerian police, for no reason at all. This [horror story] is by Stephanie Omale. Arresting bloggers under the Cybercrime Act is the new black. Iroegbu Emenike [was arrested] in Uyo on Tuesday night, and was released on Wednesday. He will not be the last. Security agents have been empowered by Sections 24 and 38 of the Cybercrime Act to do what they are doing, and there is a need for a law that clearly states the rights of Nigerians online. Interesting things AY the record breaker ‘30 days in Atlanta’, produced by Ayo ‘AY’ Makun has gotten a Guinness World Record for being the [highest grossing film] ever in Nollywood. It will be interesting to see when that record is broken. Is Toyin Subair back? Toyin Subair, boss of the former cable TV operator HITV, told his [HITV story] this week. The HITV story, just like the NEXT story, is a very emotional one for many because it was a Nigerian media company that had a lot of promise which never materialised. Subair’s article elicited [little sympathy] on Twitter, and left our media blog wondering if Dele Olojede, former Oga at NEXT, will ever [tell his own story] about what happened to that newspaper. Landlord in Edo state evicts tenants for supporting APC In Edo state, 5 tenants found that they support a different party from their landlord, [and were thrown out]. This cannot possibly be legal. Perhaps he was just looking for an excuse. A house divided There are now two Boko Haram factions: One led by Abubakar Shekau, and the other led by Abu Musab Al-Barnawi. Those factions [are now fighting] among themselves. It could hasten the end of the group, because we all know what they say about a house divided against itself. Event Golden Heart Foundation is set to train over 15,000 youths at the Pan-African edition of National Youth Summit coming up on the 22nd to the 24th of September, 2016 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Register [here]. Don’t forget to share this newsletter if you like it. Help us spread the word. Have a good evening. 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