HIV Knowledge, Intoxication, Risky Behaviors, and Sexual Communication among Nigeria University Students

Poor sexual communication among Nigerian youth can create problems for health workers, medical practitioners, and the government in determining what is and is not working in their attempts to reduce sexually-related diseases. This quantitative study used self-administered questionnaires among 107 Nigerian university students, aged 18 to 35, to determine if a statistically significant predictive relationship existed between: (a) beliefs about alcohol, (b) HIV knowledge, (c) risk behaviors, (d) age, (e) religion, (f) gender, (g) sexual activity status, (h) dating status, (i) language, (j) sexual orientation, and (k) tribes of Nigerian university students and their sexual communication with partners. Previous studies did not use the AIDS risk reduction model (ARRM) as a theoretical framework to identify frequent risk factors in this population. This study was guided by the ARRM and used the Sexual Risk Survey (SRS), the HIV-KQ-18, the Revised Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ-3), and the Dyadic Sexual Communication Scale (DSC) to assess the participants. Independent-sample t tests were used to analyze the correlation of study variables and the results showed statistically significant differences only in tribal affiliation (p = .022), gender (p \u3c .001; p =.016), dating status (p = .017), age (p = .006), and sexual activity status (p = .001). Linear regression analyses results showed no statistically significant predictive relationship, R = .322, R2 = .103, F (12, 94) = 0.904, p = .546, between HIV knowledge, beliefs about alcohol and risk behaviors of Nigerian students, and their ability to communicate sexually. These findings justify the need for more culturally sensitive studies and gender/age appropriate HIV intervention strategies in Nigeria

A Law and Politics Contextualization of Corporate Activism in Nigeria’s 2020 Anti-Police Brutality Campaign

Corporate activism – the progressive pursuit of social justice causes by corporations – is a growing global phenomenon. There are increasing expectations and, in many cases, demands that corporations pull off their gloves to actively confront sociopolitical issues bedevilling their communities. Emerging scholarship suggests that corporate activism is influenced by various factors, including the ethical, political, and commercial orientations of corporate minds and the relative political and legal landscape within which corporations operate. Adopting a qualitative research mechanism that reflects on open-source information about relevant actors, collected from blogs, Twitter, and news sites, as complemented by a broad variety of secondary sources, this interdisciplinary research explores the theoretical suppositions of corporate activism in the light of corporate intervention in Nigeria’s youth-led nationwide anti-police brutality (#EndSARS) protests of October 2020. The analysis highlights how Nigeria’s legal, political, and socioeconomic dynamics factored into the dimensions of corporate activism in that momentous social justice agitation. As a key finding, the paper observes a relatively greater tendency of tech companies to engage in the Nigerian anti-police brutality movement than firms from other sectors, and attributes this relative involvement to the seemingly greater levels of representation of young tech industry employees as victims of police brutality. This tends to ground a crucial supposition in corporate activism theory: that corporations would more likely engage social issues that affect their business

A Focus Group Investigation of Internet Usage Perception and Correlation Between Internet Pornography and the Incidence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria

The upsurge in the use of the information and communication technology (ICT) facilities such the Global System forMobile Communication (GSM) and the Internet for criminal activities like spamming, credit card frauds, sex crimes,phishing and a host of others lends credence to the view that ICT is contributing to moral and social decadence. Concern isreinforced by the increase in the level of ICT penetration in the Nigerian society and Africa at large. ICT products continueto allow increasing access to spurious web contents such as pornography and violence. Some schools of thoughts alreadyposited that exposure of internet users to web pornography might contribute to the increase in the incidence of HIV/AIDS(Emeozor 2005, Katherine, 2006, Adebayo et al, 2006). Using a self-constructed questionnaire titled: Focus Groupsperception of Internet-Induced HIV/AIDS Incidences in Nigeria we solicited responses on the perceived relationshipbetween internet pornography and the possible increase in the incidence of HIV/AIDS as well as the effectiveness of currentdeterrents adopted against web pornography in Southwestern Nigeria. Findings from the analysis of collected data using chisquare-analysis, regression and other descriptive measures showed that internet pornography will likely lead to possibleincrease in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Content channeling technology is also adjudged to be a better predictorfor reduction in web-pornography induced incidences of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria than Public enlightenment on sex education,parental guidance and web content filters. Recommendations were made based on our findings.Keywords: Pornography, Sexualities, Children, HIV/AIDS, Adolescents, Nigeria, Internet, Youths, CP80, Educatio

Factors that contribute to the trafficking of Nigerian women and children

The study explained some of the push and pull factors that motivates the trafficking of women from Nigeria and how the feminist theory of trafficking may help explaining human trafficking in Nigeria. Finally, this study offered a comprehensive set of ideas for overcoming the challenges that were experience

Associations between mental health and HIV status among sexual minority and heterosexual adolescents in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine associations between the mental health status of adolescents by self-reported sexual identity; and to determine associations between the mental health status of sexual minority adolescents living with and without HIV. METHODS: This cross-sectional study collected data from Nigerians aged 13-19 years old using an online survey. We collected information on dependent (sexual identity) and independent (presence of depressive symptoms, generalised anxiety disorder, suicidal attempt/ideation, HIV status) study variables. A multivariate regression model determined associations between the dependent and independent variables. A second multivariate regression model was developed to establish associations between HIV status among sexual minority individuals and the dependent variables. All models were adjusted for age, sex assigned at birth and education level. RESULTS: Among 1247 respondents living in Nigeria, 497 (39.9%) identified as sexual minority individuals. Compared with their heterosexual peers, sexual minority adolescents had significantly higher odds of reporting depressive symptoms (adjusted OR (AOR): 5.54; 95% CI: 4.10 to 7.47; p\u3c0.001), high general anxiety (AOR: 3.56; 95% CI: 2.64 to 4.79; p\u3c0.001) and history of suicidal attempt/ideation (AOR: 2.95; 95% CI: 2.20 to 3.94; p\u3c0.001). Sexual minority adolescents living with HIV had significantly higher odds of high general anxiety (AOR: 2.42; 95% CI: 1.21 to 4.84; p=0.013), while those with unknown HIV status had significantly higher odds of depressive symptoms (AOR: 3.82, 95% CI: 2.78 to 5.27; p\u3c0.001), high general anxiety (AOR: 3.09; 95% CI: 2.29 to 4.17; p\u3c0.001) and suicidal attempt/ideation (AOR: 1.65; 95% CI: 1.22 to 2.24; p=0.001). CONCLUSION: Sexual minority adolescents reported poorer mental health status than heterosexual adolescents. Although there was no significant difference in the mental health status of sexual minority adolescents living and not living with HIV, sexual minority adolescents with unknown HIV status reported worse mental health than their HIV-negative peers. Sexual minority adolescents in Nigeria need comprehensive rights-based care that improves access to mental health services, and those with unknown HIV status may need both HIV and mental health screening and care

We are Humans: Discourse Representations of Identities in the Tweets of Nigerian LGBT People

Same-sex sexuality is an important topic worth consideration, especially in Africa, where this is still highly considered taboo. As a result of subsisting homophobia in the Nigerian public sphere, social media provides a safe space for collective queer voices. Queer studies in the Nigerian context have mainly been sociological and legalistic. However, linguistic studies on the media representation of same-sex sexualities have explored how heteronormativity is accentuated, without adequate attention paid to how sexual minorities have also used language to emphasize their identities and resist homophobia. Drawing on the Social Identity Theory (SIT), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study examines the identities that Nigerian LGBT people construct for themselves on Twitter. I do this by considering discourses from the #EndHomophobiaInNigeria, which trended on Nigerian Twitter in 2020. Findings revealed that words, clauses, and other discursive strategies construe LGBT people as humans whose rights should be respected, as a community, and resilient. The significance of this study lies in the potential insights it provides into some of the struggles of the LGBT people for social acceptance and inclusivity, especially in a homophobic environment like Nigeria

Ethical response to indecent dressing among Nigerian youths

This paper discusses the ethical response to indecent dressing among Nigerian youths. The indecent dressing of our youths seems as if nakedness is more valued than modesty. When we see what some of our youths wear in the public to display their private parts in order to attract the opposite sex, one can say that morality has collapsed. This research discovered that some of the reasons why these youths dress indecently were as a result of wrong use of internet, poor parenting and peer pressure. This study involved three area of data collection namely: primary sources, secondary sources and observation method. This paper recommends that parents should give attention to their children and be good moral exemplars to their children. Religious leaders should preach against that too