Undoubtedly, human life is the most cherished aspect of the existential qualities of man. The need for man to protect his life marks the etiology of health and medicine. Aside medicine, we strive on a daily basis to protect our lives against any inhuman tendencies that could end our existence. On 3 October 2020, in Nigeria, operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) allegedly shot a young man at Wetland Hotel in Ughelli, leaving him injured. This incident was filmed and went viral, sparking an outcry on social media against SARS using the hashtag #EndSARS to show a serious grievance against this singular occurrence. Since then, #EndSARS campaign has drawn worldwide attention to Nigeria. With support from both international corporations and celebrities, it has become the latest protest movement to attract solidarity on a global scale especially after the alleged opened fire on unarmed protesters in Lekki, Lagos on 20 October,...
It is not surprising that the over- adoration of society’s pseudo-characters called celebrities are too becoming of our emerging youths to the extent that some have based their entire life style activities on whatever come from this “yeyebrities” as some netizens will call them! If this is how your existence has been shaped, then you are developing a generation of fakeness and vagueness of personalities. Not only are celebrities the protagonists of our news, the subject of our daily discourse and the repositories of our values, but they also embedded themselves so deeply in our consciousness that many individuals profess feeling closer to, and more passionate about, them than their own primary group (family). Note that the definition giving to the word “celebrity” at times extends beyond hip-hop artist, influencers, actors and actresses, comedians and the likes of “bobriskies”. I am not oblivious of that fact, but my analysis here is solely concerned with the idolizatio...