234Next or 234Noise

I'm beginning to be a little concerned about Next newspapers.

This is not to say that I don't admire and respect them for following the courage of their convictions or maintaining the quality of their publication or the increasing the frequency with which they oppose hare-brained utterances of apparently hare-brained politicians. But my question is... to what end?

Seriously, what does 234Next stand for? What ideology do they espouse? What colors the logic of their social, political and economic analyses? Are they just content to oppose for opposition sake? Or do they have a vision through which they view goings on in Nigeria (and indeed the world)? Are they leftist in their economics? Are they liberal? And to what end (pro-choice, gay-rights etc) anyway. Are they conservative? Do they support old-school or new-school capitalism?

I sometimes get the impression 234Next may just be going through an adolescent rebellious phase - ideologically and joyfully revelling in it's own self-awareness (read Kadaria Ahmed's wonderful article 'Ethnicising our Predicament'). Other times they just sound like perennial complainers grumbling like its in vogue (don't read Joseph Otteh's 'Open Letter to the IG of Police' - seriously people, wait for the follow-up).

I'm willing to cut Mr Olojede's crew some honeymoon slack but the idea is growing on me that reportage without ideology soon becomes cacophony. And if that's true then 234Next may really be 234Noise.

I'd like to read your views y'all