Category: Special Reports

As the Nigerian Senate considers a new bill to regulate the social media blogosphere—despite widespread criticisms, Korede Abdullah, Southwest Correspondent for Africa Health Report, examines the legislation triggering unprecedented controversy, backlash and raising fundamental questions whether Nigeria can afford an era of free speech oppression, press harassments, and tyrannical leadership, which the act entirely drives…

While millions of Nigerians face worsening electricity supply, skyrocketing tariffs, and crumbling public infrastructure, on a daily basis across the country, including the nation’s capital- Abuja, President Bola Tinubu rushed and approved N10 billion project to solarise the Presidential Villa in the 2025 budget. Officially named the “Solarisation of the Villa with Solar Mini-Grid”. Juliet…

Kwara State — long seen as one of the quieter corners of Nigeria’s North-Central region — has now been thrust into the eye of the storm. A shadowy terror group, known as the Mahmuda Group, has surfaced, dealing yet another blow to Nigeria’s fragile security architecture already buckling under the weight of Boko Haram insurgency…

The World Bank’s report predicting that Nigeria will sink deeper into poverty by 2027 has continued to dominate public discourse. In this special report, Korede Abdullah, Africa Health Report’s Southwest correspondent, outlines what the Tinubu administration must do to reverse the trend. A Chilling Forecast In a chilling forecast that should jolt every policymaker awake,…