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Nigeria’s Power Paradox: From Darkness to Dawn A young Nigerian solar technician installing rooftop panels under bright sunlight in Abuja. Image Description

A young Nigerian solar technician installing rooftop panels under bright sunlight in Abuja. Image Description

Nigeria’s Power Paradox: From Darkness to Dawn

Juliet Jacob October 24, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria stands at a pivotal energy crossroads — where the hum of generators drowns...

Clean Hands, Fragile Hope: How an Abuja School Is Defying Nigeria’s Hidden Hygiene Crisis Student washing hands

Clean Hands, Fragile Hope: How an Abuja School Is Defying Nigeria’s Hidden Hygiene Crisis

Chukwu Obinna October 23, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – In a small public school along Abuja’s Airport Road, the sound of splashing water...

Nigeria’s Vanishing Oil Billions: Inside the Hidden Network Bleeding Africa’s Largest Economy A vandalized crude pipeline leaking oil into the Niger Delta swamps.”

A vandalized crude pipeline leaking oil into the Niger Delta swamps.”

Nigeria’s Vanishing Oil Billions: Inside the Hidden Network Bleeding Africa’s Largest Economy

Korede Abdullah October 22, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s oil wealth — once the symbol of national pride and prosperity — has...

Rodents, the Market and the Race to Stop Lassa in Kano hospital beds

Rodents, the Market and the Race to Stop Lassa in Kano

Hussaini Ibrahim October 20, 2025

KANO, Nigeria – As Nigeria edges closer to the high-risk months for Lassa fever transmission, the bustling...

Nigeria’s Poverty Paradox: Why Economic Reforms Leave Millions Behind A Nigerian woman carrying a large basin on her head in a crowded open market, wearing a colourful patterned dress and headscarf, symbolising poverty and resilience amid economic hardship.

A Nigerian woman carrying a large basin on her head in a crowded open market, wearing a colourful patterned dress and headscarf, symbolising poverty and resilience amid economic hardship.

Nigeria’s Poverty Paradox: Why Economic Reforms Leave Millions Behind

Juliet Jacob October 19, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Three years after President Bola Tinubu launched sweeping economic reforms to rescue Africa’s largest...

Dying to Live: Nigerians Face Soaring Drug Costs A close-up illustration of an elderly Nigerian woman holding prescription pills, with a faded pharmacy counter in the background — symbolising the high cost of survival

A close-up illustration of an elderly Nigerian woman holding prescription pills, with a faded pharmacy counter in the background — symbolising the high cost of survival

Dying to Live: Nigerians Face Soaring Drug Costs

Koko Maxwella October 17, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – At a crowded pharmacy in Abuja, 59-year-old Rose Odu clutches a worn prescription slip,...

Toilets, Dignity, and Learning: FCT’s Hidden School Sanitation Crisis A doorless toilet at Karonmagiji Primary School along Airport Road, Abuja, reflects the poor sanitation conditions faced by pupils in many public schools across the FCT.

A doorless toilet at Karonmagiji Primary School along Airport Road, Abuja, reflects the poor sanitation conditions faced by pupils in many public schools across the FCT.

Toilets, Dignity, and Learning: FCT’s Hidden School Sanitation Crisis

Chukwu Obinna October 16, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – At first glance, Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), projects modernity — broad highways,...

Grains Are Cheaper, But Hunger Persists: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Silent Economic Crisis Traders sitting beside unsold bags of grains in the Kano market as falling prices fail to attract buyers.

Traders sitting beside unsold bags of grains in the Kano market as falling prices fail to attract buyers.

Grains Are Cheaper, But Hunger Persists: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Silent Economic Crisis

Hussaini Ibrahim October 14, 2025

KANO, Nigeria – Across the vast markets of northern Nigeria, sacks of maize, rice, and millet now...

Nigeria’s Cancer Gamble: Can Local Scientists Turn Hope into Discovery? Cartoon-style digital illustration of Nigerian scientists working together in a modern laboratory, studying green plant extracts under microscopes, with a symbolic brain cancer cell in the background and the Nigerian flag subtly integrated into the scene.

Cartoon-style digital illustration of Nigerian scientists working together in a modern laboratory, studying green plant extracts under microscopes, with a symbolic brain cancer cell in the background and the Nigerian flag subtly integrated into the scene.

Nigeria’s Cancer Gamble: Can Local Scientists Turn Hope into Discovery?

Korede Abdullah October 13, 2025

LAGOS, Nigeria – In a quiet laboratory tucked inside Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigerian researchers believe they...

The Girl Who Carried Her Mother’s Secret A young girl in a faded blue dress sits on a wooden bench outside a mud-walled house, her back turned to the camera, with a small notebook beside her