Nigeria’s Free C-Section Promise Falters as Mothers Still Pay
IBADAN / ABUJA – When Nigeria’s health minister stood before cameras and declared that no woman should die because she could not afford a…
Special Reports
Eyes on the Road: Can Kano’s Smart Transport Gamble Make Its Streets Safer?
KANO, Nigeria – At dawn, Kano wakes to motion: tricycles coughing into life, buses groaning under the weight of commuters, tankers edging past markets…
Nigeria Trains Them, Others Pay Them: The Quiet Exodus Emptying Our Wards
ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid afternoon inside Kubwa General Hospital, the rhythm of care never slows. Call bells ring. Paper files shuffle. A…
When the Taps Run Dry: Inside Abuja’s Quiet Water Emergency
ABUJA, Nigeria – On a warm afternoon in Kpana village, Jabi, Mrs. Blessing waits patiently beside her shop, plastic containers lined up like silent…
Northern Nigeria’s Unsung Architects: How Women Are Redefining Agriculture, Economy, and Society
KANO, NIGERIA – Amid insecurity, economic turbulence, and mounting pressure on food systems, a quieter revolution is unfolding across Northern Nigeria — one led…
When the Streets Turn Toxic: In Abuja’s Jabi, Sewage Runs, Health Runs Out
ABUJA, Nigeria – The smell reaches you before the water does. In Jabi, one of Abuja’s busiest districts, dirty water snakes across major roads,…
Feeding on Faith: Nigerian Parents Gamble with Baby Food Safety in a Market of Doubt
ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid afternoon in Lagos, Amaka Johnson stood in the baby food aisle of a neighbourhood supermarket, lifting tins of…
Free Meter, Vanishing Power: Abuja Homes Pay More for Less Light
ABUJA, Nigeria – When Mrs. Omebi Ijeoma watched officials remove the old prepaid electricity meter from her Abuja home last December, she felt a…
Riding Free: Inside Abuja’s Zero-Fare Metro Experiment
ABUJA, Nigeria – As dawn breaks over Nigeria’s capital, the familiar snarl of traffic builds along Abuja’s wide arterial roads. Car horns blare, buses…
Homes on Water, Lives in Limbo: How Lagos’ Push for Development Is Unmooring Makoko’s Poor
LAGOS, Nigeria – The first sound was not an announcement or a siren. It was the slow, grinding roar of heavy machinery breaking through…