Silent Exodus: How Kano’s Street Violence Is Emptying Homes Without a Trace
KANO, Nigeria – They do not travel in convoys. There are no camps, no registration desks, no government tally. They leave at night or…
Special Reports
Cheap Food, Costly Harvests: When Falling Prices Push Nigeria’s Farmers to the Brink
ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid morning in Utako Market, Abuja, shoppers pause longer than usual at rice stalls, calculating savings that would have…
Borrowed Energy, Silent Damage: How Nigeria’s After-Work Energy Drink Habit Is Undermining Health
ABUJA, Nigeria – As dusk settles over Nigeria’s cities, a familiar ritual unfolds. At motor parks, markets and roadside shops, cans and bottles of…
Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis
ABUJA, Nigeria – When Nigeria declared a state of emergency in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in 2018, the message was meant to be…
Forests of Fear: How Nigeria’s Green Belts Became Kidnap Kingdoms
ABUJA, Nigeria – As night falls across Nigeria’s hinterlands, fear travels faster than light. Roads empty early. Villages retreat indoors. And deep inside the…
Hidden Chains: Nigeria’s Uneven Battle Against Human Trafficking
ABUJA, Nigeria – It is a crime that rarely announces itself. There are no sirens, no public scenes, and often no witnesses. Yet across…
After the Sirens Fall Silent: Why Nigeria Cannot Afford to Blink on Mpox
LAGOS, Nigeria – When Africa’s public health leaders quietly lowered the emergency siren on mpox, it was meant to signal progress, not relief. Yet…
Seven Lives, One Silence: Inside Kano’s Family Killing that Exposed Nigeria’s Deadly Blind Spot
KANO, Nigeria – In Dorayi Chiranchi, a crowded suburb on the edge of Kano’s restless metropolis, neighbours are still lowering their voices when they…
Tax Reform or Public Panic? Inside Nigeria’s Controversial 2026 Tax Changes
ABUJA, Nigeria – When rumours began spreading across Nigeria that the government would soon begin “taxing bank deposits” and “deducting money directly from savings,”…
Ending a Silent Scourge: Inside the Global Race to Eliminate Cervical Cancer
ABUJA, Nigeria – Cervical cancer should no longer exist as a death sentence. The science to prevent it is proven, the tools are available,…