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Riding Free: Inside Abuja’s Zero-Fare Metro Experiment

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Riding Free: Inside Abuja’s Zero-Fare Metro Experiment

Chukwu Obinna February 12, 2026 0

ABUJA, Nigeria – As dawn breaks over Nigeria’s capital, the familiar snarl of traffic builds along Abuja’s...

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Homes on Water, Lives in Limbo: How Lagos’ Push for Development Is Unmooring Makoko’s Poor

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Homes on Water, Lives in Limbo: How Lagos’ Push for Development Is Unmooring Makoko’s Poor

Korede Abdullah February 11, 2026 0

LAGOS, Nigeria – The first sound was not an announcement or a siren. It was the slow,...

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Silent Exodus: How Kano’s Street Violence Is Emptying Homes Without a Trace

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Silent Exodus: How Kano’s Street Violence Is Emptying Homes Without a Trace

Hussaini Ibrahim February 9, 2026 0

KANO, Nigeria – They do not travel in convoys. There are no camps, no registration desks, no...

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Cheap Food, Costly Harvests: When Falling Prices Push Nigeria’s Farmers to the Brink

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Cheap Food, Costly Harvests: When Falling Prices Push Nigeria’s Farmers to the Brink

Otamere Gladness February 8, 2026 0

ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid morning in Utako Market, Abuja, shoppers pause longer than usual at...

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Borrowed Energy, Silent Damage: How Nigeria’s After-Work Energy Drink Habit Is Undermining Health

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Borrowed Energy, Silent Damage: How Nigeria’s After-Work Energy Drink Habit Is Undermining Health

Oluwatobi Adu February 7, 2026 0

ABUJA, Nigeria – As dusk settles over Nigeria’s cities, a familiar ritual unfolds. At motor parks, markets...

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Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

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Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Chukwu Obinna February 6, 2026 0

 ABUJA, Nigeria – When Nigeria declared a state of emergency in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in...

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Forests of Fear: How Nigeria’s Green Belts Became Kidnap Kingdoms

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Forests of Fear: How Nigeria’s Green Belts Became Kidnap Kingdoms

Oluwafunbi Bello February 5, 2026 0

ABUJA, Nigeria – As night falls across Nigeria’s hinterlands, fear travels faster than light. Roads empty early....

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Hidden Chains: Nigeria’s Uneven Battle Against Human Trafficking

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Hidden Chains: Nigeria’s Uneven Battle Against Human Trafficking

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius February 4, 2026 0

ABUJA, Nigeria – It is a crime that rarely announces itself. There are no sirens, no public...

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After the Sirens Fall Silent: Why Nigeria Cannot Afford to Blink on Mpox

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After the Sirens Fall Silent: Why Nigeria Cannot Afford to Blink on Mpox

Korede Abdullah February 2, 2026 0

LAGOS, Nigeria – When Africa’s public health leaders quietly lowered the emergency siren on mpox, it was...

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Seven Lives, One Silence: Inside Kano’s Family Killing that Exposed Nigeria’s Deadly Blind Spot

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Seven Lives, One Silence: Inside Kano’s Family Killing that Exposed Nigeria’s Deadly Blind Spot

Hussaini Ibrahim January 31, 2026 0

KANO, Nigeria – In Dorayi Chiranchi, a crowded suburb on the edge of Kano’s restless metropolis, neighbours...

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