Special Reports

Tollgates of Fears: How Nigeria’s Checkpoints Turn Security into a Daily Tax Police checkpoint stopping vehicles on Abuja highway

Police checkpoint stopping vehicles on Abuja highway

Tollgates of Fears: How Nigeria’s Checkpoints Turn Security into a Daily Tax

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius April 11, 2026

On a humid morning along the Nyanya–Keffi road in Abuja, traffic slows not from accidents but from...

Civic Rights at Risk: Uncollected PVCs and the Growing Threat to Youth Participation in Nigeria’s 2027 Elections Stacks of uncollected Permanent Voter Cards inside INEC office Abuja(Photo credit: Oluwafunbi Bello/AHR)

Stacks of uncollected Permanent Voter Cards inside INEC office Abuja(Photo credit: Oluwafunbi Bello/AHR)

Civic Rights at Risk: Uncollected PVCs and the Growing Threat to Youth Participation in Nigeria’s 2027 Elections

Oluwafunbi Bello April 10, 2026

Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), the instruments through which Nigerian citizens exercise their civic right to elect leaders...

Kobo by Kobo: The Silent Siphon Draining Nigeria’s Bank Accounts A Nigerian checking a mobile banking app showing multiple transaction alerts and deductions

A Nigerian checking a mobile banking app showing multiple transaction alerts and deductions

Kobo by Kobo: The Silent Siphon Draining Nigeria’s Bank Accounts

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius April 6, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The alert tone is now part of Nigeria’s daily rhythm — a soft ping...

Pain After Every Meal: The Hidden Infection Millions of Nigerians Live With Young Nigerian woman experiencing stomach pain linked to H. pylori infection and poor sanitation

Young Nigerian woman experiencing stomach pain linked to H. pylori infection and poor sanitation

Pain After Every Meal: The Hidden Infection Millions of Nigerians Live With

Oluwafunbi Bello April 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Misdiagnosed as diet or stress, a silent bacterial infection thrives in Nigeria’s water and...

Sculpted Bodies, Silent Risks: Nigeria’s Deadly BBL Obsession BBL Surgery

BBL Surgery

Sculpted Bodies, Silent Risks: Nigeria’s Deadly BBL Obsession

Oluwatobi Adu April 4, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – In a Lagos hospital ward, a young woman lay fighting for her life—her body...

Nigeria’s Housing Dream on the Brink: Inside the Relentless Rise of Building Costs Cement and construction materials displayed in Abuja market amid rising costs

Cement and construction materials displayed in Abuja market amid rising costs

Nigeria’s Housing Dream on the Brink: Inside the Relentless Rise of Building Costs

Chukwu Obinna April 3, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – On a dusty stretch of Kubwa, where half-built homes stand like abandoned promises, the...

Beauty Etched in Blood: Nigeria’s Microblading Boom and the Quiet Risks Beneath the Skin Technician performing microblading procedure on client in Nigerian beauty salon

Technician performing microblading procedure on client in Nigerian beauty salon

Beauty Etched in Blood: Nigeria’s Microblading Boom and the Quiet Risks Beneath the Skin

Koko Maxwella April 2, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid afternoon in Aba, the low hum of a beauty studio competes...

Borrowed Tides: Nigeria’s £746m Port Gamble and the High-Stakes Battle for Economic Sovereignty Gridlock at Apapa Port Lagos showing heavy truck congestion”

Gridlock at Apapa Port Lagos showing heavy truck congestion”

Borrowed Tides: Nigeria’s £746m Port Gamble and the High-Stakes Battle for Economic Sovereignty

Hussaini Ibrahim April 1, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – In the humid chaos of Lagos’ port corridors—where trucks idle for days and cargo...

Choked at Hormuz: How a Distant Maritime Crisis Is Quietly Tightening Africa’s Food Noose How Middle East Tensions Threaten Africa’s Food Security

How Middle East Tensions Threaten Africa’s Food Security

Choked at Hormuz: How a Distant Maritime Crisis Is Quietly Tightening Africa’s Food Noose

Korede Abdullah March 31, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – From the wheat fields of Eastern Europe to the bakeries of Lagos, the world’s...

Palace of Light, Nation in Shadow: Inside Aso Rock’s Solar Turn and Nigeria’s Power Paradox Nigeria Electricity Crisis

Nigeria Electricity Crisis

Palace of Light, Nation in Shadow: Inside Aso Rock’s Solar Turn and Nigeria’s Power Paradox

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius March 30, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – In a country where darkness often dictates the rhythm of daily life, a new...