Barefoot at School, 12-Year-Old Salisu Dreams of Becoming a Soldier
ABUJA, Nigeria – As drizzle fell over the assembly ground of Nyanya Hausawa Primary and Government Junior Secondary School in Abuja, 12-year-old Salisu Abbas…
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Human Interest
Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health
KANO, Nigeria — Before sunrise each day across Kano metropolis, thousands of children begin exhausting journeys not to classrooms, but to crowded boreholes and…
The Night the Heat Never Leaves: How Nigeria’s Urban Poor Are Fighting to Survive Extreme Temperatures
ABUJA, Nigeria – As temperatures soar across Abuja’s crowded settlements, families battle sleepless nights, collapsing livelihoods and rising health risks in a climate crisis…
Running on Fumes: Inside the Silent Collapse of Nigeria’s Small Businesses
ABUJA, Nigeria – From barber shops to cafés and roadside kitchens, rising fuel prices, inflation and power cuts are forcing entrepreneurs into impossible choices…
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…
Heat, Homecomings and Hope: A Nigerian Christmas Road Diary Defying the Seasons
ABUJA, Nigeria – At 4:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Abuja was unusually quiet. The familiar thrum of traffic that defines Nigeria’s capital had softened…
When the Roads Go Quiet: How Fear Hijacked Nigeria’s Christmas Homecoming
(By Oluwafunbi Bello and Edino Cornelius) December is supposed to be loud in Nigeria. It is meant to roar with revving engines, raised voices…
Borno’s Mothers of Courage: Amina’s Fight to Rebuild Life After the Darkness of Boko Haram
BORNO, Nigeria – Borno state once fondly called the Home of Peace — has endured a tragic rewrite of its identity. The rise of…
When Fear Reaches the Capital: How Banditry Is Choking Lives, Healthcare on Abuja’s Doorstep
(By Juliet Jacob, and Hussaini Ibrahim) Once, Abuja was spoken of in hushed admiration — a carefully planned capital insulated from the chaos that…
Tapped, Tricked, Betrayed: How Nigeria’s Digital Boom Is Exposing Millions to Cyber Predators
On a humid weekday morning in Abuja, a single tap on a WhatsApp link unraveled Mrs. Adaeze Okonkwo’s carefully ordered life. Within minutes, her…