By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH (READ FIRST PART HERE) A System Built to Fail THE story unfolding in Ogijo is no longer just about toxic emissions or careless factories—it is a damning portrait of regulatory collapse, official indifference, and a lethal industry allowed to operate as […]
By HAUWA MAGANA AS the world prepares for this year’s United Nations 16 Days of Activism on Violence Against Women and Girls, Nigeria confronts a growing crisis that remains dangerously underestimated: technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF-GBV). What was once dismissed as “online misconduct” has evolved into a powerful tool for intimidation, silencing, and real-world […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH IN Ogijo, a bustling industrial town straddling the Lagos–Ogun border, the air carries more than the usual dust of a growing community. It carries a quiet, deadly pollutant—lead—floating invisibly in the wind, settling on rooftops, on farm soil, on school […]
By TIMOTHY HAGGERTY-NWOKOLO ACROSS Nigeria, the question “Who is the youngest billionaire?” fuels arguments from Lagos boardrooms to family WhatsApp groups. But beneath the excitement lies a murky landscape of unverifiable claims, opaque wealth structures, and social-media-driven illusions that rarely mirror financial reality. A months-long investigation reveals a truth that Nigeria’s business elite already know: […]
By MUHAMMAD SUWIDI YUSHA’U WHEN Chief Bisi Akande, the elder statesman and founding chairman of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), took the podium at the International Conference Centre in Akure on 29 October 2025, most listeners expected another familiar lecture on national reform. But what they got instead was a blueprint for Nigeria’s silent transformation […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH ON a humid morning in Suleja, 72-year-old Abu (not his real name) counts a few coins beside a pot of watery garri. A former civil servant who gave 35 years to public service, he now survives on an irregular ₦25,000 pension. His story is neither rare nor unique — it reflects […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH ACROSS sub-Saharan Africa, the statistics tell a haunting story: thousands of young women contract HIV every week, outpacing men by alarming margins. Behind these numbers lies a complex web of biology, social inequality, and systemic neglect that has turned HIV into a gendered epidemic. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Nigeria reports […]
By ANDERSON (ANDY) CLIFF AT the Abuja Hilton on 14 October 2025, the usually placid conference hall crackled with unease. Cameras rolled, journalists leaned in, and a visiting American delegation led by former U.S. mayor Mike Arnold made an explosive declaration: “A Christian genocide is ongoing in Nigeria.” For years, Nigerians have lived with the […]
By JULIET EKANEM WHEN Hope Behind Bars Africa released its latest study on women on death row in Nigeria, it peeled back layers of a justice system many already suspect — one that punishes poverty, marginalisation, and womanhood itself. According to the study, launched in Abuja in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission and […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH Bauhaus Global’s rise in Benue symbolises a deeper national crisis — one where foreign contractors profit from public contracts while Nigerian workers pay the price in blood and silence. IN Benue State, where billion-naira contracts are meant to transform infrastructure and livelihoods, a Lebanese-owned construction firm, Bauhaus Global Investment Limited, is […]