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Imad Musa24 August 2025
As Africa races to power its digital future with Chinese solar panels and AI-ready data centres, it risks becoming both the supplier of critical minerals and the dumping ground for toxic waste in a new form of green extractivism, wrapped in the language of digital and climate progress.
Foyin Ejilola12 July 2025
There is growing concern about the depletion of wildlife in Nigerian forests. Local hunters who have been blamed due to over-hunting argue otherwise.
Chidinma Rita Nebolisa29 June 2025
When the government demolishes the building you live in, your property is not the only thing you lose. You also lose your self.
Taibat Lawanson29 June 2025
The smell of Lagos is far more than a sensory inconvenience; it is a symptom of deeper urban management gaps, waste management inefficiencies, inconsistent policies and citizen irresponsibility.

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The Bombing That Changed Abuja Forever
LOTANNA OGBUEFIMARCH 22, 2026

The Bombing That Changed Abuja Forever

In 2011, a Boko Haram bombing at the United Nations House in Abuja claimed the lives of 26 people. The incident changed Nigeria’s capital city and the lives of its residents forever.

The Last Days of Abuja’s City of Metal
TERNA IWAR AND S. A. ANSELMMARCH 22, 2026

The Last Days of Abuja’s City of Metal

For decades, Apo Mechanic Village has kept Abuja’s cars running. Now, as demolition looms again, the mechanics and traders who built the Abuja’s informal engine confront another uncertain future.

‘Port Harcourt No Be Abuja’
YUSUF OMOTAYOMARCH 4, 2024

‘Port Harcourt No Be Abuja’

Nyesom Wike’s appointment as minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu could be Wike’s biggest political task yet. As minister, he will have to govern a people who are majorly religiously and ethnically different from him while trying to retain power over his previous domain, Rivers State.

Kidnapped From the House of God
PELUMI SALAKOMARCH 22, 2026

Kidnapped From the House of God

What began as a Tuesday evening service at Christ Apostolic Church in Eruku, Kwara State, turned into a live-streamed kidnapping that dragged 38 worshippers into the forest and left three people dead. Nearly 40 days after the bandit attack, Pelumi Salako visits Eruku to speak with survivors.

How Nigerian Universities Became Centres of Islamic Radicalism
WARDAH ABBASMARCH 22, 2026

How Nigerian Universities Became Centres of Islamic Radicalism

The religious extremism that fuels insecurity in Nigeria today did not begin only in terrorist camps; it also developed, quietly, within Nigerian universities.

Osaze Amadasun’s ‘Ladi Kwali’
TOMI OLUGBEMIMARCH 22, 2026

Osaze Amadasun’s ‘Ladi Kwali’

Visual artist and graphic designer, Osaze Amadasun, reimagines Ladi Kwali, reclaiming the full legacy of a cultural icon beyond her portrait on the 20 naira note.

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Re/claiming the Utility and Novelty of Mobile Phones and Social Media
Alexis Teyie18 April 2023

Re/claiming the Utility and Novelty of Mobile Phones and Social Media

While we may be accustomed to or overwhelmed by the rapid pace of digital development, recognize that cell phones are often the very first connection pastoral communities have with a modern information and communication tool. The way pastoralists have largely approached the rather belated entry of mobile technology and social media with excitement, grace and inventiveness is another example of their remarkable flexibility and adaptability.