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Our Children, Their Labour of Compulsion, Our Complicity

By Debbie Agada The sun had barely risen over a cocoa farm in southwestern Nigeria when twelve-year-old Amina bent to tie her scarf. The morning...

Female Genital Mutilation, Culture And a Dangerous Lie

By Cheta Nwanze Alu gba afọ, ọbụrụ omenani.” – Igbo proverb. I am Igbo, and in the not-so-distant past, my people killed twins at birth. Multiple...

Redesigning Teaching: Lessons I Carried Home from Kano

By Phrank Shaibu Last Saturday in Kano, I stood before a sea of teachers—over 2,000 educators, school leaders, and education stakeholders—and felt that familiar stirring...

EDITORIAL: When the Conscience of the Nation Bleeds

Something extraordinary - and telling - is happening in Nigeria’s justice sector. Within 48 hours, two voices from very different moral universes spoke to...

Makoko: Tear-gassed, A Community on Water, History Under Siege

Instead of dialogue, protesters on Wednesday were met with tear gas. They were protesting the recent demolition of their abode by the Lagos State...

‘Onitsha Screwdriver Salesman’: What We Told New York Times And How They Lied Against Us, And Our Boss – Intersociety 

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) on Dec 16, 2025, played host to Ruth Maclean, West African Bureau Chief...

The screwdriver salesman behind Trump’s airstrikes in Nigeria

By Ruth Maclean In a market in southeastern Nigeria, a short man wearing one earbud recently made his way to the tool section, dodging wheelbarrows...

“Why the coup was inevitable”: General Haruna, 60 years after January 15, rips open Nigeria’s unfinished story

Sixty years after the gunshots of January 15, 1966 shattered Nigeria’s First Republic, Major-General Ibrahim Bata Malgwi Haruna (rtd) speaks with the unsettling calm...

Psychology says people who clean as they cook instead of leaving everything for the end display these 8 distinctive traits

By Isabella Chase  I used to be the person who’d finish cooking dinner and face a mountain of dishes that seemed to mock me from...

Updated: One Chance, Abuja: Wives, daughters, and a city that no longer sleeps

Abuja wears its grief quietly now. It gathers at bus stops before dawn, rides in unmarked cars with strangers, and trails commuters down expressways...

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