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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...

Blood on the altar, gold in the forest: How illegal mining is driving terror in Nigeria – the Kogi example

By Omotunde Omolehin & Usman Ozovehe Kogi West is once again counting its dead. Three worshippers abducted from an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) service in Ayetoro-Kiri,...

Speech by Peter Obi moving to ADC from LP

It is now time for National Unity and Prosperity ************ Remarks by H.E. Peter Obi, Former Governor of Anambra State and Labour Party Presidential Candidate in Nigeria 2023...

Changing lives, one almajiri at a time: from street kid, defying odds, getting a University degree, employing and training five others

At dawn in Dutse, when the streets were still quiet and the dust had not yet risen, a small barefoot boy would already...

President Bola Tinubu’s full 2026 Budget speech to joint session of the National Assembly

PROTOCOLS Distinguished Senate President, Rt. Honourable Speaker and Honourable Members of the House of Representatives, Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members of the National Assembly, Fellow Nigerians, 1. I am...

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