Estimated Reading Time: 10On October 24, 2020, Pelumi Onifade, a journalist intern at Gboah TV, was one of those assigned to cover the unrest at Oko-Oba area of Agege, Lagos. Police officers attached to the Lagos State Task Force arrived at the scene and started shooting live rounds to disperse[Read More…]
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As the General’s Mask Slips Off, Nigerian Journalism is Endangered
Estimated Reading Time: 10On May 31, 2017, Lagos radio presenter Nelly Kalu was in the middle of a conversation on Nigeria Info 99.3FM with a geopolitical analyst when a call came to the station’s general manager. He was to shut down the show immediately and kick both people off their[Read More…]
INTERVIEW: My purpose at ‘The Johnsons’ has been served – Samuel Ajibola (Spiff) explains why he exits the popular TV show
Estimated Reading Time: 22 Pediatricians say at age 6, parents can’t help but worry if their children are growing at the right pace. At this stage, a child is just being able to follow three commands in a row and string a sentence with five to seven words together. But[Read More…]
Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates
Estimated Reading Time: 4Rising violence in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state is causing a humanitarian crisis, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. MSF is calling for an urgent humanitarian response for people in the region, who are desperately short of food, drinking water, shelter, protection and[Read More…]
“Nigeria Is a Failed State” – John Campbell says government has lost control and Garba Shehu fires back
Estimated Reading Time: 4 John Campell, the former US Ambassador to Nigeria in his Op-ed for Foreign Policy says “Nigeria has long teetered on the precipice of failure. But now, unable to keep its citizens safe and secure, Nigeria has become a fully failed state of critical geopolitical concern. Its[Read More…]
INTERVIEW: “I will keep making music even if only one person is listening” – Djinee talks on 16 years of making music
Estimated Reading Time: 14 When Djinee released his debut song “Ego” in 2005, he stole all the attention and it seemed like the whole Nigeria stopped to listen. Then he dropped “I no dey shame” and “Lade” to make everyone know we were witnessing a special artist. The voice was[Read More…]
Breaking: More than 100 persons including women and children drown in Kebbi
Estimated Reading Time: 2Dozens of people are feared dead after a boat they were traveling in capsized in a river in northern Nigeria’s Kebbi State. BBC Hausa Service is reporting that the incident took place on Wednesday around 10 a.m., and reports from the area say efforts are still being[Read More…]
SPECIAL REPORT: Human Rights, Justice Suspended, As Nigeria’s Courts Goes Under Lock And Key
Estimated Reading Time: 10Doctor, Anuoluwapo Adepoju, of the MedContour Services Limited is a controversial cosmetic surgeon in Nigeria who has been in the news since at least 2019. She was arraigned in Lagos State, South-West Nigeria last year (2020) after a failed cosmetic surgery that allegedly led to the death of a client, one Miss Nneka Onwuzuligbo.[Read More…]
INTERVIEW: Jammal Mohammed’s template on Patriotism and what matters to him
Estimated Reading Time: 25 Jammal Mohammed understands how misunderstood his intention can be, so his parting shot as we ended the interview was: “Be nice and communicate my thoughts well”. He said this with a smiling face that he wore all through the 60 minutes of our interview. For[Read More…]
John Campbell: Northern Nigeria Faces the Threat of Famine
Estimated Reading Time: 2The Western media is focused on the struggle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with searing images of the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding. Yet the magnitude is tiny compared to the humanitarian crisis in northern Nigeria. Total confirmed deaths number 239 in the current round of fighting between[Read More…]
