Estimated Reading Time: 12Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami is the proverbial chameleon with one eye on the past and one eye on the future. Depending on the situation or who is involved in it, he sometimes comes across as a cosmopolitan technocrat with a[Read More…]
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INTERVIEW: After being laid off in 2010 banking tsunami, I vowed to never depend on any corporate entity – Eddie Madaki
Estimated Reading Time: 8 Eddie Madaki – This is a name known to many; especially those who work in the marketing communications industry in Nigeria. He has an imposing physical structure that makes him stand out in a gathering of thousands; but even his solid physical presence is no match[Read More…]
INTERVIEW: I am excited people looked beyond the lip gloss to enjoy my content – Enioluwa Adeoluwa, 21-year-old Nigeria’s front-line Influencer
Estimated Reading Time: 9 At 21, Enioluwa Adeoluwa fondly called ‘Beauty Boy’ is well known for charting a unique path to an influencer career. Determined to achieve his long-time dream of being popular, Eni appears on camera applying lip gloss and creating relatable content for his youthful audience. I had[Read More…]
Denied By The System: Nigerian students lose scholarships as Universities delay transcripts
Estimated Reading Time: 8By: Adebayo Abdulrahman “It was demoralizing because I understood that it was a rare chance. I am someone who believes in timing. I saw it as a rare opportunity and not being able to clinch it was devastating” Spurred by his interest in the intersection between law[Read More…]
INTERVIEW: Escaping death in 2007 changed Bola Lawal’s approach to life – READ about CEO of ScholarX
Estimated Reading Time: 10 Getting Bola Lawal, the CEO of ScholarX and a seasoned connector in the tech ecosystem for an interview was fairly easier than I had thought. Having been connected via a mutual party and discussed the scope of the interview, an excited Bola gave a simple and[Read More…]
Interview: Nigeria’s fashion industry is worth billions of dollars- Sharon Ojong
Estimated Reading Time: 10Sharon Ojong describes herself as a creative griffin who wears different hats. She is a stylist, creative director, brand consultant, tv producer, writer and an entrepreneur. But all these come at a cost – Long hours of work. “A typical day for me starts from 7am and[Read More…]
INVESTIGATION: Disturbing Tales of How Nigerian Authorities Are Shrinking Civic and Media Space
Estimated Reading Time: 16NewsWireNGR’s Investigative journalist, Ridwan Yusuf spent 6 weeks looking into how the Nigerian government is shrinking the civic and media space. He tracked institutions attacked by the government, individuals harassed, attacked, and jailed, then also proceeded to inquire into websites being censored via Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) – a type of Cyber Attack[Read More…]
Interview: Nigerian journalism needs to evolve a new way for paying for itself – David Hundeyin
Estimated Reading Time: 11David Hundeyin was tired of complaining about the quality of Nigerian Journalism. So he jumped into the Journalism space to make a significant difference. The results were – storified investigative pieces, a Gatefield People Journalism Prize for Africa legislative reviews indepth analysis of some of the major[Read More…]
Amidst the rising insecurity, Médecins Sans Frontières still on the front-lines in Borno
Estimated Reading Time: 3 Dusuman is a community outside Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state. Nearby is the neighbourhood of Zabarmari, where dozens of rice farmers were beheaded in November 2020 – a brutal act for which the group commonly known as Boko Haram took responsibility. The Nigerian military[Read More…]
NON-STOP KILLINGS: How Nigerian Security Agencies’ Impunity, Violent Police Brutality, Deadly Conducts Persist Despite October 2020’s Extraordinary #EndSARS Protests
Estimated Reading Time: 21NewsWireNGR’s Investigative journalist, Ridwan Yusuf spent 4 weeks digging into the dynamics that led to the phenomenal #EndSARS protests of 2020. He discovered that all the issues are still happening. People are still being brutalised by Nigerian security agencies. Young persons are continually harassed months after an event of such magnitude. Ridwan[Read More…]
