Yekeen Akinwale

Yekeen Akinwale is a multiple award-winning investigative journalist with over 17 years journalism experience across different newsrooms in Nigeria. He had previously worked at Leadership Newspaper, Nigerian Compass, New Telegraph and Freedom Newspaper. A graduate of Mass Communication, Akinwale was the Head of Newsroom at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) before joining HumAngle. He is passionate about investigative reporting, environment, climate change and developments. Akinwale is the 2018 Investigative Journalist of the Year for Diamond Media Award for Excellence (DAME) and 2019 Business Reporter of the Year for Nigeria Media Merit Award ((NMMA).

Solutions & Development

Yekeen AkinwaleAugust 8, 2022
223

This NGO Is Toeing A New Path To Tackle Unemployment In The Niger Delta And It’s Working

Mary Ogbonna worked as a sales girl at the Aba International Market in Abia, Southeast Nigeria. But she wanted more…
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Solutions & Development

Yekeen AkinwaleAugust 3, 2022
177

Let There Be Light

Akinruntan Banjo was 12 when his father told him of a future where the government would supply electricity to their…
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Armed Violence

Yekeen AkinwaleJuly 4, 2022
1,153

As Terror Groups Expand Operations Beyond Nigeria’s Northeast

Many believe Nigeria’s counterinsurgency campaign has contained the terror groups and their cells in the Northeast. However, the swath of…
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Development

Yekeen AkinwaleMay 27, 2022
411

Nigerian Gov’t Urged To Implement Safe Schools Declaration

Nigeria’s Children’s Parliament has appealed to the government to see to the implementation of the Safe Schools declaration to ensure…
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Armed Violence

Yekeen AkinwaleChigozie VictorMay 18, 2022
7,969

Clashes Erupt In Abuja Building Material Market, Dei-Dei

Residents of Dei-Dei, a suburb of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital in North-central Nigeria, have been thrown into panic following clashes in…
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Armed Violence

Aliyu DahiruYekeen AkinwaleMay 13, 2022
644

#Deborah: Religious Leaders, Media Practitioners Call For Justice For Slain Sokoto Student

Mixed reactions have trailed the murder of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, Northwest…
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News

Yekeen AkinwaleApril 5, 2022
859

Growing Insecurity In Northwest Nigeria Reveals A Lack Of Strategy By Government

The breach of the Kaduna Airport on Sunday, March 27, by terrorists and then the deadly train attack the following…
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Analyses

Yekeen AkinwaleMarch 21, 2022
1,112

The State Of Nigeria Police Barracks Is A Growing Security Concern

There has been a cheery news that Usman Alkali Baba, Nigerian Inspector General of Police has ordered the immediate commencement…
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Analyses

Yekeen AkinwaleMarch 10, 2022
751

Abductions Motivated By ‘Ritual Killings’ Growing Across Nigeria

When Bamise Ayanwole’s grieving mother identified the high capacity bus in which her daughter was last seen and climbed to…
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Analyses

Yekeen AkinwaleFebruary 14, 2022
1,587

Nigeria Losing Niger State To Terrorists As Ungoverned Spaces Expand

Abubakar Bello, Governor of Niger State, North-central Nigeria, is as helpless as the people he governs, as terrorists tighten the…
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