Adejumo Kabir

Kabir works at HumAngle as the Editor of Southern Operations. He is interested in community development reporting, human rights, social justice, and press freedom. He was a finalist in the student category of the African Fact-checking Award in 2018, a 2019 recipient of the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, and a 2020 recipient of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. He was also nominated in the journalism category of The Future Awards Africa in 2020. He has been selected for various fellowships, including the 2020 Civic Media Lab Criminal Justice Reporting Fellowship and 2022 International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) 'In The Name of Religion' Fellowship.

Armed Violence

Adejumo KabirDecember 4, 2022
1,135

Reporter’s Diary: An Encounter With The ‘Gun Merchants’ Of Southwest Nigeria

Prior to our meeting, I have had a series of phone conversations with Sheriff Alamu* on how he possessed his…
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Displacement & Migration

Adejumo KabirNovember 25, 2022
461

Bayelsa Residents Live In Crowded Classrooms After Losing Homes To Flood

For three weeks in October, Tuboulayefa Zige had to squat at Yenegwe Secondary School in Bayelsa, South-south Nigeria, following the…
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Armed Violence

Adejumo KabirNovember 23, 2022
563

Southern Nigeria Roads Are Under Siege

Aisha Safaudeen (not real name), a student of University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka in Nigeria’s Southeast would have probably stayed…
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Human Rights

Adejumo KabirNovember 19, 2022
1,423

Nigeria’s Regional Security Outfit Accused Of Extrajudicial Measures

Folarera Ademola was an easy-going National Diploma student of Science Laboratory Technology at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Southwest…
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Displacement & Migration

Adejumo KabirOctober 14, 2022
451

Ebonyi Residents Homeless, In Despair After Losing Lands To Airport Project

Nwebo Friday, 29, had just returned from the site where he worked as a labourer when our reporter got to…
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Armed Violence

Adejumo KabirSeptember 19, 2022
536

Reporter’s Diary: Experiencing The Nightmare Of Southeast Nigeria’s “Sit-At-Home” Order

“No story is worth your life,” I was once told by a senior journalist. “Do everything to stay alive so…
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Human Rights

Adejumo KabirSeptember 10, 2022
812

Wedding Guests, Brothers… Ebubeagu’s Murdered Victims In Nigeria’s Southeast

Priscilia Obinwa cried bitterly as she spoke of the death of her only son, Chigozie, almost as if the ferocity…
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Human Rights

Adejumo KabirSeptember 3, 2022
2,994

‘Thief! Thief!’: Living With The Scars Of Nigeria’s Jungle Justice Rage

Frank Afanvi, 38, was a Nigerian-Togolese who lived all his life in Nigeria’s southwestern Lagos State. He taught French at…
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Human Rights

Adejumo KabirAugust 29, 2022
740

The Day ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops Became Murderous In Nigeria’s Cross River Community

Isoko Eta, 42, sat quietly in front of his burnt house. He had just swept the surroundings of his late…
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Armed Violence

Adejumo KabirAugust 17, 2022
905

Traffic Robberies, Missing Persons… The Face Of Insecurity In Lagos

Femi Adeyemi, 38, works as a driver with Chevron Corporation, an American multinational energy corporation in the Ajah axis of…
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