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.

Development

Adejumo KabirMarch 16, 2024
1,966

‘Nowhere To Go’: Lagos Residents Say Hardship Worsened By House Demolitions

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, has, in the last few years, been in the news for the demolition of low-income…
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Investigations

Adejumo KabirMarch 8, 2024
5,655

How Traffickers Lure Nigerians Into Modern Slavery In Egypt

Each time Ariyo Falade* considered walking out of the abusive marriage she found herself in 2016, she thought about her…
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Human Rights

Adejumo KabirFebruary 12, 2024
15,454

Hazards, Maltreatment, And Human Rights Violations At Dangote Refinery

Weeks after Rasheed Adewoyin* submitted his CV at the Dangote refinery’s security post, he was offered a job as a…
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Development

Adejumo KabirFebruary 7, 2024
2,360

‘We Can’t Breathe’: Renewed Hardship As Inflation Chokes Nigerians

On Feb. 5, residents of Minna, the capital of Niger State in North Central Nigeria, took to the streets to…
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Disinformation

Adejumo KabirFebruary 4, 2024
2,343

This Trending Video Is Not Showing Arrested Kidnappers Of Ekiti School Children

A video accompanied by the false claim that Amotekun, a regional security network in South West Nigeria, has arrested kidnappers…
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Armed Violence

Adejumo KabirJanuary 27, 2024
5,100

‘Like Slavery’: Nigeria’s Special Police Constables Risking Their Lives For Zero Pay

Nearly three years after Ibrahim Oladeni died as an officer of Nigeria’s Special Constabulary Police, his widow, Omolade, and his…
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Development

Adejumo KabirJanuary 13, 2024
1,414

In Lagos Destitutes Home, Persons With Disability Live In Disease-Infested Conditions

Until he became a leper in the late ‘80s, Mohammed Baba never visualised himself living in an environment reserved for…
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Features

Adejumo KabirDecember 28, 2023
1,492

Nigerian Soldiers Spend Year Combating Insecurity, Yet Spend Festive Season Without Salaries

Femi Adegboyega* joined the Nigerian Army about 15 years ago. He was one of the first set of soldiers deployed…
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Analyses

Adejumo KabirDecember 26, 2023
1,553

Nigerian Journalists Dodged Attacks, Mourned Lost Colleagues As They Chased Stories In 2023

Three days after he was declared missing by his family, the corpse of Hamisu Danjibga, a long-serving broadcast journalist at…
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Armed Violence

Adejumo KabirDecember 25, 2023
1,765

Survivors Of Ambazonia Militant Attack In Nigeria Are Experiencing The Festive Season Differently

Achue Sunday has spent the last 20 years of his life in Belegete, Obanlikwu local government area of Cross River,…
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