Investigations
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Banking Made Easy … But Not For People With Disabilities In West Africa
Ibrahim Omotosho, 39, drove into a bank in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria, in July 2020 to pick up his debit card.…
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#DapchiAbduction: The Dapchi Girls’ Dashed Hopes Of Education, Empowerment
Somewhere in Jumbam, a town five kilometres away from Dapchi, northeastern Nigeria, a school stands with broken gates. One end…
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Keeping Up With The Chibok Girls: Chasing Dreams, Battling Discrimination, Dropping Out
Over the course of two days, nine girls converge in a tiny hotel room in Yola. As a group, they…
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Widowed By ‘Bandits’ (2): The Zamfara Women Who Lost Loved Ones To Terror Invasions
Maliya Isa, 50, looks sober as she reflects on what she says is the most difficult experience she has had.…
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As The Desert Stretches, So Does Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Crisis
A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. An intravenous line sticks…
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Widowed By ‘Bandits’ (1): Anguish Of Sokoto Women Who Lost Their Husbands To Terror Attacks
Ziyanu Ibrahim, 37, was sleeping in his room in Goronyo, Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria, on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, when he…
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#DapchiAbduction: Many Of The Girls Got Married After Their Release. Why?
Tomorrow, it’ll be forty days since Aisha Mahmuda gave birth to her second child. She’s 18 going on 19. She…
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#DapchiAbduction: Because They Went To School, They Paid With Their Lives
Alhaji Hassan looks like he could break into tears any moment. Not the kind of weeping that might hint at…
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The Bloodbath (4): Nigerians Jailed After Zaria Massacre Share Their Ordeal
After surviving a fire incident during the Zaria Massacre of Dec. 2015, Ahmad Musa was immediately arrested by soldiers who…
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The Bloodbath (3): Seven Years On, Wounds From Zaria Massacre Yet To Heal
Yusuf Abdulkareem, 28, did not think he would survive after he was shot by soldiers during the Zaria Massacre of…
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