Nigeria
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How saving the pangolin became a Nigerian conservation agenda
Nigeria’s pangolins face extinction. One organisation is committed to reversing the trend – and coopting communities into conservation. Christy’s life would have ended several ... -
Who’s afraid of Aliko Dangote?
The $19 billion Dangote Refinery could meet Nigeria’s refined product needs. This upsets prosperous local importers – and the regulators who have lived comfortably ... -
How Afrobeats is sampling nostalgia for the Gen Zs
With the industry awash with money, global notoriety, bold Afrobeats producers are buying early Afrobeats records, channelling them to an audience seeking its slice ... -
The drug menace in the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency
Referred to as ‘Marlians’ after British-Nigerian singer, Naira Marley, whose songs allegedly glorify the profane, they have become the face of a silent crisis ... -
“He didn’t allow me”: Gender and the Great Green Wall
Experiences in northeast Nigeria suggest women struggle to participate in climate initiatives unless gender dynamics are carefully integrated. In 2007, eleven African countries, including ... -
Nigeria: The impunity of Tinubu’s war on the media
The Tinubu administration took off where Buhari left: arbitrary arrests of journalists, indefinite detentions and even alleged executions. The logic of it defies reason ... -
Nigeria: One year later, Tinubu struggles with the economic question
Digging the country out of the hole it fell into during the Buhari years required an ingenuity never made available under Tinubu’s economic shock ... -
Tinubu’s Nigeria: A year at the edge of the abyss
University students are among those hit hardest by the Tinubu administration’s IMF-directed austerity programme. Ajadi Sodiq, an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, receives ... -
Why women struggle to take climate cases to court and how to correct it
A study in Nigeria and South Africa suggests three key ways women’s access to climate justice can be enhanced. Across domestic courts in Africa, ...
