Gender
Beyond The VAPP Act: How Widows Still Face Systemic Failures, Cultural Harm, Broken Promises (PART 2)
In this second part of the investigation, JULIANA FRANCIS and ANGELA NKWO-AKPOLU uncover the deadly struggles widows and widowers endure in their fight to...
Gender
Beyond The VAPP Act: How Widows Still Face Systemic Failures, Cultural Harm, Broken Promises (PART 1)
When the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015 (VAPP) was signed into law, many women’s rights advocates believed it would finally end dehumanising practices...
Gender
Diet of Despair: Nigerian Mothers Turn to Chicken Feed, Leftovers as Hunger Overwhelms Nation
Hunger is worsening in Nigeria at a frightening pace, so also its victim, malnutrition. No thanks to a sudden policy shift at the start...
Breaking News
How Facebook, Misinformation, Legal Loopholes Throw Nigerian Women Into Surrogacy Ditch
By: Simbiat Bakare
When Temitope Afolabi realised her husband could get imprisoned due to a N48 million debt he incurred from a bad business deal,...
Breaking News
Tiger Base Police: Killings, Other Human Rights Violations Continue As PSC, NHRC, Government Keep Mum
Juliana Francis Nigeria investigative reporter, Juliana Francis, earlier this year, 2025, carried a five-part investigative report, here, here, here, here, and here, exposing the horrific...
Breaking News
Four Communities, One Crisis: The Deadly Healthcare Gap in Riverine Lagos (Pt 2)
A Walk to Ikaare Just like Irede and Ibasa, Ikaare is another riverine community that lacks a health facility. The neighbouring community to Irede took...
Breaking News
Broken Promises, Deadly Silence: Inside Oriade Riverine Communities Lacking Healthcare Despite Lagos’ ₦1.3 Trillion Revenue (PART 1)
When local authorities fail to provide functional health facilities, the consequences are dire for communities, particularly for nursing mothers and children. In this investigation,...
Investigations
How a ₦332m Road Project Became Kilankwa’s Worst Nightmare
Like many infrastructure projects, road construction is often seen as a pathway to economic growth and improved quality of life. But for Kilankwa 1,...
Breaking News
Inside Akure’s Hookup Economy: Young Commercial Sex Workers Narrate Experience
By Mary AgidiWhen Folake Adeola (not her real name) turned 21, she abandoned her dream of further education and turned to sex work in...
Gender
How underage girls are trafficked, exploited in Northwest Nigeria
By Aisha GamboAt just 10 years old, Ladidi Mudi (not real name) wakes at 5:00 a.m. daily. But unlike children her age who prepare for...
Gender
14 Years on, Lagos Mental Health Policy, Law Fail Nursing Mothers Battling Postpartum Depression
BY Temitope ObayendoIn Nigeria, mental illness still wears the heavy cloak of stigma, silencing many who need help the most. For years, patients have...
Gender
Apps, Pimps and Algorithms: How Technology is Advancing Nigeria’s Digital Sex Trade
By Juliet Buna
She sat at the edge of a bar stool, tired eyes scanning the busy bar in Mokola, Ibadan, Oyo State, in South-West...
Breaking News
INVESTIGATION: Five years after fatal Lagos explosioin, encroachers bribe way back to NNPC pipelines
On March 15, 2020, a deadly explosion shattered Soba Community in the Abule-Ado area of Lagos state, claiming several lives. Official reports blamed the...
Breaking News
Investigation: In Lagos, Police Extort Families Of Sexually Abused Children In Search Of Justice (Part2)
The first part of this investigation narrates harrowing accounts of sexually abused children and the deep scars they now live with. But beyond these...
Breaking News
In Nigeria’s ‘Megacity: Poverty, Extortion Deprive Sexually Abused Children Of Justice (PART1)
In Lagos State, Nigeria’s sprawling megacity, sexually abused children from poor homes endure a second betrayal, a justice system riddled with extortion, indifference, and...
Breaking News
The Report They Tried to Bury: Unmasking the Fate of Southeast Nigeria’s Missing Men (PART 3)
In this concluding part of this hard-hitting investigation into human rights violations in Southeast Nigeria, JULIANA FRANCIS unveils shocking revelations from a 227-page report....
Breaking News
Tears, Trauma, and Truth: Inside Painful Hunt for Missing Men Arrested by Security Forces in the Southeast (PART 2)
In this second part of this ongoing heart-wrenching investigation, JULIANA FRANCIS follows the trail of Southeast women who have spent over four agonising years...
Breaking News
#Investigation: Give Us Our Husbands, Dead Or Alive, Southeast Women Confront FG (PART 1)
In Nigeria’s southeast, fear is palpable and human rights have taken a back seat due to a grim new reality. Young, able-bodied men vanish...
Breaking News
#Kosarachi: Why We Handed Disputed Child To Suspected Traffickers – Lagos Government (8)
…Lagos Police Is Legally Mandated To Investigate Trafficking Allegations, Prosecute, Says Lagos GovernmentThe investigation into the torture of a 10-year-old Kosarachi, a housemaid, to...
Breaking News
#Kosarachi: How Lagos Ministry, Police, Conspired To Secretly Hand Abused Child To Suspected Traffickers (7)
…We Were Misled By Church, Gave Child Out In Error, Says MYSD…MYSD Is Notorious For Secretly Handing Children Out-ACVPN…Lagos Government, Lagos Police, Ignore FoI...
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