Cocoa, child labour and Côte d’Ivoire; the emerging change
By Olatunji Olaigbe and Elvis Guoza The global chocolate industry makes over $130 billion in annual revenue, but the West African farmers who cultivate nearly 70% of the world’s cocoa often survive on less than...
Watanda; The Local Club Helping Low-income Earners Celebrate Sallah
KANO, NIGERIA: Every year, during Eid al-Adha, also called big Sallah, Yusuf Abubakar buys a cow or ram in commemoration of the Muslim festive...
The Citizens’ Movement Enforcing the Law on the Police
EDO, NIGERIA: One afternoon in April 2024, Jessyking Alabi, 21, went out to power his mobile phone. He became more dependent on the mobile...
This school is empowering Almajiris in Katsina with skills to stop...
KATSINA, NIGERIA: It was a cold, breezy morning in April 2023 when Ma’aru Ishak, 15, embarked on what he called his longest adventure. The...
Amid An Intense Election Cycle, An Initiative Made Voting Easy For Nigeria’s Senior Citizens
OYO, NIGERIA: Toyin Olukoya, 68, loves to vote. She has been an active voter in Nigeria’s election processes for some thirty years. Olukoya became passionate about voting during her teenage years when she witnessed how a single vote made all the difference she needed, “... and I told myself that...
The Race To Make Cocoa More Sustainable
Chocolate is one of the world’s biggest reasons for deforestation, and a small initiative in Nigeria is trying to change that By Olatunji Olaigbe and...
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Solutions Journalism and Resilience, Titilope’s Story
Titilope Fadare said it felt like a ‘miracle’ after she got accepted to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) 2021 Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP) using a mix of resilience and solutions journalism in her reporting.
Maintaining Inter-religious Peace: The Yelwa Kagadama Example
By Elizabeth Kah Nange BAUCHI, NIGERIA: On December 12, 2007, amidst the smoke and chaos of a horrifying inter-religious clash between Muslims and Christians in Yelwa Kagadama community, Bauchi State, Hussein Yahaya, 43, recalled being instructed by his father to stay at home with the family. Despite the warning, Yahaya...
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