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From victims to prisoners: How corrupt cops destroy innocent lives with lies
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How I lost my parents, daughter, sister in gas explosion – Lagos fashion designer
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Beaten to death: Sad tales of parental corrections that ended in tragedy
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Shattered dreams: Sad stories of Nigerians battling depression abroad (1)
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Ayetoro: A drowning Ondo town where schoolchildren pay the price (2)
Experts warn against devastating effects of mining pollution
A few weeks ago, the Nigerian government issued a warning to illegal miners to vacate all mining sites in Zamfara State without delay. Officials reaffirmed that the ongoing suspension of mining activi...
4th May 2025
From victims to prisoners: How corrupt cops destroy innocent lives with lies
From wrongful arrests to fabricated evidence, innocent Nigerians have fallen prey to a system built on deceit and exploitation. In the wake of chilling accounts of men and women oppressed and denied j...
4th May 2025
How I lost my parents, daughter, sister in gas explosion – Lagos fashion designer
A Lagos-based fashion designer, Nofisat Jamiu, has recounted how a cooking gas explosion claimed the lives of four members of her family at a retail shop where her mother worked as a sales attendant. ...
3rd May 2025
Beaten to death: Sad tales of parental corrections that ended in tragedy
Across Nigeria, chilling stories of children brutalised by their parents often slip through the cracks, buried under the guise of discipline. But behind closed doors and drawn curtains, unspeakable cr...
3rd May 2025
Shattered dreams: Sad stories of Nigerians battling depression abroad (1)
Biodun Busari writes about the heartbreaking emotional struggles some Nigerians face in the diaspora after leaving the comforts of home in pursuit of a brighter future, only to become trapped in a cyc...
3rd May 2025
Ayetoro: A drowning Ondo town where schoolchildren pay the price (2)
In this concluding part, PETER DADA paints a gloomy picture of how the ocean surge forces some students to abandon schools in the Aiyetoro community in Ondo State for urban areas, while the remainin...
29th April 2025
Ayetoro: A drowning Ondo town where schoolchildren pay the price (1)
Although it is nature’s beautiful gift to the Ayetoro community in Ondo State, the Atlantic Ocean is gradually eroding the historic town out of existence. PETER DADA, in this two-part report, writes...
28th April 2025
Lagos sky-high rents threaten new wave of homeless families
The scramble for shelter in Lagos has become a bruising contest between shrinking pay packets and soaring rents. From the tenements of Mushin to the glassy estates of Lekki, landlords are issuing fres...
27th April 2025
Nigeria’s new contactless biometric passport
In January 2024, the Nigeria Immigration Service quietly piloted what may prove to be its most ambitious reform in two decades: a contactless biometric passport and a fully remote application platfo...
27th April 2025
Digital heist: How online pirates bleed film makers dry
Nollywood, one of the world’s largest film industries, has faced major financial losses, amounting to billions of naira because of online movie piracy, where individuals unlawfully leak, stream, or ...
26th April 2025
Inside Nigeria’s morgues where humans, rodents compete for body parts
For years, suspicions of ritualistic activities perpetrated by corrupt mortuary attendants have haunted grieving families whose loved ones were returned without vital body parts. But in a chilling twi...
26th April 2025
Poisoned land, poisoned lives: Cancer epidemic in Bayelsa community linked to oil pollution
Recent cancer cases in the oil-rich Ikarama community in Bayelsa State, which has sparked apprehension among the residents, have been traced to oil pollution in the area, reports SAMUEL ESE Ikarama co...
25th April 2025
Thriving charcoal business in Nasarawa amid govt ban
In this report, COLLINS AGWAM writes about the thriving charcoal business in Nasarawa State despite a government ban to prevent deforestation In the Gudi community, Akwanga Local Government Area, the ...
25th April 2025
From dream homes to nightmares: Nigerians groan as agents impose illegal fees on cities
As agents impose illegal rent hikes, tenants face deepening hardship and growing insecurity in an already strained housing market, Josephine Ogundeji, writes As she welcomed our correspondent into her...
22nd April 2025
When fathers vanish: Silent scars of abandoned children
Across Nigeria, countless families bear the deep emotional, financial, and psychological scars left behind by fathers who walked away. In homes where love once lingered, silence and unanswered questio...
20th April 2025
Inside Plateau’s killing fields of horror
The haunting memory of last Wednesday’s brutal attacks in Hurti and five other villages in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State continues to linger in the mind of 46-year-old John Yohan...
19th April 2025
I never believed I’d live up to 97 – Nonagenarian
Chief Mrs Funke Arthur-Worrey, a distinguished matriarch, community leader and philanthropist, is a former president and Head of the Board of Trustees of the International Women’s Society and widow ...
19th April 2025
Couples differ over doctor’s 21 monthly sex advice
The long-standing debate on how often a man should have sex to lower the risk of prostate cancer took a dramatic turn after a health specialist stirred controversy with an eyebrow-raising recommendati...
19th April 2025
My aunt filmed while her husband raped me for eight months – Domestic worker
•She’s a liar, says aunt In late 2018, Felicia (surname withheld) made a life-changing journey from Abuja, where she had been living with her uncle, to Lagos to spend the Christmas and New Year ho...
19th April 2025
Breaking boundaries: How Nigeria’s U-19 women are rewriting cricket history
In the wake of Nigeria’s historic run at the 2025 ICC Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup in Malaysia, ABIODUN ADEWALE explores the remarkable rise of the young players redefining cricket in Nigeria and ac...
17th April 2025
Endangered but edible: How poverty fuels marine wildlife exploitation in Nigeria
In this report, DAYO OYEWO writes about how economic hardship and a lack of awareness have fuelled the relentless exploitation of marine wildlife On January 15, a disturbing video surfaced on social m...
16th April 2025
Against all odds: How akara sellers defy superstitions to stay in business
In various Nigerian communities, a pervasive belief holds that akara (bean cake) sellers are often coerced into joining clandestine witchcraft covens. Those who resist are said to suffer misfortunes s...
13th April 2025
Lagos grenade explosion renders families homeless as residents count losses
Just days after a bomb explosion, reportedly triggered by a scavenger, tore through Taiwo Street in Idi-Araba, Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, the affected area is left in utter devastati...
13th April 2025
Inside sizzling tales of Nigeria’s gyms turned hookup hotbeds
A new kind of workout fad is gaining popularity across Nigeria’s gyms, and it has little to do with dumbbells or treadmills. As the fitness culture surges, some men and women are flexing more than m...
12th April 2025
Abuja’s smooth highways turn death racetracks for exotic car owners
In the Federal Capital Territory, the trend of motorsports and street racing have resulted in a significantly increase in the severity of accidents, NATHANIEL SHAIBU reports For many users, motorsport...
6th April 2025
Hotels of horror: Shocking tales of staff colluding to murder guests
Across Nigeria, chilling stories have emerged of hotel guests who checked into rooms, only to disappear without a trace—or worse, to be found mutilated. In the shadows of these horrific incidents, d...
5th April 2025
Maximum tears: Lagos commuters groan as Independence Bridge closure bites hard
A severe gridlock that left commuters stranded for several hours following the closure of Independence Bridge in the Falomo area of Lagos State on Wednesday has left commuters with bitter tales, JOHNS...
4th April 2025
Caught in the crossfire: How decades-old land dispute left Lagos families homeless
A land ownership dispute between some families in the Ojokoro area of Lagos State has simmered for over two decades. However, recent events have pushed the conflict to a breaking point. The latest fal...
3rd April 2025
Heartbreaking story of newlyweds burnt in Lagos tanker fire
Barely two weeks after Chiedozie and Joan Okoye tied the knot in Lagos, their love story came to a tragic, untimely end. A devastating gas tanker explosion near Otedola Bridge snatched them from their...
30th March 2025
How cyber criminals exploit spy cameras to blackmail women
Once hailed as a powerful crime-fighting tool, surveillance cameras have now become sinister weapons in the hands of cyber voyeurs—spying on unsuspecting women and, in many cases, trapping them in w...
29th March 2025
[ICYMI] Living in darkness: Lagos community where Nigerians cross border to charge phones, fetch water
In this report, MUHAMMED LAWAL delves into the daily struggles of residents in a Lagos-Benin Republic border community, where years of power outages have left them without basic necessities The journe...
24th March 2025
