Abiose Adelaja Adams
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Lagos, LA, Nigeria
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Ogoniland residents demand quick action on N6.4bn water projects
Residents of Ogoniland have called on the federal government to expedite action on the provision of clean water following the contamination → Read More
SPECIAL REPORT: How Delta women use heat from gas flaring sites to dry tapioca
With more than half its population lacking access to energy, Nigeria still wastes gas —a major source of energy. The communities where the gas is flared are also bereft of → Read More
SPECIAL REPORT: Unpaid salaries, communal conflict slowing down Ogoni clean-up exercise
Under the federal government's project to clean up oil spills in Ogoniland, the first 21… → Read More
SPECIAL REPORT: Children displaced by herder/farmer conflict get a second chance
Atufopwa Geoffrey, a primary three pupil in Kikan community, Adamawa state, wants to become a teacher. The ambition was sparkling in the eyes of this 11-year-old until two years ago, → Read More
OSIWA: How we strengthened Nigeria’s response to COVID-19
The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) says it has so far provided support worth over N165 million to strengthen Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. In a document → Read More
'Your son won't die in vain'— Dabiri-Erewa visits family of Nigerian doctor killed in Ukraine
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), on Saturday, paid a condolence visit to the family of the Nigerian medical doctor who was killed in Ukraine, last → Read More
Nigerian medical student killed in Ukraine
The family of Gbolade Ejemai, a 30-year-old, Nigerian medical student, who was murdered in Kharkov, Ukraine, allegedly by one Victoria Popvrako, is crying out for justice. Up to 150 Nigerians living → Read More
INVESTIGATION: Even with NHIS, Nigerians seeking healthcare are on their own
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established in 2005 to enable every Nigerian, no matter socio-economic status, walk into a hospital and get treated with little or no money → Read More
Behind the boys' dorm (Master blackmailer)
On that sunny Tuesday afternoon, Loya’s fate hung like a balance, in the hands of two bickering prefects. Chris -the Library prefect and Ugo -the social prefect. → Read More
TCL Fiction: Behind the boys’ dorm (Boys will be boys)
He was to level the stubborn, knee-high grass, that extended several meters from the school’s main gain to the admin block → Read More
TCL Fiction: Behind the boys' dorm (Can I be your school father?)
Loya walked with a limp towards the assembly ground. There was no sore on his knee, ankle or foot, but he had chosen this gangsterism walk → Read More
INVESTIGATION: Prepaid electricity meters – a scheme that became a scam –
A year ago, the electricity regulatory body introduced a regulation directing power distribution companies (DisCos) to supply consumers with more prepaid meters. How well has this worked? TheCable, in an → Read More
Situation Room condemns massive violence in Kano
The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to discountenance the supplementary elections where violence occurred and proceed to make a declaration on → Read More
After these eerie days (Vanity fare)
I was out of touch with reality because I couldn’t accept or believe what I was seeing. I was losing it. I was denying it. It must be some nightmare → Read More
Don’t weaken our electoral system, Situation Room tells judiciary
Situation Room, an election observer group, has called on the courts to stop their involvement in litigation capable of weakening the credibility of the electoral system. In a preliminary statement issued → Read More
After these eerie days (Sweet and sour)
We drove in a convoy of four cars, from the hurly-burly of city life to the serenity of sleeping towns, from Austria to the hinterlands of Bonn → Read More
After these eerie days (Have you come to say goodbye?)
Our doorbell rang and Ruth jumped at the door. An ashen-faced man, in a FedEx cap, reared his head as though to deliver some ashen news → Read More
Situation Room: Over 260 killed in pre-election violence
In the light of the postponed elections and the loss to Nigerians, it again encouraged Nigerians to vote en masse on Saturday. → Read More
TCL Fiction: After these eerie days (Discovery on St. Francesco avenue)
(An excerpt from the novel AFTER THESE EERIE DAYS by Abiose A. Adams… continued from last week) On my way to St Francesco avenue I sat in the sixth coach of the train, a brown cashmere shawl wrapped around my neck, a knapsack hugged across my chest and kilograms of cares weighing on my mind. It was a saturnine Saturday. It was the Saturday after I had waited- first day, second day, third day,… → Read More
We’ll watch INEC closely, says Situation Room on poll shift
Clement Nwankwo, convener of the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, says his organisation will continue to watch closely, the processes involved for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct → Read More