Investigation/Special Reports

The Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria has caused over 37,500 deaths since 2011, according to a United Nations agency.

Legal experts and other commentators say the Nigerian authorities face a dilemma in checking the activities of people like Sunday...

Lawyers say the continued detention of Titilayo Benson without new charges is a gross violation of human rights.

A week after the Sasha Market riot in Ibadan, victims count their losses

Witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES that, at least, six people died from both sides in the reprisal attacks.

Plateau State is a Nigerian food basket but tin mining activities are destroying farmlands and the youth are turning away...

Destruction of farmlands by cattle - and herders - is barely avoidable in Nigeria's outdated open grazing system and criminals...

The Nigerian police still routinely interfere in civil cases despite rebukes by the courts and clear provisions of the law.

The Akwa Ibom State Government began building a cottage hospital in Ukanafun in 2008, but 12 years after, the people...

Heline Babiene Eweni, through her Exceptional Youth Initiative, provides palliatives to vulnerable households in Cameroon and helps poor women start...

A civil rights lawyer says there is a threat to evict the family from the community for reporting the child...

Nigeria has made several promises to ensure its fuel contain low sulphur, but its petrol and kerosene have sulphur over...

Farmers now worry about the takeoff of the African Continental Free Trade Area.

Even though women make up a majority of the workforce in many artisanal mines, they are mostly relegated to the...

Payment Technology Limited (PAYTECH) will take seven per cent of the schools' revenues as consultation fee.

“I am an indigene of Wolumo. My father and forefathers lived and died here. I am 38 years but we...

The country's three paper mills have failed to produce as planned for years, but experts say non-wood raw materials abundant...

Since its establishment, the electricity regulator, NERC, has been mired in financial scandals.

Illegal sand mining activities in Akwa Ibom State threatens its environmental sustainability.

Ghana and Nigeria share a similar history but while Ghanaians have a history of large election turnout, it is not...

More than a decade since the construction of the Lagos Light Rail has commenced, it has failed to see the...

The discovery of crude oil in the 1950s progressively led to the neglect of Nigeria's agricultural sector.

This second part details how Ned Nwoko's land grab led to violence, kingship tussle and rights violations in Idumuje-Ugboko village...