At least 150 people have now been confirmed dead following devastating floods in Niger State, according to an update from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday. The agency’s spokesperson, Ibrahim Husseini, revealed the significant jump from the earlier toll of 115, stating that additional bodies were recovered up to 10 kilometers away from Mokwa—the area...

  Aminat (POV) By my second year in college, I had perfected my disguise. The rich accent, the expensive laugh, the way I held my head all of it was a performance, a mask that felt better than my real skin. I stopped eating the food my mother sent; it smelled like home, and home smelled like weakness. I avoided phone calls, delayed messages, and invented emergencies to justify my...

A coalition of Nigerian women’s rights groups has formally petitioned the United Nations, accusing the Nigerian Senate of systemic gender-based discrimination and retaliatory actions against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central. The coalition is calling for urgent intervention to address the alleged injustices faced by the Senator after she reported sexual harassment. The...

Dr. Rachel Leslie, a renowned Pan-African scholar and historian, believes Nigeria has the potential to surpass the developmental strides of Burkina Faso under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré — but only with visionary and civilian leadership. Speaking on Channels Television’s Amazing Africans, Dr. Leslie, who was born in Paris and raised across multiple countries...

In the heart of the Yahuri, where the sun burns bright and the winds whisper across the plains, there lived a man named Musa, a Fulani hunter unlike any other. Musa was known far and wide—not just for his skill with the bow and spear—but for something extraordinary: he never returned from a hunt empty-handed. Every morning, Musa would set out from his hut before the first light,...