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SPECIAL REPORT: How Flood-ravaged Farmlands In Anambra Threaten Food Production
Ripples Nigeria
Increased rainfall, as a result of climate change, has impacted negatively on many parts of the world. In Anambra State, Nigeria, KELECHUKWU IRUOMA, writes that farmers have also felt this environmen...
FEATURES: Rise In Monkeypox Infection Troubling Nigeria’s Rural Population
Ripples Nigeria
In this features, KELECHUKWU IRUOMA goes into the rural communities of Bayelsa State, south-south Nigeria to uncover the plight of residents plague with monkey pox disease, and the challenge of author...
How Nigeria’s Neglect Of Leprosy Stalls Effort To Eradicate Disease
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With over 2,000 cases reported annually, Ripples Nigeria’s KELECHUKWU IRUOMA visited the Leprosy Centres in Okija and Oji River to find out how the country was managing the disease. His findings show...
INVESTIGATION…. Corrupt NIMC Staff Breach COVID-19 Protocol To Extort Nigerians Registering For NIN
Ripples Nigeria
On a sunny Monday morning in mid-July, Fidelia Okonkwo (not real name) had left her house in Yaba, a suburb in Lagos to Shomolu local government to enrol for the National Identification Number (NIN) b...
INVESTIGATION…How Endless Oil Spills Leave Niger Delta Severely Polluted, Livelihoods Ruined And Citizens Poisoned
Ripples Nigeria
Eric Dooh, 60, had just returned from Goi, a community in Ogoniland, within Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. He had visited his family’s property in the community he left a few years back due to air poll...
INVESTIGATION… Victims Tell Their Stories Of How Lagos Environmental Sanitation Officers Maltreat, Extort Residents
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Christian Nwaka, 25, was arrested by officers of LAGESC stationed at Ikeja Along bus stop in December 2018. Nwaka was rushing to meet up with ‘The Experience,’ a religious programme, when he was appre...
INVESTIGATION… How Lagos Environmental Sanitation Officers Maltreat, Extort Residents
Ripples Nigeria
On a sunny Wednesday morning, I boarded a commercial bus popularly called Danfo at Iyana Ipaja, a bus stop along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway going to Ikeja Along, where I would then navigate my way to c...
INVESTIGATION… Thugs Rule In Rivers Markets, Force Multiple Illegal Taxes On Petty Traders, As Govt Feigns Ignorance
Ripples Nigeria
On a Wednesday in May, the morning sun was already shining bright as early as 10:00 am. Miracle Onwuamaeze, 19, sits on an empty 15-litre paint bucket selling onions wrapped in white polythene nylons....
SPECIAL REPORT: How Tech Is Increasing Palm Oil Production In Nigeria
Ripples Nigeria
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, two women in their 30s were on a moving motorcycle along Ubulu-Uku — Isselu-Uku road in Delta state. One, fair in complexion was riding while the other — dark in complexi...
INVESTIGATION… Despite Billions Budgeted, Ebonyi Students Sit On Stones Under Thatched Roofs To Learn
Ripples Nigeria
It was sunny on a Wednesday morning in mid-October. It was the week before the government schools across Ebonyi, a state in southeast Nigeria, would go for the mid-term break. While teachers were work...
INVESTIGATION… ITSEKIRILAND: Abandoned Projects Litter Community As Leaders ‘swallow’ Chevron’s N7.2bn Development Fund
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Twenty four Itsekiri women sit on three benches at one side of the State High Court chambers in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria waiting for the arrival of the Chief Judge. With rage etched on their faces,...
Special Report… Beyond Conflicts, Benue Losing Food Basket Status Amid Climate Change Challenges And Subsistence Farming
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The moment Godwin Gbawuan’s two hectares of rice farmlands were washed away by heavy rainfall in Benue, a state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt as a result of climate change in August last year, he knew ther...