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The enthusiastic pupils of Community Basic School in Saki-West Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, are probably unaware of their predicament. Crammed in one classroom, they happily announce “we are in primary one, primary two, primary three, primary four…” One of the youngest, Moriam Ayanlade, 3, was dressed in pink chiffon. Her […]
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Gberefu is a coastal community of mostly farmers and fishers in Badagry, a border town in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. It was from here that thousands of Nigerians were kept and sold during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The sites and relics of that history are still there to remind visitors of the tourism allure of […]
Read MoreGberefu is a coastal community of mostly farmers and fishers in Badagry, a border town in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. It was from here that thousands of Nigerians were kept and sold during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The sites and relics of that history are still there to remind visitors of the tourism allure of […]
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Youthful agitation for representation in governance in Nigeria morphed into The Not Too Young to Run Act. The movement, according to activists, was borne out of a yearning for a change from the gerontocracy the older politicians have created in the country’s political landscape. As a result of the Act, there is an improvement in […]
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Following a Humangle report on the impact of noise pollution on residents in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, the state’s Ministry of Environment has taken stricter measures against noise pollution. The report, published in August, highlighted the adverse effects noise has on Lagos residents, especially the older population. But in a move seen as a response […]
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Aisha Adesina, a final year Foreign Language student at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, has died as a result of what her colleagues described as lackadaisical attitude by officials of the institution. HumAngle gathered that Aisha, an asthmatic patient went to the university’s hospital to complain about having a sore throat but […]
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Erinokan Tawa, 78, battled insomnia for over a week, prompting her to visit a hospital. Tawa, who is hypertensive, was given medical advice to sleep a lot and keep away from a noisy area. Leaving the hospital with large bulgy eye bags, heavy with sleep, and a throbbing headache, she had hoped to get uninterrupted […]
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Abimbola Modomo, 10, enrolled in a public primary school, wants to someday become a teacher. But sometime in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and distressed the economy, Sewa Modomo, her petty trader mother, lost her business. The senior Madomo, a widow and mother of five, bore the burden of raising her children […]
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When many Nigerians trooped out in Oct. 2020 to protest Police brutality in the country, nobody knew for how long it would last, or what its driving forces would be. But what all protesters knew was that police brutality had to be addressed, somehow. SARS — Special Anti-Robbery Squad, was established specifically to tackle armed […]
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The first time Hassan Onike, a civil engineer, set out before the break of dawn for work in Lagos, he got robbed at gunpoint in traffic. The incident occurred around 5:45 a.m. at the Elediye area of Ikorodu, in the Southwest Nigeria state. Onike had to part with his phone amid menacing threats in a […]
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