Nigeria’s security crisis is not only unfolding in forests, highways, villages and cities. It is unfolding inside the institutions responsible for confronting it. The Nigeria Police Force faces a threat that receives far less attention than inadequate funding, obsolete equipment or personnel shortages: the gradual erosion of merit as the basis for advancement. Every institution […]
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Africa is burning, not metaphorically, but in measurable realities of conflict, collapse, and abandonment. Old wars refuse to end, new crises are born faster than diplomacy can name them, and the continent has become the gravitational centre of global disorder. This is not accidental. It is the consequence of a world order that has lost […]
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HumAngle has never covered a conflict on the scale of Gaza. None of our reporters has lived through bombardments that erase entire neighbourhoods, killing well over 60,000 people, including women and children. Yet as journalists documenting Africa’s wars — from the insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast to the grinding violence in the Lake Chad Basin — […]
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There is a crisis in Nigeria, a smouldering fire of insecurity that has turned vast regions of the country—particularly the North and the Sahelian fringes—into conflict zones where violence has become an everyday reality. It has been five years since HumAngle was founded to document, analyse, and make sense of this as it threatens the […]
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Kunle Adebajo, Investigations Editor at HumAngle, on Thursday, Dec. 9, emerged winner of the online category of the 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. Adebajo won the online category for his five-part series: The Deradicalised. Ibrahim Adeyemi of Foundation For Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and Taiwo Adebayo of Premium Times were first and second runner-ups. […]
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The annual Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Award has been scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 9 2021, at NECA House, Lagos state. Josiah Ajiboye, popularly known as Josy Ajiboye, a veteran cartoonist and painter, the CLEEN Foundation, and 14 outstanding journalists will be honoured at the 16th edition of the award. A press statement […]
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Blameless But On Death Row, our cover for this edition, examines the inhumane, cruel and despotic justice system in Nigeria. In Kirikiri, Lagos, Giwa barracks, Maiduguri and elsewhere innocents are locked away for the dead. Continue reading … [button color=”green” size=”big” link=”https://admin.humanglemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/HumAngle-Milestones-NOVEMBER-Edition.pdf” icon=”fa-arrow-circle-o-down” target=”true” nofollow=”false”]Download the milestone here![/button]
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‘Kunle Adebajo, the investigations editor at HumAngle, has been shortlisted for this year’s Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting, one of Nigeria’s prestigious journalism awards. Adebajo is among 14 finalists who made the shortlist, pooled from 222 entries—the largest since the inception of the award in 2005. He has widely reported on the conditions of […]
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A journalist with HumAngle Media, Kabir Adejumo, has made the shortlist for the environmental component of the prestigious Thomson Foundation Awards 2021. According to the organisers, Kabir and 14 others gave voice to communities that have played little role in raising the world’s temperature but who have been hardest hit by the climate emergency. “These […]
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A student-journalist with HumAngle Media, Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi, has emerged the Campus Writer of the Year at the fourth edition of the Nigeria Campus Award. The award ceremony which was held on Sunday, Aug. 29 at the Mokland Hotel Annex Hall, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, celebrates writers in various categories across Nigerian tertiary institutions. According […]
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On Sept. 6, five years ago, I landed in Abuja on an Emirates flight from the UAE after the Nigerian Army declared me a wanted man on Aug. 14, 2016. I heard the news on Al Jazeera before I began to receive calls from friends and family. I was very shocked because I had a […]
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On Aug. 13, three HumAngle editors spoke at the TEDxUnilorin event on investigative journalism, cultural stereotypes, and identity. The editors, Kunle Adebajo – Investigations Editor, Anita Eboigbe – Managing editor, and Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu – Staff writer, all shared different stories on the theme, Roots. The event was hosted at the Performing Arts Theatre of […]
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