Development journalism is stronger when it is collaborative. In 2025, we partnered with organisations that share our commitment to accountability and amplification. The partnerships supported us to investigate deeper, reach wider, and tell compelling stories. We launched a collaborative education accountability project in Oyo State with Education As a Vaccine (EVA) and the Malala Fund. Fourteen journalists across print, online, and broadcast media are investigating the barriers preventing girls from accessing safe, quality education. Our first published investigation, Mobile Phones: How social connectivity exposes indecency among Oyo female students, documented a cycle schools cannot break: principals confiscate phones and involve…
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In 2025, we sat with policymakers, experts, and practitioners to unpack complex issues shaping our development. Here are a few highlights. Drug abuse among UNIABUJA students alarming – Ex-VC Maikudi: Days before her removal, Aisha Maikudi, a professor and Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, spoke about substance abuse cutting across both genders on campus, a crisis many university leaders privately acknowledge but rarely discuss publicly. Nigeria’s TVET programme set to take off, enrollees to receive N22,500 stipend – NBTE boss: The executive secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Idris Bugaje, a professor, explained how the…
Our reporting this year moved beyond informing our readers to influencing institutional responses and public discourse. And we are glad we tracked what happened after the stories were published. Learn more WASSCE 2025: WAEC recalls released results, candidates to check afresh WASSCE 2025 new results out, pass rate now 62% – Official Our three-part coverage of the WASSCE results crisis, from the initial 38 per cent pass rate through the recall to the revised 62 per cent figures, became our most-read story of the year. Separately, our reporting on WAEC and the National Examinations Council’s (NECO) move to computer-based testing…
Aminat Miskilu As 2025 draws to a close, Nigeria’s health sector has come under renewed scrutiny, with the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State branch, delivering a blunt assessment of the Federal Government’s performance over the past year. In a year-end review signed by its chairman, Saheed Kehinde, the association accused the Federal Government of poor prioritisation of healthcare, weak leadership at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and failure to address deep-seated challenges such as medical brain drain, poor welfare for health workers, weak primary healthcare and inadequate funding among others. While acknowledging modest gains in hospital infrastructure,…
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President Donald Trump, upon assuming office, signed several executive orders, temporarily halting nearly all US global health funding, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created by former President George Bush in 2003 to combat HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Batches of Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Minute Maid, and Fuze Tea were also among the products recalled in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
The action originates from President Trump’s executive order on foreign aid, which he signed on his first day in office last Monday.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the memo that President Donald Trump’s “announcement has made our financial situation more acute.”
They emphasised the importance of robust Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes in humanitarian settings