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A general view of commuters moving around a crowded area of Lagos, Nigeria. Yellow buses and cars are jam packed on a street. People with colorful umbrellas walk along the side.

One-click debt-trap

Dec. 15, 2025
Muktar Oladunmade and Kosisochukwu Ugwuede
Nigeria
A woman carries a bunch of plantain bananas on top of short log that sits on top of her head.

“Forest Is Life” — But Nigeria’s Last Rainforest Is Falling Fast

Oct. 27, 2025
Uchenna Igwe
Nigeria
Kyuntu John walks toward the spot where she will board a motorcycle to the junction, from where she will take a cab to the Lugbe Primary Health Care Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, where she collects her antiretroviral therapy (ART) medication.

Trump cuts U.S. aid to Africa. Pregnant women lose needed medicines.

Oct. 9, 2025
Beloved John
Nigeria
The Trump / Africa Divide
Two uniformed soldiers stand on a dusty street, one in the foreground holding a rifle and looking ahead, while another stands further down the road. Both wear camouflage uniforms and armbands. The background is slightly blurred, showing a tree, wall, and distant auto-rickshaw.

Shot While Serving, Now Honored: Election Workers Receive Presidential Awards After CCIJ Investigation

Aug. 12, 2025
Olanrewaju Oyedeji
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
A group of election officials in Nigeria gather closely outside a building topped with barbed wire, expressing emotion through raised hands, shouts, and intense facial expressions

Nigeria Considers Panel to Probe Election Violence

Jul. 22, 2025
Ajibola Amzat and Olajide Adelana
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
A group of people standing and looking down at a plastic ballot box.

Broken Promises of Transparency: A Deep Dive into Nigeria’s 2023 Election Data

Mar. 31, 2025
Yuxi Wang and Sotiris Sideris
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
Screenshot of the Shield Your Vote start screen

Shield Your Vote

Mar. 26, 2025
CCIJ
Africa, Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
INEC officers sit at tables with tablet devices while voters line up.

INEC’s Broken Promises: Altered voting tallies, poor electoral oversight casts doubt over Nigeria’s presidential elections

Dec. 20, 2024
Haruna Mohammed Salisu, Samad Uthman, Idris Kamal, Lami Sadiq, Aminu Adamu Naganye, Usman Bello Balarabe, Arinze Chijioke, Ogechukwu Victoria Ujam and Lukman Abolade
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
Faces to their Names: Nigeria's False Information Merchants

Faces to their Names: Nigeria’s False Information Merchants

Dec. 3, 2024
CCIJ
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
A group of Nigerian men waiting for election results

All Roar and No Bite: Exposing Nigeria’s Paper Tiger Election Laws

Sep. 30, 2024
Olanrewaju Oyedeji and Gbenga Salau
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
Women wait in line to cast their ballots in Northern Nigeria

Beyond the Facade: Unveiling the Violence in Nigeria’s ‘Peaceful’ Presidential Elections​

Aug. 29, 2024
Olajide Adelana, Kabir Yusuf, Yekeen Akinwale and Ekemini Simon
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred
A protester wears a raincoat during a protest demanding a soverign state of Yoruba ethnic group in Ojota district of Lagos. Photograph by Akintunde Akinleye.

Truth under fire: The multi-front assault on facts during the 2023 Nigerian election

Jun. 12, 2024
Arinze Chijioke, Shehu Olayinka and Sodeeq Atanda
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred

Tinubu Anniversary Raises Questions About 2023 Election, Democracy’s Vitality

May. 29, 2024
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein and Ajibola Amzat
Nigeria
Democracy Deferred

An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Apr. 11, 2022
Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi
Nigeria
H2OFail

“Waterpreneurs” cash in on government failure to deliver clean water to islanders

Mar. 27, 2021
Festus Iyorah
Nigeria
H2OFail

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