Fraud, Ponzi Schemes and Terror Financing: A Story About Banking In Nigeria
In May 2022, shortly after my story about Chinese loan sharks in West Africa went up, a number of new tips and leads started trickling in. It looked at first,…
Cornflakes For Jihad: The Documentary
Following months of hard work, West Africa Weekly is proud to announce the launch of a YouTube documentary channel based on the long read investigations published here. This documentary is…
Journalism Career Graveyard: The BBC And Its West Africa Problem
Advertise and grow your small business with www.advertisers.ng The first thing one learns in this line of business is the maxim “There is never just one cockroach.” Journalists, private investigators…
Has Bola Ahmed Tinubu Committed Perjury? The Evidence Says Yes
A criminal complaint bordering on issues relating to perjury on Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Form EC9 has been filed at the Magistrate Court of the FCT…
Southern Kaduna: Blood, Tears, Anger [DOCUMENTARY]
A genocide is taking place in Southern Kaduna. For some reason, any journalist, researcher, activist or civil society operator who decides to investigate, research, report on or just speak loudly…
Special Report: Amidst Killing Spree, FG Plots Clandestine Passage of Controversial Water Bill Wednesday
Senate President Ahmed Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker, Femi GbajabiamilaAmidst a surge in killings carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen across many parts of the country, particularly in the…
Update: Public Outcry Stalls Moves to Re-Present Controversial Water Bill
Following public outcry over a plot to reintroduce it while most members are away celebrating Christmas, the contentious National Water Resources Bill, 2022, was not presented for debate in Nigeria’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Amnesty International Fires Osai Ojigho Following West Africa Weekly Investigation
Amnesty International Nigeria country director Osai Ojigho has been quietly fired, 10 months after the organization under her watch came under public scrutiny following revelations of fraud and collusion with…
How Nigerian Governor and Serial Human Rights Violator Nasir El-Rufai Spends Millions Funding Oxford University
Blood Money for Oxford UniversityWhile gaining notoriety for persecuting journalists, rights activists, and presiding over one of Nigeria’s states with a scandalous number of out of school children, Kaduna State…
[GUEST POST]: From Vegetable Consumption To Production
Only a decade ago, no one would have imagined that onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, and other crops grown primarily in Northern Nigeria could thrive in Akwa Ibom State.At the…