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Sahara Reporters is a news agency based in New York City that focuses on promoting citizen journalism by encouraging everyday people to report stories about corruption, human rights abuses and other political misconduct in Africa, with special focus on Nigeria. [2][3] Sahara Reporters specializes in exposing corruption and government malfeasance.
Omoyele Yele Sowore (born 16 February 1971) is a Nigerian politician, human rights activist, citizen reporter, writer, lecturer and pro-democracy campaigner, known for founding the online news agency Sahara Reporters. [1][2][3] In August 2018, he founded the African Action Congress party and ran as its presidential candidate in the 2019 ...
Occupations. Academic. author. Pius Adebola Adesanmi (27 February 1972 [1] – 10 March 2019) was a Nigerian-born Canadian academic and author. He was the author of Naija No Dey Carry Last, a 2015 collection of satirical essays. Adesanmi died on 10 March 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after take-off.
Omoyele Sowore, a Nigerian citizen and political activist and journalist has been detained by Nigerian authorities since August 2019.
In 2009, after graduate school, Fayehun worked at CUNY TV as a TV news producer. During this time she wrote and produced a feature on Sahara Reporters's Omoyele Sowore, who she later went on to work with in a behind-the-scenes capacity at Sahara Reporters. [11]
Adeola Akinremi (born 26 March) is a Nigerian-American journalist, entrepreneur, columnist, policy advisor and International development professional who currently serves as a consultant for the World Bank Group.
Kiki Mordi is a Nigerian investigative journalist and on-air personality. [5] She is known for the 2019 BBC Africa Eye program Sex for Grades documentary that amplified the voices of victims of sexual assault in tertiary institutions in Nigeria and Ghana. [6][7] In 2017, Mordi started an online petition to stop the extortion and exploitation of ...
On 12 May 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam. [3]