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Gbenga Odunsi February 22, 2018

Bribery, extortion and smuggling at the Nigeria-Benin Republic border (Part 2)

  Smuggling – a flourishing business at the border The border is particularly notorious for rice smuggling as there are several smuggling rings operating in the area. I disguise as…

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Gbenga Odunsi February 21, 2018

Bribery, extortion, smuggling at Nigeria-Benin Republic border (Part 1)

For six days in January 2018, Gbenga Odunsi, an investigative journalist went undercover– first as a traveller; later as a trader; and finally as a resident – to document the…

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Op-ed Editor May 31, 2017

The Media Blog: The MacArthur foundation handed over $5m to Premium Times, The Cable and Sahara Reporters – and it warms our hearts

The fund is essentially for investigative journalism and building the capacity for media platforms to hold governments accountable across board. So the MarArthur Foundation has generously shared three-year grants to…

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Op-ed Editor January 25, 2017

Pius Adesanmi: Can Nigeria overcome corruption? Will Nigeria survive corruption?

By Pius Adesanmi The optimistic, overconfident Nigerian who offered me a “no shaking yes” to both questions was only able to do so because he successfully outed me as I…

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Media Blogger December 5, 2016

Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (10)

A tweeting President-Elect:  Revisiting an ode to investigative journalism that has become more relevant than ever:  StarTimes is doing a lot in Tanzania:  CNN, video, millennials:  On Trevor Noah and…

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