Justice Nwafor

Climate change is having disproportionate impacts on people around the world, and indigenous communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta are not left behind. This report explores the impacts of sea level rise and erosion on indigenous island communities.

With six decades of oil exploration in the Niger Delta, communities have been dealing with spin-off effects like gas flaring for a long time. Journalist Justice Nwafor investigates the health and environmental impacts.

On Oct. 1, 2017, Julius Ayuk Tabe declared an independent state called Ambazonia in the southwest and northwest regions of the Republic of Cameroon. The government clamped down on the separatists, and ever since, there’s been armed fighting.

The report delved into the oil spill in Nigeria's Niger Delta region and the negative impacts on indigenous communities, the climate and aquatic life.

This report looked at how cooking with firewood, charcoal and other polluting varieties of biomass used for cooking in Nigeria affect the climate and the progress both the government and nonprofits have made to make clean cooking options more accessible.

In this piece, I looked at how the government at both the national and sub-national levels have failed to fund healthcare adequately in Nigeria despite the lessons it should have learnt from the Covid-19 outbreak.

This piece analysed the implications of the Nigerian government's failure to include a net-zero transition plan in the country's recent Petroleum Industry Act.

I investigated how the government's failure to adequately factor in the unique plights of Tuberculosis patients in its Covid-19 containment measures worsened the condition of the patients and spiked the number of cases.

I looked at the menace of plastic waste in Africa and the fight against it.

In this report, I analysed how the delay in implementing the gas commercialisation programme of Nigeria's Federal Government is devastating the environment. I also looked at what it means for the country's electricity sector.

This report analyzed how patches of disparate production disruptions in oil rich Niger Delta region cost Nigeria huge fortunes and estimated what the lost amount could have done for Nigerians.

This second of a two-part investigative report on how poor funding of affected Nigeria's response to COVID-19 focused on how primary healthcare system in Nigeria has been relegated to the background and its implications for the country's rural poor.

This is the first of a two-part investigative report which dived deep into how years of inadequate funding of healthcare affected Nigeria's response to COVID-19.

I examined how hydroponics could help Nigeria out of its unemployment problem.

I wrote how Nigerians relied on fossil fuel generators for electricity during the COVID-19 induced lockdown and its impact on the environment.

This report investigates how years of inadequate funding of the healthcare system in Nigeria is affecting its response to COVID-19.

I wrote on how waste gas flaring in Nigeria's Niger Delta region is affecting the environment and health of locals.

I examined how Nigeria's shaky national grid has forced millions who are working from home due to the coronavirus lockdown in the country to rely on fossil-powered electricity generators.

I wrote this story to bring to the front burner the hassle pupils in far flung communities in Nigeria's southwest go through to attend schools.