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Power Smart, Water Smart

The Global Rights emblem set in a gold “40”, reading Celebrating 40 Years of Impact, 1978–2018.

POWER SMART, WATER SMART

The documentary explores Nigeria’s impending water crisis and its correlation with its quest to generate 30% of its power from coal, spotlighting examples from Awo Community in Kogi state and Maidegeri community in the Federal Capital Territory. The documentary sequels our earlier documentary: Coal Impact.

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Illustration of a crowd standing in the rain facing the Lekki Toll Gate under a dark sky, holding Nigerian flags, a candle and a placard reading 20.10.2020, with doves overhead and the words “Lest We Forget”.

WAITING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: 20.10.20 — FIVE YEARS ON

Five years later, accountability for this gross crime against Nigeria’s democracy remains elusive. No one has been held responsible for the killings. Instead, Nigeria’s civic space continues to shrink, and the same patterns of state overreach persist.

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A woman in a pale blue hijab standing in a doorway of a stone building with six children gathered around her, one of them held in the arms of an older girl.

Eleven Years and Still Waiting to #BringBackOurGirls

Eleven years later, at least 91 of these 276 girls remain unaccounted for. Many were forcefully married to their captors, some died, and the insecurity that had marked Northeast Nigeria has metastasized and spread across the North-West and North-Central of the country.

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