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Adetokunbo Abiola

Lagos, Nigeria
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Covers:  Politics, environment, social justice
Nigerian journalist concerned with intersection between photography and climate change. Photos aren't mine, DM for credit or removal. @pulitzercenter

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Adetokunbo Abiola’s Biography

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Writer for social justice, environmental justice, and politics. Fellow at earthjournalism network, a Pulitzer Centre Grantee.

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African Malaria Vaccine: Why Nigeria must take the lead

African Malaria Vaccine: Why Nigeria must take the lead

By Adetokunbo Abiola | An estimated 229 million cases of malaria existed worldwide in 2019, with deaths stand…

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How Nigerians Suffer from Import-Reducing Measures

How Nigerians Suffer from Import-Reducing Measures

By Adetokunbo Abiola | According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Nigeria is the number one importer of…

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Article Archives - Page 4715 of 10382 - The Mail & Guardian

Article Archives - Page 4715 of 10382 - The Mail & Guardian

All material © Mail & Guardian Online. Material may not be published or reproduced in any form without prior …

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Chat me up - The Mail & Guardian

Chat me up - The Mail & Guardian

As infectious as yellow fever, internet chatrooms are the new Nigerian craze. Students, pastors, politicians,…

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Shoreline Protection Efforts Failing in Nigeria

Shoreline Protection Efforts Failing in Nigeria

Nearly eleven years after an engineering company won the contract to build shoreline defences in the southern…

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Can Pantami survive onslaughts?

Can Pantami survive onslaughts?

By Adetokunbo Abiola | It began as a rumour earlier in the month, when an online newspaper, People Gazette, r…

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This Nigerian health policy is making immunisation more palatable - literally

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By Adetokunbo Abiola
| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
On a Thursday morning in August, the nondescript Iyange Primary Health Centre (PHC), about five kilometres from the heart of Akure, Ondo State in southwest Nigeria, was sizzling with ravishing smells. Swirling among the women waiting on benches, and between the bustling health workers, rose the aroma of cooking bean cakes, soy beans, pepper and tomatoes. It signalled – surprisingly – another immunisation day.
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How a bilharzia treatment drive in Ondo state controlled the parasite and calmed the community

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By Adetokunbo Abiola
| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Agnes Oluwakemi was hawking cucumbers at her local marketplace in Fiwasaye one February morning in 2024, when she got word that the Ondo State Government was planning a mass treatment drive against bilharzia. This was good news, in Oluwakemi’s book. “[Bilharzia] has been causing too much trouble in my family,” she told VaccinesWork. “It causes blood in the stool and in the urine. Many people in our town complain of the disease. When you go to the clinic, people are always there complaining about it.
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Awards

AISI/IICD

2004 - Local Content

Journalism content in support of the information society

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