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Ekpali Saint

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As seen in: BBC, BBC Afrique, El País, Al Jazeera English, Miami Herald, The Epoch Times, The Sacramento Bee, Premium Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, AllAfrica and
Covers:  Environment, religion, health, and other development issues.
Freelance journalist| Words: @AJEnglish, @fairplanet, @africaarguments, @americamag, @EpochTimes, @TheICIR,etc.E: ekpalijoseph@gmail.com

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Ekpali Saint is a Nigeria based freelance journalist who reports on environment, religion, health, and other development issues.

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Sexually Abused Women Are Running To This 'Secret Safe House' For Healing

Sexually Abused Women Are Running To This 'Secret Safe House' For Healing

IBADAN, OYO: What would become the beginning of years of depression and repeated attempts to end her own life…

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The 'Hospitals For Humanity' Where Nigerian Children With Heart Disease Get Free Surgeries

The 'Hospitals For Humanity' Where Nigerian Children With Heart Disease Get Free Surgeries

UYO, AKWA IBOM: Daily, Gift Udoma urinated frequently and experienced extreme hunger, thirst, and fatigue. Sh…

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Inside Nigeria's Home-grown School Feeding Programme

Inside Nigeria's Home-grown School Feeding Programme

Eight-year-old Ebere Onwuachu still remembers the first day coolers of different sizes were rolled into the p…

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For This Nonprofit, Ending Female Genital Mutilation Is A Mission

For This Nonprofit, Ending Female Genital Mutilation Is A Mission

AKWUEKE, ENUGU: Veronica Ugwu was just three weeks old when her parents subjected her to female genital mutil…

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How A Nonprofit's Initiative Helps Villagers Access Healthcare

How A Nonprofit's Initiative Helps Villagers Access Healthcare

NSUKKA, ENUGU: Until December 2019, whenever Emmanuel Eze took ill, he had to take a 30-minute bus ride from …

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How women group constructs road in Abuja community to ease movement

How women group constructs road in Abuja community to ease movement

7mins readBy Ekpali SAINT AT about 5:30 p.m. on Friday of May 2019, Khadijat Yunusa was heading home on a mot…

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THROUGH SUPPORT GROUPS, THIS NGO HELPS NIGERIAN MOTHERS PREVENT MALNUTRITION

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By Ekpali Saint Verified, Ithamar Handelman-Smith, Raze Baziani
| FairPlanet Verified
One Friday morning in May 2026, about 20 women, including pregnant and nursing mothers, sat on mats under a cashew tree at the internally displaced persons camp in the village of Fune in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State.
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The unshakable faith of Ms. Rachel

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By John Grosso, Ekpali Saint Verified, Justin McLellan Verified
| National Catholic Reporter Verified
I'm a parent of young children, and there are some shows that play on loop in my house: "Bluey," "Sesame Street" or, say, any movie featuring a Disney princess. But none have come close to matching the airtime of "Ms. Rachel" within our walls — so much so that my wife and I have joked that Ms. Rachel is our third parent, deployed into action to face down endless daycare illnesses, long car rides and imminent work deadlines.
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Editorial: Following schism, SSPX leaders must work for unity

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By Ekpali Saint Verified, Justin McLellan Verified
| National Catholic Reporter Verified
Church unity does not mean everyone holding hands singing "Kumbaya." It also doesn't mean pretending a problem doesn't exist. Sometimes it means telling people they are out because they did not abide by the rules. That's what Pope Leo XIV recently did with the Society of St. Pius X, known as SSPX, known for celebrating the Latin Mass and rejecting some of the church's Vatican II reforms.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

To document and unpack issues around the Nigeria's National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme reintroduced in 2016 by the Buhari-led administration

How is social media changing news?

Complex

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Giving people hope by monitoring and covering development or covering how people are responding to social problems