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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, AllAfrica, Fort Worth Star-Telegram 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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How Christians And Muslims Promote Peace In This Refugee Camp

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By Ekpali Saint 
| Religion Unplugged
ABUJA, Nigeria — When Geoffrey Bitrus became the chairman of the Wassa Internally Displaced Persons Camp in 2014, one issue he set out to tackle was the division between Christians and Muslims. At the time, Bitrus said that when people and organizations donated food to the camp, the displaced people would request that the items be immediately divided between Christians and Muslims.
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‘A LIFE OF MISERY’: AFRICANS SEEK REPARATIONS FOR TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE CRIME

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By Ekpali Saint 
| FairPlanet
Matilda McCrear was just two when she was kidnapped in 1860 along with her mother Grace and three sisters by slave traders in present-day Nigeria. They were forced onto Clotilda, the last slave ship to transport Africans to the United States. The ship docked in Alabama in July 1860, more than 50 years after Congress outlawed the transatlantic slave trade in 1808 – though slavery itself was abolished in 1865. The 110 men, women, and children on board were sold to slaveholders.
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La menace cachée qui pèse sur notre eau potable et nos exploitations agricoles

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By Ekpali Saint 
| BBC Afrique
Lire uniquement le texte pour utiliser moins de données Crédit photo, Lena Nian/ BBC Article Information Author, Ekpali Saint Role, BBC Future il y a une heure Temps de lecture: 8 min À La Nouvelle-Orléans, quelqu'un ouvre le robinet d'eau potable, mais l'eau est salée. Au Bangladesh, des agriculteurs sont contraints de transformer des terres autrefois fertiles en bassins d'eau saumâtre pour l'élevage de crevettes. En Gambie, une agricultrice voit ses récoltes dépérir, saturées de sel.
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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

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