Jennifer Ugwa

Nigeria

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Freelance Journalist|Diverse|Optimist.

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Articles

EU Rules Fail to Stop Dumping of Banned Pesticide

Jan 8, 2025 | fij.ng | Jennifer Ugwa

For Nigerian farmer, Prince Manu, using pesticides is the norm, as it is for almost every farmer he knows. He believes pesticides make farming far easier. However, after his daughter, Beatrice died at the age of 13 from stomach cancer, Manu often wondered whether chemicals used on his farm in Suleja, Niger State, Nigeria, caused her death.
AC Transit riders get to keep bus shelters after Oakland backs off plan to remove them

Dec 13, 2024 | oaklandnorth.net | Jennifer Ugwa

When the winter rains arrive, Oakland public transit riders will find shelter once again at their bus stops. But that’s only because the city’s Transportation Department agreed to postpone a plan to remove 100 bus shelters. Josh Rowan, Transportation Department director, also agreed to work on alternatives with AC Transit.
BART using federal loan to build new police headquarters in Oakland

Dec 5, 2024 | oaklandnorth.net | Jennifer Ugwa |Jose Velazquez

BART is gearing up plans to relocate its Police Department to new headquarters in downtown Oakland in 2026, after receiving a $150 million federal loan to fund construction. BART police are vacating their current headquarters at 800 Madison St. in Oakland to make room for a new BART development project, which will include affordable housing units, shops and parking. The new headquarters will be about a mile away, at 2000 Broadway.
ELECTION DAY COVERAGE: Continuous updates from the polls in Oakland

Nov 5, 2024 | oaklandnorth.net | Ellie Prickett-Morgan |Jennifer Ugwa |Haydee Barahona |Inaara Gangji

While most of the attention on Election Day will focus on Vice President and East Bay native Kamala Harris’ attempt to make history and become the nation’s first woman president, Oakland North will focus on the races that will change the makeup of the Oakland City CouncilFive council seats are up for reelection and only two incumbents are asking voters to return them, which means the council will have at least three fresh faces in January.
2024 ELECTIONS: Continuous updates from the polls in Oakland

Nov 5, 2024 | oaklandnorth.net | Ellie Prickett-Morgan |Jennifer Ugwa |Haydee Barahona |Inaara Gangji

While most of the attention on Election Day will focus on Vice President and East Bay native Kamala Harris’ attempt to make history and become the nation’s first woman president, Oakland North will focus on the races that will change the makeup of the Oakland City CouncilFive council seats are up for reelection and only two incumbents are asking voters to return them, which means the council will have at least three fresh faces in January.
The Pollution 'Caused by Nigeria’s Largest Sugar Refinery'

Sep 18, 2024 | fij.ng | Amos Abba |Jennifer Ugwa

When Philip Evan first suffered a chest pains, he thought it was a one-off symptom that would disappear. During the period, many of his fellow workers who sprayed chemicals on crops grown at the Dangote Sugar Refinery, had also complained of having breathing problems. Deeming the pain a temporary discomfort, Evan brushed it off. “It’s just a part of the job,” he thought. He, however, continued to experience the pain for months, then years.
The Deadly Protest Nigeria’s Top Sugar Refinery Doesn’t Want You to Know About

Sep 17, 2024 | fij.ng | Amos Abba |Jennifer Ugwa

When Gad Jacob jumped on his motorcycle in mid-July 2021, to head home after a shift at Dangote Sugar Refinery, Nigeria’s biggest sugar factory, he had no idea it would be the last time he would be making the journey. As the 26-year-old wound his way through Numan, a sleepy town on the outskirts of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, he encountered a roadblock. Dozens of youths were preparing to protest against the activities of the Dangote Sugar Refinery, the factory where Jacob worked.
Foreign Loan Apps Send Billions Home While Bullying Customers and Violating Nigerian Regulators' Rules

Jan 31, 2024 | fij.ng | Amos Abba |Jennifer Ugwa

Bruno Okere knew very little about loan apps until he was introduced to the world of debt. He never wanted to be in a position where a financial institution would defame him for a loan he took, until his financial fortunes took a hit. “I never want to put up my property as collateral for a loan from a commercial bank because the chances of losing the property are high,” the 36-year-old trader said. Okere runs a struggling real estate company that was at risk of going bankrupt.
From Nigeria to India, Big Tech does little or nothing to curb fake news

Jan 23, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Jennifer Ugwa |Mahima Jain

India-based fact-checker Bharat Nayak monitors over 176 Hindi language WhatsApp groups for a research project he is working on to understand news consumption among Indians. Until a few months ago he worked as founding editor at the Indian digital news and fact-checking site The Logical Indian, overseeing production of fact-checks in the form of text articles, videos and social media posts.
Big tech ‘failing’ to curb fake news in global South

Dec 18, 2023 | scidev.net | Jennifer Ugwa |Mahima Jain

[ABUJA/NEW DELHI] India-based fact-checker Bharat Nayak monitors over 176 Hindi language WhatsApp groups for a research project he is working on to understand news consumption among Indians. Until a few months ago he worked as founding editor at the Indian digital news and fact-checking site The Logical Indian, overseeing production of fact-checks in the form of text articles, videos and social media posts.