F or 47 days, investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo lived as a migrant, travelling from Kano in Nigeria through Zinder, Agadez and Dirkou in Niger, into Al Gatrun, Sabha and Tripoli in Libya, to reveal what Africans endure on the road to Europe. The danger started early in the Sahara. Armed soldiers stopped his truck. He raised his hands in surrender. They searched him and seized his satellite tracker - the device his team used to follow his location every hour. He told them it was a power bank. From that moment, he lost contact with his newsroom and had to hide his phones to keep reporting. Shortly after, his truck was stopped by desert bandits - four men with local guns shouting in the dark. After a long exchange with the traffickers, they were allowed to pass. At the next checkpoint, soldiers who acted like robbers searched small bags for expensive phones. When they were about to find his hidden phones and cash packed inside tea and milk sachets, his driver intervened and told the...

P resident Bola Tinubu has assured investors that his government will keep Nigeria's business environment stable and predictable, as Ogun State signed a major agreement with global logistics giant DP World to build a new deep seaport. The deal was signed in Paris on the sidelines of an investment event, according to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. Governor Dapo Abiodun led the Ogun State delegation, while DP World was represented by its Group Chief Executive Officer, Yuvraj Narayan and senior executives. The agreement covers two major projects, the Gateway Deep Seaport and the Ogun State Blue Marine Special Economic Zone, both to be sited in Ogun Waterside. The Presidency said they are expected to attract over $7 billion in fresh investment and create more than 50,000 direct jobs when fully operational, with thousands more indirect jobs across the value chain. For years, ships coming into Nigeria have had to squeeze int...