Femke van Zeijl

Han­ny Heuvelink fears this year’s en­er­gy bill as she vis­its four su­per­mar­kets to find the cheap­est sta­ples.

In­side a Niger­ian hos­pi­tal ward treat­ing Las­sa, a virus that in­fects 100,000 – 300,000 peo­ple in West Africa every year.

Al Jazeera meets three host fam­i­lies to see how they’ve opened their homes to fel­low Nige­ri­ans flee­ing from Boko Haram.

Who is the Oba of Benin King­dom in Nige­ria and why is he so im­por­tant to so many peo­ple?

In a coun­try where court cas­es of­ten last 10 years and many sus­pects lan­guish in jails, could me­di­a­tion be a so­lu­tion?

Ibadan was once the hub of Nige­ria’s film in­dus­try, but its cin­e­mas have now been turned into church­es and malls.

With the women who are chal­leng­ing so­ci­ety’s ex­pec­ta­tions and mak­ing the in­dus­try thrive.

The sto­ry of Balara­ba Ra­mat Yakubu, the woman giv­ing Mus­lim Niger­ian women a voice in fic­tion.

Re­mem­ber­ing the 27-year-old vic­tim of a Boko Haram at­tack – and the many name­less, face­less Nige­ri­ans like him.

Res­i­dents of the north­east­ern city Yola re­call the most re­cent bomb­ing and ask if any­where is safe from Boko Haram.