Johnstone Kpilaakaa is a Nigerian journalist reporting on conflict and humanitarian issues across Africa. He serves as Sub-Editor and Head of Standards at HumAngle and also volunteers as an editorial mentor at Joey Off-Air.
After years of rejection, Solomon Kershima Yateghtegh finally earned a place on the Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2025, spending weeks studying business at the University of Iowa. Now back home in Benue State, he is more determined than ever to continue his work of building a tech ecosystem in one of Nigeria’s most overlooked regions.
In his memoir Motion, Lengdung Tungchamma reflects on a life transformed by books, his community–Jenta, a stranger’s advice, surviving the famous 2001 Jos crisis, and the courage to rewrite his future.
A delayed prosthetics shipment turned into a divine detour. What began as a medical mission in Nigeria became a Christian movement to confront false doctrine, care for the vulnerable, and spark gospel renewal across the country.
The science laboratories at Saint Aquinas College in Akure, Ondo State, once a neglected and dimly lit space with broken furniture and peeling walls, has been revitalised into a state-of-the-art facility thanks to the intervention of the MTN Foundation.
In 2022, Victor Bello, a young Christian inspired by a long-held dream to equip Almajiri children with basic education, founded the Almajiri Scholar Scheme in Nigeria. The program is making a difference for 80 children, but not without challenges.
Three months after the abrupt end of the Code Plateau, PICTDA Director-General Dominic Datong said that issues such as lack documentation, certification processes, and adequate funding, affected the continuity of the tech talent training initiative.
The Mandela Washington Fellow Putting Benue on Nigeria’s Tech and Innovation Map 
Books Set Him in Motion. So He Wrote One. 
Arise and Walk: A Ministry’s Mission to Mend Limbs and Doctrine in Nigeria 
This MTNF’s Initiative is Improving Science Education in Nigeria 
Inside the 11 Years of the Toyin Wiggins Centre for Leadership and Mentoring Initiative 
How 26-year-old Christian turns street Muslim boys to ‘scholars’ 
Exclusive: PICTDA DG Clarifies Stance on Code Plateau & Partnership Status with PPMF