Hassana Maina

Lawyer | Gender and Development Consultant | Social Entrepreneur | @asviolng |

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

Governor Makinde Calls For Urgent Rescue Of Borno Pupils Abducted On Same Day As Oyo Schoolchildren | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/5rWPhtR0m0

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Journalist Zainab Yabagi Salihu was declared wanted by Nigeria Police Kaduna State Command for a video explainer on Mr. Ibrahim Masari — an aide to President Bola Tinubu.

On 11th September 2026, heavily armed police invaded Kaduna studios of the media organization, and forcefully gained access to the premises, first on the pretext of looking for Zainab Yabagi in connection with a “stolen phone.” During the raid the General Manager Charles Abah and a security personnel were arrested and later detained for over seven hours.

Declaring a journalist wanted for just doing her job is part of alarming pattern of shrinking civic space in Nigeria, where journalists, activists, and human rights defenders increasingly face arbitrary arrest, intimidation, harassment and prosecution and other reprisals for peacefully doing their job.

[Ose Anenih, CPM @ose_anenih]

Apart from the area were bandits have been holding children for more than 4 months? Or inclusive of that area?

[Hassana Maina @hassana_maina]

@mustysambo_ @YoungHajiya @atikumjafar @ibraheemsenior @Aasajoh @haleemmah_katun 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gaskiya mun yi iya shege. Fun times

[Geekay @gkbalogs]

NO! Your business will not run without you, the 'Motivational Business Coaches' lied to you. Even Dangote's business is not running without him, besides you are not Dangote.

Yes, you can leverage the right team to drive the business but trust me you will lead it from the front.

[Sifiso Nxumalo @LishumiNakubili]

Be careful of inheriting the social obsession with finding what is wrong with everything. There is always something to indict, something to resent, something to rage against. But if your eyes are permanently trained on what is broken, you eventually become broken yourself.

[Tory🫧💕 @ayanfe2k]

I have a deep respect for people's privacy. I can be very close to someone for years and still not know everything about them, and I never feel the need to ask. And It's not like I don't care. I believe that if someone hasn't chosen to share something, it isn't my place to ask!!

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

“Üstün ırk yoktur.
'Tanrı'nın seçilmiş halkı' yoktur.
Bu ne ABD ne de İsrail'dir.
'Tanrı'nın seçilmiş halkı' tüm insanlıktır.”
— Kolombiya Cumhurbaşkanı Gustavo Petro

[Mercy @AbangMercy]

Look at that fit, Nigerian women are gorgeously beautiful . Why did women stop dressing in cultural attire that reveals the knees ? Anyways, I will keep doing it to represent the lost culture

[Ahmad Salkida @A_Salkida]

As Nigeria sets up another investigative panel, this time to examine the deaths of 37 young miners inside a dehumanising NSCDC cell in Niger State, history demands scepticism.

Here are ten major tragedies that produced commissions of inquiry, investigative panels, fact-finding committees or military boards, but no accountability proportionate to the crimes:

• Jos killings, 2001. Justice Niki Tobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

• Jos killings, 2008. Justice Bola Ajibola Commission of Inquiry.

• Jos and Dogo Nahawa massacres, 2010. Solomon Lar Presidential Advisory Committee.

• Post-election killings across northern Nigeria, 2011. Sheikh Ahmed Lemu Presidential Committee.

• Baga massacre, 2013. Military, parliamentary and NHRC investigations.

• Chibok schoolgirls’ abduction, 2014. Presidential Fact-Finding Committee.

• Zaria massacre, 2015. Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

• Rann displacement camp bombing, 2017. Military Board of Inquiry.

• Dapchi schoolgirls’ abduction, 2018. Federal Investigative Committee.

• Lekki Toll Gate shootings, 2020. Justice Doris Okuwobi Judicial Panel of Inquiry.

Some reports were withheld. Others were disputed, selectively accepted or abandoned. Recommendations gathered dust. Senior officials escaped responsibility. Victims received neither full truth nor justice.

Nigeria does not lack inquiries. It lacks the political will to publish findings, prosecute those responsible and implement recommendations.

The Niger State investigation must not become another administrative graveyard where public outrage is quietly buried.

[Thomson Foundation @thomfound]

After seven months of research, Hauwa Shaffi Nuhu (@WaasiShaffii) of HumAngle traces how Boko Haram built its army, drawing on interviews with first-generation members of the group and victims, alongside extensive archival research.
https://t.co/P8DJF7DEyg

#YJA2026 @HumAngle_

[Dr Ola Brown @NaijaFlyingDr]

If you attend UNGA without a firm goal/meetings set of priorities, it's the same thing as taking N10m out of your account,arranging it in front of your house and burning it.

Then dancing around the fire.

['Kúnlé 🧩 @KunleAdebajo]

"In Nigeria, reporter Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu spent seven months researching the rise of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram for HumAngle."

/@thomfound Young Journalist Award 2026

Congratulations @WaasiShaffii!!!! 🥳🥳🎊

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

The Nigerian authorities must end the ongoing harrassment and intimidation of JKD Radio/Television by Kaduna state police command which declared the organizations’ radio presenter Zainab Salihu Yabagi wanted over a video explainer on Mr. Ibrahim Masari - a Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

On 11th September 2026, heavily armed police contingent invaded Kaduna studios of the media organization, and forcefully gained access to the premises, first on the pretext of looking for Zainab Yabagi in connection with a “stolen phone.” During the raid the General Manager Charles Abah and a security personnel were arrested and later detained for over seven hours.

It was only days later that police stated that journalist Zainab Yabagi is being hunted over bizarre allegations of criminal conspiracy, defamation and cyberstalking and bullying in connection with Mr. Ibrahim Masari.

Declaring a journalist wanted for just doing her job is part of the alarming pattern of shrinking civic space in Nigeria, where journalists, activists, and human rights defenders increasingly face arbitrary arrest, intimidation, harassment and prosecution and other reprisals for peacefully doing their job.

The Nigeria police must always uphold the due process of law and not become a tool in the hands of politicians by carrying out arbitrary arrest, detention, and other undue restrictions of media freedom and freedom of expression.

President Bola Tinubu’s government must end this disturbing pattern of attacks on the media and arbitrary arrests aimed at intimidating journalists. Journalists and the media must be independent to carry out their work freely, safely and without fear of reprisals.

[Banque mondiale AFR @BM_Afrique]

#IDAworks | @hassana_maina : « Je m'interroge sur les inégalités entre les genres dans l'emploi rémunéré.
J'ai récemment écrit un article sur le prix que les femmes
doivent payer simplement pour être visibles dans l'économie numérique. »
https://t.co/Nioj65CIaD

[Peacock @dawisu]

I came to your house on vacation, and you hosted me for 3wks. Then you told me you were travelling to attend an important community meeting, one that all the leaders, including both of us, had been invited to. You left, while I stayed behind at your home.

So, who am I? 🤔

[Smart Aid Initiative @smartaid_ng]

Know your digital rights. Recognise the risks. Stand against technology facilitated gender based violence.

Saturday’s session with @hassana_maina took our Cohort 1 fellows beyond the screen, exploring how to recognise, respond to, and prevent technology-facilitated gender-based

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Five days into my next undercover investigation, set to be released by @fijnigeria later this week, I sent the picture in Frame 1 to my three-man backroom team. They all laughed at me, one of them remarking I looked “like a fisherman”.

The pictures in frames 2 and 3 are from my 44th day on the field. Nobody was in ebullient mood this time. They all screamed instead. None of them could say it, but I knew I could pass for a mad man on the streets.

Meanwhile, Frame 4 is who I was before I embarked on the project.

It is the first time ever that I’ve given the public a glimpse into the making of an undercover investigation. I do it this time to contextualise public understanding of the physical, material and mental cost of investigative reporting. Behind every daring work of investigation you have read is several weeks, sometimes months, of self-sacrifice by the journalist.

Of higher importance, I do it to remind younger journalists that investigative journalism isn’t the white-collar stardom propeller many seem to think it is; more often than not, it is about getting your hands dirty while still believing this is hands down the best job in the world!

It feels good to be fully back on social media after nearly five months out…

[Dr.KZ🤍 @khadijahzakari_]

The same men policing a widow’s happiness more than a year after her husband’s death are the same men who’d be scouting for a replacement wife before the mourning period was even over. Hypocritical lots!
Demanding from women the restraint they’d never impose on themselves.