Ibrahim Adeyemi

Ibrahim Adeyemi is an enterprise journalist covering humanitarian crises in Africa. A deputy investigations editor with the Nigerian newspaper HumAngle, he has over seven years of experience reporting conflicts, terrorism, and environmental crimes.

He is the author of Merchants of Terror, a three-part series that uncovered the finance schemes of Nigeria’s ravaging terrorists. The series exposed how state taxes end up in the pockets of terror groups and how citizens in the war zones are enslaved and tortured by the invading militants.

In 2023, he uncovered how a multi-million-dollar seaport project hurts the marine biodiversity of many coastal communities in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital. The investigation sparked conversations among stakeholders and environmentalists who urged authorities to prioritize the safe living of the people.

While his works have tackled criminality and injustice, they have also earned him both local and international journalism accolades, including the One World Media Award, the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award, the Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Reporting, and the Kwame Karikari Fact-checking Award for African journalists.

He graduated from Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto, Nigeria, with a degree in English Language.