Climate Reporting Gap Fellows
Manasseh Mbachii
Manasseh Mbachii is an award-winning investigative journalist with Premium Times Nigeria and Team Lead at Nigeria Climate Watch, a nonprofit dedicated to climate and environmental accountability. His work focuses on the intersection of human rights, health, and climate change, using data-driven storytelling to amplify the voices of underserved communities. Through rigorous, ethical reporting, his investigations have uncovered corruption, shaped policy, and inspired government action on climate justice and governance.
ProjectSmallholder farmers in North Central Nigeria face worsening climate impacts while being left out of energy transition debates. This story will uncover how transition politics and finance shape their future, and how local solutions can bridge energy poverty and Nigeria’s food insecurity.
Adesewa Olofinko
Adesewa Olofinko is a Nigerian multimedia journalist and storyteller uncovering underreported narratives that shape Africa. With nearly a decade of experience, her work spans cultural journalism, digital content production, and in-depth features that interrogate gender, history, climate, trade, and governance. Adesewa has reported globally, with her stories featured on leading platforms such as Global Voices and translated into over ten languages.
ProjectBehind the promise of green energy lies a new scramble for Africa’s minerals. This story unpacks Nigeria’s role in the global supply chain and the hidden cost of lithium extraction.
Lami Sadiq
Lami Sadiq is an investigative journalist with over 10 years’ experience. Until recently, she headed the investigation desk for Daily Trust, one of Nigeria’s national dailies. She is a fellow of Report Women; a programme of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, a fellow of the Africa Women Journalism Project (AWJP). She won the 2023 and 2024 Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporter of the year (Print category) for her investigative reports that exposed a black-market trade in kidney, near Nigeria’s Federal Capital territory.
ProjectNigeria’s booming charcoal export trade tells a troubling tale of policy contradictions. Despite policies on deforestation and environmental degradation, the country also promotes trade in charcoal, a primary driver of forest clearing.
Ini Ekott
Ini Ekott is a Nigerian journalist who has reported on corruption, human rights abuses, the economy, and the environment. His work on biodiversity loss, extractive industries, and the blue economy has appeared in Mongabay, Premium Times, Africa in Fact, and Pluboard, where he serves as editor. A former deputy managing editor at Premium Times, Ekott has nearly two decades of journalism experience and has received multiple awards, including the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. He was also a Fetisov Journalism Award finalist.
ProjectNigeria has received billions in climate finance, mostly as loans, which deepens its debt and weakens adaptation. This project follows the money to know who benefits and who’s left behind.
Vivian Chime
Vivian Chime is the Africa energy transition reporter at Climate Home News. Before that, she was head of the climate desk at the TheCable online news service in Nigeria where she pioneered climate change reporting starting in 2021. Her work has received awards including the 2021 International Center for Journalists’ Global Health Crisis Award for COVID-19 reporting, Climate Tracker’s Best Climate Justice Story Award and TheCable’s Journalist of the Year award.
ProjectNigeria wants to become Africa’s solar manufacturing hub and has mooted a ban on solar panel imports to boost local manufacturing. This goal could diversify its economy away from oil, create jobs for youth and deliver a just transition. But China’s dominance and production capacity pose challenges.
Amir Sadiq
As an editor at The Habibat Project, Amir contributes to the editorial strategy on environmental sustainability, climate change, and biodiversity conservation, drawing on his background in reporting, editing, and teaching these topics to African audiences. His work has been featured in outlets like Atlas Obscura, Offrange, and The Open Notebook, and he contributes to Daily Trust, one of Nigeria’s leading dailies. Amir has footprints in social impact, focusing on communication and partnerships for rural communities and volunteerism for local nonprofits working in conservation.
ProjectSystemic distrust among Nigeria’s power sector stakeholders stifles renewable energy growth and worsens energy poverty. This multimedia story will amplify local voices and spotlight transition plan failures.
Fellow Projects
Since 2025, the Climate Reporting Gap Fellows have been working closely with One World Media - the lead convener of this fellowship, along side executive producers to support the fellows in developing individual projects that will be launched at the end of their fellowship in 2026.