Ogaga Ifowodo: The Poet Who Asked God a Difficult Question Wins NLNG Poetry Prize 2026
In Ogaga Ifowodo’s prize-winning collection, violence in Nigeria gets a voice — and the divine gets interrogated.
In Ogaga Ifowodo’s prize-winning collection, violence in Nigeria gets a voice — and the divine gets interrogated.
Lagos promised opportunity. The air had other plans.
A LightRay Environmental Feature Spotlight
On jollof, genocide, and what it means to be a moving antenna.
A Literary Spotlight by LightRay!
Ejiro Umukoro’s true-crime inspired novel, which won the 2025 TYB Prize, ended with justice for its protagonist. The same fate was delivered by a Delta State court to the men convicted of murdering A+ student Elozino Oge.
By LightRay! Education Desk
By LightRay! Education Desk
A LightRay! Literary Spotlight
At a Lagos lecture honoring Wole Soyinka, a professor dropped a hard truth: Nigeria’s journalism crisis isn’t in newsrooms. It starts in classrooms — and in a civic space quietly closing.
Oluwaseyi Elizabeth Jimoh reports for LightRay! Media
. . . A LightRay! Media Editorial
“Water no get enemy.”
In 1975, Fela Anikulapo Kuti turned an old Yoruba saying into a groove. Water is life’s first necessity, the proverb goes. No one in their right mind picks a fight with it.
However, in 2026, it seems Nigerians have forgotten that powerful adage. In this special Investigative spotlight, we uncover the water saboteurs.