Ini Ekott

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Ini Ekott is an editor at Premium Times, Nigeria. He writes about environment, rights issues and governance. He was part of the global team of journalists that reported the Panama Papers, a coverage that won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Women and youth entrepreneurs in Kenya receiving training in clean cooking techniques. Image courtesy of UNDP Kenya.

Clean cooking expands at record pace in Africa, but lags behind population growth

Ini Ekott 20 Jul 2026
Iroro Tanshi and her team members are seen during morphometric data collection in Etankpini village in Odukpani, Cross River State on the 18th of February, 2024

Nigerian bat specialist wins Goldman Prize for community conservation work

Ini Ekott 20 Apr 2026
A stocky man in a white cap and grey and white dashiki holds up a thick manila envelope of documents of his demolished property, red marker announcing its contents. Image courtesy Kemi Adelagun.

Nigeria’s new coastal highway runs over communities & biodiversity hotspots

Ini Ekott 30 Jan 2025
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023

Mountain gorilla reproduction slows with female transfers, study shows

Ini Ekott 24 Nov 2022

In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub

Ini Ekott 4 Mar 2022

Nigeria seeks transnational help to disrupt a still-brisk pangolin trade

Ini Ekott 2 Sep 2021

Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire

Ini Ekott 29 Jun 2021
Camera trap photo of a chimpanzee with mangoes.

Chimps in Sierra Leone adapt to human-impacted habitats, but threats remain

Ini Ekott 10 Jul 2019

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