Draft:Beevan Magoni

Beevan "SickForces" Magoni is a Nigerian street reporting journalist and activist whose investigative journalistic works cover the crises happening around Southern Kaduna, a region of Kaduna State of Nigeria, which had been under the radar of Fulani extremists over the decades. In December 2022, Magoni produced a documentary titled, “Southern Kaduna: Blood, Tears & Anger,” in which he related the violent happenings in Southern Kaduna to the origins of the attacks by the murderous elements and how those attacks impact the general population of the area.

Activism
Magoni's activism grew more intense after the murder of his niece in an attack meted on his village Gan, in Kanai district of Atyapland, on August 6, 2020. About a week later, he staged a protest in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on August 15, at the Unity Fountain and the US Embassy, with attendees composed of youths of Southern Kaduna origin, well-wishers, activists and journalists from other parts of Nigeria.

In March 2021, his aged father got arrested and harassed by men of the Nigerian Army in his home after an all-women peaceful protest in the village against the military, in which a widow, Mama Naomi John, got shot and killed by the soldiers. Magoni would on the next day narrate to the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) saying, "“They entered my father’s house yesterday and tossed it upside down. The oldest man in my family, who is almost 80 years old, was arrested and harassed by soldiers.”"

In March 2022, he shared with a VOA correspondent, Timothy Obiezu, after the kidnap of over 900 passengers and the killing of an official in a Kaduna-bound train coming from Abuja in which the attackers derailed the railway line with explosives, saying, "'People are being killed on a daily basis. How many times have you seen that bandits have been arrested? We're tired of being killed, we're tired of everything, this is frustrating'."