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Featured
Women in Maiduguri Turn Waste into Cooking Fuel
September 2024 came with water. It moved through Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s North East, in fast, stubborn currents, destroying homes and…
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Investigations
Ideology, Blood, and War: Rethinking the Origins of Boko Haram
Before he became a fugitive preacher, during which time security officials learned to mutter his name with a foreboding weight,…
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Features
The Adamawa Towns Emptied by Boko Haram Insurgency
At the end of every farming season, farmers across Kwapre, an agrarian community in Hong Local Government Area (LGA) of…
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Features
Illicit Gold Mining Is Fueling Gang Violence in Niger State’s Capital City
For Ike Uche and many others looking to flee the turmoil of gang violence in Niger State, North Central Nigeria,…
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Investigations
In Niger Republic, The Junta’s Peace Is Not Everyone’s Peace
Aichatou often heard of insecurity for most of her life, but never experienced it herself. She had relatives who had…
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Podcast
A Midwife in Captivity
VOV 134: A Midwife in Captivity | RSS.com Adisu Abba is a 45-year-old widow and the mother of five children.…
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Features
Violence Erodes Adamawa’s Farmer-Herder Social Tradition
The year was 1975. On a quiet afternoon in Bare, a farming community in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa…
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Features
Plateau Communities Confront Kidnap-for-Ransom Crisis
It was just past 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, when Allwell Nelson was abducted from her family residence…
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News
What We Know About the March 29 Terror Attack in Jos
Sunday evenings are usually a beehive of commercial activity at Angwan Rukuba Junction, but it turned deadly on March 29,…
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Armed Violence
Beneath the Tracks: The Systemic Failures of the Abuja-Kaduna Train
Panic came last for Mubarak Hassan* on the evening of March 28, 2022. It’s been four years since the terrorist…
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