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There isn’t enough water. The clinic is not functional. And there are frequent terrorist attacks. This is the life internally displaced people have returned to in Ajiri, a small community in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno. But it is not what was promised. The Boko Haram insurgency in the region has led to the displacement […]
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“There,” he said. Hanging beside the driver in a commercial tricycle, Haruna* pointed at the front yard of a house on the east side of the 1000 Housing Estate in Maiduguri. “I gave him the money at this point.” The scene he described happened over ten years ago, in 2014. Two years earlier, Nigerian military […]
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On the last Sunday of June this year, members of an armed separatist group in Nigeria assembled for a Zoom meeting. Meetings like this have been held weekly since January to raise money for the group’s activities. They follow the same routine, starting with Land of the Rising Sun, an anthem adopted by Biafra when […]
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It was midnight. Yasin Dogo, 25, was fast asleep when someone tapped his neck. He opened his eyes, expecting to see his wife or one of his children. Instead, he was staring down the barrel of a gun. Boko Haram terrorists had snuck into the Muna Garage camp for internally displaced persons, looking for people […]
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Key takeaways: ________________________ You, too, can become wealthy overnight. All you have to do is give us a hefty sum to bet on our fixed football matches. Don’t believe us? Then how come we know these many well-kept secrets? How come, sometimes, we are even able to predict the future? Why do so many people […]
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Foreign ministers from the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have stressed their governments’ commitment to strengthening partnerships with Nigeria in peacekeeping, trade, education, sustainable development, and addressing disinformation. The ministers declared this at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, Aug. 13, during a first-of-its-kind joint visit outside Europe. “The Nordic […]
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Aid On The Fringes Of Death | RSS.com In North West Nigeria, where more than a decade-old crisis has claimed the lives of about 20,000 people and displaced no fewer than 600,000 more from their homes, the provision of humanitarian aid often comes with an irreparable price. Sometimes, death or, if you’re lucky, abduction. In […]
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Simon Ekpa, leader of an armed secessionist group agitating to break away from Nigeria, recently shared misleading images meant to discredit the country’s military forces. On Thursday, July 25, he posted a picture on his X/Twitter account of a black Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP), which had been damaged by gunshots. A man wielding […]
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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Chapter I: How it started Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s first democratically elected president in 16 years, had three big worries in 1999: how to keep the military from grabbing power for the umpteenth time, how to rescue the country from the dire depths of debt, and how to […]
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Last year, millions of Nigerians benefited from the International Organization for Migration’s wide range of programmes. In its recently published annual report, the UN-related organisation provided a summary of its activities and key achievements. “In 2023, our policy and programming efforts have been geared towards promoting a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach. This has been crucial […]
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for more support to address medical challenges in northern Nigeria, which are fast worsening and overstretching its resources. In a statement shared with HumAngle on Tuesday, June 4, during a press briefing in Abuja, the medical humanitarian organisation noted that it has recently recorded an “extraordinary increase” in the […]
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What does the data say about the insecurity in Nigeria’s capital city under the new administration? In summary, examining incidents over a long period compels the conclusion that the situation has remained awful—or even worsened. However, if we limit the analysis to incidents within the past six months, we notice a significant improvement. Minister of […]
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