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Fatima ‘Teema’ Mahmud uploaded a short clip on her Telegram Status that morning; it showed a leaked intimate video involving individuals in northern Nigeria. The time was 8:13 a.m.; minutes later, she uploaded another one and another. By midday, she had uploaded dozens of similar pieces of content. By evening, there were hundreds. Some of […]
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There is almost no landscape across the West African Sahel that cannot be accessed from the back of a motorcycle. That is why terrorists operating in the region prize them so highly. In various terror operations, motorcycles are used not only as vehicles, but as weapons, and even as a form of currency. In April, […]
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At the end of every farming season, farmers across Kwapre, an agrarian community in Hong Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria, come together to mark an annual event. Known for their guinea corn farming, the men in Kwapre take turns harvesting each other’s farms. A date is fixed for each farmer, […]
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In the evening, moments before the United States’ aerial operation in northwestern Nigeria, a helicopter hovered above the perimeters of Gwangwano District, in Sokoto’s Tangaza Local Government Area (LGA). It was Dec. 25, 2025. Residents said helicopters had hovered around in the past, but this one stayed far too long, unsettling the civilians and alerting […]
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We want to tell a single story but follow three separate crises. One began deep in Cross River National Park, where a reporter HumAngle worked with walked into the reserve and found neat rows of cocoa where there should have been rainforest in Nigeria’s South South. Another began hundreds of kilometres in the country’s North […]
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Musbahu Shanono used to love the journey home. There was something about that drive from Lagos to Shanono, something about the way the roads gave him a nostalgic feeling after he passed through Kaduna; those familiar roads filled with the scent of dust and leaves. He would always arrive just before sunset, when neighbours and […]
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Authorities in Sokoto called them a new terrorist group, even though they had existed for more than six years. When they infiltrated the state, helpless and unsuspecting villagers saw them as angels sent down to wipe out rural terrorists. On Nov. 6, the Sokoto government officially announced the existence of the Lakurawa terrorist group, raising […]
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When flooding submerged towns and villages of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in North East Nigeria, a wave of terror gripped the atmosphere. Thousands of houses were buried underwater; the heavy rainfall swallowed people as families lost track of one another. Hundreds of residents lost their homes to the visiting floods taking over the […]
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As far as many residents of southeastern Nigeria are concerned, the vast stretch of interstate borderland between Anambra and Imo state is no man’s land — except for the few who find haven in the area. Some locals call it Mother Valley due to its steep forest terrain. Some have even named parts of it […]
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There is not a lot to find about Dan Ganji on the internet. One might come across a weather forecast or a map pinpointing its coordinates and perhaps discover that it is in Zamfara, northwestern Nigeria, situated at the edge of the Kwiambana forest reserve. Locals familiar with the area suggest it’s a rural community, […]
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria is the most protected place in the country. Priority areas like Asokoro and Maitama are concentrated with security infrastructure to protect the seat of power, particularly around the Aso Presidential Villa, which houses key establishments and the presidential residence with an array of security headquarters and checkpoints that […]
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There are more than 25,000 missing people in Nigeria, more than in any other country on the African continent. Many of them disappeared during the height of the Boko Haram crisis, as the Nigerian army fought to keep the Islamist insurgency, which had infiltrated several northern cities, at bay. During that time, thousands of civilians […]
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