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Closure Of Borno IDP Camps Forcing More Children Out Of School
Young Bintu Yarima’s education came to a halt nine years ago when Boko Haram occupied her hometown, a place called…
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Soldiers Making Millions From Unlawfully Seized Farmlands In Nigeria’s North East
Yidhe Raymond fled her home in Pulka after a terror attack in 2014 that took her husband’s life. She also…
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Locals Forced Into Unusual Tasks To Meet Boko Haram Taxations In Northeastern Nigeria
“I had to choose between farming or not,” said Abba Gana, a farmer from Konduga, Borno State, in North East…
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Into The Abyss Of Deaths, Burials, And Missing People In Nigeria’s War On Terror
Where must this story begin? That Saturday morning in March 2013, when Adamu Sa’adu set out for his tailoring shop…
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Kirawa: A Borno Community Expected Rain, But Bullets Fell Instead
Kirawa residents were expecting rain on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, when, guns blazing, Boko Haram stormed their town. It was…
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The Price Of Being Fulani In Northwestern Nigeria
On a sweltering Wednesday morning in April, a death sentence was served on five young Fulani men. It was summarily…
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Cost Of Living Crisis: Fuel Subsidy Removal Deepens Poverty For Nigeria’s Urban Poor
By his own account, life had been alright for taxi driver Kasali Ogundele. But now, suddenly, he’s approaching his old…
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Boko Haram Terrorists Demand Smaller Ransoms, Victims Say It’s Because They’re Desperate
At dawn, a sense of dread envelops Muna, a makeshift displacement camp for victims of the Boko Haram insurgency, located…
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Cost Of Living Crisis: Nigerian Farm Labourers Suffer As Food Prices Rocket
As soon as he woke, Sanda Ali saw it was overcast and rain was coming …at last! He grabbed his…
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Nigeria’s Displaced People Wasting Away Outside The Fold Of Humanitarian Support
Everywhere was quiet at the Shuwari Five displacement camp in northeast Nigeria, except under the tree where Aliyu Usman and…
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