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Surviving Hell (6): From A Harrowing Detention Cell To An Unfamiliar Home
While Baana Alhaji Ali was in detention, the officials at Giwa barracks where he was held would move from cell…
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Kaduna’s Displaced (2): Security Personnel, Others Abandon Homes For Fear Of Terrorists
A policeman, Yohanna Amos (not real name), drove a Peugeot 406 along Juji’s dusty and bumpy road. He was making…
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Contracted Tuberculosis In Military Detention. He’s Out Now, But Still Terribly Ill
Adam Bulama Modu, 25, walks with great difficulty. When he sits, he does so carefully too. Because of a huge,…
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Maiduguri Girl’s Death Raises Concerns About Celebratory Gunfire Accidents
A bereaved family in Maiduguri, capital of Borno in Northeast Nigeria, are still grieving, a week after their daughter was…
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Police Are Conniving With Alleged Rapists To Frustrate Justice For Rape Victims
Susan Innocent* was merely 15 when she was allegedly raped by Pastor McDouglas Omosokpea of the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church…
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Life Tough Under Insurgency For Borno Vegetable Farmers, But They’re Not Giving Up
It was late noon and Yahaya Ibrahim, 31, was racing against time to fill sacks with onions freshly harvested from…
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‘No Longer Able To Sleep’: Scheduled Camp Closure Rattles More IDPs In Borno
It was late afternoon in Maiduguri. The cold wind of the early harmattan had just given way to the sun’s…
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Surviving Hell (5): Women Experience War Differently
A woman, dark-skinned and nose-ringed, sits on an old mat wearing a hijab, as she weaves a threaded needle in…
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Oyo Community School Where Pupils Study In One Class
The enthusiastic pupils of Community Basic School in Saki-West Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, are probably…
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One Death, Many Controversies: Intrigues Trailing Passing Of Premier Academy Student
The death of Keren-Happuch Akpegher, 14-year-old student of Premiere Academy, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has thrown up more controversies and a…
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