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Former Boko Haram Captive Fights Against The Odds To Get An Education
Her birthplace, Bama, holds many bitter memories for Zarah Mohammed. It was there Boko Haram seized her, subjected her to…
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Recurring Fire Disasters In Borno Worsen IDPs’ Troubles
Bintu Ari was known as a cheerful woman who had vowed not to allow even the Boko Haram crisis to…
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Plastic As Tuition: A School In Lagos Is Reducing Waste, Providing Quality Education All At Once
“The best thing to have ever happened to me” was how Onuka Blessing described her ability to pay her children’s…
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Christmas With Terrorists: The Experience Of A Toddler And His Sisters In Kaduna
Baby Emmanuel will likely never remember how he spent Christmas with terrorists in the forests of Kaduna. He’s only a…
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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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