Features
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Sokoto Communities Face Recurring Diseases Over Poor Water Sources
Aminu Aishatu, mother of three, like many other villagers at Dundaye in Sokoto State, Northwest Nigeria has for over 10…
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Scavenging Reignites Hope Of Schooling For Young Boys In Abuja Despite Ban
Nura Kabir carries a gunny sack and moves across affluent neighbourhoods in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja, scouting waste bins for…
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#EndSARS: Families Of Deceased, Wounded Recount Ordeal One Year After Protests
Ayoola Ayedungbe was the first child of his family. His three other siblings saw him as their role model and…
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Displaced By ‘Bandits’ (5): The Different Shades Of Zamfara’s Humanitarian Tragedy
Usman Muhammed and his family were not going to leave their hometown even in the face of severe suffering. There…
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Borno IDPs Relying On Alms Begging For Upkeep Despite Hostility
It was 7 p.m. in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. The rush hours were over and the streets were getting…
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The Nigerian Doctor (8): ‘Being A Health Worker Affects My Mental Health’
Despite having practised for over 10 years as a medical doctor in Nigeria, Okafor Uloma (not real name) is still…
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Insecurity: Telecoms Shutdown Giving Kaduna Residents A Hard Time
An old Mama Umaru* is standing by the roadside somewhere around Barnawa trying to get a bus to Kaduna’s city…
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Borno’s Christian IDPs (3): Finding Their Way Away From Camps
Two women, fiftyish Saratu Yohanna and the much younger Hannatu Yakubu, 34, fled Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA) sometime around…
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Delay In Execution Of Public Toilets Project Threatening Public Health In Enugu
As the sun heats up at melting temperature, James Chinedu experiences a rumble in his bowel. Chinedu knew that the…
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Sit-At-Home (2): Nigerian Police Illegally Detained Residents For Killings By ‘IPOB Militants’
Chigozie Nebo, 14, would have written the last Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for candidates in their final year of…
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