Features
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‘I Prefer Life With My Boko Haram Husband’: A Conflicted IDP’s Experience
Aminata, 20, escaped from Boko Haram’s captivity in 2015 with seven other female abductees. At the time, she had no…
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Female Hawkers In Abuja Risk Task Force’s Wrath To Avoid Hunger
Standing at a corner of the popular Wuse-Berger Park, a group of women selling cold, soft drinks, are beckoning on…
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The Polarised City (1): How 2 Jos Communities Struggle To Unite After Years Of Crises
Life was good for Mary Monday until she lost her husband in 2008, her home in 2010, and her son…
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IDP Diaries: “Fetching Firewood Might Kill Us But We Need The Extra Income”
When some of us go to the bush to fetch firewood, the rest stay home and pray. We know they…
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As Climate Change Hits Nigeria, Small Scale Women Farmers Count Losses
Godwin Susan and Isah Arah Zainab are thousands of miles apart − the former is in Nasarawa State, Northcentral Nigeria,…
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Guzamala: Nigeria’s Captured L.G.A. Where Non-State Actors Still Rule
There are 774 local government areas in Nigeria. One of them is totally under the control of non-state actors. Over…
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Sex For Survival: Displaced, Orphaned, Underage… But Still Has To Fend For Herself
Fatima was 11 years old when she started to carry all of the world’s imaginable weight for one person on…
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IDP Diaries: “We Need More Food, Not Relocation To Our Homes”
I don’t want to go back home, at least not now. It is not because I love this place so…
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Orphans, Vulnerable Children, Struggle With Nigerian Systems, Family Rejection
Shade* dreams of meeting her mother. At night, she imagines an oval-faced woman with lots of hair who looks like…
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Maiduguri Residents Troubled, Experts Rack Brains As ISWAP Again Sabotages Power Supply
The Islamic State in West Africa Province’s series of attacks on electricity towers that supply power to Maiduguri has continued…
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