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Single-story beige building with a sign reading "Cottage Hospital Shelleng" surrounded by trees and a paved courtyard.

Yahuza BawageApril 3, 2025

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Patients Still Struggling Despite New Medical Facilities in Adamawa’s Rural Communities

Rashida Usman, 39, still remembers the painful memory of one Thursday morning in 2019. She had woken up at dawn…

Silhouette of a woman's head with a brain and heartbeat line, female symbol, and abstract colorful background.

Hauwa Saleh AbubakarMarch 26, 2025

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Beyond the Seizures: How Epilepsy Affects Nigerian Women

Fatima Malumfashi’s life took a dramatic turn when, at just eight years old, she underwent her first exorcism in Sokoto…

Children in uniforms engage in clay modeling outdoors, surrounded by trees and a school building.

Abubakar Muktar AbbaMarch 12, 2025

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A School in North East Nigeria is Helping Children Overcome Insurgency Trauma

The school premises buzz with energy; laughter rings out, pencils glide across paper, and feet stomp rhythmically in dance. Beaming…

A man in a light outfit sits on a bench outside a rustic building, looking at the camera.

Isah IsmailaFebruary 27, 2025

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Post-Injection Paralysis: How ‘Medical Errors’ Left Nigerians Paralysed for Life

Abdulrahman Ibrahim, 32, sits in front of his shop, where he makes shoes, looking out with quiet resilience. His face…

Person in camouflage with a rifle stands in a market street, with cyclists and market stalls in the background under a clear blue sky.

Abubakar Muktar AbbaFebruary 24, 2025

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Scars of War (II): The Young Lives Torn Apart by Boko Haram

When Boko Haram stormed Bama town in Borno, northeastern Nigeria, on Sept. 2, 2014, seven-year-old Rahama Haruna Maibale and five-year-old…

Four young boys stand at a wooden counter. One in army attire has a rifle slung over his back.

Abubakar Muktar AbbaFebruary 21, 2025

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Scars of War (I): Children Caught in Nigeria’s Boko Haram Conflict Battle Trauma

In 2009, 15-year-old Abba Kyari had just finished his final exams for junior secondary school and travelled to Mafoni Ward…

Illustration of soldiers in a village with huts, under a large orange sun and smoky sky.

Adejumo KabirFebruary 17, 2025

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Haunted by War: Nigerian Soldiers Battle Trauma After Fighting Boko Haram

Segun Akogun*, a sergeant in the Nigerian Army, left the war-torn streets of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria,…

Blue and white building of the Senator Mamman B. Ali Maternal & Child Health Complex, with a billboard and flags in the foreground.

Yahuza BawageFebruary 9, 2025

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Yobe’s Multi-Billion Naira Maternity Complex Sits Idle as Mothers Struggle for Care

Months after his inauguration in 2019, Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, initiated the construction of a Maternal and Neonatal…

Person using crutches speaks into a microphone at a podium with NG Youth SDGs and German Embassy logos in the background.

Hauwa Saleh AbubakarFebruary 8, 2025

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Battling Disability Stigma, Nigerian Woman Push for Change Through Social Media

For Pelemo Ava Nyajo, living with a disability began at the age of two when her mother noticed an unusual…

A person sits wrapped in a cloth inside a tent, with their head resting on their knees, conveying a sense of solitude and contemplation.

Hauwa Saleh AbubakarFebruary 5, 2025

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Lost Homes, Lingering Trauma: The Mental Health Crisis Among Nigeria’s Displaced

The first attack on the Mai Ido, a small settlement in Kachia, Kaduna State, northwestern Nigeria, started around 11 a.m.…

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