Investigations
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Resettled IDPs In Borno Community Are Crossing To Cameroon For Potable Water
One of the consequences of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is that families get separated across states ‒ and…
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Someone Is Stealing Babies From Displaced Mothers In Northeastern Nigeria
When she first went to the hospital after enduring the first phase of contractions, her back aching so much she…
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Life Under Bridge: The Hard Realities Of Displaced Nigerians In Lagos
Adedokun Olatundun, 65, lost her husband and three of six children to the age-long communal crisis between Offa and Erin-Ile…
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Ikeja Bomb Blast: Buried Hopes And Fresh Wounds 20 Years After
Though the rain had just fallen and a cool breeze passed under the trees, it was not enough to calm…
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Nigeria’s Deradicalisation Programme For Terrorists Has No Place For Women
She has a quiet demeanour about her. Nothing in her stature lets on the power she wields among the other…
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The Drug And Sex Lives Of Boko Haram Terrorists
One hot night in the deep forests of Sambisa, in northeastern Nigeria, shortly after a military airstrike targeted the settlement…
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How Mobile Financial Service Providers Rob Borno IDPs Of Much-Needed Aid
The lack of effective oversight from aid organisations in Northeast Nigeria has made it easy for poor internally displaced persons…
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Banking Made Easy … But Not For People With Disabilities In West Africa
Ibrahim Omotosho, 39, drove into a bank in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria, in July 2020 to pick up his debit card.…
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#DapchiAbduction: The Dapchi Girls’ Dashed Hopes Of Education, Empowerment
Somewhere in Jumbam, a town five kilometres away from Dapchi, northeastern Nigeria, a school stands with broken gates. One end…
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Keeping Up With The Chibok Girls: Chasing Dreams, Battling Discrimination, Dropping Out
Over the course of two days, nine girls converge in a tiny hotel room in Yola. As a group, they…
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