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    September 18, 2023

    Into The Abyss Of Deaths, Burials, And Missing People In Nigeria’s War On Terror

    Where must this story begin?  That Saturday morning in March 2013, when Adamu Sa’adu set out for his tailoring shop…
    September 18, 2023

    Finding Nigeria’s Forgotten Mass Graves Through Satellite Data

    There are more than 25,000 missing people in Nigeria, more than in any other country on the African continent. Many…
    September 7, 2023

    Nigerian Resettled Community Still Crossing To Cameroon For Basic Amenities One Year After

    Falmata Mala was six months pregnant when the news she had been waiting so long for arrived. The place she…
    August 16, 2023

    Gold, Livestock And Bikes: How Abductees Paid Ransoms During Nigeria’s Cash Crunch

    First, he froze in terror, then he blacked out.  Aliyu Sani, 45, woke up in a filthy camp in the…
    June 30, 2023

    Highway Extortion By Security Agents In Borno Gulping Millions Yearly, Affecting Lives

    The whirring from a vulcaniser at the Bama motor park in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, could hardly be ignored. Passengers gradually…
    April 13, 2023

    Nigeria’s Notorious SARS Unit Is Dead, But Its Atrocities Live On

    Rasheed Balogun was heading to the market to support his mother at her fish store in the Ajah area of…
    April 7, 2023

    Kaduna Shia Protest Killings: Families Mourn Death Of Six Young Men

    Hajara Shittu had a premonition that day that her son would not return home alive.  This chilling feeling settled in…
    February 21, 2023

    The Ghost Town Of Bagana

    Bagana, a once thriving market town in Kogi State, north central Nigeria, is a ghostly shell of what it once…
    January 22, 2023

    The Hadejia IDPs: Heartbreak And Hope In A Land Of Strangers

    It was a day like any other; the sun shone and birds chirped. Then the sound of gunfire shattered the…
    December 16, 2022

    How Many Teachers Does It Take To Run A School? The Answer May Surprise You

    One thing so unavoidably distinct about the head teacher’s office, is the plastic furniture stacked against the walls of the…

    Investigation

      November 21, 2022

      The Schoolgirls Of Birnin-Yauri: Living Through The Pains Of Captivity

      “Mama, please help us. We are tired of this forest! We want to go home! By Allah, we are in…
      November 8, 2022

      Lost Homes And Herds: The Anguish Of Nigeria’s Arab Community

      A herd of cattle was out in the field one afternoon when Boko Haram insurgents stormed the area and fired…
      October 24, 2022

      Caught In the Floods: Tales Of Residents Affected In Nigeria’s Delta State

      Madame Christiana sits to count her losses. She recently woke up to a flooded compound. Naturally, that meant flooded farmlands…
      October 14, 2022

      Ebonyi Residents Homeless, In Despair After Losing Lands To Airport Project

      Nwebo Friday, 29, had just returned from the site where he worked as a labourer when our reporter got to…
      October 4, 2022

      Reforming Children Through Isolation And Brutality: Kaduna Borstal’s Harsh Methods

      There was the fact that he stopped attending class at his secondary school and preferred to pass the time by…
      September 16, 2022

      Bayelsa’s Boat-Riding Kidnappers And Towns Facing Abandonment

      One evening in 2013, as Dauglas Augusta Apaga, 59, was preparing to close her shop at the Ogbia Town market,…
      September 4, 2022

      A Triad Of Nightmares Shadows Farmers Surviving The Boko Haram Crisis

      Sometimes the cost of working on a farm in Borno could be as simple as struggling to source agricultural resources…
      August 29, 2022

      The Day ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops Became Murderous In Nigeria’s Cross River Community

      Isoko Eta, 42, sat quietly in front of his burnt house. He had just swept the surroundings of his late…
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