HumAngle Team
Sub-Editor
Johnstone Kpilaakaa is a journalist reporting from the front lines of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises across Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. His work centres on people caught in cycles of violence and neglect, while holding institutions to account. He is a 2024 MTN Media Innovation Programme Fellow at the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria.
Reporting
Wrapped in a black cloth stained with her own blood, a three-month-old baby in a light green shirt was lowered into a grave beside eight other members of her family. They had all been killed in an overnight attack on Kum, a village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, in North Central Nigeria. …
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The last time Abdullahi Alabi heard from his friend, Oluwafemi Adeyemo, it was a voice note. “I dey Terminus… I sey make I update you,” his friend said in Nigerian Pidgin. He was restocking his foodstuffs at the market, but he never came back. Abdullahi and Oluwafemi had been friends and coursemates since they came …
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It was just past 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, when Allwell Nelson was abducted from her family residence in Dong, a community in Jos North Local Government Area (LGA), Plateau State, North Central Nigeria. She and her niece had just finished bathing and were in their pyjamas, settling down to watch a film …
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Sunday evenings are usually a beehive of commercial activity at Angwan Rukuba Junction, but it turned deadly on March 29, at around 7:45 p.m., when assailants opened fire on people at random in the area, located in Jos North Local Government Area (LGA), Plateau State, in North Central Nigeria. Eyewitnesses gave differing accounts of the …
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The terrorists struck on a day the people of Abande know by heart. Every five days, the settlement in Mbaikyor Ward, Turan district, hosts a market that draws traders from across Benue State, in Nigeria’s North Central, neighbouring Taraba State, and the Republic of Cameroon, which is less than a day’s walk away. Abande Market …
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HumAngle Foundation, a sister organisation of HumAngle Media, has convened 17 peacebuilding actors, including civil society organisations, government institutions, and security agencies, for a two-day multi-stakeholder roundtable on local peacebuilding efforts in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria. The roundtable, supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was held from February 5 to 6 in …
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1. The Making and Unmaking of Abubakar Shekau Abubakar Shekau, a founding leader of the Boko Haram terror group, killed himself with a suicide vest four years ago at his base in Sambisa, during an attack by ISWAP, an offshoot of his group. Through archived materials and interviews with over ten individuals, including former associates, …
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Ruya Auta, the Nigerian police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Rinji Bala on May 13, 2020, has been sentenced to death by hanging or lethal injection. The sentence was delivered at a High Court in Jos, Plateau State, in North Central Nigeria, on Monday, Dec. 8. Ruya was attached to Operation Safe Haven (now …
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Every day, journalists covering conflict and humanitarian issues worldwide navigate significant risks to document the experiences of affected communities. HumAngle, Africa’s leading conflict, humanitarian, and development media organisation, convened community advocacy actors, journalists, media professionals, and stakeholders for the HumAngle Showcase, its annual immersive event, on Saturday, Nov. 29, in Abuja, North Central Nigeria. “By …
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When an X user, who goes by Chibuenyi (Don Machiti), announced that he had obtained “coordinates of [terrorists] hideouts” and published one of them — 6°57′19″ N, 9°20′53″ E — he framed it as part of a broader mission to expose terrorism across Nigeria. Within 72 hours, the post had been viewed more than 530,000 …
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The paths that lead home are now silent. But it wasn’t always like that. Years ago, weekdays in Tse Torkula followed a familiar rhythm for Lydia Nyiev and other residents. She began with morning prayers, helped her daughters-in-law and grandchildren prepare breakfast, and then set out for the farms, several of which she managed, growing …
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Sarah Ishaya doesn’t seem to remember the day the attackers came in 2021, but what she cannot forget is how they almost took the lives of two of her sons. It was around 6 a.m. that they started hearing screams from neighbouring houses, and before she could flee with her family, the attackers were already …
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