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On a warm afternoon in April 2023, Audu Bala, a 50-year-old commercial driver, gripped the steering wheel of his car tightly while driving from Maiduguri to Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State in northeastern Nigeria. His vehicle, packed with passengers, veered into a collision while he swerved to avoid a pothole on the partially completed highway. The accident was fatal. It left Bala alive but scarred, both physically and emotionally. The other driver didn’t survive.…
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Baba Aji Fariya, an elderly man with a weathered face and tired eyes, gazes down a sandy path leading out of his village, Fariya, in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. His expression is heavy, mirroring the struggles of his community. Over the last two decades, Fariya has grown from a small settlement to a community of over 20,000 residents, fuelled by the arrival of people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. Yet, this growth has not…
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Abubakar Sani wore a blank expression that concealed his mood and made it difficult to discern the stories his eyes could tell. Residing in Gwashi, a village in Bukkuyum Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State, he has witnessed the evolution of terror activities by terrorists currently ravaging Nigeria’s Northwest. At first, he said, the attackers didn’t kill when they came. “They would just shoot into the air and loot stores and shops. Weeks later,…
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