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August 2, 2025

Losses, Lamentations as Drought Ravages Farming Communities in Taraba

Felix Yupenda depends entirely on his harvests to sustain his family. He is a local farmer in Wukari, Taraba State,…

August 1, 2025

Freedom for Sale

You are at home, preparing for a quiet evening after your night prayers. Life is hard, but at least your…

August 1, 2025

Heaven by Road: Pastor Abraham’s Botched Rapture Could Still End Tragically

That year, the world seemed cursed. Naira was crashing against the dollar, and the price of a 50 kg bag…

Nigeria

The Crisis Room

Salma JumahSalim YunusaJuly 31, 2025
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Nigeria’s Hidden Wars: Reporters Speak from the Ground

On The Crisis Room, we’re following insecurity trends across Nigeria. Nigeria’s security landscape is a complex and multifaceted one. The…
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Features

Usman Abba ZannaJuly 31, 2025
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In Nigeria’s Borno State, The Displaced Trade Shelter for Life

At the Muna Kumburi camp along Dikwa Road in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, displaced families are taking desperate steps to survive. …
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Armed Violence

Ahmad SalkidaJuly 28, 2025
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Weaponised Identity: From Dreadlocks to Dialects, How Profiling Threatens Lives in Nigeria

“I wear a niqab and a full jilbab. People often tell me that I am oppressed,” says Hajja Gana, a…
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News

Saduwo BanyawaJuly 27, 2025
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At Least 8 Dead and Many Missing in Devastating Yola Flood in Nigeria

Heavy rains have swept through Yola, the Adamawa State capital in northeastern Nigeria, causing a devastating flood that residents have…
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Analyses

Azara TswanyaJuly 27, 2025
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Nigeria’s Mental Health Act and the Struggle for Implementation

A lunatic. An idiot. A person of unsound mind. These three phrases were used in The Nigerian Lunacy Ordinance of…
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Humanitarian Crises

Abdulkareem HarunaJuly 25, 2025
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Conflicting Warnings Issued as Overfilled Alau Dam Releases Water, Sparks Panic

Residents of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, North East Nigeria, who live near the Alau Dam and its downstream channel,…
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Featured

Saduwo BanyawaJuly 22, 2025
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Aid Draught, Stolen Supplements: The Child Malnutrition Crisis in Nigeria’s Adamawa State

It is July 18, around 7 a.m., and a group of women carrying malnourished children are gathered at the primary…
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Features

Saduwo BanyawaJuly 19, 2025
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The Adamawa Children Leaving School for Labour

*Alfred Silas just turned 18. He has been in commercial farming for five years. Working on people’s farms for daily…
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Features

Labbo AbdullahiJuly 18, 2025
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When Herding Means Death: Northwest Nigeria’s Farmers Trapped Between Fight and Flight

Late one fateful evening, Malam Muhammadu Sodangi of Tuwon Tsoro watched helplessly as armed raiders made off with the cattle,…
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Analyses

Ibrahim AdeyemiJuly 17, 2025
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Miscarriage, Childbirth in Jail: The Failure of Nigeria’s Criminal Justice System

She lost her pregnancy in prison in what she describes as “a miscarriage of justice”. The experience Ayodele Bukunmi had…
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Featured

Damilola AyeniJuly 16, 2025
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Secrets, Silence, Survival: Inside a Nigerian Military Prison

No one recalls the road to Wawa. New detainees are blindfolded several kilometres ahead. Inmates are also blindfolded and driven…
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Analyses

Ahmad SalkidaJuly 15, 2025
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Nigeria’s Policing Crisis: A Role Lost to the Military

From camps in Borno to street corners in Jos or online forums in Lagos, Nigerians are asking the same question:…
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Extremism

Aliyu DahiruJuly 14, 2025
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Maitatsine: The Preacher of Fire (1927 – 1980)

It begins with the memory of smoke. Hadiza Yahaya, now in her late 70s, folds her shawl over her shoulders…
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Accountability

Hauwa Shaffii NuhuAhmad SalkidaDamilola AyeniIbrahim AdeyemiJuly 13, 2025
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Nigeria’s Former President Buhari Dies: What His Legacy Means for Security

In December 2014, an incumbent president lost a re-election bid for the first time in Nigeria’s history. It was a…
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Featured

Labbo AbdullahiJuly 10, 2025
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The Silent Exodus from Sabon Birni in North West Nigeria

Since late 2019, families fleeing relentless violence in eastern Sokoto in Nigeria’s northwestern region have poured into the Guidan Roumdji…
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