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The Crisis Room
Nigeria’s Hidden Wars: Reporters Speak from the Ground
Nigeria’s Hidden Wars: Reporters Speak from the Gr | RSS.com On The Crisis Room, we’re following insecurity trends across Nigeria.…
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Features
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
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
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
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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Featured
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
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
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
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
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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