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News
Killings and More Killings Turn Plateau Villages to Grave Yards
On Saturday, March 21, two soldiers on routine security monitoring duty did not return to base. They were ambushed, hacked…
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Armed Violence
Boko Haram On The Alert As Chad Prepares Major Response To Military Setbacks
Chad is preparing for what appears to be an all-out assault on insurgents operating in the Lake Chad Basin. A…
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Analyses
Abu Bilal Al-Minuki: The Terrorist Who Died Twice
By the time the announcement that Abu Bilal Al-Minuki was killed reached the outside world, the strike itself was already…
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Investigations
The Making of the Boko Haram Army
On a hauntingly cold night in 2008, a 28-year-old impressionable fan of Mohammed Yusuf sat in the latter’s compound in…
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Analyses
Inside the Nigerian Military’s Quiet Gains Against a Fragmented War
In Nigeria’s North East, the Boko Haram insurgent group once carved out territory and declared a caliphate. In the North…
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Investigations
Ideology, Blood, and War: Rethinking the Origins of Boko Haram
Before he became a fugitive preacher, during which time security officials learned to mutter his name with a foreboding weight,…
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Investigations
In Niger Republic, The Junta’s Peace Is Not Everyone’s Peace
Aichatou often heard of insecurity for most of her life, but never experienced it herself. She had relatives who had…
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Development
Classroom Attendance in Nigeria Still Relies on Paper
At the start of every school day, Martha Ayuba marks the attendance register of her class of about 50 pupils…
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Analyses
Nigeria’s Disharmonised Digital System Leaving Low-Income Farmers Behind
Bala Abubakar rises before dawn, fetching water and checking his irrigation canals. He grew up in Gurin, a community in…
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Human Rights
Nigeria’s New IGP Faces a Legacy of Failed Policing, Human Rights Abuses
When he became Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in 2023, Kayode Egbetokun vowed to fight criminality and insecurity with vim…
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