Search Results for: Northwest Nigeria
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Features
‘Nowhere to Shit’: Conflict, Flight, and Lagos’s Toilet Crisis
From Zaria to Lagos, Yakubu spent three days. Along the way, he hoped, ate, and even stepped aside to relieve…
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Armed Violence
Recent Homicides in Kano Reveal Gaps in Community Watch and Early Warning Systems
What Bashir Haruna would later remember was only the ordinariness of that cold morning. He had prepared to go out…
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Analyses
America’s War on Terror, Revisited
On December 25, 2025, the United States launched strikes on some specific targets in Sokoto State, northwestern Nigeria. Fired from…
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Featured
Broken Digital Health Systems Push Insured Patients to Pay Out-of-Pocket in Adamawa
Jimmy John had been battling a severe toothache for days. The pain made eating and sleeping almost impossible. Early in…
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Disinformation
Fact-Check: Trending Photos of Nnamdi Kanu in Prison Uniform Are AI-generated
Multiple photos have shown Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in an awkward prison setting,…
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News
Why Terrorists Are Moving Into Kano Villages from Katsina
For years, the commercial hub of Kano stood apart in the insecurity-ravaged northwestern Nigeria. It is a state often spoken…
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Features
The Plastic Collectors of Makoko
As Yusuf collects plastic from the floating streets of Lagos’ Makoko, memories of his wife bring home back to him.…
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News
Mass Abduction at Girls’ Secondary School in Kebbi State
Terrorists have launched an early-morning attack on the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in the Danko Wasagu Local Government…
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Analyses
After Katsina Mosque Attack, Familiar Question Returns: Do Peace Deals Work?
The first call to prayer in Malumfashi, northwestern Nigeria, was barely finished when gunmen stormed the Unguwan Mantau area. It…
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Features
A Woman’s Ordeal with Repeated Kidnapping in Zamfara
The first time they came for her, in May 2023, Lubabatu Ibrahim was preparing to sleep. Terrorists broke into her…
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