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Armed Violence
Delta–Edo’s Deadly Highway: Between Kidnappers and Vigilantes
An invitation to a wedding ceremony in Lokoja set one traveller on a perilous road. He had been asked to…
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Fire Ravages 300 Houses in Kinshasa, Leaves Many Displaced
“We do not know what to do right now. We do not even have water to drink or bathe with.…
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Features
South East Nigeria Still Reels from Nnamdi Kanu’s Incarceration
Most communities in southeastern Nigeria fall silent every Monday. Markets that once buzzed with commerce stand empty, schools that nurtured…
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Why Saturdays Terrify a Delta Community
On the fringes of Okpanam in Delta State, South South Nigeria, there was once a place known simply as “Fulani…
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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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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
Blockage of Biafra Memory Websites Highlights Disturbing Pattern in Nigeria
She did not know her mother was a Biafran refugee until she was about 18 years old. They were watching…
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Analyses
Nigeria’s Governance Gap Widens as Ungoverned Areas Multiply
The spate of insecurity in Nigeria is turning many local communities into ungovernable spaces. As the secular government withdraws from…
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Features
Massacres in Border Communities Ignite New Terror Wave in Benue State
Doowuese Kohol*, a woman in her 70s, was fast asleep on the night of Saturday, June 13, after what she…
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Features
Displaced Families in Benue Risk Everything to Bury Their Loved Ones
At dawn, a small convoy snakes through Kwande, Benue State’s dusty backroads in North-central Nigeria. A police siren pierces the…
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