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Armed Violence
Insecurity Worsens As Nigeria Records 736 Deaths, Abduction Victims Double In June
Following periods of improvement, the number of deaths recorded in Nigeria as a result of insecurity spiked in June, as…
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Separatist Leader Kills 2 Persons In Northwest Cameroon
An Anglophone separatist ‘General’ in Bamali, a locality in the Ngoketunjia division in Cameroon’s northwest region, has killed two persons.According…
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Analyses
How Civil Wars Start And Lessons For Today’s Nigeria
For decades, social scientists have researched factors which, combined, best predict that a country will experience civil war. Nigeria ticks…
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Armed Violence
As Terror Groups Expand Operations Beyond Nigeria’s Northeast
Many believe Nigeria’s counterinsurgency campaign has contained the terror groups and their cells in the Northeast. However, the swath of…
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Analyses
Nigeria’s ‘Holding Charge’ Policy Affecting Access To Justice
Sikiru Rahman, 24, was arrested by the police in January 2020 while returning from work at Badore, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.…
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Features
Rapid Diagnostic Test Is Helping Nigerians Fight Malaria, But There’s A Problem
When 25-year-old Fatima Lawan started feeling shaky chills accompanied with recurring headaches, she found her way to a pharmaceutical store…
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Analyses
Misinformation May Aggravate Tension As General Elections Approach In Nigeria
There was outrage on Nigerian social media on Thursday, June 23, after a video went viral. The person who recorded…
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News
Anglophone Separatists Kill 27 Cameroonians, 5 Nigerians In Cameroon
At 32 persons, including five Nigerians, were killed on Saturday, June 25, during an attack by Anglophone separatist fighters on…
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Features
Beyond Numbers (I): Distraught Family, Scheduled Wedding … Victims Of Owo Massacre
On Saturday, June 5, John Monogbe left his house for work. Around 6:22 a.m. WAT the next day, he called…
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Analyses
Nigeria’s Deadly History Of Electoral Violence In Five Charts
Nearly all of Nigeria’s general elections since independence have been tainted with the brush strokes of violence. The outrage that…
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