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News
BBC Journalist Abducted In Restive Cameroon Anglophone Region
Frederick Takang, a correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was early Thursday, May 26, abducted by an unidentified armed…
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Displacement & Migration
Over 500 Cameroonian Refugees Crossed To Nigeria In April – UNHCR
Reports by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) indicate that over 500 Cameroonian women, men, and children have arrived in Nigeria…
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Armed Violence
Locals Stand To Gain As Lake Chad’s Military Alliance Steps Up War Against Insurgents
The Lake Chad countries’ Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) is making inroads as ground and amphibious forces backed by air…
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Human Rights
Nigerian Soldiers Open Fire, Disperse Students Protesting Academic Strike
A protest by some Nigerian students against the protracted strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)…
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Analyses
Indigent Nigerians Rot In Prison As Legal Aid Council Fails To Fulfil Mandate
Adeyeye Olawale has spent three years at Agodi Prison in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria. He has no hope of being…
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Analyses
In Nigeria, Delay In Getting Court Judgements Fuels Human Rights Abuse
Nurudeen Oyedeji, 33, was sentenced to death by hanging by an Osun State High Court in Osogbo, Southwest Nigeria, in…
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Features
A Visually Impaired Nigerian Is Training Others To Use Gadgets With Ease
One Friday in 2020, Miriam Agbenu Oyinu, 26, woke up to a blanket of white dominating her sight at a…
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Gender & SGBV
Nigeria Records 335 SGBV Cases From January To April 2022
About 335 persons have experienced different forms of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the first four months of 2022…
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Features
Displaced And Neglected (3): ‘No Water, No Toilet Facilities,’ Lagos Monkey Village Evictees Cry Out
As the sun rose, three-year-old Taiwo ambled towards his parents’ shack in a slum at Odeniran, a community in Lagos,…
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Features
Banking Made Easy … But Not For People With Disabilities In West Africa
Ibrahim Omotosho, 39, drove into a bank in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria, in July 2020 to pick up his debit card.…
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