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Terrorists Abduct Customs Officer, Women In Separate Attacks On Zamfara Community
An officer with the Nigerian Customs Services and six women have been abducted by terrorists operating in Tsafe Local Government…
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Analyses
Nigeria’s Use Of Airstrikes For Security Operations Puts Civilians At Risk
The Nigerian government is rapidly increasing investment and use of military aircraft to support the growing militarisation of internal security…
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Features
The Divided City (2): How Kaduna’s Warring Badarawa Communities Became Peace Observers
Imam Muhammad Nurayu Ashafa and Reverend James Movel Wuye should have been sworn enemies. But they had met in 1995…
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Analyses
‘Inefficient’ Judicial System; Mob Violence Persists In Nigeria
“Ole, ole!” (thief, thief!) “Stone him!” “Kill him!” The above are sometimes all that need to be screamed in Nigeria…
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Vestiges Of Violence
What’s A Home Compared To Safety?
Communities under Chikun LGA, Northwest Nigeria, are no longer safe. In some settlements across the LGA, empty houses have become…
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Features
Death, Starvation, New Terror Recruits … Aftermath Of Borno’s IDP Resettlement
When Gambo Muhammad, 72, left his hometown of Sidiya Kari in Kala Balge, Northeast Nigeria, he felt he had no…
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Analyses
Nigerian Children Used As ‘House Helps’ Face Life Of Abuse
From his narration, John Akinkunmi (not real name) was trafficked from Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria to work as a house…
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Development
Despite Child’s Rights Act, Violence Against Children Remains Rampant In Northern Nigeria
Giving legal consent to both the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child and the African Charter on the…
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Armed Violence
Russian Mercenaries Abduct Central African Republic Soldier
A soldier of the Central African Republic national army, FACA, was over the weekend abducted by Russian mercenaries while three…
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Armed Violence
ISIS Leader ‘Taken Off The Battlefield,’ Says Biden
The U.S. President, Joe Biden, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, confirmed the killing of Islamic State leader, Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, in…
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