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Election Security
Nigeria Records Spike In Election Violence Weeks To National Polls
One in every 13 civilians killed in Nigeria last month was either a politician or someone who lost their life…
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Displacement & Migration
Bayelsa Residents Live In Crowded Classrooms After Losing Homes To Flood
For three weeks in October, Tuboulayefa Zige had to squat at Yenegwe Secondary School in Bayelsa, South-south Nigeria, following the…
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Humanitarian Crises
Caught In the Floods: Tales Of Residents Affected In Nigeria’s Delta State
Madame Christiana sits to count her losses. She recently woke up to a flooded compound. Naturally, that meant flooded farmlands…
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Human Rights
The Day ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops Became Murderous In Nigeria’s Cross River Community
Isoko Eta, 42, sat quietly in front of his burnt house. He had just swept the surroundings of his late…
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Analyses
Military Reprisals On Civilians Worsening Human Rights Abuse In Nigeria
Soldiers of the Nigerian Army on Sunday, June 26, killed a yet-to-be ascertained number of civilians in the Nko community…
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Analyses
How Hate Speeches By Politicians, Others Lead To Election Violence In Nigeria
In Aug. 2020, just as the South-South state of Edo state was gearing for its gubernatorial elections, Joseph Ihama, a…
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Features
Beyond Numbers (II): Passionate Teacher, Ambitious Students … Victims Of Owo Massacre
Akinyemi Emmanuel looked like a man searching for answers. His eyes were red and slightly swollen. His face, overcome with…
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Human Rights
Yakurr Communal Clash: Soldiers Kill, Displace Residents In Retaliatory Attack
Esther Offem, 30, has been in a state of despair since the death of her 70-year-old father, Okoi Offem. Offem…
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Development
Nigeria Disease Control Agency Issues Warning Over Monkeypox
The viral infection, Monkeypox (MPX), is currently ravaging European countries, causing health safety concerns across the world, including in Nigeria,…
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Analyses
The Implications Of IPOB’s Sit-At-Home Order Spreading To South-South Nigeria
In July 2021, Edwin Clark, a prominent political leader in South-South Nigeria, had empathised with members of the proscribed Indigenous…
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Armed Violence
Residents Panic As IPOB Sit-At-Home Curfew Spreads To South-South
Fears are rife in Asaba metropolis in Delta State as the controversial sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of…
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Humanitarian Crises
Lassa Fever: Not Only A Neglected Disease But Neglected Patients Too – MSF
Misdiagnosis of Lassa fever in patients, and stigma arising from diagnosis, hinder efforts to contain the disease in Nigeria, Doctors…
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Features
Solar Powered Phototherapy Unit Reducing Neonatal Mortality In Nigeria, Suffers Slow Adoption
The bliss of motherhood would come to a sudden halt when Kafilat’s obstetrician brings news of high levels of bilirubin…
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Analyses
Reign Of Impunity: Nigeria’s Security Forces Torturing Suspects To Death
Although a signatory to the ‘United Nations Treaty Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’, adopted…
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Armed Violence
Volunteer Group Arrests Fake Soldier In South-South Nigeria
A fake military personnel, Sunday James, has been arrested and handed over to the police for impersonating and parading himself…
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