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Features
A Text Message Is the Bridge Between Peace and Violence in Cross River
On a Sunday evening in March this year, Akiba Ekpeyong, a community leader in Akpap-Okoyong, received a text message that…
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Features
‘Hustling Kingdom’: The Rise of Internet Fraudsters in South-South Nigeria
A young Kelvin carries multiple identities. Today, he’s Kelvin, but that might change tomorrow, depending on the identity game he’s…
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Armed Violence
Peace Initiative Struggles to End Cross River’s Deadly Land Dispute
It was a sombre Thursday afternoon in Alesi, a community in Ikom Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State,…
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Analyses
As Nigeria’s Forests Fall in the South, the Deserts Advance in the North
We want to tell a single story but follow three separate crises. One began deep in Cross River National Park,…
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Featured
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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Features
Amid Soaring Therapy Costs, Nigerians Turn to Religion
On a Tuesday morning, Kaneng Fom’s* mind told her she was going to die. The day had begun normally: Kaneng…
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Features
A Displaced Nigerian Teenager’s Search for Home and Education
She was just seven years old when they were displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.…
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Analyses
Fact-Check: No, an 18-Seater Bus Carrying Passengers Was Not Burned in Nigeria’s North West
A widely shared post on social media claims that an 18-seater bus carrying passengers from the South-east was ambushed and…
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Analyses
Mob Violence Soars in Nigeria as Northern Travellers are Killed in South-South
Several travellers were killed and many others injured in a mob attack by a local vigilante group and residents of…
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Featured
Nigerian Graduates Struggle as JAMB Withholds Admission Validation
Loveth Adam’s future was bright in 2018 when she was admitted to study Anatomy at the Ambrose Ali University (AAU)…
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News
‘Why Investigative Journalist Fisayo Soyombo Was Arrested, Detained’ — Nigerian Army
The military has reacted to reports on the arrest of investigative journalist and founder of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ),…
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News
HumAngle Report Wins Global Journalism Award
An investigation published by HumAngle has won the Kavli Science Awards, organised by the American Association for the Advancement of…
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Election Security
‘Do-Or-Die Affairs’: Tension Builds As Edo State Prepares For Off-Cycle Election
Residents of Edo, South-South Nigeria, are slated, on Sept. 21, to vote for a new governor to take over the…
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News
Nigeria’s Cross River Communities Unite Two Years After Bloody Inter-communal CrisisÂ
After years of bloody tussle over a parcel of land at the boundary – Nko, a community in Yakurr Local…
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Podcast
Surviving The Ambazonia Militant AttackÂ
Ep 114: Surviving The Ambazonia Militant Attack | RSS.com In December 2023, suspected Ambazonian militants attacked the Belegete community in…
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