Madam Hannatu had a beautiful life before everything fell apart. There were the afternoon, evening and night lessons she loved at the Women’s Teacher’s College in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. This experience was made even more memorable with the mix of foreign and local teachers like Master Abraham Opare, her Ghanaian English tutor nicknamed […]
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It was a sunny afternoon in Ikeja, the seat of power in Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, when HumAngle visited Chima Francis Osuji. Osuji, 37, a legal practitioner with two children, said responsibilities and the environment made him leave his family in Ilorin, Kwara State capital in North-central Nigeria, while he works in Lagos. […]
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Recent GIS data has revealed that several areas in Lagos are at great risk of deaths and economic losses due to poor air quality. The GIS data reviewed by HumAngle shows that the places closest to the central part of Lagos have the poorest air quality due to the highest levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) […]
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Pompeii, the ancient (Roman) Italian city, was a hub of trading activities. Blessed with good soil, Pompeii farmed and feasted; close to the ocean, the city fished and dined. A trading route for the Roman empire, businesses flourished in Pompeii like Lions in a jungle of Antelopes. But Pompeii soon descended into the darkness that […]
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Once a vast shrubland known for its distinct biodiversity, Sambisa forest has become synonymous with Boko Haram and the centre of gravity of the recent wave of mass terrorist defection. Located in the southwestern part of Chad Basin National Park and close to the Mandara mountain range in Northeast Nigeria, the forest and the adjoining […]
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Changing climates are having serious environmental impacts across different parts of the world, and Maiduguri in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, is not exempted from this. Currently faced with a 12-year-old insurgency with its ever-changing dynamics, resource access has become far more limited in the state capital than ever before. The insurgency, which has displaced millions […]
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Between May 2013 and September 2014, several villages in Bama Local Government Area (LGA), Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, were repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram terrorists, who effectively crippled it. In 2015, the Nigerian Army entered Bama, sending the terrorists running, and reclaimed it for Nigeria. But for the people caught in the crossfire, their lives […]
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