The last time Abdullahi Alabi heard from his friend, Oluwafemi Adeyemo, it was a voice note. “I dey Terminus… I sey make I update you,” his friend said in Nigerian Pidgin. He was restocking his foodstuffs at the market, but he never came back. Abdullahi and Oluwafemi had been friends and coursemates since they came […]
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It was just past 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, when Allwell Nelson was abducted from her family residence in Dong, a community in Jos North Local Government Area (LGA), Plateau State, North Central Nigeria. She and her niece had just finished bathing and were in their pyjamas, settling down to watch a film […]
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The man sits up with an air of dignity lacking in many occupants of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, popularly called EYN CAN Centre, in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria. His name is John Gwamma, 53, once a social studies teacher back in Halawa, Bayan Dutse in Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA). It is August 21, […]
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People who incite and promote communal grievances that have killed scores in Plateau State, North-central Nigeria, will face severe consequences, Simon Lalong, the state governor warned in an address on Monday, Aug. 30. The state is experiencing a fresh wave of violence that has killed over 7,000 people since it first broke out in Jos, the […]
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The Special Military Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) has cautioned residents of Plateau State, North-central against taking laws into hands under the guise of self defence in response to the increasing attacks in the state. Ishaku Takwa, the media officer of OPSH in a statement issued in Jos, the state capital, warned that the […]
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A yet-to-be specified number of people were left dead, several injured and houses razed, after an armed gang attacked Naraguta community, in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state, North-central Nigeria. Ubah Ogaba, the police spokesperson in the state who confirmed the attack to HumAngle said that the details of the attack were still […]
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The struggle for resources and political power is arguably at the core of the ethno-religious conflict in Jos, Plateau State, North-central Nigeria. It started mainly in 2001 when a riot erupted between Hausa/Fulani, who are mostly Muslims, and ethnic groups such as Berom, Anaguta, and Afizare, who are predominantly Christians. While other factors like poverty […]
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Simon Lalong, Governor of Plateau State, North-central Nigeria has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in two local government areas of the state after an attack on travellers that led to killing of 23 persons and injuring 23 others on Saturday, Aug. 14. The travelling convoys were attacked on their way back from a religious […]
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At least 17 persons were killed and 85 houses were burnt in recent attacks in two local government areas (LGAs) in Plateau State, North-central Nigeria. Edward Egbuka, the state’s Commissioner of Police, told journalists in a press briefing that the attacks took place in Bassa and Riyom LGAs. Egbuka disclosed that there were attacks in […]
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In Chwelnyap, popularly known as Congo-Russia, Dang Choji witnessed the beginning of bloodshed that would later polarise Jos, an often-cold city in North-central Nigeria. Almost at the same time, in Rukuba, after hearing rumours of trouble, Hamza Uwais dashed out of a mosque where he had just observed the Friday Juma’at prayer, and hopped on […]
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Grace Adebimpe, the abducted University of Jos Professor and her husband have regained freedom from their captors, Police in Plateau State, North-central Nigeria has said. Ubah Ogaba, spokesperson of the Plateau State Police Command disclosed this to HumAngle in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, May 18. Ogaba told HumAngle that the couple, Grace Ayanbimpe and […]
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A mob spoiling for confrontation, made up of Christians on one side of a major road, and Muslims on the other, is what Ayuba Luka Maigari easily remembers about Dutse Uku, located in Jos North Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State, Nigeria. In the same part of the city, Idris Khamis Mangalle had grown […]
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