Hauwa Abdulkarim was inside her house when the violence began. As evening settled over Woro, a village in Kaiama Local Government Area (LGA) of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, on Feb. 3, the terrorists descended on motorcycles like a sudden storm. What began as a seemingly ordinary evening quickly turned into chaos, with about 170 […]
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On Feb. 3, Nigeria witnessed one of its deadliest rural attacks in recent memory. Terrorists stormed Woro and Nuku villages in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, killing about 170 people, razing homes, and abducting several residents. Reports say victims were shot at close range, some burnt alive, while others […]
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No fewer than 452 people have died from boat mishaps across various waterways in Nigeria. From July to Dec. 2024 alone, incidents were recorded in Niger, Kwara, Kogi, and Bayelsa States. Over the years, boat mishaps have occurred with alarming regularity, each accompanied by tragic losses. According to the Marine Crafts Builders Association of Nigeria […]
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Adedokun Olatundun, 65, lost her husband and three of six children to the age-long communal crisis between Offa and Erin-Ile communities in the Oyun area of Kwara, North-central Nigeria, in 2006. As she ran in a hurry, a fourth child went missing. The land boundary crisis between Offa and Erin-Ile has lingered for many years […]
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Armed yet to be identified shooters, on Thursday, attacked Nuku Village in Kaiama Local Government Area (LGA) of Kwara State North-central Nigeria, raping two underage girls. According to multiple media reports, the armed gang invaded the community with hopes to find money but were disappointed and furious after discovering that there was “nothing on the […]
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An armed gang on Saturday, June 26, 2021 abducted a man after shooting his pregnant wife in Kwara State, North-central Nigeria, police said on Sunday. In a telephone conversation with HumAngle, Okasanmi Ajayi, Police spokesperson in Kwara State, said the incident took place around 7 p.m. WAT in Offa Local Government Area of the state. […]
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The residents of Medina along Oke-Foma Road in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State, North-central Nigeria, have shown their dissatisfaction over two dilapidated bridges at the edge of a drainage network. The concrete drainage and asphalt road, a 2019 zonal intervention project for erosion control, begins immediately after the first dilapidated bridge and […]
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Shade* dreams of meeting her mother. At night, she imagines an oval-faced woman with lots of hair who looks like her. Shade is often overcome with grief because imaginations are all she has left. Oftentimes, the feeling is not happiness, or sadness, or even hatred. She says she sometimes does not know what to think […]
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With unkempt hair and wrinkled skin that reflect her age, Aliyu Salamatu leans on the door frame as she calls Aliyah, her six-year-old grand-daughter to bring her a wooden box to sit on. Her left leg shivers involuntarily and reverberates all over her body. Salamatu lives at Pati-Dati, a rural settlement in Tsaragi, Edu Local […]
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“I was happy initially when I received my four-months’ salary arrears on Thursday night. But when I came across the news that we had been sacked around 5 am on Friday, I was emotionally down. I observed morning prayer with deep sorrow that morning. I’m not happy at all because I just got married and […]
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The sun was bright when I set out for the daring adventure at Okoolowo area, a place dreaded by many because it is notorious for marijuana business in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State in Northcentral Nigeria. As I moved closer to the spot where some young men believed by many in the locality to be […]
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Two petitioners at the Kwara State Judicial Panel of Enquiry investigating cases of police brutality in Ilorin, the state capital have narrated how men of the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) tortured them to implicate former senate president, Bukola Saraki, in the bloody April 5, 2018, Offa robbery incident. The petitioners, Kehinde Gobir and […]
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