Abubakar Muhammad and Salihu Muhammed sat beside the road on granite rocks, what remained of materials used to refill the ditch created weeks earlier by flooding in Sabon Gida, a community in the Gbako area of Niger, North-central Nigeria. The road links Niger’s capital, Minna, to Bida, an ancient Nupe city. It has been cut […]
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Some of them have lived here all their lives, but everything changed since the kidnapping incident. “The bandits were shouting my name, village head’s name, and our pastor. They said they will kill us if we don’t come out,” said John Kena. Kena, 52, was inside his mud house at Lafiyan Zago in Lapai Local […]
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Around September last year, Maimuna Idris woke up at 3 a. m. bleeding and suffering a stomach ache. She was immediately rushed to the neonatal section at the General Hospital in Minna, North-central Nigeria. She was two months pregnant at the time. “For over two hours, I was left on the floor, nobody attended to […]
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At about 8 a.m. every day, Danlami Ahmadu rides one of the tricycles bearing water tanks (popularly called blue trucks) parked in front of Limawa Model Primary School in Minna, Niger State, North-central Nigeria, to any household that requests for water within the metropolis. Ahmadu works with the water intervention project of RAISE Foundation, a […]
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The Niger State Government, North-central Nigeria on Friday April 22, 2022, dismissed the claim by Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA) that bombs by the Nigerian Air Force killed six children in Kurebe community during a military operation on terrorists. In the statement which is coming more than a week after the incident, Emmanuel Umar, the […]
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Six children were killed and houses burnt during an air raid by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in Kurebe community in Shiroro local government area of Niger State, North-central Nigeria. The incident occurred Wednesday morning, April 13, 2022. Salis Sabo, spokesperson of Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA), said in a statement obtained by HumAngle. According […]
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At the premises of a primary school in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, North-central Nigeria, there is a crowd of women and children as if a celebration is about to happen. Some women sit on the cemented corridors, breaking melon seeds out of wraps; others launder clothes and dry them on the […]
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Ten minutes before members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on an indefinite strike, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, a woman was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre in Bida, Niger State in North-central Nigeria, for urgent medical attention. It was a case of abruptio placentae (placenta abruption) which led to heavy […]
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Nda* had just finished washing his motorcycle on a Friday morning and was standing by the road, drying it with a towel, when he saw a Hilux truck full of Police officers and motorcycles, speeding towards his direction from afar. He was familiar with Hilux trucks and buses like that: packed full of community police, […]
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Terrorists have released students of an Islamiyya school in Niger State, North-central Nigeria, almost three months after their abduction. The pupils, numbering 136 according to an official count, were abducted from Salihu Tanko Islamiya school in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area of the state on May 30. Their abductors had initially released 11 of them […]
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Abubakar Adamu, one of the distraught parents of the abducted students of a school in Niger State, North-central Nigeria, says the wait for the return of his children is agonising. Seven of Adamu’s 11 children were among the 136 students kidnapped by a terror gang from Salihu Tanko Islamiya school in Tegina, Rafi LGA of […]
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Muhammed Sanni Idris, the Commissioner for Information in Niger State, North-central Nigeria has been abducted by suspected terrorists. Idris was abducted from his home in Baban Tunga town, Tafa Local Government Area of the state, in the wee hours of Monday, Aug. 9. Mary Noel-Berkje, the spokesperson for Abubakar Bello, the Governor of Niger state, […]
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