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The Bloodbath (1): Families Mourn Loved Ones Years After Zaria Massacre
Sherifat Yakubu, 60, tied the knot with her heartthrob, Muhammed Yakubu, in Zaria, Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, in 1980. They both…
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Development
Children Locked Up With Adults Face High Risk Of Violence, Abuse- UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says children incarcerated with adults are exposed to a high risk of violence and…
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Exclusive
Borno IDPs Facing Recurring Fire Disasters As Gov’t Action Stalls
Nearly two years of setting up a committee to —as part of other functions— find ways to prevent fire incidents…
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Features
The Divided City (3): In Kaduna’s Kajuru, Christians Filled Ablution Jugs, Spread Prayer Mats
Solomon Magaji, 33, did something he had never imagined he would do in his lifetime – he filled water jugs…
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Armed Violence
Terror Leader Reduces Levy Over Communities’ Inability To Raise Initial Fee
Following the inability of residents of some communities to pay the full sum levied against them by a terrorist group…
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Development
Mobile Clinics Providing Aid To Inaccessible Communities In Northeast Nigeria
The decade-long insecurity crisis in the Northeast of Nigeria leading to displacements and other forms of humanitarian adversities have rendered…
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Armed Violence
Terrorists Abduct 5 In Fresh Attack On Zamfara Community
Five persons were abducted by terrorists on Tuesday, Feb. 22, during an attack on Nassarawa Kaita community in Tsafe Local…
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Gender & SGBV
Nigeria Struggling To Combat Gender-Based Violence, Despite Laws
Police in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, are still unravelling the circumstances around the death of 34-year-old Busayo Adewuni, a mother of…
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Humanitarian Crises
Lassa Fever: Not Only A Neglected Disease But Neglected Patients Too – MSF
Misdiagnosis of Lassa fever in patients, and stigma arising from diagnosis, hinder efforts to contain the disease in Nigeria, Doctors…
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Features
‘I Felt Like Dying The Day I Saw My Displaced In-Law Trading Sex For Food’
Abdullahi, 29, has always been familiar with the survival sex trend among Internally Displaced People in Borno, Northeast Nigeria. But…
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