Nigeria
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Features
The Missing Horseman of Adamawa
Auwalu Saidu remembers his elder brother, Babayo, with robes and horses. The kind worn and ridden by royalty in northeastern…
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News
Four Dead, Several Injured in Boko Haram Attack on Adamawa Community
Boko Haram insurgents raided Wagga Mongoro, a rural community in Madagali Local Government Area (LGA), Adamawa State, in northeastern Nigeria,…
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Accountability
Nigerian Fire Service Officers Drown in Debt Over Unpaid Salaries
In December last year, Talle Bello* received his appointment letter to join Nigeria’s Federal Fire Service. Like many others, he…
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Featured
The Lagos Fishermen Who Catch the Dead
From his home, Idowu Usu can tell when someone has died in the lagoon. Among fishermen in Ago Egun, a…
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Featured
Floods Push Families from Their Homes in the Benue River Valley to the Streets
Under the scorching sun, away from their makeshift tent of thatch, bamboo, and a tarpaulin sheet used as roofing, Pwanabeshi…
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Analyses
Blood, Betrayal, and the Fractured Caliphate
Behind the facade of order and cunning that the terror group Boko Haram, and its splinter group ISWAP, flaunt to…
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Features
South East Nigeria Still Reels from Nnamdi Kanu’s Incarceration
Most communities in southeastern Nigeria fall silent every Monday. Markets that once buzzed with commerce stand empty, schools that nurtured…
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Features
Boko Haram Displaces Over 10 Borno Villages in One Month
Modu Bintumi was sleeping peacefully with his wife and eight children that Tuesday when, just before dawn, they were jolted…
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Armed Violence
What the Arrest of ‘Gentle De Yahoo’ Means for South East Nigeria
When Nigerian Army troops of the 34 Artillery Brigade stormed the hideout of Ifeanyi Eze Okorienta, popularly known as ‘Gentle…
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The Unknown Flesh-Eating Disease in Nigeria’s Adamawa
Abubakar Ibrahim woke one morning in June to find his leg swelling. By nightfall, the entire limb was ballooned and…
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