Let us begin with what has been forgotten. There is a field, roughly 22 kilometres southwest of Sokoto, between the Dange Shuni and Bodinga local government areas in North West Nigeria, that carries no particular weight to the eye. Grass grows there. Wind moves through trees at predictable intervals. The surrounding bush is in full […]
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On December 25, 2025, the United States launched strikes on some specific targets in Sokoto State, northwestern Nigeria. Fired from its naval assets in the Gulf of Guinea, approximately 16 GPS-guided precision munitions, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, were launched. Some landed in the Bauni forest near Nigeria’s border with the Niger Republic, while others struck […]
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In the evening, moments before the United States’ aerial operation in northwestern Nigeria, a helicopter hovered above the perimeters of Gwangwano District, in Sokoto’s Tangaza Local Government Area (LGA). It was Dec. 25, 2025. Residents said helicopters had hovered around in the past, but this one stayed far too long, unsettling the civilians and alerting […]
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Since late 2019, families fleeing relentless violence in eastern Sokoto in Nigeria’s northwestern region have poured into the Guidan Roumdji Department of the Republic of Niger, carrying little more than the trauma of survival. Sabon Birni, a once-thriving community built on agriculture and livestock trading, has now become synonymous with terrorist raids, extortions, displacement, and […]
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Authorities have confirmed a bomb explosion that killed at least five people and injured 15 others in Kano State, North West Nigeria, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. The explosion in the Hotoro Eastern Bypass area near a metal company sent panic through the neighbourhood. Security and emergency response teams were quickly deployed to manage the […]
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Fatima Malumfashi’s life took a dramatic turn when, at just eight years old, she underwent her first exorcism in Sokoto State, northwestern Nigeria. Before then, she had experienced unsettling symptoms—hallucinations, episodes of lost awareness, intense emotional outbursts, and a strange twitching sensation in her brain. Alarmed by these inexplicable signs, her family sought help from […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, touched down at the Sultan Abubakar International Airport in Sokoto, North West Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, accompanied by some stern-looking security chiefs—their mission was to supervise military operations against terrorists ravaging the region. The trip came a few days after President Bola Tinubu, who took over […]
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Bello Turji, a Nigerian terror gang leader, is forming an army of criminals to quell operations by security forces in Sokoto state, North West Nigeria. On Tuesday, Aug. 6, Turji and Halilu Sububu, another criminal leader in the state, they have joined forces to engage the security agents in a fire exchange that lasted hours. […]
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Terrorists from the Niger Republic have reportedly established a camp in the last few weeks in Goronyo, Sokoto, North West Nigeria. At least 20 women and children were abducted by these terrorists on July 8 in Dinawa, Worno Local Government Area, according to residents. Muhammad Ali, the community chief, told HumAngle that the attack happened […]
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A few days after kidnapping people across 17 villages in Sokoto East Senatorial District, terrorists abducted another 70 farmers on Thursday, June 14. The terrorists carried out the attack between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Lajinge and Dan-Tudu communities of Isa Local Government Area in northwestern Nigeria. Locals from the affected communities told […]
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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Tucked behind a Dogonyaro tree at the centre of the Mai Tandu Model Primary School in Isa, now serving as a temporary shelter for internally displaced persons, Ibrahim Shehu huddled among other men, nearly invisible until he let out a bout of cough from where he sat. […]
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When Muhammadu Muktari, 40, went out to see his mother, the heavy downpour that lasted for over 12 hours in September drowned his seven-room apartment, knocked over his properties, and trapped his family before he returned. The flood in Sakkwai, a community in the Tangaza area of Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria, did not only threaten lives […]
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