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“I’m in the train. I have been shot please pray for me.” Those are the last recorded words of Dr Chinelo Nwando Megafu. Trapped on the Abuja-Kaduna train that was attacked by terrorists on Monday, March 28, 2022, Dr Chinelo’s death is a barefoot walk through a barbed-wired garden of thorns. Barely 24 hours before […]
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Superpower countries like to keep conflicts off their territories by putting their boots on proxy nations controlled through ‘alliances’ or extending their empires. In the ally chess games of long-distance warfare, when a superpower snoozes, another one tries to take its place; in this situation, France has snoozed, and Russia has moved into the Central […]
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Precious received a call from her sister that led to her relocation to Lagos in search of greener pasture. Her life changed forever. Today, she juggles three jobs to make ends meet. As a personal shopper, she helps others shop by giving advice, making suggestions and getting the products. She combines this with freelancing and […]
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It was a sunny afternoon in Ikeja, the seat of power in Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, when HumAngle visited Chima Francis Osuji. Osuji, 37, a legal practitioner with two children, said responsibilities and the environment made him leave his family in Ilorin, Kwara State capital in North-central Nigeria, while he works in Lagos. […]
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Recent GIS data has revealed that several areas in Lagos are at great risk of deaths and economic losses due to poor air quality. The GIS data reviewed by HumAngle shows that the places closest to the central part of Lagos have the poorest air quality due to the highest levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) […]
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Pompeii, the ancient (Roman) Italian city, was a hub of trading activities. Blessed with good soil, Pompeii farmed and feasted; close to the ocean, the city fished and dined. A trading route for the Roman empire, businesses flourished in Pompeii like Lions in a jungle of Antelopes. But Pompeii soon descended into the darkness that […]
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Changing climates are having serious environmental impacts across different parts of the world, and Maiduguri in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, is not exempted from this. Currently faced with a 12-year-old insurgency with its ever-changing dynamics, resource access has become far more limited in the state capital than ever before. The insurgency, which has displaced millions […]
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Between May 2013 and September 2014, several villages in Bama Local Government Area (LGA), Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, were repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram terrorists, who effectively crippled it. In 2015, the Nigerian Army entered Bama, sending the terrorists running, and reclaimed it for Nigeria. But for the people caught in the crossfire, their lives […]
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A new report has revealed that since 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari administration has sponsored at least 360 NGOs to help cleanse its public image. Some of the NGOs have also, through arbitrary press conferences, demanded the prosecution of other NGOs and individuals which it deems enemies of the government. The report, titled “Fake Civil Society: […]
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Yaba, Lagos state, Southwest Nigeria, is touted as Nigeria’s Silicon Valley, with an unending inflow of people and opportunities in the tech industry. On Yaba’s opportunity pavements, there are people who are seeking a better life for themselves outside the tech circle. One such person is Chi’ Okeke, 32, popularly known as Oga Spaghetti in […]
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Adelagun Ronke*, 50, was surrounded by her children and siblings as she was taken into the Ikoyi branch of the Lagoon Hospital, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. Between March and June 2019, Ronke, who had been diagnosed with advanced colon cancer and would be admitted twice at this hospital. On their part, Ronke’s relations were optimistic […]
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A light drizzle had just subsided when the HumAngle crew walked into the home of 44-year-old Kehinde Omolara, a street cleaner who works for the Lagos state government. It was 5.30 a.m. and Omolara had just finished cajoling her son to eat breakfast so she could leave the house early, already clad in a tee-shirt […]
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