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As the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, 2022, the activities are geared towards ensuring that women are front and centre. Panels, walks, and conversations are awash with important calls for gender equality and the inclusion of women in key facets of society. Yet, on the other side of town, most displaced …
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Female Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Benue State, North-central Nigeria, who suffer large scale period poverty, have received sanitary pads donations following a report by HumAngle. A group of Nigerian professionals in the United States, moved by the plight of the women and girls, made a substantial cash donation to purchase sanitary pads and other …
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When HumAngle meets Isaac, he is sitting pensively and staring at the children running around in the camp, located in the North Bank area of Makurdi, Benue State, North-central Nigeria. Occasionally, he would fold and unfold his hands, letting out long, drawn-out sighs. Across the camp, his demeanor was replicated as men trooped in and …
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Blessing Erdoo strapped her son to her back, patting him periodically as she made her way to the camp leader’s makeshift office. Her expression was tense and it was clear that she did not have much sleep the night before. The child, oblivious to the tension of his mother, wailed and wailed. “My child. He …
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That night she laid still in the pool of her blood, groaning silently lest the attackers heard her and turned back to finish the job. She felt life pouring out of her, gushing through the open wounds all over her body. Later, she closed her eyes ready to accept the inevitable; then she felt movements, …
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A federal high court in Abuja has declared the activities of bandit groups as acts of terrorism, over one year after a HumAngle editorial stressed the need for a change in nomenclature, given the notoriety of the groups’ activities; and affirmed the paper’s stance on the matter. In the editorial published on June 26, 2021, …
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Like most girls, 21-year-old Priscilla Mtswenem started menstruating as a pre-teen and soon learned the basics of keeping personal hygiene during the period. Her parents provided her needs from their proceeds as farmers. She had money for sanitary products and access to get them. Priscilla’s biggest problem during her period was managing light cramps as …
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In a population of over 200 million people, only 1.1 per cent (2.17 million) of Nigerians have received the full dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Data from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) also shows that over 4.9 million people have received one dose of the jab bringing the total number of vaccinated …
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It is dark days melting into darker nights as uncertainty washes over and thoughts tilt more towards the worse than the best. This is how people like Olarenwaju*, whose families and friends have been kidnapped, describe the waiting period. When his friend and flatmate, Joseph* went missing in May 2021, nothing could prepare him for …
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We used to be given N17, 000 monthly. But it’s been six months since we last received this money. The government shared cards and said they have relocated people back to their villages. Some of us women have not had our husbands with us for up to six years! Some of our husbands are in …
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There are some women coming from inside town who have tents here. They have been registered as beneficiaries. When officials are distributing anything, you would see these women in tents posing as displaced people. They are not really displaced and the camp officials know but they don’t want to do anything because they know them …
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Why do we move in large crowds whenever we want to go to the farm? Boko Haram can attack us irrespective of our numbers; moving in large groups is only to comfort ourselves and show solidarity rather than protect ourselves. We are not armed, so we cannot do anything other than pray and make the …
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