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The Bright Udenze Ogbuabia family had a dream: to build their own house in a city they had come to call home. Despite the long stretches of peace in Kaduna, the road to that dream was rocked by a series of crises that culminated in today’s looming terror. “The first riot I witnessed in Kaduna …
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The door-to-door toting of guns in Kuriga started as far back as 2011. “We have had at least 15 attacks,” Nasiru Zakariya’u told HumAngle. When the terror gangs first came, they stole valuables from homes. But this quickly changed. “They started rustling cattle, sometimes not less than 200 or 300 cows.” In a town like …
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There are different perspectives on the cause of the lingering conflict within Nigeria’s Middle Belt states. Some reports have ascribed the bloodletting in the last couple of years to the influx of Boko Haram terrorists. Others point to the history of conflict between farmers and herders that has seen some of the states host the …
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On a sunny November afternoon in 2023, a group of women crammed into a classroom at a primary school in Kaduna South. Later, a bus filled with volunteers, a photographer and some members of the Participatory Communication for Gender Development (PAGED) Initiative hurtled into the remote part of Malali in Kaduna, North West Nigeria. Some …
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Some parents in Malali and Tudun Ilu communities of Kaduna State, northwestern Nigeria, have complained about the drop in the standard of education in government-run schools during an advocacy campaign carried out by the PAGED (Participatory Communication for Gender Development) Initiative. Flagged off yesterday, Dec. 13, in Kaduna North, the project began with a six-minute …
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Mary Peter is a happy woman. Her grandson, Treasure Ayuba, had appeared, tired, at their front door on Nov. 2, after over two years in captivity. It was like a dream, she said. “We were just sitting at about 7 p.m. when he returned,” Mary narrated from their home in Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria. “I was …
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Emmanuel (surname withheld) was angry. Here he was at the hospital pharmacy to collect his prescribed medication, only to be told it was not available. “You would have to return another day for it,” the person at the counter said. The whole episode took place sometime between July and August. A secondary school teacher under …
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Ethnic Profiling In Northwest Nigeria | RSS.com Listen On: Apple | Spotify | RSS The spread of terrorism in the country’s northwestern region led to the rise of vigilante groups, some of whom came to be known as Yan Sa Kai. This led to repeated attacks on innocent Fulani, an ethnic group that has been fingered to be a powerhouse …
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At age 30, Titus Nuhu had his portion of the extended family land. After all, he was now a grown man with a wife and children. So, he cultivated the land and his wife planted after him. But there was a problem. The family never farmed above the subsistence level, which meant they only grew …
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Over half of all Nigerians could be living below the poverty line in the next few years as a result of the cost of living crisis sparked by a rise in the price of fuel, an economist has told HumAngle. The number of people living on less than a dollar a day could shoot up …
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Rebecca John went into labour in the dead of night. This was not supposed to be unusual at facilities like Kari Kunau Primary Health Centre. But Idris Isah, the In-Charge, was worried. Theirs was a small clinic in a remote part of Lere local government area of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria. They could hardly store …
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Endurance had been left behind. Hauwa John only realised when she heard her granddaughter scream. There were the shouts of bloodthirsty terrorists. Then the crackle of flames eating up their house followed. All they could do was press their bodies to the ground in the maize farm, and cry silently in anguish. As other houses …
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