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“We couldn’t take him to the hospital on time because we didn’t have money, and that was why my first child died.” In April 2019, Halima Usman, 22, lost her two-year-old son to malaria due to lack of funds to procure medications for his treatment. Halima and her husband, Usman Mohammed, live in Garatu, a …
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Some of them have lived here all their lives, but everything changed since the kidnapping incident. “The bandits were shouting my name, village head’s name, and our pastor. They said they will kill us if we don’t come out,” said John Kena. Kena, 52, was inside his mud house at Lafiyan Zago in Lapai Local …
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“My farm is gone, and my businesses are gone. Only God can come to my aid now.” Haruna Mudi, a rice miller and farmer, sits on a concrete brick with his left hand supporting his chin. He is staring at a particular place in front of him – where his milling factory once was. Now …
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It is one thing to live in terror and completely another to know that you are surrounded by it. This is 40-year-old Yunusa Abdullahi’s state of mind as he rides to and from work at a Government Girls Secondary School in Kuta, Niger State, North-central Nigeria. Things are worse for Danladi Salau, 55, who is …
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Between April and Aug. 2022, terrorists conducted attacks in Niger and Kogi states and some parts of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city in North-central Nigeria. Many people were killed, including security personnel, while others were kidnapped. The frequency of such incidents has left many communities, both urban and rural, in perpetual fear as terror groups move …
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Around September last year, Maimuna Idris woke up at 3 a. m. bleeding and suffering a stomach ache. She was immediately rushed to the neonatal section at the General Hospital in Minna, North-central Nigeria. She was two months pregnant at the time. “For over two hours, I was left on the floor, nobody attended to …
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At about 8 a.m. every day, Danlami Ahmadu rides one of the tricycles bearing water tanks (popularly called blue trucks) parked in front of Limawa Model Primary School in Minna, Niger State, North-central Nigeria, to any household that requests for water within the metropolis. Ahmadu works with the water intervention project of RAISE Foundation, a …
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The Niger State Government, North-central Nigeria on Friday April 22, 2022, dismissed the claim by Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA) that bombs by the Nigerian Air Force killed six children in Kurebe community during a military operation on terrorists. In the statement which is coming more than a week after the incident, Emmanuel Umar, the …
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The recent attacks and killing of over 100 people in about 10 communities in Kanam and Wase Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State, North-central Nigeria, on April 10, 2022 suggests a new dimension to the crises ravaging the state. The attacks were carried out in Kukawa, Gyambawu, Dungur, Kyaram, Yelwa, Dadda, Wanka, Shuwaka, Gwammadaji, …
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Six children were killed and houses burnt during an air raid by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in Kurebe community in Shiroro local government area of Niger State, North-central Nigeria. The incident occurred Wednesday morning, April 13, 2022. Salis Sabo, spokesperson of Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA), said in a statement obtained by HumAngle. According …
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