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Yidhe Raymond fled her home in Pulka after a terror attack in 2014 that took her husband’s life. She also lost her eldest son to the conflict, which has ravaged northeastern Nigeria for over 14 years. She escaped to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, about 100 km away, and stayed in a displacement camp. Five […]
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Rather than extort them, soldiers along the Maiduguri-Gwoza highway now exhort drivers plying the route against offering bribes, HumAngle has learnt. Bulama Pulka, a driver employed by the National Union Of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Pulka, North East Nigeria, confirmed that he hasn’t had to bribe military personnel stationed along the road for the […]
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The whirring from a vulcaniser at the Bama motor park in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, could hardly be ignored. Passengers gradually filled the minibus, and at quarter past eight in the morning, we set out on the three-hour journey to Gwoza. I had asked the transport workers union officials to allow me to sit at the […]
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At first, I thought the group of men and women that had gathered a few metres away were another polling unit being set up, but the noise and the tumult attracted my attention. I went over to them and discovered it was something much more sinister. A woman was jubilating, she said: “The ruling APC […]
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