Salaudeen Safurat, 67, is one of many residents struggling to access potable water in the Mapo area of Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria. She walks a long distance daily to get water from a hand-dug well for household use or buys it at a costly price. Safurat says she is more pained because her house was used […]
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Solomon Adewole has seen first-hand how Nigerian police officers abuse their power to harass and extort people. He himself had been confronted thrice at least. One of those times, the officers threatened to shoot him for refusing to submit his phone. He witnessed a different incident where members of the notorious police unit, Special Anti-Robbery […]
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Nearly two years after the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security Network, a security outfit in Nigeria’s Southwest region, codenamed Amotekun, it is trailed by a mix of applause and criticism, successes and losses, triumphs against criminals and allegations of human rights violations by its officers. Following rising insecurity in the Southwest, the six governors […]
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A clash between members of road transport workers known as Park Managers and mobile phone sellers in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 left at least one person dead and an unspecified others injured. HumAngle gathered that the fracas on Wednesday evening followed an altercation between one of the park […]
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Police officers in Lagos State Saturday morning, June 12, 2021 fired teargas canisters at protesters who gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria to protest against government’s mismanagement. The protesters had arrived in a group chanting protest songs and holding different placards with description like “Buhari must go,” “End state sponsored terrorism,” “revert […]
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The victims of inter-ethnic violence in Shasha market have started counting their losses after their properties were destroyed in a violent attack that targeted northern traders in Ibadan, a city in Southwest Nigeria. An eyewitness narrated to HumAngle that the violence erupted after a Hausa porter’s tomato basket fell in front of a shop owned […]
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office, on Wednesday arrested two brothers, Ayoola and Olusola Timilehin, and Oladayo and Tolulope Fayemi and three others suspected to be internet fraudsters. In a release made available to newsmen in Ibadan, the agency said the suspects were arrested at their Alaka, Elebu hideout in […]
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African youths studying at Pan African University, Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), Ibadan, on Wednesday called for collaboration to end all conflicts in Africa and emergence of peace to ensure development on the continent. They made the call at an event to commemorate the 2020 African Union Day with the theme, ‘Silencing the Guns: […]
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