Audu Danbaba is in his fifties but trudges like someone in his eighties. He walks carefully, sometimes raising his hands as if they were scales calibrating his body’s equilibrium. As he emerged from his house on Feb. 25, he moved with visible effort – his feet swollen – counting each step as if needles were […]
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How do you comfort a man who has just watched years of his life turn to smoke? Sulaiman Mustapha remained seated inside the mosque after the dawn prayer, long after others had left. He put both hands on his head as if trying to hold his brain in place. He could not speak. No wailing. […]
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What Bashir Haruna would later remember was only the ordinariness of that cold morning. He had prepared to go out early, and the day had not announced itself as a tragedy. His wife, Fatima Abubakar, was quietly arranging the clothes she planned to wash while he stood watching her. There was no hurry, no sense […]
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Life can change with the smallest of gestures. For Abubakar Aminu, it was just a phone call. And with that, an invisible thread of suspicion wound itself around him. In 2014, Abubakar, then in his early twenties, met a regular customer who bought charcoal from him in Kano, North West Nigeria. He knew the man […]
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“I wear a niqab and a full jilbab. People often tell me that I am oppressed,” says Hajja Gana, a Nigerian housewife and mother of four. “Once, when I was walking through a market in Kano, I heard traders yelling and warning others: hatara. I later learned that some women who wear hijabs steal and […]
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It begins with the memory of smoke. Hadiza Yahaya, now in her late 70s, folds her shawl over her shoulders as she leans forward on the mat in her compound in Jakara, Kano State, northwestern Nigeria. Her voice is heavy not from age, but from the weight of the past that even time hasn’t been […]
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Authorities have confirmed a bomb explosion that killed at least five people and injured 15 others in Kano State, North West Nigeria, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. The explosion in the Hotoro Eastern Bypass area near a metal company sent panic through the neighbourhood. Security and emergency response teams were quickly deployed to manage the […]
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A widely shared post on social media claims that an 18-seater bus carrying passengers from the South-east was ambushed and set ablaze in Kano, northwestern Nigeria, by a violent mob, leaving no survivors. According to the post, the attack was carried out in retaliation for the recent killing of Northern travellers by youths in Edo […]
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A blow to the back, a stab in the face, and then … darkness, a total void with deafening silence. That was all Mubarak Aliko could recall before finding himself in a hospital bed surrounded by a doctor and family members. He felt his face swollen and moved his hands slowly to touch the fresh […]
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Ladidi Ado’s* journey into motherhood took shape amidst the challenges of a semi-functional primary healthcare centre in her village. This chapter of her life began as she ventured into bringing her third child into the world. Like her previous two births, which unfolded in the familiarity of her home, guided by the hands of makeshift […]
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The clock struck midnight and Jummai Abdullahi, a 50-year-old woman from Kuyan Ta Inna, found herself wide awake. Her pregnant daughter, Amina Abdullahi, was in the final stage of labour – the most intense and painful. She needed urgent medical attention. The nearest clinical facility was the Burji Health Center, a primary healthcare facility located […]
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The Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability (CAJA) has trained students of tertiary institutions in Kano State, North West Nigeria, on reporting sexual harassment and other gender-based violence on Saturday, Aug. 19. CAJA is a nonprofit organization based in Kano that works in collaboration with USAID and Palladium to combat sexual and gender-related violence, […]
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