No fewer than 452 people have died from boat mishaps across various waterways in Nigeria. From July to Dec. 2024 alone, incidents were recorded in Niger, Kwara, Kogi, and Bayelsa States. Over the years, boat mishaps have occurred with alarming regularity, each accompanied by tragic losses. According to the Marine Crafts Builders Association of Nigeria […]
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Bagana, a once thriving market town in Kogi State, north central Nigeria, is a ghostly shell of what it once was. Two warring clans have been fighting over the market, the town’s best asset. The violence has killed scores and chased many away. The people forced from their homes are now counting the cost. Michael […]
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A network of Twitter accounts acted in an organised fashion to harass, bully, and spread disinformation on Natasha Akpoti, a politician seeking a federal legislative position in central Nigeria, HumAngle has discovered. The coordinated harassment on the microblogging site is an aspect of a broader onslaught against her, which includes physical violence. In Dec. 2022, […]
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ISWAP has claimed responsibility for a car bomb explosion that killed at least three people on Dec. 29 outside a monarch’s Palace in Okene, Nigeria’s Northcentral state of Kogi. The claim by the Islamic State affiliate on Monday comes days after the explosion at the palace of the traditional leader of the Ebira tribe, Ohinoyi […]
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Aisha Safaudeen (not real name), a student of University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka in Nigeria’s Southeast would have probably stayed at home in North-central Kogi State if she had known the road wasn’t safe. Seeing her off on Oct 24, her relatives wished her a safe journey. But she didn’t get to her destination safely. […]
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An explosion struck a local bar in the town of Kabba in Kogi State in Nigeria’s north-central region on Sunday, May 30. William Ovye-Ayaz, Police Public Relations Officer in the state command, was quoted to have informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that there was no casualty from the incident. According to the police, […]
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One Friday in 2020, Miriam Agbenu Oyinu, 26, woke up to a blanket of white dominating her sight at a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) lodge in Kogi, North-central Nigeria. From then, she would struggle to see the world. Twenty years before in the same part of the country, Emmanuel Ameh was born with an […]
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Two farmers and one other person have been reported abducted by a terror gang in Kogi State, North-central Nigeria. The attackers abducted the three persons at two different locations in Egbeda community, Kabba in Kogi West Senatorial District of the state. While two of the victims who were identified as Olorunpomi Damilola, a staff of […]
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The government of Kogi State, North-central Nigeria says some of the inmates who escaped from a correctional facility in the state following an attack by an armed gang have been arrested. Kingsley Fanwo, the Commissioner for Information in the state said Monday, Sept. 13 that many of the inmates were arrested while some returned on […]
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At least four persons were killed and several others injured, after an armed gang attacked Bagana community in the Omala Local Government Area of Kogi State, North-central Nigeria in the late hours of Tuesday, Aug. 31. William Ovye Aya, Police spokesperson in the state confirmed the news to HumAngle on Wednesday, Sept. 1. According to […]
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A report released by the United States Department of States has revealed that the majority of human trafficking victims in Europe and other parts of the world are Nigerians mostly from Edo, Delta, and Kano states. The report titled ‘Trafficking In Persons Report June 2021, chronicled the menace of human trafficking in about 200 countries […]
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Abebayo Solomon, Commissioner for Pension Board in Kogi State, North-central Nigeria has been killed by an armed gang, authorities in the state confirmed on Sunday. HumAngle gathered that Solomon was killed on Saturday, May 1 at Eruku village a few kilometres from Egbe, the border town between Kwara and Kogi states. The assailants also abducted […]
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