In a rare sense of camaraderie, inmates and officers at the Maiduguri Medium Custodial Facility in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, are discovering common ground through…
Port Harcourt, Nigeria – At dawn, the dense creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta are enveloped in an eerie silence, which is interrupted only…
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) has appointed Nigeria’s Udo Jude Ilo as its new chief executive officer. Ilo, who will succeed Sam…
In the scorching streets of Damaturu, Yobe State, in northeastern Nigeria, 13-year-old Sahiba Aliyu* has endured unimaginable horrors. The young groundnut hawker’s life took a…
Progress in healthcare, anti-corruption, and human rights is essential to Nigeria’s growth, according to Ambassador Richard M. Mills, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria. In an…
As the gatekeeper of Unimaid Radio, the campus radio station of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, Abba Kyari’s day begins…
Beneath the blazing sun of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Nigeria’s North-central, smoke spiralled skyward, marking the harrowing end of a week-long state-sanctioned…
Despite an official ban on his activities, a controversial cleric in Niger State, North-central Nigeria, has publicly vowed to continue preaching extremist ideologies similar to…
Aja Bukar had just returned from his farm when we met him at his home in Auno, a small village on the outskirts of Maiduguri,…
On Oct. 20, a social media post alleged that Lt. General Toareed Lagbaja, Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), died of cancer while undergoing…
For over a decade, Nigeria’s military has fought to reclaim control over territories ravaged by extremist violence in the North East. But they have not…
The call connected us across the distance. His voice, heavy with frustration and loss, filled the silence. “The floodwaters washed away almost all the crops,”…
On a normal day a visitor might pass Igbo-Ora with little more than a double take, wondering why so many pairs of residents wear matching…
Yagana Bukar, a 44-year-old widow from Kukareta, a rural community in Damaturu, Yobe state, northeastern Nigeria, relies entirely on farming to sustain her family. “My…
Local authorities have confirmed at least 132 cholera cases in Yobe state, northeast Nigeria, with about nine deaths—a 6.8 per cent fatality rate. “The delay…
It was a calm June evening in Keffi, North-central Nigeria. The last rays of the setting sun bathed Mairamri Arena, a local recreational centre, as…
In the wake of severe flooding caused by overflowing dams, thousands of displaced residents in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, are seeking shelter in public schools under…
The village of Jibrinti in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, is in mourning after the tragic deaths of two siblings, Amma-Zarah and Muhammad Ibrahim, both under…
Nigeria has an alarming problem of out-of-school children, with one in every five such children globally residing in the country. Poverty and insecurity are the…
Leaders ink deals on nuclear energy, media exchanges and infrastructure ahead of summit on Chinese-African cooperation.China and Nigeria have pledged to deepen their economic ties…