‘I Just Drink Water And Endure’: Ramadan In A Nigerian Displacement Camp
It was a little after 12 p.m. on a Thursday in late March. The scorching sun scalded through the thatched roofs of the makeshift huts…
Surviving Dyslexia: The Struggles Of Nigerians Living With Learning Disabilities
Sometime in 2019, a boy was brought to the Amina Dyslexia Center by his mother for possible dyslexia because he kept failing his exams at…
In North East Nigeria, Local Farmers Lament Lack Of Access To NiMet’s Climate Predictions
Every year, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) provides the seasonal climate prediction (SCP), giving the outlook of various climatic variables such as rainfall and temperature…
Residents Of Sokoto Village In Agonising Wait After Almajiri Children’s Abduction
It was late Saturday evening, a little after 5 p.m. Umaru Tsoho, 57, sat on a broken piece of mudbrick, leaning on the wall of…
Buda: Escaping Abduction In A Southern Kaduna Village. But For How Long?
Idris Umar, 19, bolted up in the dead of night four days after the infamous abduction of about 280 school children from Kuriga in Kaduna,…
Kuriga: The Many Attacks That Culminated Into A Mass Abduction In A Kaduna Community
The door-to-door toting of guns in Kuriga started as far back as 2011. “We have had at least 15 attacks,” Nasiru Zakariya’u told HumAngle. When…
Marriage Pressure Is Giving Rise To Unfavourable Dynamics For The Unmarried In Nigeria
The pressure to get married started pressing down Hadiza Bukar’s* neck as soon as she completed her undergraduate studies in Kano, North West Nigeria. She…
Most Birth Control Measures Still Not Made Safe For Women. Why?
The pain 27-year-old Ramatu Adam* experienced during the insertion of her Intrauterine device (IUD) in 2023 was so overwhelming that she passed out. Not even…
False! Terrorist Leader Bello Turji Not Recruited By Nigeria Police
Social media users recently circulated a picture of Bello Turji, a notorious terrorist leader in North West Nigeria, wearing a police uniform, with claims that…
How A Documentary Is Firing Up Passion For Girl Education In Northern Nigeria
On a sunny November afternoon in 2023, a group of women crammed into a classroom at a primary school in Kaduna South. Later, a bus…
When Humanitarian Aid Trickles To A Drop
It was 12:22 p.m., and Sahura Abdullahi was scraping the bark of Bishiryar Aduwa, a tree in front of the administrative block of a girls’…
Food Security Declines In The Height Of Insecurity In Cameroon
In more recent years, the humanitarian situation in Cameroon continues to grow dire, especially with the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, which led to the…
Poor Infrastructure, Underfunding Frustrate Kano’s Basic Healthcare Programme
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…
Ahmadu Bello University Acknowledges Role Of MacArthur Foundation In Its Development
In recent years, Nigeria has experienced several industrial actions within the higher education sector due to the underfunding of education in the country. University lecturers,…