“Officer, abeg! I go tell you everything. Na my friend na him deceive me. E de Sapele, I go carry you go the place. I no know anything concern. Officer!” These were the last words of 28-year-old Oghenemine Ogidi before he was shot at close range by Usman Nuhu, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), …
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On a Sunday evening in March this year, Akiba Ekpeyong, a community leader in Akpap-Okoyong, received a text message that made him drop everything he was doing in the community, a cluster of farming villages in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, South-South Nigeria. The message came from another chief nearby, warning of …
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A young Kelvin carries multiple identities. Today, he’s Kelvin, but that might change tomorrow, depending on the identity game he’s up to. For at least 14 hours a day, he describes himself as “Richard”, a stranded American engineer needing financial help from a sympathetic woman he met on a dating site. He’s always glued to …
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It was a sombre Thursday afternoon in Alesi, a community in Ikom Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State, in South South Nigeria. Inside the village head’s palace, men and women gathered in silence, their faces drawn with grief. Some stared blankly ahead; others fought back tears. “We have lost another son. Our hearts …
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We want to tell a single story but follow three separate crises. One began deep in Cross River National Park, where a reporter HumAngle worked with walked into the reserve and found neat rows of cocoa where there should have been rainforest in Nigeria’s South South. Another began hundreds of kilometres in the country’s North …
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On the fringes of Okpanam in Delta State, South South Nigeria, there was once a place known simply as “Fulani Camp.” For decades, it was a quiet settlement where nomadic herders grazed cattle, built homes from bamboo and mud, and lived peacefully in proximity with indigenous neighbours. Tensions were not uncommon, but life carried on. …
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On a Tuesday morning, Kaneng Fom’s* mind told her she was going to die. The day had begun normally: Kaneng took a short walk down her estate street with her brother, watched her favourite anime, and hoped for an update to the show, before finally getting in the car. Her mother was waiting at the …
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She was just seven years old when they were displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Elizabeth Bitrus and her family fled to Taraba State, where they lived in an internally displaced persons (IDP) Camp. That was the first time Elizabeth had to adjust to a home that was not her …
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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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Several travellers were killed and many others injured in a mob attack by a local vigilante group and residents of Udune Efandion in Edo State, South-South Nigeria, on Friday, March 28. The vigilantes, profiling the northern Nigerian travellers as kidnappers or members of a violent group, intercepted and attacked them. The victims were travelling from …
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Loveth Adam’s future was bright in 2018 when she was admitted to study Anatomy at the Ambrose Ali University (AAU) in Edo State, South-South Nigeria. Like most Nigerian students, she hoped to graduate in 2022 and join many others in the labour market, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) …
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The military has reacted to reports on the arrest of investigative journalist and founder of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), Fisayo Soyombo, who is currently in the detention of 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in the country’s South-south region. According to FIJ staff, Soyombo went incommunicado on Nov. 26. …
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