Journalist
Notorious Marlian gang: Governor orders immediate crackdown to stop savage attacks
Video of Marlian gang members clubbing, stabbing and killing a police officer shocks Borno State citizens
Weekly Press Review: From Monday 24th to Friday 28th July, 2023
From Mali in the west to Sudan in the east, a whole swathe of Africa is now run by the military.
Niger was one of the few democracies left in the Sahel belt which stretches across the continent. But now that the army has seized power,
Education is a basic human right, not a privilege
After 14 years of conflict, thousands of internally displaced children – particularly girls – are missing out on schooling
Weekly Press Review: From Monday 17th to Friday 21st July, 2023
As many children are on a three-month holiday in Cameroon, one pair are helping their grandpa save the planet and raise income. Their effort is helping cocoa and coffee farmers dry their grains.
Unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions the plight of many internally displaced women
Before the closure of official, state-run internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri, women had easy access to sexual and reproductive health services – now they have to deal with unwanted pregnancies and, often, unsafe abortions.
Maiduguri a city overrun by large numbers of street children
Children as young as four years old are among the more than 10 million kids living on the streets in Nigeria.
Missing days at school because of menstruation can have a devastating effect – and often leads to girls dropping out of the education system
Millions of girls across the globe miss school for a week every month because of menstruation.
Weekly Press Review: From Monday 10th to Friday 14th July, 2023
Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has imposed an indefinite ban on metal scavenging activities across the entire 27 local government areas of the state.
Hundreds of IDPs face being chucked out of their homes and on to the streets
Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs), who moved almost a year ago into a housing unit meant for 1,000, face being chucked out of their houses and on to the streets in five days because they do not have residency permits.
Weekly Press Review: From Monday 3rd to Friday 7th July, 2023
This was disclosed by a popular counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, Zagazola Makama in a Twitter post, where he claimed that the two terrorist groups clashed against each other on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
