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Facilitators receive training to keep girls off the streets, in schools and ensure they are safe at all times
Girl Child Concerns (GCC), in collaboration with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), has been training facilitators to encourage girls to get an education and establish safe spaces to avoid becoming victims
Facilitators receive training to keep girls off the streets, in schools and ensure they are safe at all times
Girl Child Concerns (GCC), in collaboration with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), has been training facilitators to encourage girls to get an education and establish safe spaces to avoid becoming victims of gender
Nigerian soldiers ‘neutralise’ several insurgents in ambush on Damboa-Maiduguri road
The Nigerian Army claims it successfully “neutralised several insurgents” who tried to ambush troops on the Damboa-Maiduguri road in Borno State on Monday, January 23.
Dire poverty prevents children from returning to Maiduguri schools for the start of the second term
Desperate poverty was one of the main reasons many Maiduguri children did not return to school for the second term, which began on Monday, January 9.
Politicians accused of bribing youths in Damboa with money and drugs to disrupt opponents’ campaigns
Politicians campaigning for votes in next month’s general elections have been accused of stoking violence among the youth in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, allegedly offering them drugs and money which, residents say,
Kidnappers demand ₦4 million for the return of two farmers
Kidnappers who abducted two farmers in Shetimari Dawari village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State have demanded ₦4 million, ₦2 million each, for their return.
Three farmers and one insurgent killed in attack on Ngom village
Brief – Three farmers and one insurgent were killed in an attack on Ngom village in the Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State on Tuesday morning, November 15. RNI […]
Policeman killed, his house torched, and two civilians were wounded in attack by insurgents on Magumeri town
Brief – A policeman was killed and two civilians were wounded on Monday, November 7, when insurgents stormed Magumeri town at about 12.30am. The insurgents were thought to be members of […]
Northeast Nigeria needs to make peace with itself
“If we do not forgive the repentant Boko Haram insurgents, we will never have peace, just insecurity.” So said a participant at the Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development’s conference […]
Hard times call for hard work – even if it makes you ill
Since many humanitarian organisations have stopped providing aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri, they have had to find ways to make money to survive – but sometimes the […]
