Humanitarian
If extremists don’t kill us, starvation will
Even the terror of being attacked and killed by extremists will not stop starving internally displaced persons and residents in the Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State from trying […]
Young children need to work for their living
Many children – especially those living in internally displaced persons’ camps and in host communities in Maiduguri – have to work for their living. It is not necessarily forced labour. […]
Dry and dusty harmattan adds fuel to the flames
A raging fire destroyed more than 50 tents in the El Yakub internally displaced persons’ camp on Monday, May 3. The fire broke out at about noon. No one was […]
If we don’t get help we will starve during Ramadan
Internally displaced persons and many residents in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states are going to starve during the holy month of Ramadan unless they get urgent help from the federal […]
Poorest of the poor get 320-million naira donation from governor
Borno State governor Babagana Umara Zulum has donated 320-million naira and a variety of foodstuff to more than 100,000 households which had been displaced by Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād […]
Release our innocent men
A former detainee has joined the throng of women calling for the release of “innocent” men who were arrested in Maiduguri and other areas in the north by the military, […]
On the road from poverty to prosperity
When the brutal attacks by the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS) became more and more frequent, thousands of people – among them many widows and orphans − fled their […]
Bring Back our Beloved Men
Mothers and wives of missing young men – many of whom have not been seen their men since March 14 2014 when the Giwa barracks, a military detention centre, was […]
Parents force small children to defy ban and to beg on the streets
Even though the Borno State government banned begging on the streets of Maiduguri, some parents have forced their children to defy the ban in a desperate bid to get money […]
‘Repair boreholes because water is life’
Residents of Kasatchiya, in the Gujba Village in Yobe State, are urgently calling on the government to repair boreholes that were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents. The village was recently […]
