Humanitarian
Begging for dignity
The Bulunkutu Rehabilitation Centre in Maiduguri, which caters for disabled persons, urgently needs to be reconstructed to give people an opportunity to learn skills and become self-sufficient. It will also […]
Death on the road to hell
Attacks, abductions, kidnappings and killings … that’s what passengers and drivers face every time the ride on the road to hell, the Maiduguri-Damaturu road. A driver, who did not want […]
Fear as farmers go missing
The families of farmers in Damboa say they are worried sick because their men have gone missing. Mai Kodobe said his brother had left home to go to his farm […]
The street is no place for beggars
People with special needs and disabilities have been asked to stop begging on the streets of Borno State. Abubakar Mohammed Kalwa Kalwa, chairman of the Joint National Association of Persons […]
Boko Haram running riot in north of country
No one is safe in the north of Nigeria where hundreds of young girls and boy have been abducted by Boko Haram insurgents – and the government seems to be […]
Soldier dead and umpteen others – including residents – seriously wounded
A soldier was killed, many others and some residents were seriously injured in an attack by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Ngom Village in the Mafa Local Government Area of […]
Indoctrinated Boko Haram cannot reform and repent’
Even though Boko Haram insurgents have murdered countless people, raped numerous girls and women – many of them married – turned many properties worth millions of nairas into ashes and […]
‘Bring back our men – or allow us to remarry’
The wives of men who were arrested by the military in Damboa in Borno State want permission to remarry after having spent four years without their husbands. They are living […]
Orphans in Northeast Nigeria
The insurgents tried to make his father their Amir but his refusal to join them meant that they killed him
