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Widowed by Insecurity, Women Struggle to Remarry in Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
Barriers hinder women from remarrying. Data on Nigeria report more than 10,000 women widowed since Boko Haram conflict in 2009. During the insurgency, hundreds of young men from Borno state were arrested, abducted, or forced to join the insurgents.
Reminder to politicians: Disabled people’s votes are as important as any others
Disabled people in Borno State are tired of sitting back and not participating in politics – this time they have banded together and are determined to take part and have […]
Drownings : Children missing, presumed dead
Every year it is estimated that hundreds die when the mighty River Ngadda-Bul overflows its banks and floods large areas in and around Maiduguri – and this year’s water has […]
Fed-up public school teachers want their money … and they want it now
Many public school teachers in Maiduguri are furious because some of them have still not been paid since a qualification verification exercise was started two years ago. They want their […]
10 days of hell: Insurgents repeatedly rape and molest underage girls
A group of young Dikwa girls – who ventured into close-by bushes while looking for firewood and vegetables for soup – were captured by insurgents, believed to be from the […]
Cholera control centre offering free care is set up in Umarari, Maiduguri
A cholera control centre has been set up in Umarari, Maiduguri, to treat and control the spread of the disease. Residents told RNI reporter Alkali Mustapha that they were happy […]
Youth cash in on abundance of fish in overflowing River Ngadda-Bul
Although the rainy season and the overflowing River Nagadda-Bul has brought disaster for some – flooding, collapsing and destroying homes and even businesses – it has bought an abundance of […]
Alarming review shows that only 5,439 of the state’s teachers are qualified to teach
A review of Borno State’s teachers has shown that of the more than 19,500 who wrote exams, only 5,439 passed; 7,915 needed further training; 3,829 were not qualified to teach […]
Chibok village attack: What have we done? Why do they keep killing us?
Brief – Three people were killed and several houses burnt down in the early hours of Monday, October 3, by suspected Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS) in an attack […]
Gashua flood : 75 dead and 6,592 displaced, homes collapsed or submerged in past six months
As many as 75 people have died and 6,529 have been displaced by raging floods and fierce windstorms in the Gashua Local Government Area of Yobe State in the past […]
Eight insurgents ‘neutralised’ and three others captured in attack on village in Bama on Sunday
The Nigerian Army, members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and other security operatives killed eight Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS) fighters and captured three others in an […]
