News
Travelling in full flow
People living close to the Gwange River in Maiduguri are resilient – they know the river overflows every rainy season but, instead of allowing the flooding to get them down, […]
Kushari flood : ‘It was as if a river was flowing through my house’
Last week’s heavy downpours have left many internally displaced persons (IDPs) and residents of Kushari in Maiduguri not only homeless but also angry – so angry in fact that they […]
It never rains but it pours for farmers in the northeast
The overflowing Ngadda-Bul, a major river within Maiduguri in Borno State, has left some irrigation farmers counting their losses, while others are elated, have thanked Allah and are expecting a […]
Busiest highway in the northeast falling to pieces and prices rocketing sky high
The Maiduguri-Dikwa-Mafa-Gamboru Ngala highway is one of the busiest roads in northeastern Nigeria – but the rainy season is messing up traffic and, as a result, the prices of commodities […]
Resettled Baga IDPs beg government to give them access to their land so that they can farm again
Eight months ago, internally displaced persons from Baga were delighted to learn that the Borno State government was going to allow them to resettle in their ancestral communities – but […]
Stray bullet kills man during an attack on Goniri Garuwa town in Yobe State
Brief – A man was killed by a stray bullet in an attack by suspected Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS) fighters in Goniri Garuwa, a town in the Gujba […]
Military airstrike: Notorious JAS commander and 27 of his comrades ‘neutralised’
The military has confirmed that the infamous commander of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS), Alhaji Modu, also known as “Bem Bem”, and 27 of his comrades were killed […]
Civilian Joint Task Force members in Borno State have not been paid their allowances for 16 months
Members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) are furious because they have not been paid their allowances for the past 16 months – but the Borno State government has […]
Farmers safe and sound now – but too poor to work their lands to end food insecurity
For years persistent and deadly attacks by insurgents forced the farmers of Bama in Borno State to flee for their lives. Most ended up in internally displaced persons’ camps, where […]
Pregnant mother and her three children die when house collapses in severe deluge
A pregnant woman and her three children died when their house collapsed around them as heavy flooding deluged Bulajaji in Yobe State on Tuesday, July 2. At least 28 houses […]
