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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.
Shocking report finds 22.1% of teachers not competent to teach and not trainable – and will probably end up planting trees for the ministry of environment
Only 31.6% of Borno State’s 17,229 educators are qualified to teach. This was the finding of a committee, set up by governor Babagana Umara Zulum, which was given the task […]
Residents banish NGOs from town, claiming they discriminate when recruiting for jobs
Residents of Banki town in the Bama Local Government Area of Borno State have given humanitarian organisations 72 hours to leave the town, accusing them of being discriminatory in their […]
One killed, two wounded in rocket launcher attack in Gamboru
Brief – One man was killed and two others wounded when a rocket launcher projectile hit their home in the early hours of Monday, February 21, in the Gamboru-Ngala Local […]
Gender-based violence: Vulnerable young girls are most at risk
It’s not only women who are the victims of gender-based violence (GBV) – it’s also young girls, who are even more vulnerable if they’re poor and have to rely on […]
Anger and frustration as fuel shortages in Nigeria cause major traffic jams, with lines of cars stretched for hundreds of metres as motorists queued to fill their tanks
Motorists in Nigeria, the largest oil producer in Africa, were left angry and frustrated by last week’s fuel shortage that caused major traffic jams in the main cities of the […]
Sick children dying daily in IDP camp – and pregnant women in labour carried to hospital in wheelbarrows
Five or six sick children are dying daily at an internally displaced persons’ camp in Gwoza because of a lack of medical facilities and medicine – and pregnant women in […]
Increased improvised explosive device attacks in Borno communities creates fear and concern among residents
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) seem to have become the weapons of choice by insurgents in northeast Nigeria – there has been a noticeable increase recently in the number of attacks […]
Niger : Female genital mutilation must stop
Even though female genital mutilation (FGM) was prohibited in Niger in 2003, the practice continues. On Sunday, February 6, Niger celebrated the International Day for the Fight against Female Genital […]
Improvised explosive device on ‘closed’ highway kills driver and his conductor, and wounds passenger
The driver of a pick-up truck and his conductor were killed, and one passenger wounded, when they rode over an improvised explosive device (IED) on the Damboa-Maiduguri highway in Borno […]
Man blown to pieces by buried improvised explosive device
A Dikwa resident, who saw something unusual buried in the sand and hit it repeatedly with a stick, was blown to pieces by what turned out to be an improvised […]
