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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.
Statement to media
Nine Radio Ndarason Internationale staff members, including the editor in chief, the head of programmes and the office director in Nigeria were arrested at RNI offices in Maiduguri this morning. […]
Chibok schoolgirl, 110 women and 220 children rescued from Sambisa Forest
Chibok girl abducted 10 years ago by insurgents says she did not want to escape until now: ‘I trekked for days before getting to a military checkpoint where they took […]
Civilian Joint Task Force members threaten to quit over unpaid stipends
Some force members have not turned up for work and others are threatening to leave, saying they have not received their stipends for four months and can no longer support […]
‘If we go back to our farmlands, we will die’
Borno State farmers say armed men, thought to be insurgents, chased them from their lands five months ago and they threatened to kill anyone who returns. Hundreds of farmers in […]
Growing humanitarian crisis forces Nigerian refugees in Diffa to return to their hometowns
Starving refugees in conflict-ridden Niger say life is unbearable because they do not have enough food and there’s no clean drinking water More than 300,000 Nigerians – who fled from […]
Livestock dealers say crashing naira is killing their business
The seemingly ever-depreciating naira is making the buying and selling of livestock extremely challenging The drastic depreciation of the naira has made trade between Nigeria and its neighbours an extremely […]
Press Review 11-18 January 2024
Regional News Stop illegal payment of ransom to kidnappers – Badaru (premiumtimesng.com) Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, has urged Nigerians to stop the illegal payment of ransom to kidnappers and […]
Insurgents abduct nine firewood loggers, kill six people and wound four others in two separate attacks in Borno State
Relatives of the abducted men say they do not have money to pay a ransom and have reached out to the community and the Borno State government for help to […]
Military coup in Niger worsens humanitarian crisis of at least 300,000 Nigerian refugees
Governor’s promise a sham as at least 300,000 refugees in Niger are still waiting to be repatriated to their ancestral hometowns in Borno State. At least 300,000 Nigerian refugees in […]
A low-cost and low-key Christmas for most cash-strapped Christians in Borno State
Horror attacks in Plateau State where at least 145 mostly Christians were murdered – and the death toll is expected to rise because many people remain unaccounted for. There was […]
