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Nigeria’s military is now a condition for planting food The Defence Headquarters announced this week that the military will increase patrols across farming communities for the 2026 planting season. To prevent, they said, a repeat of the “deadly 2025...
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The unit built to stop abductions in Imo became the abduction Nigeria didn’t build Tiger Base from nothing. It built it from a real problem. Kidnapping in the Southeast is real. Communities were suffering. The Anti-Kidnapping Unit in Owerri was the...
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Armed groups in the Northeast recruited boys for frontlines, girls for something worse Picture the figure first. 1,120 children recruited by armed groups in Nigeria’s Northeast in 2024 alone. 525 boys. 595 girls. Across Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe. UNICEF...
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El-Rufai is invoking rights he spent 16 years denying others. Both things are true. You’ve been watching the El-Rufai story and probably feeling something complicated. That complication is the actual story. Here’s what happened: former Kaduna governor...
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Nigeria criminalises ransom payments. Then pays them by helicopter. Then denies it. A helicopter carried the money. It landed at Boko Haram’s stronghold in Borno State. A commander called Ali Ngulde crossed into Cameroon to confirm receipt. Then the first 100...
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America’s army arrived where Nigeria’s couldn’t protect its own miners This week, 100 US military trainers landed at Bauchi’s Gombe Airfield. They’re here to help Nigerian forces fight Boko Haram and bandits in the northeast. The...