By Fredrick Nwabufo At a time when evil spars against good, we must choose a side. We either opt to be a part of darkness or take a place in…
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South-east, insurgency and the coming refugee crisis
By Fredrick Nwabufo What fuels an insurgency? The combustible mixture of ideology and ignorance. If a clump of uninformed people has an ideology they can die for, they will do…
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Report: The birth of banditry and how villagers co-babit with them
For years, residents of Shinkafi, in the far northern part of Zamfara State, are known for business. Merchants from here travel to places like Kano, Gusau and Sokoto almost daily…
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Six reasons why Boko Haram have not been defeated by the military
The phrase that Nigerian militant group Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” is ringing increasingly hollow. Seven months into his first term in 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari coined the term,…
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How a Nigerian scheme (Igba Boi) forged in war creates billionaires
Nigeria’s Igbo community have a reputation for being highly successful businessmen – partly thanks to a community-run apprentice scheme that emerged from the ruins of war, writes the BBC’s Chiagozie…
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