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Profiles of the lawyer who brokered the release of 82 women captured by Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

Daily Dispatch May 17, 2017

When 57-year-old Zannah Mustapha arrived for the handover of the 82 Chibok girls freed from Boko Haram after three years in captivity, a militant read out the girls’ names from a list. One by one, the abducted schoolgirls, now women, lined up along the outskirts of a forest near Kumshe

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Nigeria battles to beat polio and Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

The man sporting a giant purple bottom adorned with a swinging horse tail is chanting to the beat of the drummers, his blue-painted face sweating copiously. Children delightedly race around the colourful clown. All except Ismail, 13, who watches from the ground, twisting his head to follow the dance. A man with a megaphone is […]

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Banki, a city groaning under yoke of Boko Haram homeless

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The Nigerian Army calls it “New Banki City”, an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is an overcrowded camp for 32,000 desperate people made homeless by Boko Haram. In this ravaged corner of northeast Nigeria, the Islamists frequently launch attacks on military convoys, unleash suicide bombers and litter the surrounding roads […]

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A Nigerian’s nightmare failed bid to migrate to Europe

Daily Dispatch April 28, 2017

This year alone over 40,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean, many of them are Nigerians. The BBC’s Martin Patience has been to Nigeria’s Benin City where many of the migrants start their journey. It was the most difficult decision Kelvin Imasuen ever made – he would risk everything in a bid to reach Europe. “I […]

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Abia: Sycophancy at its peak

Daily Dispatch April 17, 2017

Sycophancy can indeed be a messy PR formula. The amazing thing about it, is that it is usually a product of an emotional hysteria. Almost, always, a sycophant hardly even knows when he has drifted from the realm of reality and plunged himself into the ignoble act of sycophancy. In Abia State, sycophancy has been […]

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The joy of a Christian-Muslim wedding among Egypt’s Nubians

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

The attacks this week on Coptic churches in northern Egypt underline the dangers faced by the country’s Christian minority. But among the Nubians – an ancient nation that lives along the upper reaches of the Nile – Muslims and Christians mostly live in harmony. Nicola Kelly attended a Muslim-Christian wedding, celebrated discreetly after nightfall, in