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‘We saw death and suffering’: Dozens of Nigerians freed after 6 months in jihadi captivity

At least 163 Nigerian captives, mostly women and children, have spoken of the suffering and fear they lived in for six months They were handed over by security forces in Kwara on Friday and were anticipating their return home to reunite with their families.

 

Children describe how Nigerian militants moving south are seizing more young captives

Nigeria is known for mass abductions of schoolchildren by armed groups in the volatile north, but now that threat is moving south.

 

An explosion in Nigeria’s Kwara state kills at least 1 person, police say

Police in Nigeria say that an explosion has killed at least one person and injured an unspecified number of people in the country’s north-central Kwara state.

 

In a Nigerian village, extremists issued a call to prayer and then slaughtered those who turned up

In the Nigerian villages of Woro and Nuku, attackers arrived on motorbikes, going door to door, shooting and setting homes ablaze.

 

A swimming coach in Nigeria provides inspiration and life lessons to disabled people

A swimming coach in Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos is teaching disabled children how to swim through his nonprofit aimed at empowering them in life.

 

In Nigeria’s floating slum, ‘The Herds’ tour spotlights climate change where it’s felt the most

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos.