Eight security personnel—including police officers and members of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guard (CPG), locally known as ‘Askarawa’—were killed on Thursday in an ambush by bandits along the Funtua-Gusau road in Zamfara State. A security official confirmed the attack to SaharaReporters, describing the assailants as “daredevil bandits” who...

There were two girls named Abike and Abebi. Though many people called them sisters, their bond was formed more by circumstance than by blood. Abike was the daughter of their aunt, while Abebi was the daughter of their uncle. Life brought them together under one roof when they were sent to live in another aunt’s house, a woman everyone in the neighborhood knew very well—Aunt Fatima....

The village of Igbogun had always been small, quiet, and almost forgotten by the rest of the world. It clung to the edge of the Atlantic, where the waves whispered secrets no one dared repeat. Fishermen went to sea in the mornings and returned in the evenings with their nets heavy with fish, and mothers waited by the shore, calling their sons’ names into the wind. Life was simple,...

Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, has said that Nigeria requires a person of impeccable character and non-partisan standing to lead the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, Itodo stressed that anyone who succeeds the current INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, must be courageous,...

Adebimpe (POV) My body gave up before my spirit did. It started as a dull ache behind my eyes, the kind I could ignore if I worked slowly. Then my limbs grew heavy, as though the palace itself had climbed onto my back. Still, I swept. Still, I cleaned. Still, I served. Because in the palace, rest was a luxury slaves could not afford. That morning, when I tried to rise from my mat, the room...