The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has arrested a 75-year-old man, Musa Gambo, who allegedly raped his six-year-old great-grandniece in
A non-governmental organisation has tasked community leaders and stakeholders to demand social accountability and an improvement of health care services
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NARRATION: In Nigeria, many people affected by leprosy survive as beggars. They usually sing songs like this as they solicit for assistance. One of them, Musa Gambo, says life has changed for the worse for them since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
GAMBO: We have been facing problems since the Corona pandemic started. The price of food has gone up, everything is expensive, yet we cannot do any job. The money people give us as alms now is much lower than what they used to give us in the past. Some people will give you nothing and just walk away because they are facing difficult times. Some people are even angry and irritated when you beg them for money because life is tough for them. They will ask why you are disturbing them for money as if you are not aware that there is corona.
‘Bandits should be declared terrorists’
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The greatest lesson we refused to learn with regards to banditry and kidnapping in Nigeria is our inability to comprehend that the mass kidnapping of more than 300 Kankara school boys is a declaration of war against the sovereignty of Nigeria by bandits.
The failure to handle the previous Kankara kidnapping with an iron hand is largely responsible for the continuous rampage of banditry and the recent Niger school boys incident, no person has been convicted or declared wanted for the Kankara case. All that the public knows is that the boys are safely released.