Tales From Arewa

Over the last one year more than sixty thousand Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered to the Nigerian authorities. This has shown victory to the Nigerian troops but it is alarming how most of them are going back to Sambisa forest and here is why. https://yen.ng/yen2/2022/06/repentant-boko-haram-terrorists-are-returning-to-sambisa-and-here-is-why

Muhammad Kaumi Bashir is an 11 year old boy currently in JSS1. He found passion in innovating things to come handy. He thought, because of the shortage of electricity supply in Nigeria and particularly Maiduguri, he has to devise a means and ended up creating a mini generator.

This story tells you how cruel Nigerians can be. To loot from the public? Rob yourself what the government has provided and later on send blames to the government. https://yen.ng/yen2/2022/06/why-bogis-demolished-shop-belonging-to-man-who-uses-streetlight-power-source-to-run-ice-shop

What do you think is the best way of supporting a startup business?

Patronage or promotion ?

Well, in this episode, I want to share the story of an IDP who wills to create a family business.

This girl named Zarah Mustapha, who is an IDP that had a rough and hard time in the past years, who resides in a camp, hopeless and completely dependent on the hard to come by donations, who is still 18, yet have big dreams and it seems she's doing her best to make some of her dreams come true.

Not that her life has completely changed from extreme hardships, it has just changed from extreme to moderate.

‘It was very hard for me and my younger ones to even eat food sometimes. We ran from one tent to another to benefit from what others would cook,’ Zara said, while crying, reminiscing how things were for her.

But life is not permanent, sometimes when we work hard, we thrive. https://yen.ng/yen2/2022/05/idp-zara-builds-family-biz-in-cap-making-but-can-that-bring-home-her-dream-of-being-a-doctor

This is a story of an IDP who recently gave birth in a camp. In her efforts to feed her 3 orphaned kids, she welcomed to her family a fourth child for 5000 Naira. Read the details of the story by clicking this link https://yen.ng/yen2/2022/05/idp-bintu-gives-birth-to-a-child-unnamed-whose-father-is-nobody.

In this episode, we narrated Kemi Busari's investigation of Baban Aisha, who sells fake herbal medicine in the heart of Abuja

This is an overview of some of the milestones achieved by the government and the Nigerian military in the fight against terrorism in the northeast.

Tales From Arewa is back and stronger!!!