The Backstory

Last month,  Plateau State, specifically Jos and about three local governments surrounding Jos had been under some kind of curfew since August 14th. The situation quickly escalated to the point where students had to be evacuated from the University of Jos (UniJos).

In this episode, we speak with Esther, a UniJos student who gives a firsthand account of what she experienced in the first 24 hours before she was evacuated.

Note: Esther is not the student’s actual name.

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This episode was produced by Anthonieta Kalunta, Nabilah Usman, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to “Esther”, Richard Anyebe, John Iwodi, Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

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We used several sources for this episode including:

▶︎Asma’u Zakari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r88TIkzzMI

▶︎TVC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAzgr6zEvpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEhQEgIm3Vs

▶︎The Guardian Newspaper

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▶︎An update on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games

The Games ended last week and Team Nigeria has come back home with 10 medals: 4 Gold, 1 Silver, and 5 Bronze.

Congratulations to all of our Paralympians. You’ve made us proud yet again. Welcome home.

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On the 24th of June, Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu was paraded in front of Nigerian journalists and at that time she confessed to killing Usifo Ataga in self-defense. About three weeks later, she said she had nothing to do with Mr. Ataga’s death. Same person, different version of events.

In this episode, we discuss why confessions are so powerful and how it’s possible to hack into a person’s mind in order to get a false confession.

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This episode was produced by Anthonieta Kalunta, Nabilah Usman, John Iwodi, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Richard Anyebe, Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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We used several sources for this episode including:

▶︎TVC News

https://youtu.be/PE68BxFlBJk

▶︎Crime Fighters Television

https://youtu.be/oF_VARq3siA

▶︎Arise News

https://youtu.be/USE7NkRz53E

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▶︎An update on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games

As of Monday, 30th August 15:31 WAT, team Nigeria has won 6 medals: 3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze

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Today is the first day of the 2020 Paralympic games in Tokyo and Nigeria’s Paralympic team is expected to put on a very strong performance. Even stronger than our Olympic team. What is their secret?

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This episode was produced by Alexandra Gekpe, Richard Anyebe, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Anthonieta Kalunta, John Iwodi, Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku. We also thank Dr. Samuel Gekpe and all the men and women who gave us feedback.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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We used several sources for this episode including:

▶︎International Paralympic Committee

https://www.paralympic.org

▶︎Vanguard Online

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/olympic-funds-ready-dg-budget/

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Nigerians can watch the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games on your local NTA channel or stream the games on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV

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On Sunday, August 15th, the world woke up to the news that Afghanistan is once again under the control of the Taliban. The US and other allied nations have been withdrawing troops from Afghanistan since February 2020 and analysts had predicted that the Taliban would probably take over at some point. But the speed at which it happened shocked just about everyone.

In this episode of The Backstory, we’ll remind you why the United States got into Afghanistan in the first place and how they found out, like the rest of us, that the Taliban is very much still a force to be reckoned with.

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This episode was produced by Richard Anyebe, John Iwodi, Alexandra Gekpe, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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We used several sources for this episode including:

▶︎NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html

▶︎Council on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-war-afghanistan

▶︎Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EYEPMQ?pf_rd_r=M6CFCSA3AMQNAQBPAWQ9&pf_rd_p=8fe9b1d0-f378-4356-8bb8-cada7525eadd&pd_rd_r=de990ae8-c018-4427-a412-088948479fd7&pd_rd_w=l9uzE&pd_rd_wg=8nmXl&ref_=pd_gw_unk

▶︎Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Book 36) by Thomas Barfield

https://www.amazon.com/Afghanistan-Cultural-Political-Princeton-Politics-ebook/dp/B003ODIRLY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=34B4V9SHE1RD0&dchild=1&keywords=afghanistan&qid=1629307724&sprefix=afg%2Caps%2C409&sr=8-3

▶︎President Biden Delivers Remarks on Afghanistan

https://youtu.be/kIxyYU227mM

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In October 2019, the FBI made an arrest in an airport somewhere in the US. That arrest led to the downfall of a popular Nigerian instagram influencer and now a highly decorated Nigerian police officer is fighting to save his reputation and career.

In today’s episode of The Backstory, we dig into the FBI’s court filings and uncover so much more to this story.

YouTube video for this episode: https://youtu.be/z5UTXWq2nEk

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This episode was produced by Nabilah Usman, Anthonieta Kalunta, John Iwodi, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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We used several sources for this episode including:

▶︎Dubai Media Office:

https://twitter.com/DXBMediaOffice/status/1276109374667264001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276109374667264001%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Ftechnology%2F2020%2F06%2Fdubai-police-fox-hunt-2-hushpuppi-arrest.html

▶︎US Justice Department

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/nigerian-national-brought-us-face-charges-conspiring-launder-hundreds-millions-dollars

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/press-release/file/1292066/download

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/six-indicted-international-scheme-defraud-qatari-school-founder-and-then-launder-over-1

▶︎Premium Times

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/476935-breaking-hushpuppi-police-suspend-abba-kyari.html

▶︎HotNaija

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_7D72XFpE&t=5s

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Right before taking their summer recess, the Nigerian Assembly decided to debate amendments to the Electoral Act. The act has 158 clauses and they considered each clause one by one. Everything was going well until they got to section 52 subsection 2. Then all hell broke loose.

What’s all the fuss about section 52 subsection 2? Find out this week on The Backstory podcast.

This episode was produced by Anthonieta Kalunta, John Iwodi, Nabilah Usman, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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NCC’s National Broadband Plan 2020 - 2025

https://www.ncc.gov.ng/documents/880-nigerian-national-broadband-plan-2020-2025/file

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It’s been over 50 days since the Nigerian government suspended Twitter operations in the country. But, Nigeria is not the only country where Twitter is running into problems and on this week’s episode we invited Nikhil Pahwa from MediaNama, based in India, to share the experiences that the Indian government has been having with social media.

Though the inciting incidents around social media are somewhat similar between our two countries, our governments have reacted differently. Nigeria chose to ban Twitter while India is choosing to regulate them…for now.

So in this episode we ask: did the Nigerian government even have the option to regulate Twitter?

This episode was produced by Alexandra Gekpe, Richard Anyebe, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Nikhil Pahwa from MediaNama (link below), Anthonieta Kalunta, Nabilah Usman,

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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▶︎Nikhil Pahwa, Founder and Editor, MediaNama

https://www.medianama.com

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Last month (May 2021) the news was that Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, is dead. He apparently was chased down by his rivals in the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and asked to surrender. He chose to die. By suicide bomb.

Last week on the Backstory podcast, we began to trace the internal developments within the insurgent group that made this outcome unavoidable. This week we ask: what happens next?

This episode was produced by Nabilah Usman, Richard Anyebe, Anthonieta Kalunta, Dominic Tabakaji, and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Abdulbasit Kassim, Murtala Abdullahi, Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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We relied on the following sources for this episode:

▶︎The Crisis Group

https://www.crisisgroup.org

▶︎The Council on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org

▶︎HumAngle

https://humangle.ng

▶︎Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement by Alexander Thurston

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172248/boko-haram

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Last month (May 2021) the news was that Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, was dead. He apparently was chased down by his rivals in the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and asked to surrender. He chose to die. By suicide bomb.

Over the next two weeks on the Backstory podcast, we trace the internal developments within the insurgent group that made this outcome unavoidable.

This episode was produced by Nabilah Usman, Richard Anyebe, Anthonieta Kalunta, Dominic Tabakaji, and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Abdulbasit Kassim, Murtala Abdullahi, Rabia Hadejia and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

Copyright (c) 2021 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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We relied on the following sources for this episode:

▶︎The Crisis Group

https://www.crisisgroup.org

▶︎The Council on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org

▶︎HumAngle

https://humangle.ng

▶︎Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement by Alexander Thurston

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172248/boko-haram

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