By YEMISI OJO                                           Imagine you wake up one day, on a very good morning of the second day of a new year. Good despite that it is in a leather house at the IDP. Imagine again that you cooked, bathed your kids and had your whole day filled with fun, and that kind of […]

By YEMISI OJO I have heard stories of soldiers who died in warfare, and so far, I have come close to just one of them or a relative of one. She was in class that day, writing her exams, and the news came that her brother had been gunned down between the borders of Nassarawa and Benue state while fighting the herdsmen. What else should be her reaction? And she lost it. She is a […]

exactly a year mr Stephen started running from one place to the other because of the farmer herder crisis in Benue state and Nassarawa, I went visiting him at the Internally Displaced Camp in Daodu. And we had a chat.

By YEMISI OJO The National Youth Service  scheme is a compulsory one year national service undergraduates in Nigeria perform after school. This service is done mostly away from where they call home. In this episode, I and some corps members shared our experiences of serving in Benue state in the heat of the herder-farmer crisis and how that experience changed our lives forever.I hope you enjoy listening to this. Here is an excerpt to the […]