Insecurity in Nigeria

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It has a population of 215 million but very few Nigerians have been untouched by incidents of violence and lawlessness which appear to have increased in recent months. Schools, colleges, churches, trains and roads have all been targeted, and people report feeling unsafe wherever they go. We hear the anguish of relatives involved in the recent armed attack on a church in Ondo state in south-west Nigeria, in which 40 people were killed and dozens wounded. A young woman describes the terror of being abducted with her sister and other students.

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0:00.0	Anyone that helps people who are accused of sorcery are also blamed for being sorcerers.
0:06.3	Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service, real people with extraordinary stories.
0:12.4	I started having a strength in me. I have to stand up for other women.
0:17.4	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:21.9	Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service,
0:24.7	and this is BBC Earth Conversations in Security in Nigeria.
0:32.6	Even by its own shocking experiences,
0:36.0	Nigeria has witnessed an upsurge in violence in recent months.
0:40.0	And for the past couple of weeks,
0:41.9	we've been bringing Nigerians across the country together
0:45.3	to share what they've had to live through,
0:47.5	including the prevalence of kidnapping as a way to make money.
0:51.7	Sometimes when they were caught, you would just be seen pictures of people that you knew.
0:56.4	They just got into kidnapping activities.
0:59.3	Sometimes victims were taken by their own relatives.
1:04.6	Before we go much further, I do need to be completely upfront.
1:08.0	You may find some of the stories you're about to hear upsetting.
1:12.0	We are grateful to those who are willing to share their experiences with us,
1:15.4	and we hope that they provide a small perspective of what people are living through.
1:21.1	Such are the daily incidents of lawlessness in Nigeria.
1:24.1	They can often go unreported in the international media.
1:28.2	But the recent attack on a church in the Ondo State in southwest Nigeria
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