Signals from Nigeria’s side of Lake Chad, By Samuel Aruwan

In brief

On 7 November 2026, I listened with keen interest to the interview Alhaji Abubakar Gamandi, chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Fisheries Association of Nigeria, granted the BBC Hausa Service. As I translated it into English, I kept returning to his claim that armed groups now held six places on the Nigerian side of Lake […]