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Aminu Abubakar is a journalist based in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, where he grew up. He worked for local newspapers before joining Agence France-Presse (AFP) in 2000 as a freelance correspondent covering northern Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari addressed crowds of supporters in his home state of Katsina

Africa

Last day of campaigning in Nigeria before polls

Ola Awoniyi, Joel Olatunde Agoi, Aminu Abubakar, Chris Stein & Celia Lebur - 14 Feb 2019

A general view shows the damage at a camp for displaced people after an attack by suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency in Dalori

Africa

What’s behind the return of Boko Haram?

Aminu Abubakar & Celia Lebur - 5 Jan 2019

A Nigerian soldier covers his face while taking a picture of a mass grave in the recently retaken town of Damasak

Africa

Nigerian soldiers demand break from Boko Haram

Aminu Abubakar - 17 Aug 2018

Africa

Boko Haram frees most of abducted Dapchi schoolgirls

Aminu Abubakar - 21 Mar 2018

'Buhari made history at the last elections by becoming the first opposition candidate in Nigerian history to defeat a sitting president

National

Fit-again Nigerian president hits the campaign trail

Aminu Abubakar - 8 Dec 2017

Africa

Hunting for Africa’s Einstein with a science lab on wheels

Aminu Abubakar - 8 Nov 2017

Africa

Call for Boko Haram peace talks masks ethnic tensions

Aminu Abubakar - 18 Jul 2017

OR Tambo International Airport is set to expand

Africa

Major airlines give Kaduna airport a miss

Aminu Abubakar - 10 Mar 2017

Africa

Proposed Nigerian family laws can revolutionise polygamy

Aminu Abubakar - 3 Mar 2017

Africa

Cash crunch affects match-making programme and mass weddings in Kano, Nigeria

Aminu Abubakar - 22 Jul 2016

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