Tag: Nigeria

Islamist militants accused of killing 34 in raids on Nigerian villages

(Mansur Abubakar - BBC) At least 34 people have been killed in coordinated attacks by suspected Islamist militants on several villages in north-western Nigeria,...

Le truppe statunitensi arrivano in Nigeria

(nostra traduzione da GZero)  La violenza sta nuovamente devastando la Nigeria. Domenica, uomini armati hanno ucciso tre persone e preso diversi ostaggi, tra cui un...

Geostrategic magazine (5 December 2025)

From global think tanks The analyses published here do not necessarily reflect the strategic thinking of The Global Eye. Today’s about: Abkhazia-Russia; Australia; Australia-Africa; Australia-Canada-India; China;...

Why is President Trump Threatening a Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria? (Crisis Group)

Relations between the U.S. and Nigeria have soured dramatically amid the Trump administration’s allegations that Nigerian Christians are being slaughtered en masse. In this...

Geostrategic magazine (30 August 2025)

Complex research (by Marco Emanuele): Ordine in progress / Order in progress | The Global Eye Evoluzione, involuzione, progresso / Evolution, involution, progress | The Global...

ISWAP Raids in Northeastern Nigeria Upset Regional Status Quo (Jacob Zenn – The Jamestown Foundation)

ISWAP has launched an unprecedented wave of raids on Nigerian military supercamps, signaling a shift in momentum and a potential end to the long-standing...

Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Nigeria (Michael Jones and Genevieve Kotarska – RUSI)

Nigeria faces numerous security threats: from high rates of violent crime and enduring kidnap-for-ransom issues to long-running insurgencies in the northeast and a metastasising...

Nigeria–South Africa Mineral Partnership: A Strategic Chapter in Africa’s Resource Development (Samir Bhattacharya – Observer Research Foundation)

In a landmark move poised to reshape the African mining landscape, Nigeria and South Africa have entered a mining cooperation agreement. The agreement, signed...

Nigerian intelligence agency raids news website (Reporters Without Borders)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by a Nigerian intelligence agency’s harassment of an Abuja-based news website with the aim of identifying its source...

Nigerians react with joy and resolve to lifting of Twitter ban (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

Solomon Elusoji, a Lagos-based journalist, felt a rush of relief early on Thursday after being able to access Twitter for the first time in...

How can ‘bandit’ attacks be stopped in northern Nigeria? (Al Jazeera)

Armed groups have terrorised people in central and northwestern Nigeria for years. The so-called “bandits” burn down villages, steal cattle and kidnap people for ransom. The...

About 200 dead in bandit attacks in northwest Nigeria: Residents (Al Jazeera)

An estimated 200 people have been killed in attacks by armed bandits in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, residents say, following military air...

Nigeria labels bandit gangs ‘terrorists’ in bid to stem violence (Al Jazeera)

Nigeria has branded criminal gangs known locally as bandits that are blamed for mass abductions of schoolchildren as “terrorist” groups, a designation aimed at containing growing insecurity...

Dozens killed in ‘barbaric, senseless’ violence in Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa state. In a statement late...

Nigeria: Halt Closure of Displaced People’s Camps (HRW)

Nigeria’s Borno State government’s efforts to shut down government camps hosting thousands of displaced people by December 31, 2021 is creating risks and hardships, Human...

Jailbreak epidemic hits Nigeria’s overcrowded prisons (Eromo Egbejule, Al Jazeera)

Last month, gunmen stormed a medium-security prison in Jos, central Nigeria, for the second time this year, managing to free more than 250 inmates. It...