Tag: Nigeria

Power problems: Could solar solve Nigeria’s electricity woes? (Olatunji Olaigbe, Al Jazeera)

On a recent Monday morning, Mathew Bello, popularly known as Matey, switched on the generator that powers his shop in the capital of Kwara...

Nigeria. Nigeria Recaptures 108 Inmates After Prison Outbreak (The Defense Post)

At least 108 out of 240 inmates who escaped from a prison in central Nigeria have been recaptured, a prison official said Tuesday. Heavily armed gunmen stormed...

Nigeria. Consegnato alla flotta presidenziale nigeriana il primo elicottero Leonardo AW189 VIP (Analisi Difesa)

La flotta aerea presidenziale nigeriana ha ricevuto nei giorni scorsi il primo di due nuovi elicotteri Leonardo AW189 in versione VIP. Consegnato alla flotta presidenziale...

Nigeria. Gunmen attack Nigerian prison; 240 inmates freed (Al Jazeera)

Heavily armed men raided a jail in southcentral Nigeria and freed 240 inmates – almost everyone in the prison. The attackers started a gun battle...

Nigeria. Pass-mark bribery in Nigerian schools (Leena Koni Hoffmann, Raj Navanit Patel, Chatham House)

Underinvestment and corruption in Nigeria’s education sector have created a context where providers of education services are presented with routine opportunities to demand and...

Nigeria. Nigeria Gunmen Kidnap 73 Students From High School in Northwest (The Defense Post)

Nigerian gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped 73 students after storming a high school in the northwest of the country in the latest in a series...

Nigeria. 17 People Killed in Nigeria Jihadist Attacks (Defense Post)

Nigerian soldiers patrol on October 12, 2019, after gunmen suspected of belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group carried out a...

Nigeria. Nigerian air force Super Tucanos ready to fight against ISIS, with US Air Force training (Todd South, Defense News)

The Nigerian air force held an induction ceremony for pilots and maintainers of the A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft. Training for these airmen...

Nigeria. Nigeria’s Buhari Urges Unity After Massacres in Flashpoint City (The Defense Post)

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has called for communities to unite to ease tensions after violence in a flashpoint central city killed dozens of people. Jos, in Plateau State,...

Nigeria/Russia. Nigeria To Buy Military Hardware From Russia (Lisa Vives, IDN)

Fighter jets, ammunition and other military hardware are among the top featured items in a new “landmark development in bilateral relations” between Moscow and...

Nigeria – Nigeria’s Twitter ban is a misplaced priority (Brookings)

Source: Authors, using data from Twitter Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski In early June 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter after the platform...

Nigeria – Education in emergency in Nigeria: Creating gender equitable policies so all girls have an uninterrupted right to learn (Brookings)

Edem Dorothy Ossai writes: Even under what some may describe as normal conditions, girls in Nigeria face a distinctive set of barriers to formal...

(Nigeria) 100 kidnapped villagers freed after 42-day captivity (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Police in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara have said they secured the release of 100 villagers kidnapped in early June following...

Nigeria – No End in Sight for Insecurity and Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria (Idris Mohammed, The Jamestown Foundation)

For half a decade, northwestern Nigeria has been facing serious insecurity, ranging from armed group violence to kidnappings and banditry, which has affected most...

Nigeria – Once Africa’s promise, Nigeria is heaving under crime, few jobs (Alonso Soto, Al Jazeera)

If there was ever a time Nigeria could have taken off, it was in 1999. Democracy had been restored, with its economy reopening after...

Nigeria – How Nigeria’s Twitter ban stands to impact people, businesses (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

The Twitter suspension came two days after the social media giant deleted a tweet from President Buhari’s account for violating its rules How Nigeria’s...