Tag: Nigeria

Nigeria – ISWAP Launches Hearts and Minds Strategy to Counter Nigerian Army Offensive (Jacob Zenn, The Jamestown Foundation)

Since Boko Haram’s launched its jihad in 2009, the group has undergone three major phases of territory-capturing military offensives. The Nigerian army turned the...
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Nigeria – Dozens kidnapped from Islamic school in northern Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Armed groups carrying out kidnapping for ransom have been blamed for a series of raids on schools and universities in northern Nigeria in recent...
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Nigeria – Student kidnappings threaten collapse of Nigerian education system (Brookings)

Adedeji Adeniran and Marco Castradori The Nigerian education system is deep into crises on multiple fronts, including in areas of access and quality of education. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/04/19/student-kidnappings-threaten-collapse-of-nigerian-education-system/
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Nigeria – COVID’s impacts on the Nigerian extractive sector (Brookings)

Tamara White Earlier this month, the World Bank launched its latest edition of Africa’s Pulse, which explores the trajectories and trends in economic growth (or losses)...
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(Nigeria) Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria. The role of religion (Chatham House)

Leena Koni Hoffmann, Raj Navanit Patel This paper analyses the results of a survey carried out as part of the ongoing Chatham House Africa Programme’s Social Norms...
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(Nigeria) Nigeria’s crackdown on Bitcoin echoes global crypto conundrum (Al Jazeera)

Torinmo Salau The backlash against a Nigerian central bank directive on cryptocurrencies echoes a dilemma facing governments around the world: how to regulate Bitcoin and...
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(Nigeria) An Exit from Boko Haram? Assessing Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor (Crisis Group)

In 2016, Nigeria launched a program to help Boko Haram defectors reintegrate into civilian life. Rare interviews with the “deradicalisation” facility’s graduates reveal some...
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(Nigeria) Nigeria university strike caused ‘crisis’ for small businesses (Al Jazeera)

Pelumi Salako One year after a 10-month strike shut universities across Nigeria, small businesses that depend on students for patronage are reeling from the effects...
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(Nigeria) What is behind the rise in kidnappings in Nigeria? (Al Jazeera)

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra Guests: Mike Ejiofor – former director of Nigeria’s State Security Service Ini Dele-Adedeji – research fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Center for African Studies Anietie...
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(Nigeria) Nigeria: Inflation hits four-year peak as food prices soar (Al Jazeera)

Inflation in Nigeria reached 17.33 percent driven by the COVID pandemic, a drop in oil revenue and a weakened currency. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/3/16/nigeria-inflation-hits-4-year-peak-as-food-prices-soar
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(Nigeria) Deepening access to capital for Nigerian MSMEs during a pandemic (Brookings)

Toyin Adeniji While Nigeria has, so far, seemingly been spared the public health onslaught created by COVID-19, the country has not escaped the urgent economic...
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(Nigeria) Halting Repeated School Kidnappings in Nigeria (Crisis Group)

Nnamdi Obasi Gunmen snatched more than 270 girls from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria on 26 February, releasing them four days later. In this...
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(Nigeria) Crew of Chinese boat freed after ransom payment: Nigerian army (Al Jazeera)

Nigerian army says $300,000 paid to kidnappers to release 14 crew members on board vessel that was seized in February. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/7/crew-of-chinese-boat-freed-after-ransom-payment-nigerian-army
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(Nigeria) Six Dead in Jihadist Attacks in Northeast Nigeria: Aid Groups (The Defense Post)

Aid groups in Nigeria said Wednesday six civilians died in a suspected jihadist attack on a northeastern town that, according to the UN, “directly...
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(Nigeria) All 279 Kidnapped Nigerian Students Released: Governor (The Defense Post)

All 279 girls kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released and are on government premises, the local governor told AFP on Tuesday. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/03/02/279-nigerian-students-released/
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(Nigeria/Gambia) Nigerian Victim Calls for Justice at Gambia Truth Commission (HRW)

Ex-President Jammeh Linked to 2005 Murder of 59 West African Migrants https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/02/nigerian-victim-calls-justice-gambia-truth-commission
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