Tag: Nigeria

(Nigeria) Gunmen Kidnap, Kill Dozens in Nigeria After Military Revamp (The Defense Post)

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/01/29/gunmen-kidnap-kill-dozens-nigeria/

(Nigeria) Nigerian President Buhari replaces top military commanders (Al Jazeera)

Buhari has been under pressure due to the deteriorating security situation in the country. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/26/nigerian-president-buhari-replaces-top-four-military-chiefs

(Nigeria) Armed group captures military base in northeast Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Government troops and hundreds of residents have been forced to flee after an armed group overran a town and captured a military base in...

(Nigeria/Pandemic/Vaccines) Nigeria warns against fake COVID vaccines (Al Jazeera)

Nigerian authorities have warned against fake coronavirus vaccines in the country where 10 million real doses of the shots are expected to arrive in...

Perceptions of the AfCFTA among small enterprises in Nigeria (Payce Madden, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/01/06/figure-of-the-week-perceptions-of-the-afcfta-among-small-enterprises-in-nigeria/

NIGERIA – Radical social change in Nigeria beyond #EndSARS (Doris Okenwa, Al Jazeera)

2020 is the year we wish we could erase from memory and, if possible, imagine it never happened. But it did happen and some...

NIGERIA/BOKO HARAM – Freed schoolboys arrive in Nigeria’s Katsina week after abduction (Al Jazeera)

More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state...

NIGERIA/BOKO HARAM – Boko Haram claims kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian students (Al Jazeera)

An audio message from a man identifying himself as the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram has claimed that the armed group was responsible for...

NIGERIA – Nigeria and the Nation-State (John Campbell, CFR)

Former Ambassador John Campbell illustrates the history and importance of Nigeria, a country too often overlooked by the West. Nigeria matters. It is Africa’s largest...

NIGERIA – Global activists slam Nigeria for crackdown on protesters (Al Jazeera)

Global activists and celebrities have hit out at the Nigerian government over a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality two months...

NIGERIA – The wealthy Nigerians buying citizenship overseas (Ollie Williams, Al Jazeera)

Dapo has spent too long at home in Lagos, Nigeria. Back in October, protests against the SARS police unit kept him from going to his office....

NIGERIA – Nigeria Shell employees causing oil leaks for profit: Dutch TV (Al Jazeera)

Nigerian employees of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell ordered the deliberate vandalisation of oil pipelines for personal gain, a documentary in the Netherlands has...

NIGERIA – It is time to end impunity in Nigeria (Olamide Samuel, Al Jazeera)

October 2020 will be remembered in history as the month in which the true scale of the moral bankruptcy, institutional decay and lack of...

NIGERIA – Anger, trauma over years of tensions with police in Lagos suburb (Ope Adetayo, Al Jazeera)

It was 1pm on October 20 – just hours before the now-infamous Lekki tollgate shooting left 15 people dead – when another police shooting took place...

NIGERIA – Nigeria police rescue 10 people after ‘baby factory’ raid (Al Jazeera)

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman...