Tag: Nigeria

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...