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Lagos, Nigeria – This week during his visit to the Ivorian capital Abidjan, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pledged $45m to boost coastal West…
Lagos, Nigeria – This week during his visit to the Ivorian capital Abidjan, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pledged $45m to boost coastal West…
Social media users recently circulated a picture of Bello Turji, a notorious terrorist leader in North West Nigeria, wearing a police uniform, with claims that…
Mirabel Andrew’s* life has been riddled with a lot of sensory issues, especially in her childhood, as she couldn’t stand noises such as thunderstorms and…
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On a sunny November afternoon in 2023, a group of women crammed into a classroom at a primary school in Kaduna South. Later, a bus…
About 75 items are to go under the hammer in a deal between Mandela’s family and a New York-based auctioneer. The South African government has…
In the middle of the high school basketball season, 6-foot-4 junior Emmanuel Duru of LACES left for a long-planned three-week trip to Nigeria to see…
In 2014, victims of the Boko Haram insurgency kept arriving at St. Theresa’s Cathedral in Yola, northeastern Nigeria, to seek shelter until there was no…
The CAF Africa Cup of Nations kicks off in Ivory Coast when the hosts face Guinea-Bissau on January 13 at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium in…
Betta Edu and predecessor are being investigated for suspicious financial dealings in the humanitarian affairs ministry. Nigeria’s president on Monday suspended the country’s minister of…
Ibadan, Nigeria – A wave of red corrugated roofs welcomes visitors to the city of Ibadan in southwest Nigeria. Inside the 200-year-old city’s centre, incessant…
Toshia, Yobe – In a remote corner of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Yobe, lie communities surrounded by vast sand dunes stretching as far as the…
Education was not a priority for Fatima Ali’s parents. But to her, it was. The family struggled financially. They also did not believe in girls’…
Twenty-five-year-old Naomi Iwelu is now settled, living in a room in the centre of Catania, Sicily. Here she recounts the robberies, betrayals and rape she…
Lagos, Nigeria – Chinenye Ikechukwu’s Decembers are usually dotted with concerts, parties, and restaurant and beach outings with friends. But this year, the 27-year-old resident…
In a Chargers season that’s going nowhere, he is — as a professional athlete — traveling there in a rather unlikely way. On a bicycle.…
Hundreds of people have been killed and injured in attacks by armed groups. The Nigerian government says at least 160 people were killed in attacks…
Abuja, Nigeria – On October 30, oil-rich Rivers State, Nigeria’s oil capital, became the latest hub of political drama in the country following the state…
Bwei Hali, 35, was preparing to have a grand Christmas celebration in Plateau, North-central Nigeria, when he started receiving phone calls from neighbouring villages that…
Nigerian authorities say armed groups known as ‘bandits’ hit 20 communities and injure more than 300 people. Armed groups have killed more than 100 people…