In Nigeria, millions of dollars of stolen public funds have been recovered in recent months, as President Muhammadu Buhari wages a war against corruption. Whistleblowers are playing a major role in the government’s anti-corruption...
In Nigeria, women are fleeing settlements near the commercial capital of the country, Lagos, where there’s been an increase in particularly violent sexual attacks – with even children maimed or killed after being raped....
The Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram has released 21 of the school girls it abducted two-and-a-half years ago. The group is believed to still be holding about 200 other girls. Sam Olukoya reports from...
Environmentalists rate Nigeria’s Niger Delta as one of the most polluted oil producing regions in the world. For more than fifty years, frequent oil spills have plagued the area, mainly from Western oil companies’...
Borders drawn across the African continent continue to have geopolitical repercussions even into the 21st century. In 2002 the International Court of Justice at Hague issued a ruling in a territorial dispute between Nigeria...
A 45 percent price hike in electricity rates is sparking protests across Nigeria. Many Nigerians scoff at being charged more for sub-par power service. Nigeria suffers frequent power failure and many of its citizens...
An attack over the weekend in northeastern Nigeria widely attributed to the Islamist sect Boko Haram left scores of people dead. Many of them, including children, were locked up in their homes and burned...
The world is riveted by the recent ISIS attacks in Paris and Beirut and the self-proclaimed Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for downing a Russian passenger plane in the Sinai Peninsula last month,...
It’s been 20 years since the then military-led government of Nigeria executed playwright and minority rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa with eight others. The men – all environmental campaigners opposed to the activities of the...
For more than a month, hundreds of people have been sleeping in the open after they were forcefully evicted from their homes in an impoverished neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria. Such evictions are common in...
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