An estimated one million people have been affected by heavy flooding in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri. The governor of Borno State Babagana Zulum told journalists the estimate was based on a preliminary assessment. He said more than 100,000 people are displaced, even as search and rescue efforts continue. Zulum also blamed the colla...
Lagos, Nigeria — AFP Weeks of fuel scarcities in Nigeria are compounding a cost-of-living crisis, with the state-run oil company acknowledging “financial strain” was hampering supplies. Olufemi Soneye, a spokesman for government-controlled Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), blamed the lingering scarcity on f...
Kano, Nigeria — AFP A bombing at a teahouse in a village in northeast Nigeria killed 19 people and wounded two dozen more, in the second major attack in a few weeks, security sources said. The blast in Kawuri village in Borno State was one of the deadliest in recent years in northeast Nigeria, where […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Thousands of protesters marched in major cities in Nigeria to demand “immediate action” on the country’s food crisis and inflation. Protests began early in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, despite a move by the government to stop demonstrations. The crowd, mostly youths and human rights activists, marche...
Jos, Nigeria — AFP A school in central Nigeria collapsed on Friday, killing several students and trapping others who were heard crying out for help under the rubble, a rescue agency and witnesses said. Parents desperately looked for their children at the Saint Academy in Jos North district of Plateau State after the building fell [&helli...
Kano, Nigeria – AFP At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said. In one of three blasts on Saturday in the town of Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives […]
Port Harcourt, Nigeria — AFP On a riverbank in the Niger Delta, a group of residents in rubber boots has been working to restore one of Nigeria’s most precious and damaged ecosystems — its mangrove forests. The team members plunge their shovels into the mud and slot in saplings at the site in Bundu, a […]
Abeokuta, Nigeria — AFP Despite the rain pelting Balogun market in Lagos, Ajoke takes her time choosing the tie-dye fabric known as adire that she wants to give as a gift. The popular textile traditionally dyed with indigo is emblematic of the culture of the Yoruba people, one of Nigeria’s majority ethnic groups. The cloth [&hellip...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – A young Nigerian has developed a drone to deliver medicine and medical supplies to patients in rural areas of the country’s impoverished northwest region. Jubrin Musa, a 25-year-old secondary school dropout in Nigeria’s city of Kano, said he began working on the project 12 years ago. “I couldn̵...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria on Sunday said troops had rescued students who were abducted from a school in the town of Kuriga, Kaduna state, earlier this month. Army spokesman Edward Buba, in a statement shared with Anadolu, said the victims were rescued in the early hours by troops with support from local authorities and […]
