Posts Tagged ‘Nigerian’
Nigerian Military Says Killed 50 Jihadists In Army Base Raids
Nigeria’s military said on Thursday it had killed 50 armed insurgents that were using drones to carry out multiple attacks on army bases in the volatile northeast. Africa’s most populous country has been fighting the Boko Haram jihadist group and its Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) splinter for 16 years as they seek to…
Read MoreNigerian Monarch Takes On Oil Giant In Search Of Environmental Justice
Growing up in southern Nigeria during the 1970s, Bubaraye Dakolo would easily catch 20 kilograms of fish within minutes. These days, a fisherman casts nets all night, only to bring back just about three kilograms. Now Dakolo, the monarch of Ekpetiama, a kingdom in the southern coastal state of Bayelsa, a custodian of peace and…
Read MoreAward-winning Nigerian Agronomist Dreams Of A Cassava ‘Revolution’
Mercy Diebiru-Ojo’s ambitions are straightforward — increase Nigerian yam and cassava yields by 500 percent, fight hunger and raise her country’s position on the agricultural value chain from a mere grower to a processor. The first steps, at least, are already underway for the 44-year-old agronomist, who was awarded this year’s prestigious Africa Food Prize…
Read MoreSought By Luxury Labels, Nigerian Leather Reclaims Home Market
Most Nigerian leather, often semi-finished, is exported to Europe and Asia and turned into luxury items bearing international brand labels, with zero trace of its origins. But with her homegrown brand, Isi Omiyi creates high-end pieces to try to reclaim Nigeria’s leather identity. In her apartment in the Lagos metropolis, she has created a boutique…
Read MoreJihadists Kill 63 In Attack On Nigerian Town
Jihadists killed at least 63 people in northeastern Nigeria while storming a town whose residents had been returned from a displacement camp, the state governor said. The Friday night assault struck the town of Darul Jamal, which hosts a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border in a zone ravaged by jihadist attacks. Babagana Zulum, governor…
Read MoreNigerian Designer Pushes ‘Afro-lux’ Onto The Global Fashion Scene
Its modern architecture complemented by latticework inspired by local Yoruba textiles, Alara, west Africa’s first fashion and design “concept store”, is an imposing sight in Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling economic capital. Founder Reni Folawiyo is now 10 years into forging what she calls “Afro-lux”, Alara serving as a homebase for designs that “play between tradition and…
Read MoreNigerian Judge Delays Trial Over 2022 Church Massacre
A Nigeria court postponed on Tuesday the beginning of a highly anticipated trial over the killing of dozens of Catholic worshippers in a church massacre that rocked the nation’s usually safer southwest region and drew international condemnation. On June 5, 2022, gunmen attacked Saint Francis Catholic Church in Nigeria’s Ondo state, killing at least 40…
Read MoreFormer Nigerian President Buhari Buried At Family Compound
Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari was buried at his home in northwestern Katsina state Tuesday, with the multiple heads of state in attendance guarded by a heavy security detail. Thousands of Nigerians gathered for public prayers in the town of Daura before the former leader was laid to rest in private at his family compound,…
Read MoreMeta Fighting Nigerian Fines, Warns Could Shut Facebook, Instagram
Meta on Saturday vowed to fight Nigerian fines for various consumer data violations, reportedly threatening to cut off Facebook and Instagram in Africa’s most populous country. A Nigerian tribunal last week rejected the US social media giant’s appeal against a $220 million fine imposed by the country’s consumer protection agency, the Federal Competition and Consumer…
Read MoreNigerian Mixed-faith Families Sense Danger As Violence Flares
When the news came through of yet another massacre in the countryside in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state, local Christian Jamaima Haruna was terrified for her Muslim husband. The slayings in the Bokkos district left 52 dead — one of two major bouts of suspected intercommunal violence this month, in a state where Muslim herders and…
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