Tag: Nigeria

Nigerian intelligence agency raids news website (Reporters Without Borders)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by a Nigerian intelligence agency’s harassment of an Abuja-based news website with the aim of identifying its source...

Nigerians react with joy and resolve to lifting of Twitter ban (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

Solomon Elusoji, a Lagos-based journalist, felt a rush of relief early on Thursday after being able to access Twitter for the first time in...

How can ‘bandit’ attacks be stopped in northern Nigeria? (Al Jazeera)

Armed groups have terrorised people in central and northwestern Nigeria for years. The so-called “bandits” burn down villages, steal cattle and kidnap people for ransom. The...

About 200 dead in bandit attacks in northwest Nigeria: Residents (Al Jazeera)

An estimated 200 people have been killed in attacks by armed bandits in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, residents say, following military air...

Nigeria labels bandit gangs ‘terrorists’ in bid to stem violence (Al Jazeera)

Nigeria has branded criminal gangs known locally as bandits that are blamed for mass abductions of schoolchildren as “terrorist” groups, a designation aimed at containing growing insecurity...

Dozens killed in ‘barbaric, senseless’ violence in Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa state. In a statement late...

Nigeria: Halt Closure of Displaced People’s Camps (HRW)

Nigeria’s Borno State government’s efforts to shut down government camps hosting thousands of displaced people by December 31, 2021 is creating risks and hardships, Human...

Jailbreak epidemic hits Nigeria’s overcrowded prisons (Eromo Egbejule, Al Jazeera)

Last month, gunmen stormed a medium-security prison in Jos, central Nigeria, for the second time this year, managing to free more than 250 inmates. It...

Nigeria’s Borno state to limit food, aid distribution to some in northeast (Reuters)

Nigeria's northeastern Borno state will bar non-governmental organizations from distributing food or aid to resettled displaced people, the governor said in a circular seen...

Nigeria slams UK’s Omicron travel ban as ‘discriminatory’ (Al Jazeera)

A Nigerian official on Monday criticised a travel ban imposed on the West African nation by the British government amid fears about the new...

Gender-responsive education in emergency in Nigeria (Edem Dorothy Ossai, Brookings)

This policy brief highlights ways that a gender-responsive perspective can be fully incorporated into planning, policy design, and implementation models for education in emergencies...

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t over for workers in Nigeria (Jonathan Lain and Tara Vishwanath, Brookings)

The labor market is the main vehicle through which the proceeds of growth are shared among households and individuals. Therefore, understanding the labor market...

Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act: Addressing old problems, creating new ones (Kasirim Nwuke, Brookings)

Earlier this year Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, bringing to a close a 20-year effort to reform Nigeria’s oil...

Nigeria commits to annual carbon budgets to reach net zero under climate law (Joe Lo, Climate Home News)

After announcing a 2060 net zero goal at Cop26, the oil producing nation will set up a national council to oversee the implementation of...

US issues religious freedom ‘concern’ list, removes Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

The United States has removed Nigeria from a list of “countries of particular concern” regarding religious freedom, a day before US Secretary of State...

Gunmen abduct students, staff at university in Nigeria’s capital (Al Jazeera)

Gunmen abducted members of staff and their children at a university in Nigeria in a rare kidnapping at a large institution in the capital...