Five West African countries ban ‘dirty fuels’ imports
Five West African costal nations, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast have introduced strict standards for fuel imports to cut vehicle emissions for cleaner […]
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Donald Trump names Nigerian to strategic policy board
U.S president-elect Donald Trump named a Nigerian-born, Adebayo Ogunlesi, to serve as a strategist on his economic policy team. The 16-member group will be led […]
Moroccan-Nigerian Cooperation Getting off to a Flying Start
Cooperation relations between Morocco and Nigeria which have been hibernating for many years are getting off to a flying start with the historic visit King […]
Wole Soyinka throws away green card, quits US
Nigerian Nobel-literature laureate Wole Soyinka has confirmed that he has relocated to his native Nigeria. Soyinka vowed a month ago while giving a speech to […]
Amnesty International: Military killed 150 pro-Biafra activists in Nigeria
Nigerian security forces led by the army have carried out the executions of at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters in the Southeast of Nigeria, Amnesty […]
Cameroon: Boko Haram launches three deadly assaults
The Nigeria-based Islamist militants carried out raids in neighbouring Cameroon killing about 6 soldiers, local media Cameroonweb reported on Wednesday. “Between yesterday and today there […]
Cambodia-based Nigerian footballer sets new world record
Nigerian footballer Harrison Chinedu cycled 64 miles with a football on his head, hoping to enter the Guinness Book of Records, local media reported. In […]
Nigeria’s GDP shrinks by 2.24 % in Q3 of 2016
Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 2.24 percent in the third quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. According to the […]
More than half of Boko Haram fighters are not Nigerians
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday told the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mohammed Ibn Chambas that 60 […]
Abubakar Shekau: Boko Haram ready for ‘war’ with Donald Trump
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram on Sunday night, reacted to the election of Donald Trump. In an audio message […]