List of Nigeria articles
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TOPSHOT - Illegal migrants sit on the dock at the Tripoli port after 115 migrants of African origins were rescued by two coast guard boats at sea when their boat started sinking off the Libyan coast on April 11, 2016. / AFP / Mahmud TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images) Why Black People Must Help Africa Develop
The marginalization of blacks in America won’t end until we have a first-world African nation to lift up our people.
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A photo taken on October 28, 2015 in Maiduguri shows a poster displaying one hundred Boko Haram suspects declared wanted by the Nigerian army. The Nigerian army on October 28 said it had freed more than 330 people, mostly women and children, from Boko Haram's Sambisa forest stronghold in the volatile northeast. AFP PHOTO / STRINGER (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Islamic State Announces New Leader of Boko Haram, Who Vows War Against Christians
Boko Haram might have a new leader, and he wants to target Christians.
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This picture taken on January 29, 2016 in Lagos shows 1000 naira banknotes, Nigeria's currency. Nigeria's central bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, on January 26 dismissed calls to devalue the naira in his monetary policy committee statement. Instead he chose to continue propping up the currency at 197-199 naira to the dollar and maintain foreign-exchange restrictions. As a result, the naira on the black market is hovering around a record low of 305, fuelling complaints from domestic and foreign businesses who can't access dollars required for imports. / AFP / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images) Beloved Friend, I Am a Nigerian Email Scammer and Interpol Just Arrested Me. Please Help.
A Nigerian man believed to have organized a criminal ring that stole money from businesses around the world was arrested by Interpol.
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Booklist_image1 Around the World in 40 Books
Headed to Rio, Paris, or Cape Town this summer? We asked distinguished writers and thinkers to pick their favorite books about 20 of the world’s great cities.
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LAGOS, NIGERIA - SEPTEMBER 28: Nigerian Christians pray together at the City of David Church September 28, 2003 in the affluent Victoria Island section of Lagos, Nigeria. Evangelical and Pentecostal churches in Nigeria are not only the domain of the nation's poor, but also of its very wealthy. Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity are spreading in many parts of the developing world, often outgrowing traditional forms of Christianity first brought by colonizers and long dominant. (Photo by Jacob Silberberg/Getty Images) Nigeria’s Solution to Noise Complaints? Shut Down Some Churches and Mosques.
Lagos is shutting down churches and mosques due to increased noise complaints.
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FS_topimage Fragile States Index 2016
In 2015, long-simmering crises crossed borders, even continents, in a reminder that it takes very little for regional instability to go global.
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Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) raise their riffles to celebrate news of a successful operation by their colleagues against the Nigerian army in the Niger Delta on September 17, 2008. MEND has declared a full-scale "oil war" against the Nigerian authorities in response to attacks by the Nigerian military launched against the militants. "Our target is to crumble the oil installations in order to force the government to a round table to solve the problem once and for all", said Boy Loaf, leader of the militants. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images) Trouble Is Brewing in Nigeria’s Oil Country
For years, the government paid militants in the Niger Delta not to blow up oil pipelines. Now it’s cutting them loose — and they’re taking up arms once again.
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GettyImages-469307328 crop To Find Progress in Nigeria, Think Local
President Buhari has struggled to deliver reform during his first year in power. Time to look to the states.
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IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA - NOVEMBER 03: A Nigerian woman sells tomatoes and chillies in an Ijebu-Ode market on November 3, 2009 in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria. (Photo by Jamie McDonald - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images) Nigeria’s Latest Enemy? Tomato-Eating Moths.
A moth infestation in Nigeria's tomato plants has increased the price of tomatoes by more than 30-fold.
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<> on June 28, 2012 in London, England. The Bandits’ Banker
David Cameron is right that Nigeria is “fantastically corrupt.” He just forgot to mention that Britain is making it worse.
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Britain's Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow (L) introduces British Prime Minister David Cameron (C) to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, as Chris Grayling (2nd R), Leader of the British House of Commons and Chris Bryant (R), shadow leader of the House of Commons, look on during a reception in Buckingham Palace in London on May 10, 2016. Delegations from both Houses of Parliament, comprised of representatives from across the political spectrum visited The Queen at Buckingham Palace to mark her 90th Birthday. / AFP / POOL / PAUL HACKETT (Photo credit should read ) Now Who’s Being Rude? British Leaders Snub the Countries They Once Ruled
Did Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II realize that the three countries they offended in recent comments were each exploited by the British empire?
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A poster displayed along the road shows photograph of Imam Abubakar Shekau, leader of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, declared wanted by the Nigerian military with $320,471 reward for information that could lead to his capture in northeastern Nigeria town of Maiduguri May 1, 2013. Abubakar Shekau, leader of Islamist sect that has killed about 4,000 people since 2009 when it began its campaign of terror is Nigeria's most wanted man, who has been designated a terrorist by the US government. President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the constitution of a Presidential Committee to constructively engage key members of Boko Haram and define a comprehensive and workable framework for resolving the crisis of insecurity in the country. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images) Boko Haram’s Terrorist Behind the Curtain
Meet the man who transformed an obscure proselytizing group into the deadliest terrorist organization on earth.
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Flames and heavy black smoke rise from an oil pipe that was hit in a blast near an oil facility in the town of Ras Lanuf on March 9, 2011. AFP PHOTO/ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Africa’s Petrostates Are Imploding
And that’s setting off a dramatic shift in the economic balance of power on the continent.
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spyra_bh_yola_066-e1458583658307 The ‘Wives’ of Boko Haram
Taken from their homes by Boko Haram fighters, these Nigerian women were held captive for months — some even longer. They escaped. But going home is another matter.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) and South African President Jacob Zuma arrive for a joint sitting of the National Assembly in Abuja on March 8, 2016. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma began a two-day state visit to Nigeria on March 8, which observers see as an attempt to mend fences between the continent's largest economic powers. Pretoria is putting a positive spin on the visit, talking up the pair's "good bilateral political, economic and social relations" and potential new business opportunities. / AFP / PHILIP OJISUA (Photo credit should read PHILIP OJISUA/AFP/Getty Images) Nigerian President Blames Phone Company for Boko Haram Attacks
Nigeria asked phone giant MTN to shut down unregistered SIM cards. They failed to respond in time.
