NIGERIA
TikTok Creators Sentenced to 20 Lashes For Video Mocking Nigerian Politician
Rights groups have condemned the sentences handed to Mubarak Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad for a TikTok skit about Kano governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
US Warns of Terror Threats in Nigeria and South Africa Without Saying Why
Nigeria and South Africa have reacted with frustration after warnings were issued with zero context or more detail.
First Blood, Now Floods: These Farmers Are Battling Bandits and Climate Change
Devastating floods have killed more than 600 people and displaced 1.4 million. Nigeria’s food basket was already suffering from problems with armed bandits, but now swathes of it are underwater.
20 Mummified Bodies Found in Raid on ‘Ritualistic Shrine’
Three men have been arrested in the southern Nigerian city of Benin after police were alerted to the existence of a building housing the remains of adults and several children.
How the #EndSARS Generation Is Trying to Revolutionise Nigeria
They protested for an end to corruption and police brutality. Now young Nigerians are putting their hope in Peter Obi to upend the country's presidential election.
Nigerian Man Beaten to Death in Italy in Broad Daylight
People have taken to the streets to express their fury after the killing of Alika Ogorchukwu, whose death was filmed by bystanders who did not intervene.
Nigeria Wants to Ban Motorcycles – to Fight Terrorism
The bikes, known as okadas, are noisy, polluting, and often used as a dangerous taxi service, but that's not why they face being banned.
Nigerian Senator Charged Over ‘Child Organ Harvesting Plot’ in UK
Ike Ekweremadu, a leading politician, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, were arrested in London on Thursday, the Metropolitan Police said.
Cops Rescue 35 Girls Being Kept as ‘Sex Slaves’
Police in southeastern Nigeria said the teenagers, some as young as 14, were forced to have babies to be sold on the black market.
Nigeria’s Election Pits Ex-VP Once Banned From US v. the ‘Godfather of Lagos’
Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu will face off in next year's presidential election representing the two biggest parties. Some young Nigerians are pushing for a third-party candidate to rally behind.
World's Largest Cultural Organisation to Return Its Collection of Benin Bronzes
Cc: The British Museum
Boko Haram Fighters Tortured These Women. Now They’re Neighbours.
Nigerian women who were abducted are being forced to live side by side with the Boko Haram militants who enslaved them, under a controversial government rehabilitation programme.