Nigeria

Over the previous ten days, Iswap, the Boko Haram faction affiliated with the Islamic State, has intensified assaults on a number of cities within the states of Borno and Yobe. These assaults significantly disrupt the on a regular basis lifetime of the inhabitants on either side of the border with Niger. Based on a number of…

In her newest ebook, Sophie Bouillon shares her ardour for Lagos, a West African metropolis the place she works for AFP. Between the strains, the portrait of a metropolis through the Covid disaster, and what it takes to stay there. “In the event you suppose you might be robust, come to Lagos. You will see. "As a spotlight of…

In Nigeria, 31 troopers have been killed on Sunday, April 25, authorities stated. These answerable for the assault are believed to be the jihadists from the Islamic State group in West Africa. Nigerian troopers are stated to have been ambushed. Based on the Nigerian military, the navy convoy of about twenty automobiles was…

Terem Moffi is one of the great revelations of the French Football Championship 2020-2021 (Ligue 1) with now 14 goals - including a hat trick against Bordeaux - in 28 Ligue 1 matches with FC Lorient. The 21-year-old striker has never worn the colors of Nigeria in an official match and played in Lithuania for two more seasons.…

For the fourth time in a row, Kamaru Usman defended his world champion in welterweight from the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), the world's most prestigious mixed martial arts league (MMA), on the night of April 24-25, 2021 in Jacksonville (Southeast). United States). The Nigerian defeated the American Jorge Masvidal by KO in UFC 261. Kamaru Usman is truly the welterweights king of the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), the most prestigious mixed martial arts (MMA) league in the world. No offense to Jorge…

The Minister for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness of France, Franck Riester, traveled to Nigeria from Monday 12 April to Wednesday 14 April, in particular to prepare for the May 18 Summit on Financing the African Economy and the Africa Summit - France from Montpellier, scheduled for July. After an exchange in Abuja with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Nigerian Governors' Forum, he went to Lagos on…

Ramadan begins this Tuesday, April 13, in Nigeria and, as every year, religious authorities ask wholesalers not to raise food prices disproportionately. The month of Ramadan often corresponds to a sharp rise in food prices, while the most populous country in Africa is already facing 17% inflation on food products. After a year of recession and the economic and health crisis, many Nigerians have become poor. Jamila, a Muslim from Togo, notes that the prices of corn or beans in recent times have more than doubled in the…

Nearly 20 million people are starving in West Africa and the Sahel region as the vast area is torn apart by conflict and the coronavirus pandemic, experts warned on Thursday. The situation could worsen between June and August, with as many as 27 million people needing immediate food aid, or almost one in ten people in 14 countries, experts say. In Nigeria alone, 12.8 million people could face a food crisis "or worse" this summer, according to the Food Crisis Prevention Network, which includes…

Over 1,800 prisoners dressed in Nigeria. They fled in an armed group attack on a prison in Owerri, in the state of Imo, in the southeastern part of the country. And for the authorities, it is the trail from Biafran's separatists that seems privileged. According to the Nigerian police chief, the attackers would be well "members…

More than 1,800 prisoners escaped from a prison in southeastern Nigeria over Sunday to Monday following an attack by armed men, the attack has not been claimed, but the suspicion turns to Ipob, the independence group from Biafra, established in the region of Imo, where this attack took place. The Nigerian police chief said…