Nigeria

In the same way as scenes of Beth Harmon discovering chess in the basement and rising through the world with her championship in chess in the Queen's Gambit, young children in the Majidun district of Nigeria's Lagos crowd around plastic tables and boards and learn about the centuries-old games in hope it gives a better life. Shantytown on the waterfront is across the lagoon from the mansions and high office blocks of Nigeria's commercial capital. They hope that the cunning and strategy they learn on…

The eighth edition of the Nollywood Week festival starts on Thursday 6 May and will take place completely online, a symbol of a cultural sector that is being undermined by the pandemic. The festival had to be canceled last year due to Covid-19. For this first virtual edition, four previews and about thirty films are shown, and many changes as well, a bit like Nigerian film that continues to adapt.…

How do I finish the countless cycle of battle between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria? In a report printed on Tuesday, Could 4, the Worldwide Disaster Group (ICG) is interested by the responses from the federal authorities. For 2 years, the federal authorities have applied a nationwide livestock administration program that gives options to farmers and ranchers.…

In Nigeria, the gang chief who led the kidnapping of 344 younger boys in Kankara, northwestern Nigeria in December, was killed by different native "bandits" simply days after breaking the peace settlement he made with the native authorities. as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianAuwal Daudawa coordinated at the top of final 12…

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…