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Nigerian activist Sunday Adeyemo Igboho was presented to the prosecutor and will return to the Cotonou prosecutor's office on Monday. Asked by the services in his country demanding his extradition from Benin where he found refuge, he was arrested at Cotonou airport on Monday. as reported from Cotonou, Jean-Luc AploganThe…

A Nigerian soldier was killed on Tuesday (June 15) during fighting in the "three borders" area of ​​Mali. Three other soldiers were injured: another Nigerian soldier and two French soldiers from the Barkhane force. This collision occurred on Tuesday, June 15, in the In Araban sector of Mali, southwest of Ménaka, in Liptako, a…

In Nigeria, while authorities suspended access to Twitter on Friday, June 4, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is asking the media to shut down their social networking accounts. They reacted. "All audiovisual media will be considered antipatriotic if it continues to use Twitter, which is shut down," the NBC statement…

Mahamat Idriss Déby, head of the Transitional Army Council in Chad, is on an official go to to Nigeria on Friday, Could 14. The son of former Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno was obtained at the top of the morning by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on the Presidential Palace in Aso Rock. as reported from Lagos, Liza…

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.…

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.…

In Niger, political tensions are still high as the country awaits the Supreme Court ruling on the validity of the preliminary results of the presidential election. Last week, prosecutors announced that about 350 people would be prosecuted for their role in the violence in the post-election crisis. According to their lawyers, some of these people were arrested for data disseminated on social networks.…

Muyiwa Kunnuji does not hide his astonishment or his joy, through which a form of relief penetrates: A few days ago, he discovered through social networks a group from Nigeria who sent him a short video taken live. Her name? Lagos Thugs. “About fifteen musicians in their twenties who play exactly as we did. The same energy! They are right, ”excites the forty trumpeter who has accompanied the iconic Fela for the last years of his career and has lived for six years in the south of France, where he has set up his…

The young artist is exhibiting at the end of 2020 at the ADA Art Gallery in Accra, Ghana. His paintings, powerful and committed, seek to condemn the exaggeration of SARS's controversial strength in Nigeria, but also the fate of a persecuted society: that of people with albinism. From our correspondent in Accra,Eniwaye Oluwaseyi…

The Boko Haram group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys' school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina, media reported on Tuesday. More than 330 students are missing from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen attacked their school on Friday night, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forests. The Daily Nigerian said on Tuesday that it had received an audio message from Boko Haram leader…