Nigerian

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…

The Nigerian authorities have intensified meetings and discussions following the massacre of at least 76 farmers of Boko Haram a week ago in the state of Borno, just twenty kilometers from the city of Maiduguri. The powerlessness of the Nigerian army in the face of the jihadist uprising raging in the north-east of the country has largely been highlighted.…

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the fall in oil prices, Nigeria officially entered a recession, following a decline of 3.62% of GDP in the third quarter of 2020, following a decline of 6% in the previous quarter. Africa's most populous country barely recovered from the recession in 2016, following the collapse in oil prices in 2015.…

The Nigerian military shares its side of the story, more than three weeks after the Lekki toll massacre, in which security forces opened fire on a peaceful youth rally and killed at least ten people in Lagos on October 20, 2020. Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo addressed the Justice Commission on November 14. responsible for investigating this bloody takeover and more generally police abuse.…

The President of Nigeria makes his first public statement on the recent protests against political brutality in the country. Muhammadu Buhari says he regrets the loss of human life but urges young people to stand down. In addition, at least seven people have been killed and 40 more injured in connection with violence between people in a port city in the Ivory Coast near Abidjan since Monday before the…