A new smartphone app aims to keep Nigerians one step ahead of flooding during the annual rainy season. The “WetIn app” is free to download for Android phones and gives users in three flood-prone Nigerian states advanced notice when an … read more
After defeating Honduras in the third place match at the Olympics soccer event on Saturday (Aug. 20), Nigeria’s players ended up with bronze medals on their necks and thousands of dollars in their pockets—thanks to Katsuya Takasu, a Japanese plastic … read more
(AFP) – A Nigerian rebel group has announced a conditional ceasefire and agreed to hold talks with the government following months of attacks on key oil and gas facilities that have hammered the economy. In a message posted on the … read more
Meet the bowser, a navy blue 7-ton, 10-foot-high, 25-feet-long Ford F750 jet refueling truck. Across its tank in white lettering are the words “Nigerian Air Force.” The hulking machine sits in the driveway of Justice Chuku on Thomasville Road, leaking … read more
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video purporting to show some of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls. Some 50 girls wearing headscarves are seen behind a Boko Haram militant who demands the release of fighters in return for … read more
First it was falling oil prices that plagued Nigeria, then came inflation, power shortages, and a humanitarian crisis in the north. “Suddenly, we’re a poor country,” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. “Before we came … read more
When Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari told a visiting UN delegation hat “suddenly we are a poor country”, people knew what he meant. While he was speaking, local media was awash with reports of more economic woes – four blue-chip companies … read more
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has admitted to UN officials that his country is broke and facing a tough economic situation. He was speaking on Friday during a visit to Abuja by the United Nations Population Fund Executive Director and Under-Secretary … read more
As terror incidents cause tourism to cool off in Turkey and social media spreads images of US police shootings, a country’s reputation has perhaps never been so easily made and broken. That is the warning from a study which ranks … read more
There appears to be yet a new player in the violence in the attacks on the oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta, and if you’re finding it hard to keep track of all the militant activity involving oil in Nigeria, … read more