Diving in Lagos’ waters may have sounded like a fantasy a few years back, today Scubalagos has made this a reality. Scubalagos is the 1st Padi Dive Center in Nigeria. A dive in Lagos’ waters is an opportunity of a lifetime … read more
Nigeria’s authorities may soon devalue the naira to narrow the gap between the official and black market rates to boost confidence in the economy, a Reuters poll shows. A shortage of dollars in Nigeria has led the black market to … read more
Two-year-old Bintu Mustapha is the human face behind the hidden humanitarian catastrophe now unfolding in northeast Nigeria. Her body wasted and stomach distended by hunger, Bintu’s life hangs by the nutritional drip inserted in her hand. Too weak to move, … read more
It’s 4 p.m. in Nigeria’s capital and Ahmed Chiji has been running from car to car near the National Mosque selling mobile-phone airtime vouchers. His total for the day: 500 naira ($1.59). That’s as little as a 20th of what … read more
The process of obtaining a Nigerian visa has been likened to a “camel passing through the eye of a needle.” To visit, foreigners need to successfully navigate a maze of paperwork both before and after they get into the country. … read more
At least four people were killed following a gas pipeline explosion in Nigeria’s oil-producing south, a local official said Saturday. “We have lost three people” to the explosion in Rivers state on Wednesday afternoon said Chris Idika, a clergy and … read more
The two Germans kidnapped in Kaduna State have been released. A German archaeologist, Peter Breunig, and his colleague, Johannes Buringer, were released on Saturday night, police sources told PREMIUM TIMES. “Yes, they were released last night (Saturday) by their kidnappers. … read more
Traders increased bets that Nigeria will allow the naira to weaken after the central bank eased some capital controls and President Muhammadu Buhari, who opposes devaluation, extended his sick leave in the U.K. Forward contracts rose to the highest level … read more
The government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on parts of central Nigeria, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, after clashes killed at least 14 in the region Conflict over grazing land and water, chiefly between semi-nomadic Muslim herders and Christian … read more
A report by World Economic Forum has identified the countries that have high risk of death from terrorist attack. According to the report, most countries at the top of the list of most terrorism-prone are clustered in North Africa, the … read more