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A gloomy May Day awaits Nigerian workers

Imagine you live alone and walk into a local food market in Lagos, the Nigerian commercial capital, to buy a week’s worth of basic food items. In less than 15 minutes, you would find that you’ve spent at least 10,000 Naira (or US$24 at the official exchange rate of US$1…

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The Nigerian entrepreneur who runs ‘an Amazon for blood’

Temie Giwa-Tubosun’s business uses data and technology to get urgent blood supplies to hospitals and to save lives.

Al Jazeera

Football World Cup eliminations dash small business hopes

From Colombia to Nigeria, traders in football-loving nations are counting losses of failure to make it to Qatar 2022.

Al Jazeera

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Nigerian police: why improving public trust has proven difficult

Policing plays a vital role in maintaining law and order in any society. Public trust and confidence in the police is a concern in many parts of the world.

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Badagry Museum, a sobering reminder of Nigeria's long slave trade history

It’s Saturday afternoon and pupils from a primary school in Lagos, Nigeria, have travelled with their teacher to the Badagry Heritage Museum to learn about the transatlantic slave trade.

Radio France Internationale

Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde review – Lagos magic

This energetic debut about dreamers, misfits and otherworldly beings creates a queer Nigerian phantasmagoria

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow mum dies amid claim ex-husband set her on fire on trip home to Nigeria

Glasgow businesswoman Chinyere Ogudoro and her brother Ifeanyi Edoziem suffered fatal injuries during an incident in her native Lagos at the weekend.

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U.S. to build $537 million consulate in Nigeria's megacity

The United States will build a $537 million consulate in the Nigerian megacity Lagos, the country's commercial capital, as Washington strengthens economic and diplomatic relations with Africa's most populous country.

Reuters

Nigeria’s Lagos: Life with a disability in the African megacity

A close look into the state of accessibility for people with disabilities in Nigeria’s largest city.

Al Jazeera

The reinvention of Aṣa, Nigeria’s premier soul music diva

On her fifth studio record, the French-Nigerian soul singer lets her hair down and embraces crossover pop rhythms.

Al Jazeera

IAA Partners With Boacon Autos For New Auction Center In Ghana

IAA Inc (NYSE:IAA) established a new market alliance agreement with Boacon Autos in the country of Ghana. The new IAA Auction Center in Ghana will complement the existing location in Lagos, Nigeria. Staff at these physical centers will help buyers learn about IAA and submit bids. “Our new market alliance with Boacon Autos…

Benzinga

As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers

Many of the world’s poorest people live in regions most susceptible to flooding. In northeast India, some residents have been forced to rebuild their homes at least eight times in the past decade. In Africa, the continent’s largest city, Lagos in Nigeria, may become unliveable due to severe floods, while…

The Conversation

Kewanuee Scientific Wins $17M Contract From Dangote Oil Refinery

Kewanuee Scientific Corp's (NASDAQ:KEQU) Indian subsidiary has secured a $17.3 million contract from Dangote Oil Refinery Company Limited for laboratory furniture and equipment. The Dangote Oil Refinery is a 650,000 barrels per day integrated refinery project under construction in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, Nigeria. The Dangote Oil award will be reflected…

Benzinga

‘Their weapon is your shame’: toxic abuse from Nigeria’s loan sharks

Unemployment and inflation in Africa’s largest economy is driving the desperate to unscrupulous loan companies

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Leaving chaos for calm: Lagosian sculptor thrives in historic Ìlẹ́-Ìfẹ́ town

On a Saturday in internationally renowned sculptor Dotun Popoola’s studio, domestic tourists have made the three-hour exodus from Lagos to see his works and listen to him talk about his art.

Radio France Internationale

S2, EP13: Cyclone aftermath in Malawi; antimicrobial crop resistance in Kenya; Nigerian artist leaves city for tranquility

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent, with our African correspondents. In Malawi, those affected by Cyclone Ana are struggling to get back on their feet; from Kenya, farmers are combatting antimicrobial resistance in crops; and in Nigeria, an artist leaves the…

France 24

Tech enthusiasts return to Lagos for AfricaNXT

In tonight's edition: Burkina Faso's junta chief orders a three-year transition period before elections. Also, a fourth witness testifies before the ICC against Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru in a bribery case. And Africa's largest innovation event returns to Lagos. The city hosts tech enthusiasts from around the world to reimagine…

The Conversation

The challenges of governing Lagos, the city that keeps growing

From its historical origins as a fishing village and the site of a pepper farm, to today’s bustling metropolis, Lagos has evolved into a complex agglomeration of people, settlements and vested interests.

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Nigerian floating slum braces for more storm damage

When his boat capsized during a storm last year, Nigerian fisherman Tanti Leon clung to its upturned hull with his children and wondered if he should give up trying to fish in the waters around Lagos's flood-prone shanty town of Makoko.

Mic

With 'Vagabonds!,' Eloghosa Osunde has created the work of her dreams

The first-time novelist asked herself, “Do I have enough courage to make the kind of work I’m pulled to?”

France 24

'Five' is the magic number for singer-songwriter Asa

Her distinctive blend of pop, folk, soul, jazz and reggae has become a firm favourite at home in Nigeria, and a regular on the radio here in France. Asa joins us from the studio in Lagos to tell us about writing and recording her fifth album as the world came…

Daily Mirror

'World's youngest billionaire' aged 9 owns a Bentley and flies around in private jet

Mompha Junior, nine, from Lagos in Nigeria, received his first mansion when he was just six years old and has been given a Bentley as a "first car" by his multimillionaire dad

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