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From trash-strewn pavements to street vendors packing meals in polystyrene containers, plastic waste is a constant menace in the urban landscape of Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital and the continent's most populous city.

September 3, 2024: Luanco-Lagos de Covadonga, 181km

In a year when headlines have been dominated by conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and geo-economic tensions between China and the West, China-Africa relations were, in comparison, a steady and stable norm.

Nigerian public sector workers may earn slightly more than they did years ago, but can afford fewer things than before.

It's Art Month in Nigeria — and a highlight is the celebration of art that is Art X, a wide-ranging fair that highlights "Black portraiture" as well as other creations from the continent.

“One-chance” is the name Nigerians use for a form of robbery that takes place in both public and private vehicles when people accept the offer of a ride. It is an organised crime, perpetrated by people who work together, using a strategy of hailing passengers into their waiting vehicle. They…

Adidas Lagos by Tosin Oshinowo opens its smart retrofit of a 1970s building

Nitrous oxide, once used in clinical practice, is becoming a recreational drug of choice for Nigerian youths.

The Open City author traces a grieving teacher’s itinerant life in an enlightening autofictional novel sometimes hampered by its earnestness