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Ten years ago I began my campaign against FGM — now we’re winning

On February 6, 2003, Stella Obasanjo, the then First Lady of Nigeria and spokesperson for the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation, made the official declaration on “Zero Tolerance to FGM” in Africa during a conference organised by the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices. Since that day, activists, world leaders and…

Evening Standard

Can Atiku Abubakar succeed in sixth run for Nigerian presidency?

Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president, is promising hope and restoration if he becomes president. Can he win?

Al Jazeera

Nigerian rights panel, underfunded and overmatched, begins probe of powerful military

A special panel named by Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission launched an investigation Tuesday into recent Reuters reports on rights abuses by the country’s army. Those familiar with the commission’s past work say it faces stiff challenges.

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Printers of Nigeria election regalia lose out as ad campaigns pivot online

A loud whir filled the back of a print shop in Nigeria's capital Abuja as machines churn out grinning faces of presidential election frontrunners on posters, flyers and food packaging.

Reuters

Sub-Saharan Africa is 'new epicenter' of extremism, says UN

A new report by the U.N.’s international development agency says that sub-Saharan Africa is the new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism and that people are increasingly joining as a result of economic factors and less by religious ones

The Independent UK

Burkina Faso assailants kill at least 15 Nigerian pilgrims travelling to Senegal

At least 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria's presidency said on Monday.

Reuters

Powerful Nigerian politician on trial over alleged organ-harvesting plot

It is claimed Sonia Ekweremadu was to have been the recipient of the victim’s kidney in an £80,000 private transplant operation at the Royal Free Hos.

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Nigerian couple plotted to bring man to UK to donate kidney, court told

Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu are on trial with their daughter, said to have been intended recipient, and a doctor

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian senator and family on trial in UK over organ harvesting plot

A wealthy Nigerian politician and his family plotted to bring a street trader from Nigeria to Britain and pay him a few thousand pounds to donate his kidney for a transplant for his ill daughter, a British prosecutor told a London court on Monday.

Reuters

Nigerian senator ‘flew poor street trader to UK in organ-harvesting plot’

Ike Ekweremadu, a senior senator in the Nigerian Parliament, and his wife were ‘significant figures’ in Nigerian society, the court was told.

The Independent UK

Nigerian senator accused of ‘organ harvesting plot’ at Royal Free Hospital

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, are accused of a plot to harvest the organ of an impoverished street trader from the Nigerian capital of Lagos

Evening Standard

Factbox-The candidates contesting Nigeria's presidential election

Nigeria will elect a new president on Feb. 25 to take over from Muhammadu Buhari in a contest pitting the old guard against a third-party candidate seeking to upset the established political order.

Reuters

Nigeria and Ghana are prone to devastating floods - they could achieve a lot by working together

Many countries in Africa suffer from disasters annually, but the adverse effects are grossly under-reported compared with coverage of more developed nations.

The Conversation

Election violence in Nigeria's south east is threatening to derail voting in the region

Violence is a perennial feature of elections in Nigeria. It happens across the three stages of the electoral cycle – before, on and after election day.

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Nigeria’s Peter Obi started a movement. Can he become president?

Obi has inspired a zealous movement of mostly youths and disrupted Nigeria’s traditional two-man presidential contest.

Reuters

Nigeria asks social media giants to curb fake news ahead of election

Nigeria has asked Google and Meta to control the spread of fake news on their platforms ahead of a presidential election this month, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Friday.

Radio France Internationale

Niger Delta communities file damage claim against Shell in London court

More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against energy giant Shell at the London High Court. It is the latest step in a case that will test whether multinationals can be held to account for the actions of overseas subsidiaries.

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Gunmen destroy 800 ballot boxes in Nigeria, the latest in a series of attacks

Insecurity is a huge issue in Nigeria, with a militant Islamist insurgency in the north east, banditry in the north west and a rise in kidnapping for cash countrywide.

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Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in UK court

The claims say oil spills resulting from Shell’s operations in the Niger Delta have endangered the lives of residents.

The Guardian - UK

Gerald Moore obituary

Other lives: Expert on African literature who spent much of his time as a lecturer in Nigeria and Uganda

Reuters

Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in London court

More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court, the latest step in a case that will test whether multinationals can be held to account for the actions of overseas subsidiaries.

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 14,000 Nigerians take Shell to court over devastating impact of pollution

People from Niger delta areas of Ogale and Bille seeking justice in London’s high court

France 24

US Federal Reserve hikes interest rate to highest level since 2007

The US Federal Reserve has hiked its key interest rate by 0.25 percent to the highest level since 2007. America's central bank has slowed the pace of rate rises as inflation cools. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell said changes to monetary policy would be "ongoing" as "appropriate". Also in the…

Reuters

Nigerian gunmen kill eight, including police chief

Gunmen in north central Nigeria have killed eight people, including a divisional police chief, in the latest violence ahead of a presidential and parliamentary election later this month, police and a security source said on Wednesday.

The Conversation

Nigerian elections: 5 major challenges facing the country's next president

Nigerians will soon determine who their next president will be in a general election. Polling is due at the end of February and inauguration is scheduled for 29 May 2023.

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