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Nigeria will have to dig deep to overcome entrenched patterns of poverty

India has just recently overtaken Nigeria as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty.

The Conversation

Ukraine recalls its peacekeepers to fight Russian forces

In tonight's show: Some 250 Ukrainian peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare to return home to face Russian forces. Also, Egypt bans exports of staples such as wheat and flour in an effort to secure food reserves. The country depends heavily on wheat imports from Ukraine and Russia.…

France 24

Wins, missteps and lessons: African experts reflect on two years of COVID response

On 11 March 2020, just months after the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was first identified in China, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern. Over the next two years COVID-19 would go on to infect nearly half a billion people, killing over 6 million…

The Conversation

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Michael Olise hasn't come to Patrick Vieira for international advice as winger's stock rises

The 20-year-old is eligible to represent England, France, Algeria and Nigeria through his heritage

Football London

Fuel shortages disrupt domestic flight schedules in Nigeria

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and oil producer, is experiencing fuel shortages on a massive scale.

Al Jazeera

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

Ukraine: Nigerian Volunteer Fighters Required To Pay $1,000 For A Visa And Ticket

Meanwhile, Nigerians fleeing Ukraine face racial discrimination.

Zenger

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Nigeria needs a new constitution, not piecemeal adjustments

Nigeria’s Senate and House of Representatives voted on 1 March 2022 on 68 bills seeking to amend the country’s 1999 constitution. Each bill either seeks to amend parts of the constitution or introduce new legislation. The amendments were proposed by the senators and representatives. The chambers agreed separately on some…

The Conversation

Justice Christopher dead: Nigeria's World Cup star who played against England dies aged 40

Former Nigeria international Justice Christopher, who represented his country at the World Cup in 2002 and played against Sven-Goran Eriksson's England, has died aged 40

Daily Mirror

Mistletoes, locust bean trees and birds work together in Nigeria's forest ecology

Mistletoes are found in a wide range of forest ecosystems. As parasites, they are a fascinating group of plants. They get their nutrition from host plants and are ecosystem engineers, making an impact along food chains.

The Conversation

‘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

The Guardian - UK

Nigeria's 2022 census is overdue but preparation is in doubt

As Nigeria’s National Population Commission prepares for a national census scheduled for May 2022 – the first since 2006 – The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked demographer and social statistician Akanni Akinyemi what a census entails and how ready the country is for the exercise.

The Conversation

Nigerian Yoruba activist released from prison in Benin

Nigerian activist Sunday Adeyemo, imprisoned in Benin since last year for allegedly plotting an insurrection in Nigeria, has been released under judicial supervision, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Black Women Photographers on what International Women’s Day means to them

We hear from a some of the members of the Black Women Photographers collective, a group facilitating greater diversity in editorial photography

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Gunmen kill at least 62 vigilantes in Nigeria's Kebbi state

Gunmen ambushed and killed at least 62 members of a volunteer vigilante group in Nigeria's northwestern Kebbi state, the head of the group and a police spokesman said, in the worst violence to hit the state since mid-January.

France 24

Migration routes: UN organisations call for collective effort to save lives

In tonight's edition: In a historic call to action, a dozen international organisations urge countries to do more to support the thousands of vulnerable people who head out on migration routes every year. Also, Nigeria is hit hard by a fuel crisis, despite being Africa's biggest oil producer. Finally, oyster…

The Independent UK

Russian attacks leave thousands of international students as ‘hostages’ inside Ukraine, minister says

Students from countries including India, China, Turkey and Nigeria are trying to get out, says deputy prime minister

The Guardian - UK

Hailed as heroes – Scottish gardeners who rescued trio from Ukraine

Joe McCarthy and Gary Taylor were held at gunpoint by Russians before successfully evacuating Irish woman and Nigerian men

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Nigeria's fuel crisis: smaller, more flexible refineries aren't the full answer

Nigeria’s growing population of over 200 million people is facing an ever-growing fuel crisis despite its vast oil reserves.

Radio France Internationale

The plight of African students stuck in Ukraine: 'We really need to go home'

As Russia opens humanitarian corridors from several Ukrainian main cities, hundreds of African and Indian students trapped in the eastern city of Sumy hope that they will finally escape the last 12 days of hell. Nigerian medicine student, Precious Olawale, described her traumatic experience to RFI.

Radio France Internationale

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.

The Independent UK

Russian war in world's 'breadbasket' threatens food supply

The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands known as the “breadbasket of the world.”

Reuters

African students say they faced guns, hostile guards as they fled Ukraine

Nigerian medical student Oduola Adebowale said he and some friends were trying to get on a train to flee Ukraine when the soldiers pointed guns at them and ordered them back.

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…

Al Jazeera

Nigeria commences US extradition of officer linked to $1.1m fraud

Nigerian authorities had previously been accused of shielding the senior police officer from the law at home and abroad.

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