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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 · Mar 14, 2022

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 · Mar 10, 2022

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 · Mar 10, 2022

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 · Mar 9, 2022

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 · Mar 9, 2022

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 · Mar 9, 2022

‘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 · Mar 9, 2022

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 · Mar 8, 2022

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 · Mar 8, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2022