Beyond football: Nigeria, South Africa rivalry rekindled at AFCON 2023 The semifinal between the two continental giants presents a chance to extend bragging rights on and off the pitch. Al Jazeera · Feb 7, 2024
Nigeria wants to revamp its railway network. Four things it needs to do to succeed Nigeria’s railway network serves only a small portion of the country. The country is 923,770km², with a railway network of 3,505km colonial narrow gauge and 669km modern standard gauge. Egypt, not that much larger than Nigeria, has a network of 6,700km. The Conversation · Oct 15, 2023
‘Peter Pan’ Enahoro, Nigerian journalist and publisher, was not afraid to speak his mind There are some people whose lives intersect with yours even if you never meet them in the flesh. One of these was Peter Osajele Aizegbeobor Enahoro, the Nigerian journalist who was also known by his pen name, Peter Pan. Enahoro died on 24 April 2023 in London, aged 88. He… The Conversation · Jun 5, 2023
‘People were going crazy’ – how the Super Eagles took the world by storm A new documentary charts the success of Nigeria in the 1990s and what it meant to the country’s people, including the daughter of the executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023
Nigeria election results 2023: Who is the new Nigerian president Bola Tinubu? Opponents have called the result a ‘sham’ and merely ‘vote allocation and not collation’ — and demanded a rerun Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2023
Nigeria's Obasanjo clinches unlikely Ethiopia truce Olusegun Obasanjo has had mixed results as a mediator of intractable conflicts across Africa since he stepped down as Nigeria's president in 2007, although he has never tired of trying. Reuters · Nov 2, 2022
U.S. to return $23 million looted by late dictator Abacha to Nigeria - officials The United States will turn over to Nigeria $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha, officials said at an event to sign the agreement on Tuesday. Reuters · Aug 23, 2022
Crooks, kleptocrats and crises: a timeline of Credit Suisse scandals A string of controversies have beset Switzerland’s second-largest lender, including Japanese ‘shredding party’ and US sub-prime fraud The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2022