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Nigeria President Bola Tinubu.

Good choices, bad outcomes, harder lives in Nigeria

Food and fuel have become prohibitively expensive and many Nigerians can no longer afford the basics

A rights group has said that since Bola Tinubu became president last year, there have been several attacks on members of the media. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Under Nigeria’s Tinubu, journalists are as unsafe as ever

Since Bola Tinubu became president last year, there have been several attacks on members of the media, rights group says

Soul Train: South African singer Tyla’s song Water was huge this year. Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffing/Getty Images

The A-Z of 2023 for Africa

All Change for Archange: The Central African Republic held a constitutional referendum earlier this year, which, among other things, would allow President Faustin-Archange…

Aliko Dangote, Africas richest man, plans to spend more than his net worth of $13.5 billion building one of the worlds biggest oil refineries. Photographer: Tom Saater/Bloomberg via Getty Images

New refinery may transform Nigerian economy, if it gets enough oil

When it comes to oil projects, the country already boasts a herd of white elephants

Last Wednesday, the ruling All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was declared winner of the Nigerian presidential election.  (Photo by Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Bola Tinubu is Nigeria’s new president. Now what?

Nigerian reporters and analysts give their view of Tinubu and what his presidency will bring

Supporters of Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of Labour Party for the 2023 Presidential election hold a rally in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 1, 2022. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nigeria has been ruled by generals and gerontocrats and young people want change in the 2023 polls

With 70% of Nigerians aged under 30 this should happen but the top candidates are 70 and 75 and the third will have to work with politicians the youth want out

An aerial view of trucks parked on the road side waiting to get access into Tincan port in Apapa, Lagos, on January 11, 2021. – At the beginning of 2020, just before the coronavirus crisis, 99% of exports and more than 89% of imports passed through the seas, almost exclusively via Lagos. 
After oil, the port of Lagos, which stretches from Apapa to Tin Can island, is the second largest source of income for the African giant.  (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi / AFP) (Photo by BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Nigeria’s economy short circuits despite oil gains

Africa’s largest oil producer has not been able to cash in fully on the price rally because of lacklustre production and its reliance on imported fuel

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

Twitter back in Nigeria after seven-month blackout

The ban shocked many in Nigeria, where Twitter has had a major role in political discourse, with the hashtags #BringBackOurGirls after Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Photo by Ting Shen-Pool/Getty Images)

Blinken heads to Nigeria facing calls to rethink ties

With 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and its largest economy, Nigeria is critical for any continent-wide strategy and successive US administrations have courted Nigerian…

President Cyril Ramaphosa with late former deputy president David Mabuza.(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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Mabuza’s Russian jaunts and the slippery consequences of medical tourism

For more than five years the deputy president has remained steadfast in his right to travel abroad to receive medical treatment

Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel, widely regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide, died in a hospital in Mali last weekend.(Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 25 September – 2 October

In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted

This week Ethiopia became the latest African country to confirm the presence of the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 within its borders. (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 4-11 September

What happened on the continent this past week

The government’s sudden ban of Twitter could jeopardise one of the country’s most promising industries

Nigeria’s tech community was booming. Now it’s in shock

The government’s sudden ban of Twitter could jeopardise one of the country’s most promising industries

Police brutality: Nigerian youths say they are being profiled and their emails and text messages seized and read by the now supposedly disbanded Sars unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
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Nollywood’s political struggle

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the #EndSARS protests?

Nigerian youths seen waving the Nigerian national flag in front of a crowd in support of the ongoing protest against the unjust brutality of The Nigerian Police Force Unit named Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on October 13, 2020. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty

Unite with Nigeria’s ‘Speak Up’ generation protesting against police brutality

Photos of citizens draped in the bloodied flag have spread around the world in the month the country should be celebrating 60 years of independence

Police brutality: Nigerian youths say they are being profiled and their emails and text messages seized and read by the now supposedly disbanded Sars unit of the Nigeria Police Force.

‘We don’t want to be shot to death’

Nigerian protesters have taken to the streets to protest the police’s brutal special anti-robbery unit, which they say profiles tech-savvy youths

The most effective way to mitigate the negative effect of fake news without neutering WhatsApp’s capacity to strengthen democracy is through digital-literacy campaigns. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images)

Is WhatsApp shaping democracy in Africa?

A study shows that the social messaging platform is both emancipatory and destructive, particularly during election campaigns

Nigeria’s anti-corruption boss arrested for corruption

Ibrahim Magu’s arrest by the secret police was a surprise — but also not surprising

Exquisite: The miniature ivory sculpture of Queen Idia, mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin (1504 to 1550)

Wole Soyinka: The mystery of the mask

You Must Set Forth At Dawn chronicles events in the writer’s life, inc

Abba Kyari’s cause of death was Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, a presidential spokesman confirmed on Twitter.

The most powerful man in Nigeria

The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from complications related to Covid-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria’s presidency is