Tag: Nigeria

A horde of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed the village of Gamdum Mallam in Nigeria’s Zamfara State on Saturday, shooting up the town and riding off with over a hundred captives, mostly ...

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched a crackdown on cybercriminals on August 15. The commission said on Thursday that 102 accused criminals have been deported so far, including ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian distribution outfit Nile Entertainment, which was launched last year by film exec Moses Babatope, has picked up global rights to Remi x Nneoma, a modern adaptation of the biblical ...

EXCLUSIVE: Element Pictures’ Rachel Dargavel, producer of Akinola Davies’s My Father’s Shadow, Nigeria’s first Cannes entry, tells Deadline that she and the filmmaker are in early development for his sophomore feature, Delta ...

Muhammadu Buhari, who died on Sunday at age 82, was one of two leaders of Nigeria, along with Olusegun Obasanjo, to rule the country both as military dictator and as ...

This month, we’re reading about the complexities of love—particularly queer love—in environments that are hostile to it, from war-torn El Salvador to modern-day Lagos. Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel ...

Jihadi gunmen murdered at least a hundred Christians in the Nigerian village of Yelewata, central Nigeria, on Friday night, the latest in a long string of bloody attacks on farmers ...

On Thursday, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu pardoned and bestowed a national honor on environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after his execution. It’s the first time that Nigeria’s government has ...

This month, we’re taking madcap rides through Ukraine and Nigeria, where reckless decisions drive familial turmoil and quickly spiral out of control. Endling: A Novel Maria Reva (Doubleday, 352 pp., ...

Fifty years ago, West African leaders gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, to establish the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the continent’s first post-independence regional bloc. Today, it stands as ...