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Captured Kanu

Nigeria: Arrest of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu sparks diplomatic row with UK

For many in Nigeria, there’s a feeling of déjà vu about the capture of Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu by President Muhammadu Buhari's ... administration. That's because in 1984, then as a military head of state, Buhari engaged cross-border security operatives in a failed attempt to kidnap and smuggle home from London a Nigerian fugitive and former minister, Umaru Dikko.

War of Attrition

Airtel faces losing battle in Kenya, can still win a larger Nigerian prize

Higher Kenyan taxes on airtime and data give market leader Safaricom the chance to expand its dominance at the expense of second-placed Airtel ... Kenya, analysts say.

In the Front Line

Ghana’s worsening debt outlook creates cash-call danger for the country’s Nigerian banks

Nigerian banks operating in Ghana may take a hit as the country’s sovereign-debt outlook deteriorates, analysts say. ...

defection dejection

Nigeria’s PDP keeps losing governors to APC. Can it bounce back in time for 2023?

In Nigeria, a political party is often thought to be only as powerful as the number of states it controls. Having lost the presidency, the Peoples ... Democratic Party (PDP), whose 16-year rule ended in 2015, keeps losing governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a further threat to its dreams of regaining control of the presidency. The latest? Zamfara State's Governor Bello Matawalle.

Nigeria top stories

Nigeria's former central bank governor and a governorship aspirant, Chukwuma Soludo, casts his vote in Isuofia village

bellwether state?

Nigeria: Who’s who in the race to be Governor of Anambra State

church vs state

Nigeria: Why homophobic pastors should remain outside politics

Asset Quality Deferred

Nigeria: Banks can ‘extend and pretend’ on problem loans, say analysts

Nigeria's former central bank governor and a governorship aspirant, Chukwuma Soludo, casts his vote in Isuofia village

bellwether state?

Nigeria: Who’s who in the race to be Governor of Anambra State

church vs state

Nigeria: Why homophobic pastors should remain outside politics

Asset Quality Deferred

Nigeria: Banks can ‘extend and pretend’ on problem loans, say analysts

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Kayode Fayemi, speaking at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, 2019

swaga wager

Nigeria 2023: Fayemi goes after Tinubu’s supporters

Activist, Minister, Governor, Chairman of the Governors' Forum... the ambitions of Kayode Fayemi now stretch to Nigeria's Presidential Villa. ... But his ambitions place him on a crash course with Bola Tinubu, his estranged and powerful political Godfather.

A vertical gas flaring furnace is seen in Ughelli, Delta State.

funding for the Boys?

Nigeria: PIB Frontier oil exploration fund risks becoming patronage tool

Nigeria’s long-delayed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), passed by the Senate on July 1, creates the need for effective oversight of the new funding ... mechanism for the development of oil exploration in frontier states.

sending strong signals

Seven African start-ups shaking up the global tech ecosystem

Young African start-ups are making headway in cutting-edge sectors and catching the eye of leading organisations, including the World Economic ... Forum.

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transphobia or not

Why eurocentricity benefits none of us in the Black transgender community

I wouldn’t dare speak for a whole community, because I believe every individual has a unique way in which they move through and navigate the ... world we’re in, even if we share the experience of being within a marginalised group.

a pawn in the game

Nigeria: Will the arrest of IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu end Biafra agitations?

Nnamdi Kanu, the self-acclaimed freedom fighter and leader of a secessionist organisation demanding the Igbo ethnic group breaks away from Nigeria ... to form an independent Republic of Biafra, was arrested while abroad and extradited back to Abuja on Tuesday 29 June. But could his detention change the course of Biafra tensions?

endemic violence

Nigeria: How Middle Belt communities can deal with insecurity

North-central Nigeria, known as the Middle Belt, is home to the country’s capital city Abuja and six other states – Benue, Plateau, Kogi, ... Nasarawa, Niger and Kwara.

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