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Mineral Potential

Nigeria’s mining code overhaul needs improved northern security to succeed

Nigeria’s first revision of its mining code since 2007 needs to be accompanied by better mining security in the north of the country, if the ... industry is to reach its potential.

vaccination expiry

Nigeria: The mystery of expired Covid vaccines

Nigeria has administered just over 11 million Covid-19 vaccinations, with around 2% of the population having received two doses. There are reports ... that this low number is partly due to European countries sending in vaccinations that are near the expiration date.

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vaccine advice

Nigeria: Ten things you should know about the Covid-19 vaccine

It's been nearly two years since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic. In late 2020, the first vaccine was approved for use. ...

game, set...

Nigeria 2023: Can Gbajabiamila, Lawan save electoral bill for Tinubu?

With barely 24 hours to the deadline for President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the electoral bill, the fate of the legislation that could shape ... the course of Nigeria’s 2023 elections is now shifting to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and Senate President Ahmad Lawan. If they cannot get it passed, it will scuttle the chances of Bola Tinubu having an easy route to the presidency.
Sources told The Africa Report that Attorney General Abubakar Malami advised Buhari not to sign, after intense lobbying by governors.

Nigeria top stories

tackling insecurity

Nigeria: ‘We’re in a post-ideology age – people just want what works,’ says Ekiti governor Fayemi

Africa in 2022

Nigeria 2023: Who will succeed President Buhari?

French President Emmanuel Macron stands next to Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Afrika Shrine in Lagos

Rude Shock

Nigeria: How Ambode’s removal dealt a blow to Tinubu’s direct primary dream

tackling insecurity

Nigeria: ‘We’re in a post-ideology age – people just want what works,’ says Ekiti governor Fayemi

Africa in 2022

Nigeria 2023: Who will succeed President Buhari?

French President Emmanuel Macron stands next to Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Afrika Shrine in Lagos

Rude Shock

Nigeria: How Ambode’s removal dealt a blow to Tinubu’s direct primary dream

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A barber shaves another man’s head in a camp for internally displaced people in Bama, in Borno state, Nigeria

blame game

Nigeria’s Borno State is still being attacked. So why are IDP camps being shut and donations halted?

Borno State in Northeast Nigeria has been the epicenter of an armed conflict for the last 12 years. Just in the last six months, there have been ... 43 terror attacks and 171 murders. Why has the state government begun shutting all internally-displaced people camps while still facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters in the last decade?

A bitcoin user buys bitcoins with naira on Bitcoin Teller Machine in Lagos

CASH GOES ROGUE

What’s behind the Central Bank of Nigeria’s war on cryptocurrencies?

Just as President Buhari has suspended the Twitter social media platform in Nigeria, central bank governor Emefiele has barred crypto currencies ... in the country.

Data Driven

Equinix targets South Africa, Kenya entry after MainOne purchase

US digital infrastructure Equinix plans to use its purchase of Nigeria’s MainOne as a platform for further expansion in Africa, Judith Gardiner, ... vice-president for growth and emerging markets at Equinix, tells The Africa Report.

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Bola Tinubu, former Lagos state governor and All Progressives Congress leader, gestures at a party meeting with President-elect Muhammadu Buhari beside him in Abuja

bombshell memoir

Nigeria 2023: New book ruffles feathers, suggests Buhari double-crossed Tinubu in 2014

A controversial book authored by Bisi Akande, a former Governor of Osun State and a confidant of Lagos godfather, Bola Tinubu, is re-opening ... old wounds ahead of the 2023 Presidential elections.

Nigeria's Attorney General Abubakar Malami

MINISTRY OF UNTOUCHABLES

Nigeria: Why President Buhari won’t sack Attorney General Malami

Nigeria's Attorney General Abubakar Malami has become an 'unsackable' part of the Buhari regime firmament - called by some the 'minister of ministers'. ... Despite regular criticism from activists and politicians he retains the trust the president.

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Detty December

Nigeria: Omicron guidelines throw a wrench in entertainers’ wheels

Nigerian entertainers and show producers waiting on the December 2021 events season to recover from the impact of the global pandemic, which ... decimated their income by as much as 90%, are going to have to wait longer as new policy guidelines to curtail the spread of the Omicron variant in Lagos now stand in the way.

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