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Missing a beat: Music stars absent from Nigeria's vote campaign

Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria's Afrobeats resonates all over Africa, and in the West, where young people sing and dance to the rhythms of Burna Boy, Wizkid and Tems.

AFP

Nigeria election: Women denounce poor political representation

Half of Nigeria’s population are women but only 4 percent were elected into government in 2019. Will 2023 be different?

Al Jazeera

Riots break out in Nigerian cities amid cash scarcity

Lagos (AFP) - Rioters attacked bank ATMs and blocked roads in three Nigerian cities on Wednesday as anger spilled on the streets over a scarcity of cash, officials and local media said.

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Nigeria election triggers deluge of ‘fake news’ on social media

Experts and activists say political actors have expanded the scope of misinformation ahead of the general elections.

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Missing aristocrat’s dad fears 'she's been brainwashed by cult' after 6-month church stay

Constance Marten, 35, who is missing along with her sex offender partner Mark Gordon and her newborn baby, spent six month as a 'disciple' in a church in Lagos, Nigeria

Daily Mirror

Constance Marten news – latest: Missing aristocrat’s father tells police to investigate cult

Ms Marten spent several months at the Church of All Nations in Lagos, father says

The Independent UK

The televangelist who claimed to heal Aids and counted Premier League stars among his followers

TB Joshua – whose church has been linked to missing aristocrat Constance Marten – claimed to have healed thousands, including former Arsenal and Nigeria forward Nwankwo Kanu

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How Nigerian youth are galvanising for upcoming presidential vote

Over a third of Nigeria’s 93.4 million registered voters are youths who are gearing up to vote in February 25 election.

Al Jazeera

Opposition supporters attacked in Nigeria ahead of rally

Nigerian presidential contender Peter Obi of the opposition Labour Party said his supporters were on Saturday attacked and injured ahead of a rally in the commercial capital Lagos, a stronghold of the ruling party.

Reuters

Uncertainty in Nigeria as cash, fuel shortages bite ahead of vote

Lagos (AFP) - With under three weeks to go until Nigeria's presidential elections, major shortages of cash and fuel have plunged Africa's most populous country into crisis.

AFP

DR Congo's displaced phone home

In Rutshuru, DR Congo, the International Committee of the Red Cross has set up phone booths to help displaced families track down those left behind in combat zones. Also, a new film is out in France that focuses on the Senegalese tirailleurs, a corps of colonial infantry in the French…

France 24

Nigerian politician accused of organ-harvest plot denies offering reward for kidney

A street trader from Lagos was allegedly offered up to £7,000 in exchange for giving a kidney to Ike Ekweremadu’s sick daughter Sonia

The Independent UK

How Esusu’s cofounders turned 326 rejections (and a long night out in the cold) into a unicorn

A system that forces people to go into debt to prove they can meet the obligations of their debt "just doesn't make sense," says Esusu co-CEO Wemimo Abbey.

Fortune

Wealthy Nigerian politician denies offering reward to prospective kidney donor

A street trader from Lagos was allegedly offered up to £7,000 in exchange for giving a kidney to Ike Ekweremadu’s sick daughter Sonia.

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Evening Standard

Nigerian senator accused of ‘organ harvesting plot’ at Royal Free Hospital

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, are accused of a plot to harvest the organ of an impoverished street trader from the Nigerian capital of Lagos

Reuters

Factbox-The candidates contesting Nigeria's presidential election

Nigeria will elect a new president on Feb. 25 to take over from Muhammadu Buhari in a contest pitting the old guard against a third-party candidate seeking to upset the established political order.

AFP

Cash and fuel crisis cranks up Nigeria election tensions

Lagos (AFP) - With just three weeks to go before Nigeria's presidential election, major cash and fuel shortages are stirring up public anger and tensions during campaigning for the country's top post.

The Conversation

The Badoo ritual gang created fear in Lagos: here's what made victims vulnerable

Violent cult gangs are well known in Nigeria. Though there are no statistics on their numbers and impact, Lagos State in southwest Nigeria has more than 10 of these groups controlling different areas. They operate in neighbourhoods and their memberships cut across age groups. They control certain territories as their…

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Can Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s ailing kingmaker, win the presidency?

Tinubu has a formidable political machinery & is credited with Lagos’s successes, but can he become Nigerian president?

Al Jazeera

Nigeria opens ‘game changer’ billion-dollar deep seaport in Lagos

Many of Nigeria’s existing seaports, inherited from the colonial administration, no longer function properly.

The Independent UK

Nigeria bets on Chinese-funded port to drive economic growth

Nigeria's president has marked the opening of a $1.5 billion, Chinese-funded deep seaport in the commercial hub of Lagos that authorities hope will help grow the West African nation’s ailing economy

Reuters

Nigeria opens 'game changer' billion-dollar deep seaport

Nigeria opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday, which is expected to ease congestion at the country's ports and help it become an African hub for transshipment, handling cargoes in transit for other destinations.

Daily Mirror

Discovery of dead Brit on board his yacht in Algarve triggers police investigation

Police have launched an investigation after a British pensioner, believed to be aged around 80, was found dead on board his yacht at Lagos Marina in Algarve, Portugal

France 24

How men can help by becoming allies in the push for equality

As self-described misogynist, Andrew Tate, finds himself in jail, Annette Young talks to Sophie Gallagher, the UK author of 'How Men Can Help' about the dire need for men to become allies in making the world a more equal place. Also how Nepal is one of the most dangerous countries…

Al Jazeera

‘Communion with creatives’: Literary events flourish in Nigeria

New literary festivals are springing up in Nigeria, inspiring an evolving community of more book-loving Africans.

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