The Latest Breaking News from Nigeria

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could help the Federal Reserve reduce fraud and money laundering while guaranteeing sovereign alternatives for digital payments. Still, the Nigerian case study suggests a variety of issues.

Nigeria's outgoing government has recommended that the new administration of president-elect Bola Tinubu give public sector workers pay rises after removing a fuel subsidy in June, Labour Minister Chris Ngige said on Tuesday.

A London jury has found Nigeria's former deputy Senate president guilty of plotting to harvest a street trader's kidney for his sick daughter.

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about transportation-caused CO2 emissions across the European Union. There’s the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, “Music from Erwan”, and a new poem written and read by listener Ibironke Oyewole from Lagos, Nigeria. All that, and the new…

The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa’s 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent’s economic growth

Imagine waking up before dawn every day to fetch water for your family. You trek to the nearest water source, miles away, with only a jerrycan to carry the precious liquid. You brave scorching heat or heavy rain, while trying to avoid dangerous animals and strangers along the way.

UK government not required to state whether Nnamdi Kanu, a British national, was victim of extraordinary rendition, judge rules

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and medical 'middleman' Dr Obinna Obeta were found guilty following a landmark trial at the Old Bailey.

A senior Nigerian politician and his wife have been found guilty of conspiring to transport a street trader to the U.K. as part of an organ-harvesting plot