Tag: Nigeria
appointments in May 2024
In New York, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Lille, Dakar, Cannes, Bordeaux, Tangier, Montreuil, Marseille, Togo… Indoors or outdoors, here are 22 events of Afro or African culture not to be missed…
discovering Nigerian and African cinema
This is the eleventh edition of the festival “ Nollywood week » in Paris, at the Arlequin cinema from this Thursday until Sunday May 5. The opportunity to discover a…
NGOs want Shell to clean up its pollution before selling its land assets
Around forty civil society organizations, including Amnesty International, oppose the sale of Shell’s land activities until the multinational has cleaned up the pollution left behind. In January, the Dutch-British major…
ten years after the kidnapping of the 276 high school girls from Chibok, kidnappings have multiplied
On the night of Monday April 14 to Tuesday April 15, 2014, 276 high school girls were kidnapped from their school in northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram fighters. The Chibok…
sharp increase in electricity prices for certain consumers
The price of electricity will triple for the richest consumers, while the government seeks to replenish its coffers by all means, in the midst of an economic crisis. This sharp…
tax evasion complaint against two executives of cryptocurrency company Binance
In Nigeria, authorities have filed charges for tax evasion against two executives of Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange platform. They are accused of having encouraged speculation on the local currency, the…
Over 200 kidnapped school children in Nigeria have been released
The school children were held captive for two weeks but have reportedly been released unharmed, according to the governor. He thanks Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu as well as the Nigerian…
Nigeria: Hundreds of Kidnapped Children Freed
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Worried parents wait for word about their abducted children at the school in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 9. Photo: Sunday Alamba/AP/TT After more than…
the country reopens its border with Nigeria
Niger reopened its doors to Nigeria on the night of Thursday March 21 to Friday March 22, 2024. The land border between the two countries was closed following the coup…
More than 100 kidnapped in new attacks in Nigeria
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Soldiers patrol outside a school in Nigeria where a kidnapping was carried out earlier in March. Archive image. Photo: Sunday Alamba/AP/TT More than 100 people…