June 2017

30 June 2017
African Independent
Farmers and pastoralists clash over access to land
Goska is five minutes up the road from Dangoma in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. But divisions between the two villages run so deep they threaten the unity of Africa’s most populous nation…

24 June 2017
Newsweek
Why is Nigeria one country and who wants to divide it?
Nigeria is under threat. The West African country has the biggest population and second-largest economy on the continent. It is also one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Africa…

23 June 2017
Guardian Nigeria
Jollof: Is Nigeria’s claim to supremacy under threat?
In the days of yore, the Nigerian Super Eagles were a national treasure: the players were our go to persons when an aching nation needed to smile and find a common ground to bump fists in bars and, perhaps, forget our off-putting ethnic-based mutual suspicions…

22 June 2017
BusinessDay
Chevron Nigeria staff embark on strike over planned job cuts
Staff of Chevron Nigeria, today, embarked on a strike action over a staff rationalisation exercise planned for August BusinessDay has learnt…

14 June 2017
Irin
The deadly conflict tearing Nigeria apart
Bullet holes and abandoned, burned-out buildings in Goska are evidence something sudden and terrible happened there. Moses Berde, the village head, explains that more than 40 people were killed and over 100 homes destroyed in back-to-back attacks on 24 and 25 December last year…

12 June 2017
Newsweek
Meet Evans, Nigeria’s most wanted kidnapper, captured after gun battle
Kidnap for ransom is big business in Nigeria. It has one of the highest abduction rates in the world, with the U.S., U.K. and other governments warning travelers to the West African country that kidnapping is a real possibility. But Nigerian authorities are hoping that the risk has been significantly decreased after they captured alleged kidnapper Chukwudi Dumem Onuamadkie, also known as Evans, over the weekend…

2 June 2017
Guardian Nigeria
Nigeria has retrogressed, says poll
Eighty-eight per cent of Nigerians have agreed with the poor mid-term score given by analysts of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration while 56 per cent of this number have judged the country as worse of where it was, two years ago…

1 June 2017
The Cable
How much has Buhari, APC delivered in 2 years
Just how much has the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration delivered in two years?…