December 2

• Nigeria: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Against Aids

  As the international community comes together on Dec. 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day, a new report from UNAIDS reveals that while significant progress has been made in preventing... Read more »

November 16

• Nigeria: Teach a Woman to Farm... and She Creates Jobs

  Give a woman a hand-out and you feed her for a day. But teach her to farm, and how to add value to her product, and you feed her and her family for a lifetime. And if she happens... Read more »

November 13

• Africa: Canada Eyes African Resources

  With an initial focus on oil-producing Nigeria and mineral-rich Ghana, Ottawa is bolstering its trade strategy in Africa, but some within the international development and economic... Read more »

November 4

• Nigeria: Military Curfew Slowly Strangling Potiskum

  A recent military curfew imposed on the violence-wracked north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum has not only made life unbearable for residents, but it has also reduced their... Read more »

October 17

• Nigeria: Locals Caught Between Extremists and Army

  Locals in the city of Maiduguri in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno have intensified their calls for the military to withdraw from the town, the stronghold of the Islamist... Read more »

September 25

• Nigeria: Nobel Laureate Soyinka Calls for Armed Intervention

  On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations - and called for armed intervention against the terrorist group Boko Haram in his home... Read more »

August 10

• West Africa: UN Pushes for Piracy Summit

  When the United Nations advocates the protection of the world's oceans, its political agenda transcends the battle against marine pollution, global warming, overfishing, greenhouse... Read more »

February 15

• West Africa: 'A Catastrophic Year' As Hunger Crisis Looms Over Sahel

  Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel - the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south - have taken the unprecedented step of... Read more »

February 13

• Africa: Some Swiss Parcels With Migrants in Them

  Two years ago, a Nigerian asylum seeker died during a forced deportation attempt from Switzerland. Now, the prosecution has dismissed the case, leaving nobody responsible for the... Read more »

February 8

• Nigeria: 'Raining Bombs' Causing Hundreds to Flee North

  "I can no longer stay here in Kano as it rains bombs. The gun battles rattle us... Kano is no longer safe," said pregnant Funke Nweke of her decision to flee Nigeria's northern... Read more »

February 7

• Cameroon: Economy Suffers As Boko Haram Infiltrates

  Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Read more »

January 25

• Nigeria: U.S. Condemns Boko Haram Attacks

  The U.S. State Department Tuesday "strongly" condemned recent lethal attacks carried out by the Islamist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, but also warned against an excessive... Read more »

January 12

• Nigeria: Billions Lost to Corruption Could Have Maintained Fuel Subsidy

  As a nationwide strike and protests against the lifting of the fuel subsidy paralysed Nigeria for the third day in a row Wednesday, analysts say the billions of dollars a year lost... Read more »

January 6

• Nigeria: Police Crack Down on Fuel Protests

  Police fired tear gas and beat protesters to force them out of a square they had occupied in an overnight sit-in in Nigeria's northern city of Kano as part of demonstrations over... Read more »

January 5

• Nigeria: Not Everyone Pleased With New Vitamin A-Fortified Cassava

  Using hybridisation and selective breeding, researchers in Nigeria have developed three new yellow varieties of cassava, a staple crop in much of Africa, which they say will help... Read more »

January 4

• Nigeria: Nation On Edge Trying to Avert North-South Clashes

  Africa's top oil producer is on edge, poised to deter possible sectarian clashes between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south, while Christians are becoming more... Read more »

December 15, 2011

• Nigeria: Fearing the Floods - Sleeping With One Eye Open

  The women of Makoko, a low-lying slum close to the Lagos Lagoon along Nigeria's Atlantic coast, always sleep with one eye open. Many live in fear that when they go to sleep at... Read more »

December 8, 2011

• Nigeria: Bill Criminalises More Than Just Gay People [analysis]

  "The prospect of arriving home... being arrested at the airport - that's kind of scary," said Osazeme O., a dual citizen of Nigeria and the UK, in a wry understatement. Read more »

November 23, 2011

• Nigeria: A Deadly Case of Mistaken Identity [analysis]

  The worst day of Olaniyi Emiola's life was Mar. 17, 1998. At least it was for Olaniyi Emiola, 22, the spare motor parts trader. For Olaniyi Emiola, the armed robber, it was a lucky... Read more »

November 18, 2011

• West Africa: The Rush for Oil - the New Wild West?

  There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog groups are raising concerns about transparency... Read more »

September 26, 2011

• West Africa: Regional Govts to Take Joint Action on Piracy

  There have already been more than thirty pirate attacks on ships along the West African coast so far this year. Regional governments will meet in Cotonou, Benin in October to... Read more »

September 5, 2011

• Nigeria: Lax Security Reason for U.N. Bombing

  Security experts say that unless something is done to regulate the high level of illicit transactions and proliferation of commercial explosives in Nigeria, scenes like the United... Read more »

August 5, 2011

• Nigeria: Refined Oil Shortage Continues for Africa's Largest Producer

  "We are suffering in the midst of plenty." That was how Nelson Ilemchi summed up his plight as he spent an entire day queuing to buy kerosene. Since January Africa's largest... Read more »

June 24, 2011

• Nigeria: Economic Factors Drive Sect's Extremism, Say Experts

  The sectarian crisis and recent violence by extremist groups, like the Jun. 16 bomb blast on the Nigerian Police Headquarters, are borne out of anger at prevailing economic... Read more »

May 23, 2011

• Nigeria: Women Giving Each Other a Hand Up [opinion]

  In an open space near her home in Makoko, a crowded suburb of the sprawling city of Lagos, Latifat Agboola sits in the midst of bags of charcoal, attending to her customers. Some... Read more »