Posts tagged Nigeria

This is not the first time a Nigerian poll has been postponed but it is certainly the most dramatic.

Buhari’s handling of the economy has been somewhere between poor and appalling. But the same could be said of past administrations.

Cultural icons like Achebe, Fela and Saro-Wiwa were among those who highlighted Nigeria’s failings.

Since the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria’s burgeoning youth population has made the headlines come election time. This year’s election, the sixth in the current 20-year-long democratic dispensation, has highlighted the role of the youth in deciding who rules Africa’s most populous nation more than ever before.

Nigerian poets and novelists have compared the Igbo massacres in the 60s to the Holocaust as a way to drive international attention to the atrocities.

The year 2018 ended on a high note for the Nigeria born writer Mohammed Umar who is celebrating in London after getting his books translated and published into 50 languages.

Gani Taiwo is a 41-year-old artist and social activist who paints colourful murals on public toilets in the Ijora Badia slum of Lagos to help improve the settlement’s profile and its inhabitants’ quality of life.

Despite the increasing decriminalisation of same-sex relationships across the continent, some countries – like Nigeria – they are still outlawed remain unchanged in their anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments. This was recently demonstrated by Dolapo Badmos, a chief superintendent for Lagos State, in a personal statement.

Nigeria is facing the toughest test of its democracy after President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. There has been widespread criticism of what has been described to be an unconstitutional move by the president.

Too many African countries believe Beijing when they are told in negotiations that they must take it or leave it.