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The latest news, analysis and opinion on Nigeria. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

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Abuja

Head of State

President Bola Tinubu

Head of Government

President Bola Tinubu

A Tokyo-based NGO reported a more than a fourfold increase in consultations linked to sextortion as of late November for the 2025 financial year, compared with 2023. Photo: Shutterstock

Japan

Never send, never pay: NGO sounds alarm on sextortion scourge in Japan

Paps reported 2,200 consultations linked to sextortion as of November for the 2025 financial year, with most victims male and aged under 18.

7 Jan 2026 - 5:15PMvideocam

US-China relations

Opinion | Will US interference in Hong Kong or Taiwan end? Don’t bet on it

4 Jan 2026 - 11:48AMvideocam

Donald Trump

‘Peace President’ Trump embraces war: Maduro captured, Nigeria hit, Iran warned

4 Jan 2026 - 1:32AM

Anthony Joshua

Driver in fatal Anthony Joshua car crash charged with dangerous driving

Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode was driving the British boxer and 2 of his friends when their car crashed on Monday, killing Joshua’s friends.

3 Jan 2026 - 1:08AM

People walk past the scene of a crash involving British boxer Anthony Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. Photo: Federal Road Safety Corps via AP

China-Africa relations

Washington lines up health deals as US and China vie for access to Africa

Signatories must guarantee that genetic sequence data and samples from potential outbreaks are shared with the US within 5 days of detection.

30 Dec 2025 - 4:07PMvideocam

Donald Trump

Trump says he ordered Nigeria strike delay to ‘give a Christmas present’

‘They were going to ‍do it earlier,’ Trump said of Thursday’s strike targeting ⁠Islamic State militants, adding ‘we hit them hard’.

27 Dec 2025 - 7:39AM

Africa

US launches strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, Trump says

US strikes targeting militants were carried out in cooperation with the Nigerian government.

26 Dec 2025 - 4:39PM

A missile is launched from a military vessel at an unidentified location, in a screen grab obtained from a video released by the Department of War on December 25, 2025. Photo: US Department of War via Reuters

Africa

Nigeria says ‘spat’ with Trump over killing of Christians ‘largely resolved’

However, Nigeria remains on Washington’s list of countries of ‘particular concern’ regarding alleged religious freedom violations.

22 Dec 2025 - 10:45PM

Africa

Nigeria secures release of 130 children abducted from Catholic school

Presidential spokesman confirms ‘none left in captivity’ after an operation frees students taken by gunmen in November.

22 Dec 2025 - 2:14PM

China-Africa relations

Chinese workers return to Africa as lucrative job opportunities beckon

Large-scale, China-backed projects entice contract workers to take up posts in some African nations, while political instability keeps others away.

21 Dec 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

Rail projects have been a long-standing area of cooperation between China and a number of countries in Africa. Photo: Xinhua

China-Africa relations

‘Concrete symbols’: China-built Ecowas HQ latest infrastructure gift to Africa

Beijing’s strategy to project influence through gifting prestigious presidential palaces and parliamentary buildings labelled ‘unique’.

13 Dec 2025 - 5:53PMvideocam

Chinese ambassador to Nigeria Yu Dunhai with Dr Omar Touray, president of the Ecowas Commission, in Abuja on December 4. Du visited the US$32 million China-built Ecowas headquarters in the Nigerian capital.
Photo: X/YDunhai

China technology

Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI

The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.

10 Dec 2025 - 10:26AMvideocam

Africa

Opinion | How China can help Africa build human capital

To truly harness their potential, countries across the continent seeking to industrialise must develop education and infrastructure in tandem.

9 Dec 2025 - 5:47PMvideocam

Africa

Benin hunts leader behind short-lived coup that left casualties on both sides

Authorities in the west African country confirm arrests were made and hostages released, but apparent coup leader remained at large.

9 Dec 2025 - 3:47PM

Soldiers patrol in Cotonou, Benin, after the country’s armed forces thwarted an attempted coup against the government. Photo: Reuters

China-Africa relations

Why Chinese firms are taking operational risks on African projects

Public-private partnerships or PPP model for African infrastructure tipped to grow as ‘bankable’ projects can attract global finance.

8 Dec 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

Chinese state-owned firms have broken ground on a 233km, US$1.3 billion highway in Kenya. Its leadership says the PPP model will solve Kenya’s infrastructure funding challenges amid its debt overhang. Photo: Reuters

United Nations

Nigeria’s government secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren

The fate of dozens of other pupils and staff remains unclear as the country buckles under a wave of mass abductions.

8 Dec 2025 - 2:33PM

Africa

Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings

Hundreds of people, mostly children, have been abducted in a week.

27 Nov 2025 - 12:58PM

Africa

Dozens kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria escape captors

Hundreds of children and staff remain held by gunmen amid a spate of school attacks in the West African country.

24 Nov 2025 - 1:46PM

A classroom at St Mary’s school, where gunmen abducted more than 300 students and staff. Photo: AFP

Africa

315 kidnapped in Nigeria school attacks as security crisis deepens

Gunmen attacked a school in Niger state on Friday after abducting 25 girls from a Kebbi state secondary school on Monday.

23 Nov 2025 - 10:22AM

Africa

Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week

The attacks come weeks after US President Trump threatened military action over what he said were targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians.

21 Nov 2025 - 6:33PM

Africa

1 girl escapes Nigeria mass abduction of 25 students from a high school

The student fled through a forest after gunmen attacked a high school dormitory.

18 Nov 2025 - 7:50PM

A general view of the school from which school children were kidnapped by gunmen in Kebbi, Nigeria on Monday. Photo: AP

Africa

Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls in Nigeria region grappling with banditry

The early morning raid came a decade after the Chibok abduction that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

18 Nov 2025 - 4:07PM

Police said the schoolgirls were taken from their dorms on Monday. Photo: AP

Africa

Trump’s threat of US military action clashes with Nigeria’s reality

Nigeria’s president denies his country is religiously intolerant after Trump claimed Christians are being killed in ‘large numbers’.

4 Nov 2025 - 4:32PM

Africa

Nigeria urges meeting with Trump after US president’s military action threat

Trump had said he was designating Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ because of worries about the safety of Christians there.

3 Nov 2025 - 1:25AM

Donald Trump

Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.

2 Nov 2025 - 10:56AM

US President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Trade

Opinion | Africa is where Hong Kong’s ‘go global’ campaign should begin

The new GoGlobal Task Force should spur efforts to tap opportunities in emerging markets. Africa, where China already has a considerable presence, is a natural choice.

28 Oct 2025 - 11:16AM

Kenya Railways attendants talk next to a train along the Standard Gauge Railway line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation and financed by the Chinese government in Ongata Rongai, Kenya, on October 16, 2019. China’s extensive investment and trade presence in Africa has driven industrial growth and enhanced connectivity across the continent. Photo: Reuters

Africa

World’s oldest president, 92, could extend rule as Cameroon heads to polls

Paul Biya, who spends most of his time in Europe, came to power in the Central African country in 1982 and has ruled since then.

12 Oct 2025 - 8:34PM

China-Africa relations

China’s ‘health silk road’ in Africa gets a boost with insulin, pharma projects

Move to manufacture insulin locally is set against forecast of nearly 55 million Type 2 diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2045.

11 Oct 2025 - 2:00PMvideocam

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Nigeria

Never send, never pay: NGO sounds alarm on sextortion scourge in Japan

Paps reported 2,200 consultations linked to sextortion as of November for the 2025 financial year, with most victims male and aged under 18.

.css-1m2rp1p{color:#34b8b5;}Opinion | Will US interference in Hong Kong or Taiwan end? Don’t bet on it

‘Peace President’ Trump embraces war: Maduro captured, Nigeria hit, Iran warned

Driver in fatal Anthony Joshua car crash charged with dangerous driving

Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode was driving the British boxer and 2 of his friends when their car crashed on Monday, killing Joshua’s friends.

Washington lines up health deals as US and China vie for access to Africa

Signatories must guarantee that genetic sequence data and samples from potential outbreaks are shared with the US within 5 days of detection.

Trump says he ordered Nigeria strike delay to ‘give a Christmas present’

‘They were going to ‍do it earlier,’ Trump said of Thursday’s strike targeting ⁠Islamic State militants, adding ‘we hit them hard’.

US launches strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, Trump says

US strikes targeting militants were carried out in cooperation with the Nigerian government.

Nigeria says ‘spat’ with Trump over killing of Christians ‘largely resolved’

However, Nigeria remains on Washington’s list of countries of ‘particular concern’ regarding alleged religious freedom violations.

Nigeria secures release of 130 children abducted from Catholic school

Presidential spokesman confirms ‘none left in captivity’ after an operation frees students taken by gunmen in November.

Chinese workers return to Africa as lucrative job opportunities beckon

Large-scale, China-backed projects entice contract workers to take up posts in some African nations, while political instability keeps others away.

‘Concrete symbols’: China-built Ecowas HQ latest infrastructure gift to Africa

Beijing’s strategy to project influence through gifting prestigious presidential palaces and parliamentary buildings labelled ‘unique’.

Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI

The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.

Opinion | How China can help Africa build human capital

To truly harness their potential, countries across the continent seeking to industrialise must develop education and infrastructure in tandem.

Benin hunts leader behind short-lived coup that left casualties on both sides

Authorities in the west African country confirm arrests were made and hostages released, but apparent coup leader remained at large.

Why Chinese firms are taking operational risks on African projects

Public-private partnerships or PPP model for African infrastructure tipped to grow as ‘bankable’ projects can attract global finance.

Nigeria’s government secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren

The fate of dozens of other pupils and staff remains unclear as the country buckles under a wave of mass abductions.

Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings

Hundreds of people, mostly children, have been abducted in a week.

Dozens kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria escape captors

Hundreds of children and staff remain held by gunmen amid a spate of school attacks in the West African country.

315 kidnapped in Nigeria school attacks as security crisis deepens

Gunmen attacked a school in Niger state on Friday after abducting 25 girls from a Kebbi state secondary school on Monday.

Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week

The attacks come weeks after US President Trump threatened military action over what he said were targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians.

1 girl escapes Nigeria mass abduction of 25 students from a high school

The student fled through a forest after gunmen attacked a high school dormitory.

Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls in Nigeria region grappling with banditry

The early morning raid came a decade after the Chibok abduction that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Trump’s threat of US military action clashes with Nigeria’s reality

Nigeria’s president denies his country is religiously intolerant after Trump claimed Christians are being killed in ‘large numbers’.

Nigeria urges meeting with Trump after US president’s military action threat

Trump had said he was designating Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ because of worries about the safety of Christians there.

Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.

Opinion | Africa is where Hong Kong’s ‘go global’ campaign should begin

The new GoGlobal Task Force should spur efforts to tap opportunities in emerging markets. Africa, where China already has a considerable presence, is a natural choice.

World’s oldest president, 92, could extend rule as Cameroon heads to polls

Paul Biya, who spends most of his time in Europe, came to power in the Central African country in 1982 and has ruled since then.

China’s ‘health silk road’ in Africa gets a boost with insulin, pharma projects

Move to manufacture insulin locally is set against forecast of nearly 55 million Type 2 diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2045.

Opinion | Will US interference in Hong Kong or Taiwan end? Don’t bet on it