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In 2017, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari spent 5 months in a London hospital treating undisclosed illnesses. Shortly afterward, rumors began online that the president has died and was replaced by a clone. The man who started those rumors was Nnamdi Kanu, a British-Nigerian political activist. He is also the leader of the separatist group; The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and director of London-based Radio Biafra. The main aim of IPOB is to create an…
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The Nigerian government has been systematically releasing ex Boko Haram members back into society since 2016. The government claimed those released were repentant former militants who have gone through the Deradicalization, Rehabilitation, and reintegration (DRR) program and are now set to be reintegrated into society. Trouble started in 2009 when BokoHaram declared war on the Nigerian state after the extrajudicial killing of its then leader, Mohammed Yusuf. In 2017, former governor Kashim Shettima of Borno…
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The just-concluded Big Brother Nigeria is arguably the most popular show on Nigerian television. To understand what the show is all about, it is important to understand what it isn’t. It is not a talent show; which means contestants do not engage in singing competitions, tell jokes, dance, and stuffs like that. It is not a game show; there are no physical or mental contests. Rather it is marketed as a reality show which follows…
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Upon completion, the Dangote oil refinery will have the capacity to refine 650, 000 barrels of crude oil a day making it Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the world’s biggest single-train facility. It will also be producing fertilizer as well as other petrochemical products. The facility is projected to create 70,000 jobs and save Nigeria 10 billion dollars in foreign exchange. Currently, Nigeria is Africa’s top oil producer and oil is the government’s biggest source…
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Africa has come a long way since the year 2000 when The Economist published this magazine branding the continent as hopeless. Since the turn of the century, countries in sub-Saharan Africa achieved a growth rate of 6.2%, by comparison, that is twice the growth rate of countries in Latin America during the same time period. In 2015, 5 of the 10 economies who grew the most were in Africa, these are; The Ivory Coast, Ethiopia,…