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Nigeria - BBC News
Nov 2, 2024 · Living with Nigeria's blackouts - six weeks, no power. Large parts of Nigeria are experiencing power outages due to problems with the country's grid. All the latest content about Nigeria from the BBC.
Nigeria poll results and protests as it happened - BBC
Feb 27, 2023 · Nigeria's opposition Labour Party is to mount a legal challenge against the presidential election victory of Bola Tinubu of the governing APC. Labour's Peter Obi came third in Saturday's vote.
Why Nigeria's economy is in such a mess - BBC
Feb 27, 2024 · Nigeria is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation, leading to widespread hardship and anger. A litre of petrol costs more than three times what it did nine months ago ...
How Nigeria succeeded in clipping Twitter's wings - BBC
Twitter has agreed to a raft of conditions to end a seven-month ban in Nigeria, in what feels like a big win for President Muhammadu Buhari's administration in its efforts to regulate the internet ...
Nigeria's mass abductions: What lies behind the resurgence? - BBC
Nigeria is once more being rocked by mass abductions. Twice in one week, gangs of motorcycle-riding armed men, operating from forests in two different places in the north of the country, kidnapped ...
Nigeria diphtheria outbreak kills 600 - BBC
Oct 12, 2023 · More than 600 people, mostly children, have died of diphtheria in Nigeria since the current outbreak began in December 2022, officials say. With 14,000 suspected cases, this outbreak is far worse ...
Benin vs Nigeria: Africa Cup of Nations Qualification - BBC Sport
1 day ago · Follow live text commentary, score updates and match stats from Benin vs Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations Qualification.
Nigeria hit by widespread blackout in 'total system collapse' - BBC
Sep 14, 2023 · A "total system collapse" caused widespread power cuts across Nigeria on Thursday. Early in the morning, levels of power generated in Africa's most populous country fell to zero megawatts.
Fire kills 153 people after fuel tanker crash in Nigeria
Oct 17, 2024 · An overturned fuel tanker exploded on Tuesday night in northern Nigeria, killing at least 153 people who had rushed to the scene of the accident to collect leaking petrol, officials say.