Commentary When Queen Elizabeth II, 96 years old, was close to death, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University called Uju Anya, whose areas of inquiry include “applied linguistics as a practice of social justice and translanguaging in world language pedagogy,” published her desire that the Queen should die an excruciating death. Surprisingly for someone who…
6 Dead After Building Collapses in Nigeria’s Largest City
ABUJA, Nigeria—Nigerian authorities on Monday sought to arrest a property developer after a seven-story building under construction collapsed in an upscale area of Lagos, the country’s largest city, killing at least six people. Meanwhile, the Lagos Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development submitted his resignation in the aftermath of Sunday’s tragedy, amid growing pressure…
Building Collapses in Nigeria; 8 People Pulled From Rubble
ABUJA, Nigeria—A three-story building under construction collapsed Tuesday in northwestern Nigeria, trapping shoppers in a busy neighborhood. Emergency response workers told the Associated Press that at least eight people have been pulled from the rubble and they were searching for more. The building in Kano state, northern Nigeria’s commercial hub, was being constructed as a…
Is Africa’s Richest State Ready for a Breakthrough?
July 18, 2022
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Commentary Nigeria, in 2022, remained the state with the largest economy in Africa and the African state with the largest population (211 million in 2021). But it is a nation that even its staunchest supporters would admit was economically mismanaged—and in social and security upheaval. Yet its economy grew, albeit slightly, in 2021 over 2020,…
Report Shows Attacks on Christians In Nigeria Are Surging After US Drops ‘Concern’ Tag
More Christians have been killed in Nigeria since President Joe Biden’s administration declared there were no religious freedom violations in the country in October 2021, according to watchdogs and church leaders speaking to The Epoch Times. In the first half of 2022, more than 2,543 Nigerian Christians were murdered by Islamists, according to the International Society…
Attacks Near Nigeria’s Capital Threaten National Elections
ABUJA, Nigeria—A series of terror attacks near Nigeria’s seat of power has embarrassed officials and threatened to disrupt the country’s general elections in 2023. Three prominent incidents near the capital Abuja on July 5 shocked President Muhammadu Buhari and exposed his administration’s failure to end terrorism during his seven years in power. In 2015, the…
Nigerian Senator and Wife Accused of Organ Harvesting Will Face Trial in UK
A Nigerian senator and his wife who allegedly brought a young man into Britain so they could harvest one of his kidneys for their daughter will face trial at the Old Bailey in London. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55 were charged last month and at the time it was reported the…
Some 440 Inmates on Run After Suspected Boko Haram Raid on Nigeria Prison
ABUJA—Around 440 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Boko Haram terrorists on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said. The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari—who was not present—heading to his hometown in the northern state of…
Nigeria’s Barkindo, Who Led OPEC in Turbulent Times, Dies at 63
ABUJA—The secretary general of oil producers group OPEC, Mohammad Barkindo, has died, the boss of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) announced on Wednesday. Barkindo, 63, a veteran of the oil industry, was due to step down at the end of this month after six years in the top job at the Organization of the Petroleum…
Terrorists Kidnapping Hundreds of Nigerian Women, Using Them as Sex Slaves
NIGERIA—Hundreds of women are being kidnapped every week and held as sex slaves by bandit terrorists in Nigeria’s north, according to a national politician. And the government is unconcerned, said Umar Barde a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives in a phone interview with The Epoch Times. “They [terrorists] rape both young and old…
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