Nigeria

Health & Safety

10,000 Cases and 500 Deaths in Africa. Health Officials Say It's Just the Beginning

6:30pm April 08, 2020

by Pien Huang

Millions of people in Africa are at high risk for COVID-19 and lack reliable access to doctors or medical equipment. Health officials are focusing on preventing the spread of the disease.

Music & Culture

Obongjayar's Defiant Songs Of Self-Reliance

8:01am February 09, 2020

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The London-based, Nigerian-born musician talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his new album, "Which Way Is Forward?" which embraces his cultural heritage to tackle different aspects of power.

Nigerians make up one of the largest groups of African immigrants in the U.S. Some are worried that family members who've applied for visas won't be able to come now because of new travel ban restrictions.

Nigerians Shocked By Trump's New Immigration Restrictions

9:57am February 05, 2020

by Carmel Delshad

The Trump administration plans to bar Nigerians from applying for immigrant visas in the future, citing security concerns. Nigerian communities in the U.S. worry how this could affect them.

An employee walks past a power plant's electricity pylons in Lagos, Nigeria. Power shortages are particularly a problem for Nigeria's booming tech industry, which accounts for nearly 14% of the country's GDP.

Health & Safety

The Powerlessness Of Nigeria's Tech Startups

10:00am November 24, 2019

by Tim McDonnell

The big problem for these booming businesses isn't staff shortages, government regulations or software glitches. It's all about the electrical grid.

BOB ❤ ABISHOLA is a love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who is smitten with his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant.

CBS's 'Bob Hearts Abishola' Rings True To These Nigerian Viewers

3:00am October 20, 2019

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

The new sitcom is about a white, middle-aged Detroiter who falls head over heels for a Nigerian nurse. We asked a couple of Nigerian viewers what they think of the show.

Federal agents hold a detainee (second from left) at a downtown Los Angeles parking lot after predawn raids in the L.A. area on Thursday.

Feds Charge 80 People Over Massive Online Fraud Conspiracy

4:10pm August 23, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

One of the victims is a Japanese woman who sent more than $200,000 to a person she thought was a U.S. service member in Syria, according to the federal complaint.

Ashes smolder on the ground in the northeast Nigerian village of Budu on Sunday, after an attack this weekend by suspected Boko Haram fighters on a funeral procession left 60 people dead.

World News

Suspected Boko Haram Attack On Nigerian Funeral Procession Kills At Least 60 People

1:57pm July 29, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The militant group has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria and surrounding countries for a decade, killing tens of thousands of people and displacing about 2.4 million others.

People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria on Oct. 14, 2014.

Girls Captured By Boko Haram Brought Into Focus In 'Beneath The Tamarind Tree'

1:57pm July 10, 2019

by Lily Meyer

Former CNN journalist Isha Sesay argues that the Nigerian government, the media and the public have failed the 276 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group five years ago.

The Jankara market in Lagos, Nigeria. A group called Market March Movement is working to end street harassment in shopping districts across the country.

'Stop Touching Us': Women Protest Against Harassment At Nigeria's Street Markets

9:29am April 11, 2019

by Kelechukwu Iruoma

In Lagos, street vendors say that they touch and grab their female customers to drum up sales. A group called Market March Movement has formed to protest against the street harassment.

Sadiq Muhammed Kabir, 24, runs his own import-export business selling ginger root in Kaduna, Nigeria. He shared his "hustle" on Twitter.

Why #ThisIsMyHustle Is Trending In Nigeria

7:27pm March 21, 2019

Across the country, young people are proudly sharing their side hustles and main gigs, from baking wedding cakes to growing ginger to laying tile.