Nigerians have expressed mixed reactions to the news that Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o will be playing a Nigerian character in her passion project Americanah, based on the best-selling novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. HBO Max has ordered a limited series based on the 2013 book, and celebrated actress Danai Gurira, […]
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Amid the continued xenophobic violence in South Africa which has led to numerous residences destroyed and shops looted, scores of foreign nationals have taken up offers to go back home over protection issues. On Wednesday night time, the primary batch of 187 Nigerians, out of the 640 who opted to […]
Three countries in West Africa, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Ghana between 2007 and 2017 recorded significant growth in wealth generation. The amount of wealth held in Africa between the same period also rose by 13 percent. According to an Oxfam report West Africa recorded the largest growth in this wealth. […]
At least 50 people have been killed and several others injured in Nigeria after a fuel tanker crashed off the road and exploded as people collected fuel. The driver of the tanker, who was travelling through the village of Ahumbe in Benue state in northern Nigeria, lost control of the […]
Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, is probing the circumstances that led to a man being airlifted from a busy street in Benin City, capital of southwestern Edo State. The NCAA said its attention had been drawn to the incident which gained a lot of traction on social media network Twitter […]
An American businessman living in Nigeria is facing the country’s laws after a charge of defrauding by false pretense was slapped on him for allegedly defrauding some Nigerians to the tune of $565,000 (about N203.4m). Marco Ramirez, alongside his companies, USA Now LLC, Eagle Ford Instalodge Group LP, and USA […]
The Czech Republic has decided to pay Nigerians and other migrants to encourage them to leave the central European country. The offer is under a programme that focuses particularly on migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Mongolia, Russia, and Vietnam. According to a report published on RemixNews, a Czech Republic-based newspaper, […]
Thirty people were killed in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, emergency services reported, marking the biggest mass killing this year by suicide bombers. Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 25 kilometres from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where football fans were watching a match […]
Nigerian poet Chukwuemeka Akachi a young Nigerian poet has taken his own life, just hours after he wrote a suicide note and posted it on Facebook. Akachi’s penultimate Facebook post was on his struggles with mental health, but few people took the issue seriously. Some people mocked him, and referred to […]
