Nigerians will begin their observance of Ramadan on Thursday, following an announcement from the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and its National Moon Sighting Committee that the crescent moon was observed, marking the start of the holy month of fasting and prayer. “May Allah make it a blessed…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Opposition leaders in Nigeria have disputed the results of an election that placed Bola Ahmed Tinubu into the presidency, following an early-morning announcement of the final results by Mahmood Yakubu of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) party candidate supported by outgoing President Muhammadu…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
It’s just 38 days until national elections in Nigeria, and Mahmood Yakubu, head of the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), assured Tuesday that his organization is prepared to meet the challenge of managing 93.4 million registered voters as the February 25 elections move ahead as scheduled. Yakubu, speaking at…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
A painstakingly detailed Reuters report on abortion at the hands of the Nigerian military, forced on women and girls held by Boko Haram members in the country’s northeast since former president Goodluck Jonathan was still in office, has shocked the international community—but not Nigerian defense officials who denied the abortions…
More than a few African entities are represented on a list of 636 fossil fuel lobbyists attending the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, a number that the anti-corruption Global Witness organization, publishers of the list, say is more than 25% higher than a year ago in Scotland. The names were…
Ramon Abbas positioned himself as a prominent Nigerian social influencer known as Ray Hushpuppi, but now he’ll spend more than 11 years in jail after United States authorities successfully prosecuted him for money laundering. The 40-year-old Abbas was implicated in a number of fraud cases, according to the U.S. Department…
Hard-hit Nigeria is by no means the only African nation dealing with severe impacts from climate change. A new assessment from the World Food Program (WFP) identifies 19 countries in Central and West Africa dealing with floods caused by excessive rainfall. Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Gambia and Chad are…
Twenty African nations, along with European partners and the United States, are participating in the Grand African Navy Exercise for Maritime Operations (NEMO) in the Gulf of Guinea. The exercise, led by French forces, is designed to support cooperative security efforts in West African waters. Along with coastal and island…
African leaders speaking at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York laid out their case for how the destabilized global environment is impacting their nations, with food insecurity due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict a priority. The leaders of Ghana, Nigeria, and Rwanda were among those speaking at Wednesday’s…
Outbreaks of the Ebola virus, monkeypox, and other diseases caused by animal-to-human infection in Africa have spiked by 63% across the last decade, much of that rise occurring in 2019 and 2020 alone. That’s according to a new analysis from the World Health Organization that compares the decade between 2012…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday toured the Kuje prison in Abuja, following a terrorist attack on the facility that led to the escape of roughly 800 people, more than half still unaccounted for. Buhari visited alongside interior minister Shuaib Mohammad Lamido Belgore and Haliru Nababa, the head of the…
China hosted Wednesday’s meeting on security among BRICS nations, with South Africa, Russia, Brazil and India attending the virtual session led by Yang Jiechi, director of China’s foreign affairs commission. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping expressed mutual solidarity on political issues including China’s proposed Global…
Nigerian leaders expressed shock and sorrow Sunday following a deadly attack on a church in Ondo State, east of Lagos. President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, calling the deaths of dozens of worshippers a heinous killing. He promised a swift response from the…
Nigeria is promoting its oil and gas industry during President Buhari’s state visit to Spain, a move that comes as European nations seek to secure resources to replace the now-banned imports of Russian oil. Buhari and representatives of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have highlighted Nigeria’s energy sector during…
The United States has pushed back against rumors that the global monkeypox outbreak has its origins in, and spread because of, “U.S.-controlled laboratories” in Nigeria. The claims, shared on social media with calls for a World Health Organization inquiry, are false, the U.S. embassy in Nigeria said in a response…