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For These Kids, Toiling in Illegal Mines Is 'Only Option'

Lithium demand creates 'new frontier for mining' in Nigeria, with children doing much of the work

(Newser) - Dressed in a faded pink dress, 6-year-old Juliet Samaniya squats under scorching skies to chip at a jagged white rock with a stone tool. Dust coats her tiny hands and her hair as she works hour after hour, for less than a dollar a day in Nasarawa, Nigeria. The landscape...

Dozens Dead, Hundreds Missing After Boat Capsizes

Vessel on Nigeria's Niger River was headed to food market when it tipped

(Newser) - More than two dozen people died and upward of 100 people, mostly women, were missing on Friday, after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the Niger River in northern Nigeria, authorities said. About 200 passengers were on the boat that was going from the state of...

Nigeria Charges 29 Minors With Death Penalty Crimes in Protest

Four of the young defendants collapse in court

(Newser) - Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country's record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea. A total of 76 protesters were charged with...

Nigeria Takes Aim at Malnutrition With ... Bouillon

As climate change wreaks havoc, African nation looks to a simple soup cube that everyone uses

(Newser) - Malnourished households in Nigeria soon will have a simple ingredient available to improve their intake of key vitamins and minerals. Government regulators are launching standards for adding iron, zinc, folic acid, and vitamin B12 to bouillon cubes at minimum levels recommended by experts. While the standards will be voluntary for...

Inmates Flee as Floods Bring Prison Walls Down

Authorities have recaptured just 7 of the 281 inmates who escaped from prison in Maiduguri, Nigeria

(Newser) - Nigerian authorities said 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison's walls in the country's northeast. A major dam collapsed on Sept. 10, unleashing severe flooding that left 30 people dead and more than a million displaced, and prompted evacuations across the state of Borno, reports...

Nigerian Brothers Sentenced in Tragic 'Sextortion' Scheme

Samuel Ogoshi and his brother Samson got more than 17 years behind bars

(Newser) - The Nigerian brothers convicted of a "sextortion" scheme that ended with the suicide of a 17-year-old Michigan victim have been sentenced to 17 and a half years behind bars in the US. Samuel and Samson Ogoshi, ages 24 and 21, pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to sexually exploit...

Treason Charge Means Protesters Face Death Penalty

Amnesty International official rips Nigeria's 'trumped-up charges'

(Newser) - At least 10 protesters in Nigeria faced a possible death penalty on Monday after being charged with treason over their participation in recent demonstrations against the country's worst-in-a-generation economic crisis. The protesters were arraigned in the capital, Abuja, and accused of acting "with intent to destabilize Nigeria …...

Experts: It's Not Heavy Rain Causing Deadly Nigerian Floods

Scores have died over past few weeks, with blame placed on poor infrastructure, climate change

(Newser) - Weeks of flooding have killed nearly 200 people in Nigeria and washed away homes and farmlands, the country's disaster management agency said, further threatening food supplies, especially in the hard-hit northern region. The floods blamed on poor infrastructure and badly maintained dams have killed 185 people and displaced 208,...

School Collapse Kills 22 Students in Nigeria
School Collapse
Kills 22 Students
Jul 13, 2024 1:30 PM CDT

School Collapse Kills 22 Students

Nigerian officials report 132 were rescued from rubble

(Newser) - A two-story school collapsed during morning classes Friday in north-central Nigeria, killing 22 students and sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people trapped in the rubble, authorities said. The Saints Academy college in Plateau state's Busa Buji community collapsed shortly after students, many of whom...

Female Bombers Kill 18 at Wedding, Funeral, and Hospital

Victims in northern Nigeria include children and pregnant women

(Newser) - Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral, and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said Sunday. The first bomber detonated during a marriage celebration in the northeastern town of Gwoza, Barkindo Saidu, director-general of the Borno State Emergency Management...

Nigeria: At Least Some Abducted Students Are Freed

(Newser) - At least 137 of nearly 300 Nigerian children abducted more than two weeks ago from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna were released on Sunday, the West African nation's military said. An earlier statement from the government suggested that all the students were freed, the AP reports....

More Children Are Abducted From a Nigerian School

Gunmen took sleeping students from a boarding school in a remote village

(Newser) - Another 15 children were abducted from a school in northwestern Nigeria on Saturday, two days after nearly 300 students were taken hostage from another school in the region. The latest kidnapping happened in the Gidan Bakuso village. Armed men broke into a boarding school and took the children as they...

3 Traditional Rulers Killed in 4 Days
In 4 Days,
3 Rulers
Assassinated
Feb 2, 2024 11:42 AM CST

In 4 Days, 3 Rulers Assassinated

Spate of kidnappings, killings wash over Nigeria

(Newser) - Gunmen in Nigeria have killed three traditional rulers in four days, and kidnapped several others, as part of an ongoing security crisis . Armed men killed two traditional rulers in Ekiti state—the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olushola, and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsakin—on Monday,...

Dayslong Attacks Leave 140 Nigerian Villagers Dead

Herders are suspected in the mass killing amid long-running conflict over resources

(Newser) - At least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in north-central Nigeria's Plateau state, survivors and officials said Tuesday. It's only the latest of such mass killings this year blamed on the West African nation's farmer-herder crisis, per the AP . The...

Nigeria Drone Strike Kills 85 Civilians

Officials say military thought it was 'targeting terrorists and bandits'

(Newser) - At least 85 civilians were killed when an army drone attack erroneously targeted a religious gathering in northwest Nigeria, officials confirmed Tuesday as the country's president ordered a probe into the latest in a series of such deadly mistakes in Nigeria's conflict zones. The strike took place Sunday...

Why Nigeria Burned 4 Tons of Pangolin Scales

Country did so as a deterrent to traffickers

(Newser) - In a move intended to deter wildlife traffickers, Nigeria has burned more than 4 tons of pangolin scales. "These seized items represent the past we leave behind, but the destruction signifies the future we are determined to build for our planet," the country's environment minister said before...

Nearly 70 Face Prison for Attending Nigerian Wedding

It was a gay wedding, and homosexuality is outlawed in the African nation

(Newser) - Police in Nigeria said Tuesday they detained at least 67 people celebrating a gay wedding in one of the largest mass detentions targeting homosexuality, which is outlawed in the West African country. The "gay suspects" were arrested in southern Delta state's Ekpan town about 2am Monday at an...

They Crossed the Atlantic on Ship's Rudder

4 Nigerian men survived 14-day journey to arrive in Brazil, where 2 are now seeking asylum

(Newser) - Four men spent 14 days clinging to the rudder of a ship as it carried them 3,500 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Nigeria to Brazil. The remarkable journey began in late June, with the departure of a Liberian-flagged ship from Lagos. Roman Ebimene Friday, a 35-year-old from Nigeria'...

Bola Tinubu Wins Nigeria's Vote
Losers Dispute Nigeria's Vote
Mar 1, 2023 4:32 PM CST

Losers Dispute Nigeria's Vote

Ruling party stays in power after low-turnout presidential election

(Newser) - Election officials declared Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria's presidential election Wednesday, keeping the ruling party in power in Africa's most populous nation and raising the specter of protests by opposition supporters who already have called for the vote to be voided. Tinubu, 70, the former governor of...

'It Was Wrong to Take the Bronzes' and 'Keep Them for 120 Years'

Germany returns 20 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

(Newser) - The kingdom of Benin—whose earthen walls were said to be on par with those of the Great Wall of China—stood from the 11th century until 1897. That was the year the British invaded what's now southern Nigeria, burned it down, and made off with the Benin Bronzes:...

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