They arrived in 80s London with small intentions: to study, to work, to outrun what they had come from, and then maybe, one day, return back home. A people who …
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Scores killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes – video
A fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing about 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel. A Federal Road Safety Corps statement said: …
A fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel, which has rocketed in price amid an economic …
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‘I was crying, there was no anaesthesia’: the fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria
In a modest house on a red dirt road in Ota in Ogun state, Adijat Adejumo, a 39-year-old auxiliary nurse, runs a small chemist shop. She treats common illnesses such …
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‘To confront the anti-gay law is to trouble waters’: the young Nigerian novelist refusing to go by the book
Shortly after his 18th birthday, Chukwuebuka Ibeh embarked on his first trip outside his home city of Port Harcourt. He drove more than eight hours north to Lagos for a …
Sheffield is in luck. The Crucible theatre next month offers a rare staging of an extraordinary play: Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka. I saw Rufus Norris’s brilliant …
Every year, the world loses some of its 7,000 languages. Parents stop speaking them to their children, words are forgotten and communities lose the ability to read their own scripts. …
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Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025
From a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, 2024 was a big year for museums opening in …
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Beaches, beer and a rare suspended lake … why can’t Nigeria attract more tourists?
At the top of the Ado-Awaye hills lies a lake suspended 433 metres above sea level. Local people say the lake is named Iyake (Yoruba for “crying woman”) after a …
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We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2024 – part two
The woman who stared down the guns in Chad She strode across the border, back straight, face raised towards the burning sky. A soldier from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …
