Sometime after midnight on October 21, Elisha Sunday Ibanga answered a phone call from his older brother’s number. The person on the other end of the line — a stranger — broke the news that Ibanga’s brother, Victor, had been shot dead at the Lekki toll gate, in Lagos, Nigeria, where he had been peacefully …
Who is Jill Biden? Joe Biden’s wife and new US First Lady by April Roach
Jill Biden is soon to be known as the new First Lady of the US as her husband Joe Biden has secured victory over Donald Trump in the tightest US election race in 20 years. The 69-year-old has been a strong force behind her husband of more than 40 years. Days before the polls opened, …
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“Many People in Nigeria Believe I Killed Abiola”, How He and Abacha, died, by Susan Rice
‘To this day, many people in Nigeria think I killed him.’ That was the opening line in the riveting account of the last hour of the late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola as told by Ambassador Susan Rice. She was one of the visiting American diplomats in whose presence the presumed winner of the 1993 …
Nigeria cracks down on ‘end Sars’ protesters, alleging terrorism by Emmanuel Akinwotu
Authorities suspend accounts of supporters and fine media for ‘exaggerated reporting’ Nigerian authorities have enforced a sweeping crackdown of “end Sars” protesters against police brutality in recent weeks, charging prominent supporters of financing terrorism and sanctioning coverage of recent abuses by security forces. Authorities have suspended the bank accounts of prominent supporters, fined media agencies …
New portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter unveiled by Mark Brown
Painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta part of English Heritage project to highlight overlooked black figures Show caption Her birth name, historians believe, was Aina but in the high society of 19th-century England she was Sarah Forbes Bonetta, an enslaved little girl from what is now the west African country of Benin who became Queen Victoria’s …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 