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Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Introduction 1 I conducted an official country visit to Nigeria from 19 August to 3 September 2019. I warmly thank the Federal Government of Nigeria for their invitation to visit the country, and the officials I met for their availability and support. 2 …
Photograph by Alex Wong / Getty WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a shakeup that White House insiders said was a long time coming, one of the voices in Rudy Giuliani’s head has resigned. The resignation, which was officially tendered on Saturday morning, seemed inevitable after the former New York mayor made an appearance on CNN Thursday …
Households spend $12 billion on self-generated power President Buhari’s reform efforts have failed to take hold A tailor uses a generator for power in Lagos. Photographer: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Kabir Sabo’s sewing machine hums busily as he hems a “babariga,” a popular dress in northern Nigeria, in his small corner shop on …
Online scamming: 'If it doesn't look right, don't trust it' In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani laments that internet scammers have become role models for many youths in her country. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US has indicted 80 people - 77 of them Nigerians …
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In 2013, soon after Vivian Nwakah moved to Nigeria, a close friend died after taking a malaria pill he had bought at a local pharmacy in Lagos that turned out to be fake. “One day he said he was feeling sick, he took a malaria pill and within a week he died,” she says. “That …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 