She’s on school reading lists and counts Hillary, Oprah and Beyoncé as fans. The author talks about motherhood, #MeToo – and causing controversy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘The world is changing very fast, and we intend to accelerate it.’ Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian At a PEN lecture in Manhattan last weekend, the novelist Chimamanda …
Nigerians are walking into Canada, prompting request for U.S. to take action By Selena Ross
Refugees who crossed the Canada-U.S. border near Hemmingford, Quebec, are processed in a tent after being detained last August. The flow of asylum seekers that began last summer has resumed this spring. Most of the new arrivals are Nigerians. (GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images) MONTREAL — As Nigerian asylum seekers flood into Canada across a ditch in …
Nigeria Faces a Crippling Population Boom by John Campbell
At a population conference in New York, Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC) Eze Duruiheoma estimated that the current population of Nigeria is 198 million, and that the population living in urban areas has been growing 6.5 percent annually over the past fifty years. He cites that World Population Prospects prediction that by 2050, …
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Original Naija people abbreviations
LWKM - Laugh wan kill me MIDG - make i dey go WGYL - we go yarn later IGA - I gbadun am ICS - I can't shout DJM - Don't jealous me WBDM - Who born d maga UDC - U de craze NUS - Na u sabi WSU - who send u ITK …

