https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/APMlJ5RokZQ/dulue-mbachu RSS for Node Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:08:16 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-20/police-say-84-hostages-rescued-from-gunmen-in-northern-nigeria https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-20/police-say-84-hostages-rescued-from-gunmen-in-northern-nigeria Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:03:38 GMT TOPSHOT - Released students gather at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria upon their release on December 18, 2020. - More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were released on Thursday after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, officials said, although it was unclear if any more remained with their captors (Photo by Kola SULAIMON / AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/boko-haram-video-shows-seized-schoolboys-in-a-forest https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/boko-haram-video-shows-seized-schoolboys-in-a-forest Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:11:12 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-29/nigeria-says-boko-haram-attack-on-rice-farmers-leaves-42-dead https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-29/nigeria-says-boko-haram-attack-on-rice-farmers-leaves-42-dead Sun, 29 Nov 2020 10:25:44 GMT TOPSHOT - Mourners attend the funeral of 43 farm workers in Zabarmari, about 20km from Maiduguri, Nigeria, on November 29, 2020 after they were killed by Boko Haram fighters in rice fields near the village of Koshobe on November 28, 2020. - The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe. The victims were labourers from Sokoto state in northwest Nigeria, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, who had travelled to the northeast to find work. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) (Photo by AUDU MARTE/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/nigeria-says-air-france-klm-lufthansa-to-resume-flights https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/nigeria-says-air-france-klm-lufthansa-to-resume-flights Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:35:04 GMT Passengers wait in line at the departure terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, in Abuja, Nigeria on September 7, 2020. - After a five-month closure of the Nigerian airspace due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, flight resumptions began in Abuja, Nigeria. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-02/nigerian-forces-surround-southern-oil-town-after-soldiers-killed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-02/nigerian-forces-surround-southern-oil-town-after-soldiers-killed Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:48:26 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/nigeria-says-22-police-killed-205-stations-damaged-in-protests https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/nigeria-says-22-police-killed-205-stations-damaged-in-protests Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:59:46 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/unrest-in-nigeria-lifts-lid-on-deep-rooted-social-discontent https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/unrest-in-nigeria-lifts-lid-on-deep-rooted-social-discontent Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:00:00 GMT Widespread looting was reported in 36 states. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/our-lives-matter-nigerian-protesters-say-over-police-killings https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/our-lives-matter-nigerian-protesters-say-over-police-killings Fri, 23 Oct 2020 04:00:00 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/deaths-from-nigeria-protests-now-56-with-crackdown-amnesty-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/deaths-from-nigeria-protests-now-56-with-crackdown-amnesty-says Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:16:43 GMT Nigerian Police fire teargas at people during clashes between youths in Apo, Abuja, Nigeria, on October 20, 2020, following the ongoing demonstrations against the unjustly brutality of the Nigerian Police Force Unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/nigerian-army-offers-to-back-civil-authorities-amid-protests https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/nigerian-army-offers-to-back-civil-authorities-amid-protests Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:23:37 GMT A Nigerian youth seen waving the Nigerian national flag in support of the ongoing protest against the unjust brutality of The Nigerian Police Force Unit named Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on October 13, 2020. - Nigerians took to the streets once again on October 13, 2020, in several cities for fresh protests against police brutality, bringing key roads to a standstill in economic hub Lagos. Demonstrations organised on social media erupted earlier this month calling for the abolition of a notorious police unit accused of unlawful arrests, torture and extra-judicial killings. The government gave in to the demand on October 11, 2020, announcing that the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was being disbanded in a rare concession to people power in Africa's most populous nation. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi / AFP) (Photo by BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/nigerian-oil-hub-braces-for-protests-against-police-brutality https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/nigerian-oil-hub-braces-for-protests-against-police-brutality Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:14:13 GMT A demonstrator holds a placard to protest against abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) at the Lekki toll Plaza in Lagos, on October 12, 2020. - Nigerians protested to pressure the government to follow through on disbanding a feared police unit after authorities made the rare concession in the face of widespread anger over abuses. Around 2,000 people blocked one of the main highways in the country's biggest city Lagos, demanding officials make good on an announcement on October 11, 2020, that the federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was being scrapped. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-09/protests-against-police-brutality-spread-across-nigerian-cities https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-09/protests-against-police-brutality-spread-across-nigerian-cities Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:04:24 GMT Protesters gather calling for the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, "SARS," police unit, in Ikeja, Nigeria on Oct. 8. Photographer: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/west-african-leaders-to-meet-on-mali-coup-as-condemnation-grows https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/west-african-leaders-to-meet-on-mali-coup-as-condemnation-grows Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:23:27 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/insurgency-virus-threaten-10-6-million-in-northeast-nigeria https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/insurgency-virus-threaten-10-6-million-in-northeast-nigeria Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:39:44 GMT A health worker checks the temperature with an infrared thermometer of students on resumption of studies at Access International Schools, in Magboro, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, on Aug. 4, 2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/nigerian-president-loses-second-confidant-with-death-of-funtua https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/nigerian-president-loses-second-confidant-with-death-of-funtua Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:15:17 GMT Muhammadu Buhari https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/rhodes-statue-beheaded-in-south-african-anti-colonialism-protest https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/rhodes-statue-beheaded-in-south-african-anti-colonialism-protest Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:39:30 GMT The decapitated bust of Cecil John Rhodes at the Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town. Photographer: RODGER BOSCH/AFP https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-niger-delta-oil-pollution/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-niger-delta-oil-pollution/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:00:25 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/nigeria-s-ruling-party-at-risk-of-disintegration-buhari-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/nigeria-s-ruling-party-at-risk-of-disintegration-buhari-says Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:22:56 GMT Muhammadu Buhari https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-06/oil-price-collapse-could-strain-nigeria-s-federal-system https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-06/oil-price-collapse-could-strain-nigeria-s-federal-system Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:00:00 GMT Flow control wheels sit on pipes at the Arya Sasol Polymer Co. petrochemical complex which produces ethylene and polyethylene in Asaluyeh, Iran, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Shipping in the Middle East is getting ever riskier, with a standoff between the U.K. navy and Iran just the latest in a line of incidents in the region over the past few months. Photographer: Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-15/heavy-metal-pollution-causes-mass-fish-deaths-in-nigeria https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-15/heavy-metal-pollution-causes-mass-fish-deaths-in-nigeria Fri, 15 May 2020 11:30:25 GMT Dead fish lie on the shoreline polluted by oil in Bodo, Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Twenty years after the oil-pollution crisis in the Niger delta shot to world attention when the then military government hanged the author and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, residents in the region are seething with anger again that the problem hasnt been fixed.