https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASJ0tmeBt2s/michael-olukayode RSS for Node Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:42:48 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-18/nigeria-officially-joins-brics-to-boost-trade-investment https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-18/nigeria-officially-joins-brics-to-boost-trade-investment Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:28:01 GMT Pedestrians walk between office buildings in the Central Business District (CBD) of Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency to counter the rising cost of living and in early August announced a 500 billion naira package of measures to improve food supply, ease transportation costs and boost manufacturing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-30/female-suicide-bombers-suspected-in-nigerian-blasts-that-kill-18 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-30/female-suicide-bombers-suspected-in-nigerian-blasts-that-kill-18 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 09:27:50 GMT Injured residents lay in a van as they arrive for treatment after a wave of suicide attacks in the North East of Nigeria on June 29, 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/united-nations-warns-half-a-million-nigerians-risk-going-hungry https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/united-nations-warns-half-a-million-nigerians-risk-going-hungry Fri, 15 Oct 2021 17:06:44 GMT Bidemi Aye receives a pre-paid debt card for cash and food provided by World Food Programme (WFP) in a makeshift home in the Makoko riverine slum settlement in Lagos on November 27, 2020. - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has round off cash and food assistance across the country to most vulnerable people to cushion the effect of Covid-19 pandemic in the cities of Abuja, Kano and Makoko slum settlement in Lagos, the epic center of the virus in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most populous country. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images) 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/2020-09-26/boko-haram-kills-11-in-nigerian-convoy-ambush-police-say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-26/boko-haram-kills-11-in-nigerian-convoy-ambush-police-say Sat, 26 Sep 2020 15:33:32 GMT A picture shows weapons, allegedly belonging to a group of suspected Boko Haram militants, displayed by the police officers, in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on July 18, 2018. Photographer: Audu Ali Marte/AFP via Getty Images https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/insurgents-abduct-about-100-people-from-northeast-nigerian-town https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-19/insurgents-abduct-about-100-people-from-northeast-nigerian-town Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:24:25 GMT People walk in the streets of the Sajeri village on the outskirts of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on January 8, 2019 as they gather for the funerals of the victims of yesterday's attack. - Fighters of the Islamic State group-backed Boko Haram and loyal to the factional leader Abubakar Shekau attacked Sajeri village on the outskirts of the Nigerian city Maiduguri, killing three people. At the same time, militants aligned to Boko Haram faction attacked a military facility in Auno, some 23 kilometres (15 miles) south of the city. (Photo by Audu Ali MARTE / AFP) (Photo credit should read AUDU ALI MARTE/AFP via Getty Images) Photographer: AUDU ALI MARTE/AFP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-30/blasts-rock-northern-nigerian-city-as-jihadist-violence-picks-up https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-30/blasts-rock-northern-nigerian-city-as-jihadist-violence-picks-up Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:40:47 GMT Maiduguri, Nigeria. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-23/un-says-some-aid-workers-killed-in-nigeria-by-armed-group https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-23/un-says-some-aid-workers-killed-in-nigeria-by-armed-group Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:50:02 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-20/clashes-in-northwestern-nigeria-leave-at-least-20-people-dead https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-20/clashes-in-northwestern-nigeria-leave-at-least-20-people-dead Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:14:25 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-27/nigerian-military-says-scores-of-militants-killed-in-air-raids https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-27/nigerian-military-says-scores-of-militants-killed-in-air-raids Sat, 27 Jun 2020 08:50:17 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-14/boko-haram-militants-kill-at-least-50-in-northeast-nigeria https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-14/boko-haram-militants-kill-at-least-50-in-northeast-nigeria Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:50:13 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-10/boko-haram-militants-leave-70-dead-in-northeast-nigeria-attack https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-10/boko-haram-militants-leave-70-dead-in-northeast-nigeria-attack Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:07:50 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/boko-haram-insurgents-kill-139-chadian-nigerian-troops https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/boko-haram-insurgents-kill-139-chadian-nigerian-troops Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:03:24 GMT This photo taken on June 17, 2014 in Dabanga, northern Cameroon, shows a soldier standing guard by a machine gun, part of a convoy of Cameroon's army soldiers as part of a reinforcement of its military forces against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram, which in April 2014 kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria to international condemnation, has been waging a brutal, five-year insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives. AFP PHOTO / REINNIER KAZE (Photo credit should read Reinnier KAZE/AFP/Getty Images) Photographer: REINNIER KAZE/AFP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-20/nigerian-state-asks-for-100-000-more-troops-to-beat-boko-haram https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-20/nigerian-state-asks-for-100-000-more-troops-to-beat-boko-haram Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:46:02 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/militants-kill-more-than-60-mourners-in-northeast-nigeria-attack https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/militants-kill-more-than-60-mourners-in-northeast-nigeria-attack Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:09:24 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-22/nigeria-kills-42-islamic-state-fighters-in-military-offensive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-22/nigeria-kills-42-islamic-state-fighters-in-military-offensive Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:37:52 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/un-says-27-000-killed-in-northeast-nigeria-attacks-since-2009 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/un-says-27-000-killed-in-northeast-nigeria-attacks-since-2009 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:33:58 GMT Rescue workers carry a body of a victim following a suicide attack in Maiduguri, Nigeria Monday, April 2, 2018. Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked two villages on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri late Sunday, killing at least 15 people, the military said Monday. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-17/suicide-attacks-leave-30-dead-in-north-nigeria-responders-say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-17/suicide-attacks-leave-30-dead-in-north-nigeria-responders-say Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:22:57 GMT Konduga in Borno State. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-06/nigeria-army-chief-says-politicians-plan-bombings-at-state-votes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-06/nigeria-army-chief-says-politicians-plan-bombings-at-state-votes Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:25:03 GMT Tukur Buratai Photographer: Stefan Heunis/AFP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-16/suicide-bombing-in-nigeria-s-maiduguri-kills-11-says-channels https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-16/suicide-bombing-in-nigeria-s-maiduguri-kills-11-says-channels Sat, 16 Feb 2019 12:52:52 GMT Officials load the body of a victim to the general hospital mortuary on a street of the Jiddari Polo neighbourhood of the northeastern Nigeria city of Maiduguri, on Februray 16, 2019 where Boko Haram fighters shot residents while two suicide bombers blew themselves up, killing eight people. - The attack came hours before Nigeria's electoral commission announced it was postponing today's presidential and legislative vote for a week. The killings came after the group overran a military base north of Maiduguri few days before, stealing an armoured vehicle and torching buildings in an attack that left "several soldiers" missing. (Photo by Audu MARTE / AFP) (Photo credit should read AUDU MARTE/AFP/Getty Images)