Scam alert!! Nigeria launches “Diaspora Mortgage Loan” scheme
The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) launched a National Housing Fund (NHF) Diaspora Mortgage Loan in London on Friday 7 August. They claimed it
Who wants to be a Nigerian? British High Commissioner Pete Vowles?!
British High Commissioner to Nigeria designate, Pete Vowles, who starts his posting in September, yesterday tweeted a picture of himself reading How to be a
Surviving Biafra BBC documentary: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The BBC aired the documentary Surviving Biafra: Voices from the Nigerian Civil War today, directed by the grandson and son of Godwin Alabi-Isama, a former
“Village of Widows” in Plateau State, Nigeria: Victims of “Christian genocide”?
The UK’s Channel 4 broadcast yesterday a deep dive into violence from the Fulani militia in Plateau State. As the militia is made up of
The jury is out on Nigeria’s new tax laws
Nigeria overhauled its tax system at the beginning of the year. The government claimed the “reforms” would benefit low income earners especially. As Noam Chomsky
Abuja’s housing crisis – a war against the poor in Nigeria’s capital
All the shining buildings in Abuja can’t mask the city’s underbelly of ever-growing poverty as can be seen in the shanty developments that are dotted
In Nigeria hunger stalks the land
Nigeria is facing a “hunger crisis” as food items continue to be beyond the reach for many families, despite claims made by the regime of
Despite US troops’ presence in Nigeria, 1,000 Nigerians are being killed monthly
Kabiru Adamu, a security analyst, told Al Jazeera today that about 1,000 Nigerians are being killed on a monthly basis since December. This is despite
Mehdi Hasan v Daniel Bwala was bulala to bum not “Head to Head”
When the epitaph for the Bola Tinubu regime is written, sending presidential spokesman Daniel Bwala to go and represent his boss on Al Jazeera’s Head
Nigeria rice production output hits four-year low
Rice production has hit a four-year low in Nigeria due to the government flooding the market with imports. 10 years ago the government launched a