Nigeria articles

A blow to the ‘morality police’

Report from Nigeria by Angelica Udueni.

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In Nigeria pressure on natural resources driven by climate stress, alongside government. The link must be broken with Religion and climate change.Photo: Stefan Heunis/Getty

Nigeria court action over Saro-Wiwa memorial

Campaigners have begun legal proceedings to gain possession of a ‘living memorial’ to Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Celestine AkpoBari reports.

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Essential drops: a child gets the polio oral vaccine in northern Nigeria’s Borno region. Health workers go from house to house in an attempt to achieve the goal of making the country polio-free.Photo: Ricardo Garcia Vilanova

Introducing... Muhammadu Buhari

Richard Swift on Nigeria's new president.

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‘The discovery that every part of Ogoni territory – water, land and air – is contaminated is terrifying.’Photo: George Osodi / Panos

Security operatives under suspicion

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A formidable force. Militants patrolling the creeks of the Niger Delta region. George Esiri / Reuters

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
Country profile: Nigeria	Democracy on the edge	March, 2021
‘We’re coming for them’	The biodiversity emergency	January, 2021
Thrown in jail	The Kurds - betrayed again	July, 2020
Fed up with the fumes	The fight for clean air	May, 2020
A blow to the ‘morality police’	How we make poverty	March, 2020
Temperature check	The dirt on waste	November, 2018
Out of the ruins	Making peace in a world at war	September, 2018
When the drugs don’t work	Humanitarianism under attack	April, 2018
Nigeria: No slick deal	Brazil's soft coup	October, 2017
Lives trampled in Lagos	Bad Education	September, 2017
Nigeria court action over Saro-Wiwa memorial	Homelessness	June, 2017
Nigeria dares to hope	Homelessness	June, 2017
Country profile: Nigeria	Technology justice	May, 2016
Innocents detained in Nigeria	Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West	March, 2016
Reasons to be cheerful	Capitalism is spinning out of control	July, 2015
Introducing... Muhammadu Buhari	Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion	June, 2015
The spirit of Saro-Wiwa rises	Big oil RIP?	November, 2014
Security operatives under suspicion	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Outgunned	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Ben Okri	The far right gets respectable	June, 2011

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Regions / Africa / Nigeria

Articles about Nigeria, ordered by date.

The photos, facts, and politics of Nigeria.

Police profiling in Nigeria by Shayera Dark.

The fight to free Nigeria’s prisoners, report by Nosmot Gbadamosi.

Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as Michael Simire finds out.

Report from Nigeria by Angelica Udueni.

Development practitioner Adesuwa Ero urges religious leaders in rural Nigeria to rethink their views on climate change before it's too late.

Can peacebuilders end the war with Boko Haram in Nigeria? Hazel Healy travels there to find out.

There has been a dramatic rise in heart disease in Africa over the past 25 years – a situation made worse by fake medicines on the market. Now doctors are beginning to fight for change, as Lea Surugue reports.

In the first case of its kind, a small Nigerian community is taking on oil giant Eni in the Italian courts. By Francesca Gater

Report from Nigeria

Campaigners have begun legal proceedings to gain possession of a ‘living memorial’ to Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Celestine AkpoBari reports.

The end of the battle against polio might be in sight, but violence and public mistrust are creating yet more obstacles. Laura Jiménez Varo investigates.

Samuel Malik considers life in the self-styled 'giant of Africa'.

Ayuba Ijai was held hostage for months by Boko Haram terrorists before government soldiers detained him on suspicion of being a Boko Haram member. Samuel Malik explains.

Some good news this month.

Richard Swift on Nigeria's new president.

Twenty years after the execution of their leader, the Ogoni people are rebelling once more. Patrick Naagbanton reports from the frontline.

Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

The award-winning Nigerian poet and novelist tells Rowenna Davis why now is the time for new dreams.

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