Waving Biafra’s flag: The movement for the region’s independence is an international one. This photograph is from a protest at the European Union quarter in Brussels, Belgium on 28 April 2016.Photo: Wiktor Dabkowski/DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy

The battle for Biafra’s soul

After a violent crackdown by the state, the struggle for the region’s independence from Nigeria has intensified. Promise Eze explores the impact of growing violence.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Deep cuts

Deep cuts

Nigeria's economic crisis sparks mass protests over IMF-backed reforms, writes Obiora Ikoku.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Photo: Rachel Seidu

Southern Exposure: Rachel Seidu

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Deadly errors

Deadly errors

120 Tudun Biri village civilians killed in northwest Nigeria by a drone, reports Promise Eze.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Halilu Abdullahi lives at the Amanawa leprosy colony on the outskirts of Sokoto state, Nigeria.Photo: Promise Eze

‘I will live with the scars for life’

Leprosy had been almost eliminated in Nigeria, but the disease has made a resurgence. Promise Eze reports on how patients continue to be abandoned by the government and stigmatized by society.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Bola Tinubu

Nigerian president known as ‘the kingmaker’.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Stay or go?

Stay or go?

What does the future hold for young people in Nigeria after the 2023 presidential elections? Obiora Ikoku reports.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Between 11,000 and 25,000 Kenyans were killed during colonial Britain’s crackdown against the Mau Mau rebellions, and victims are still seeking compensation. Ndiku Mutua, Paulo Nzili, Gitu Wa Kahengeri, Jane Muthoni Mara and Wambugu Wa Nyingi - representing victims - deliver a petition to 10 Downing St in London in 2009.Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA/Alamy

Charles the last?

Report on the Commonwealth’s future role from Nigeria by Obiora Ikoku.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
The Dooh family on their lake in the Niger Delta which was devastated by an oil spill. The farming family won a case against Shell in the Netherlands, which took 13 years.Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos

Cut and run

Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away. Ken Henshaw reports.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Swapsies: Nigerian artist Lukas Osarobo-Okoro, photographed outside the British Museum in London. Osarobo-Okoro and the Ahiamwen Guild of Benin have offered to donate new artworks to the institution.Photo: Dylan Martinez/Alamy

Stolen treasures

Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a century. Kieron Monks reports on Nigeria’s battle to get them back and what it means for the wider push to return works robbed from Africa.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Photo: David Parry/Royal Academy of Arts

Spotlight: Yinka Shonibare

Best known for his work exploring colonialism and post-colonialism within the context of globalization. Words by Subi Shah.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Photo: Etinosa Yvonne

Southern Exposure: Etinosa Yvonne

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
(clockwise from top left): Rubberneckers view the damaged vehicles following the crash of a fuel tanker on the Kara Bridge in Lagos; a runner poses with students during the Lagos Women Run; 10-year-old Ruth Bitrus, whose parents were killed by Boko Haram following the invasion of her hometown, Michika; women from waterfront communities under threat of eviction for property development confront Lagos police.Photos: Majority World: Adeyinka Yusuf; Adeyinka Yusuf; Immanuel Ofolabi; Osakpolor Omoregie.

Country profile: Nigeria

The photos, facts, and politics of Nigeria.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
‘We’re coming for them’

‘We’re coming for them’

Police profiling in Nigeria by Shayera Dark.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Thrown in jail

Thrown in jail

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

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Opposite page: Child’s play – a boy jumps across boats wedged on a mixture of crude oil, water and sand, near Bodo in the Niger Delta. Oil production is a major pollutant in the area.Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos

Fed up with the fumes

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.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
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

Temperature check

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

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NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018
A student looks out from the remains of a classroom destroyed by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria.Photo: pius utomi expei / AFTP / GETTY IMAGES

Out of the ruins

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

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Health Ministry employees empty a shop selling fake medicine in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.Photo: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty

When the drugs don’t work

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.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018

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Disinformation November, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Decolonize now September, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
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