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David Malpass for World Bank top job Africa OP-ED 

Mixed news for Africa in Trump’s pick at World Bank

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from TRACEY IRVING in Washington, USA WASHINGTON – A KEY player from Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign is set to head the World Bank. Mr Trump has selected US treasury official David Malpass for the role after the surprise resignation last month of bank president Jim Jong Kim. As largest shareholder and the main funder, Washington’s choice for the job gets the nod, though… Read More
Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria News and Headlines OP-ED West Africa 

Aisha Yesufu calls for President Buhari’s impeachment

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– President Muhammadu Buhari’s health crisis is still generating reactions from Nigerians – Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Aisha Yesufu has joined the debate – She advised the president to resign, adding that the National Assembly should impeach him if he fails to do so Co-convener of the BBOG group, Aisha Yesufu has advised President Muhammadu… Read More
Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa 

Patron of the Boys Brigade Humbled

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At the very end of 2016 the Boy´s Brigade in Lagos, Nigeria endowed Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe, founder of the HOW Foundation and Group Managing Director of Access Bank, as their State Patron and he in turn committed to assisting the Brigade by setting aside a house for them to train in and wowed to continue his work in educating youths,… Read More
the Sultan of Sokoto OP-ED West Africa 

Gender Equality and Misogynistic Islam in Nigeria

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The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar (lll) has made it clear that hatred, inequity, injustice and discrimination against women define the Islamic establishment, which he represents in Nigeria. This was evident in his reaction to the gender equality bill that is currently going through the legislative process at the Senate. For some time now, there has been a debate on… Read More
Alhaji Muhammad Musa Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa 

Building Mosques and Economic Recession in Nigeria

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The Jigawa state government has just announced a major state development project: the construction of ninety mosques; three in each of the constituencies. One assumes that this project is a way that the government wants to use to show the people of Nigeria and the world how it is developing the state and using its resources! Personally, I cannot imagine… Read More
30,000 homeless in Nigeria after slum fire Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa 

Nigeria: Fire and demolitions that left 30,000 homeless must be urgently investigated

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The Lagos State authorities must take immediate steps to provide alternative accommodation for as many as 30,000 people who were made homeless, in direct contravention of a court order, when their homes were deliberately set alight in the Otodo Gbame community in Lekki, Lagos, Amnesty International said today. Although it is unclear who started the first fire on the morning… Read More
Women in Northern Nigeria North Africa 

Islam: No Romance for Women in Northern Nigeria?

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The recent prosecution of eleven women by Hisbah in Kano state underscores a misogynistic strand in the practice of Sharia and Islam in Northern Nigeria. This hateful and abusive trend needs to be highlighted and tackled with uttermost urgency. Kano is one of the states in the North of the country where Sharia law is in force and Hisbah is… Read More
Rahma sadau Opinions 

Kannywood: I am With Rahma Sadau: Are you?

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By Leo Igwe Conservative Muslim clerics are ‘up in arms’ again. This time against artists and the art industry in Nigeria. Their target is a young female artist named Rahma Sadau this time. Muslim clerics banned the Nigerian actress from the Hausa language film industry, Kannywood, because she hugged and cuddled a male artist in a video. Yes, that was… Read More

The Destabilization of Africa and the Role of “Shadowy Islamists”. From Benghazi to Boko Haram

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This article was first published by Black Agenda Report on May 14, 2014 and by Global Research on May 16, 2014. You can’t understand the threat posed to Nigeria by Boko Haram, or the ghastly destruction of Syria over the past three years, outside the context of “the vicious NATO obliteration of the state of Libya.” One huge crime begets... Read More

Boko Haram massacre: ‘I walked through five villages and each one was empty except for dead bodies’

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 Nigerians cram into a bus to flee a town in north-east Nigeria following Boko Haram attack on Baga. Photograph: Str/EPA Yusuf Sarkin does not remember much about the massacre that drove him from the town where he was born. The gunfire and the screaming and the frenzy of bodies trying to outrun bullets flying through the sandy streets of Baga… Read More
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