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by Célia Lebur LAGOS, Nigeria (AFP) — First there was Tutu, the “African Mona Lisa” sold last year for 1.5 million dollars. Then a second portrait by revered Nigerian painter Ben Enwonwu, called Christine, sold in mid-October, for 1.4 million dollars. Both record sales of famous works by the late “father of African modernism”, captured the emergence of Nigeria’s art market. A decade ago, major African artists were largely absent from international auctions. But the […]
(Eagle News) – The ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria visited the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Central Office in Quezon City for a courtesy call on INC Executive Minister, Brother Eduardo V. Manalo, on Friday, August 9, 2019. The visit of Her Excellency Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Adekunbi Abibat Sonaike-Ayodeji to the INC Executive Minister was also the first visit of a representative of Nigeria to the INC Central Office. “The […]
GAJIRAM, Nigeria (AFP) — An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday. Dozens more bodies were discovered following the assault Saturday by gunmen on a village close to the regional capital Maiduguri. “It is 65 people dead and 10 injured,” local government chairman Muhammed Bulama said. Bulama said more than 20 people died in […]
NIAMEY, Nigeria (AFP) — The death toll from a May 6 tanker truck explosion near the international airport in Niger’s capital has risen to 76, state television reported late Sunday. An earlier official report Tuesday gave 60 dead, including 55 who died at the time of the explosion a few hundred metres (yards) from the airport in Niamey. Most of the victims were trying to collect spilt fuel flowing from the overturned truck when the […]
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Nineteen wedding guests in the northern Nigerian state of Jigawa died when their bus lost control and burst into flames, police said Wednesday. The 18-seater was carrying 40 women and children returning from a wedding when its front tyre burst, causing it to skid off the road. The crash happened on Tuesday in Gwaram Sabuwa, a village around 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the state capital Dutse. “Nineteen people were killed […]
by Emmanuel Akinwotu and Celia Lebur Rescuers on Wednesday recovered eight bodies and rescued 37 people alive from the wreckage of a collapsed four-storey building in the Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos Children had been attending an “illegal school” inside the residential building when the structure collapsed, officials said. “Thirty-seven people were rescued alive and eight were recovered dead,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said in a statement. Earlier officials said dozens […]
A three-storey residential building collapsed Wednesday in a densely-populated part of Lagos, and local media said there could be many casualties, including schoolchildren. The Nigerian news station Channels TV reported that a primary school was located on the top floor of the building, “with pupils feared killed and others trapped.” The collapse occurred in the Itafaji area of Lagos Island. A spokesman for the Nigerian emergency services, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the incident. “I can’t give […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2015 on a wave of hope that he could defeat Boko Haram Islamists and turn around a country blighted by decades of corruption and poor governance. But while he will go down in history as Nigeria’s first opposition candidate to defeat an incumbent, his first term was dominated by questions about his fitness to govern. From May 2016 until mid-2017, Buhari […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — An attack by gunmen on villages in northwest Nigeria last week claimed “over 130” lives, more than double the toll initially reported, the governor of Kaduna state said on Tuesday. “The last report we got is that over 130 people were killed, not even 66,” governor Nasir El-Rufai said after a meeting of military and security chiefs in Abuja. El-Rufai, who was invited to speak at the briefing with President Muhammadu […]
by Phil HAZLEWOOD / Ola AWONIYI Agence France Presse ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigeria’s electoral watchdog on Saturday postponed presidential and parliamentary elections for one week, just hours before polls were due to open. The two main political parties swiftly condemned the move and accused each other of orchestrating the delay as a way of manipulating the vote. Voting had been due to start at nearly 120,000 polling stations in Africa’s most populous nation at […]
by Joel Olatunde AGOI Agence France Presse PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AFP) — Fifteen people were killed in a stampede at an election campaign rally by President Muhammadu Buhari in southern Nigeria, health officials said Wednesday. In a separate incident on the campaign trial, jihadists in the northeast of the country attacked a convoy carrying a powerful state governor, killing four people. The deaths are the latest to overshadow Saturday’s elections, in which Buhari is seeking […]
WARRI, Nigeria (AFP) — At least 30 people were killed when a petrol pipeline caught fire and exploded in southeast Nigeria after a raid by suspected oil thieves, a survivor and officials said on Saturday. The incident happened in the town of Aba on Friday when vandals burst the pipeline operated by the state-run Pipeline and Product Marketing Company. “The incident occurred at about 1:30 am. Those burnt are more than 30 with many […]
