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May 5, 2014
There are news reports claiming two of the schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boku Haram have died of snake…
May 5, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria - The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian…
May 2, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Some of Africa’s most influential and wealthiest women will converge in Nigeria on Saturday for a conference…
May 2, 2014
(AP) — The number of kidnapped schoolgirls missing in Nigeria has risen to 276, up by more than 30 from…
May 1, 2014
OPINION - A story like this should never go underreported because when it does, things go from bad (kidnapped at…
April 30, 2014
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to…
April 14, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria's capital,…
March 17, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest novel by the acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'Americanah,' has won the National…
January 13, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president has signed a law that bans same-sex marriage and criminalizes homosexual associations, societies and…
December 3, 2013
TODAY - As a South African rescue diver probed the wreckage of an overturned tugboat in the Atlantic Ocean off…
November 9, 2013
NBC News - Anger and frustration that Nigeria's huge oil wealth has not improved the lot of most average citizens…
October 25, 2013
NBC NEWS - Nigerian military officials said Friday they had no leads in the hunt for two Americans kidnapped at…
October 24, 2013
NBC NEWS - Two Americans were kidnapped by armed pirates after their ship was attacked off Nigeria's coast, U.S. officials…
August 13, 2013
(AP) - Nigeria's foreign minister says his is the first African country to sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty...
July 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - For these 10 African-Americans, the journey to the West African country of Nigeria was nothing less than…
July 2, 2013
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A woman who could be considered Africa's Oprah Winfrey is launching an entertainment network that will…
May 23, 2013
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) - Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to…
May 20, 2013
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - During a trade mission to West Africa last week that included a stop in his father's…
March 25, 2013
OPINION - The Nigerian political establishment’s eagerness to identify with Achebe is ironic, given that he despised the guys who…
March 22, 2013
ESSAY - Today, the world lost a champion in Achebe, born November 16, 1930. But through his works, his spirit…