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Simi thegrio.com
October 15, 2021
Simi launched a social media campaign called #NobodyLikeWoman where she asked women to share some of the harmful things they’ve…
Nigerian children
October 8, 2021
In one of the largest liberations of kidnap victims, at least 187 Nigerians including babies have been freed in the…
August 12, 2021
Brain drain --- the loss of human capital -- is the migration of highly-educated people leaving behind a hole in…
August 4, 2021
Mensah-Stock is the first Black woman and second American woman to take gold in wrestling. The silver medalist also made…
July 11, 2021
The American Olympic team was missing three players who haven’t come to Las Vegas yet because they’re still in the…
Nigeria Comic Republic thegrio.com
June 21, 2021
Comic Republic has reportedly signed a deal with Emagine Content and JackieBoy Entertainment to bring African superheroes to the world.
A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine
June 9, 2021
In the race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is at the back of the pack. In fact, it has…
June 6, 2021
Millions of Nigerians were unable to access Twitter Saturday after the government enforced an indefinite suspension of the platform.
June 5, 2021
Government official said the platform was being used “for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.”
J. Cole thegrio.com
May 10, 2021
J. Cole has reportedly signed to Basketball Africa League’s Rwanda’s Patriots B.B.C and his first game will air on Sunday.
May 2, 2021
Germany agreed to return hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes looted from West Africa by a British colonial…
May 1, 2021
Most of the women come from Nigeria’s Edo state and work off debts in squalid conditions at or near small-scale…
Luvvie Ajayi Jones thegrio.com
March 2, 2021
Luvvie Ajayi Jones spoke with theGrio about her newly released book "PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER: The Fear-Fighter Manual."
March 2, 2021
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state…
February 28, 2021
After more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a government school in Nigeria last week, worried parents gathered at the…
February 26, 2021
Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria on Friday, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings…
Tope Awotona www.theGrio.com
January 27, 2021
The $350M investment added substantially to company value and will be used to provide liquidity for early shareholders.
December 20, 2020
Many of the more than 300 schoolboys worry about returning to school, saying captors threatened them with death.
December 17, 2020
More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in Nigeria have been released, the Katsina state governor said…
December 14, 2020
The attack on an all-boys school in Katsina, on the northwest of Nigeria, resulted in the disappearance of hundreds of…