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Burna Boy thegrio.com
December 17, 2021
Grammy Award winner Burna Boy will be the first Nigerian-born performer to headline Madison Square Garden in April.
December 16, 2021
Amazon Prime Video is expanding as the streamer has officially dived into the African film market, signing a multi-year licensing…
November 16, 2021
A Nigerian panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality in 2020.
October 17, 2021
One of the pieces of artwork known as the Benin bronzes will be returned to Nigeria after being stolen years…
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…