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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…
President Trump Welcomes Nigerian President Buhari To The White House
December 13, 2020
On Saturday gunfire broke out between the Nigerian military and a gang that had kidnapped secondary school students in northwestern…
November 29, 2020
Nigeria's government has buried 43 farmers who were victims of a gruesome massacre by suspected Islamist militants. More are feared…
October 24, 2020
The police order could further heighten tensions in Africa’s most populous country after some of its worst turmoil in years.
October 22, 2020
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari spoke to the nation about unrest, but without making any mention of the shootings of peaceful…
October 21, 2020
This week Beyoncé has joined the growing list of A-listers speaking out about the #EndSARS movement amidst widespread protests in…
October 21, 2020
Biden said the U.S. must stand with Nigerians "peacefully demonstrating for police reform and seeking an end to corruption in…
Nigerians protest police brutality #EndSARS
October 10, 2020
Nigerians are leading a series of mass protests as citizens demand police officers stop brutalizing everyday people for no reason.
September 26, 2020
Omar Farouq was sentenced by a Sharia court in the northern Nigerian State of Kano for blasphemy. Advocates are seeking…
Hushpuppi with the FBI
July 11, 2020
Gal Pissetzky, the lawyer for Instagram influencer Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, better known as Ray Hushpuppi, is claiming his client was…
May 28, 2020
Apple Music is launching its first radio show in Africa.
twins
April 22, 2020
A Nigerian woman has stunned the world and the medical community this week by giving birth to twins, a boy…
April 16, 2020
Nicole Duncan-Smith, a member of Bring Back Our Girls, USA, urges the world not to forget the 112 Nigerian young…
Cardi B thegrio.com
December 8, 2019
Cardi B was well received during her recent trip to Africa, where the rapper not only made sure to show…
Delbert Orr Africa
November 21, 2019
Authorities are trying to find out how a man who was already convicted and serving time in Lagos was able…
pregnant woman
September 30, 2019
Nigerian police have rescued 19 pregnant women from a “baby factory” in Lagos and they are searching for the ring…
Osundairo
August 19, 2019
The two brothers who had been the focus of the investigation surrounding allegations made by the actor of an attack…