Tag: Nigeria
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🇳🇬🇺🇸 Strategic Shift and Kinetic Action: The U.S. Approach Against the Islamic State in Nigeria
Nigeria’s domestic insecurity has increasingly been instrumentalized within U.S. foreign policy discourse. In November last year, President Donald Trump threatened direct kinetic intervention to counter a so-called “Christian genocide” in Nigeria. Despite these claims, insecurity is driven by overlapping and long-standing land disputes, herder-farmer tensions, communal violence, and organized crime, with the vast majority of…
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🇳🇬Nigeria police rescue 33 girls from human trafficking network
The Nigeria Police Force has rescued 33 underage girls who were abducted by members of a human trafficking network in Anambra State in 2025, the local newspaper Punch reported, citing state police spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga. The operation, carried out on 7 January, followed information received by the police operations centre that three girls who had…
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🇳🇬🇺🇸BREAKING: U.S. Conducts Unauthorized Airstrikes on Nigerian Soil, Sovereignty Questions Erupt
WASHINGTON D.C./ABUJA – In a sudden and unilateral military escalation, former U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States has launched airstrikes inside Nigeria, allegedly targeting factions linked to the Islamic State (ISIS). The announcement, made outside standard diplomatic or bilateral military channels, has immediately sparked fierce condemnation and profound concern across the African…
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🇳🇬🇺🇸 US conducts reconnaissance flights over Nigeria
Since late November, the United States has been conducting reconnaissance flights over a significant part of Nigeria, with missions taking place almost daily, Reuters reported, citing monitoring data and statements by US officials. 🔸According to the agency, the reconnaissance missions are carried out by aircraft operated by the contractor Tenax Aerospace, which works closely with…
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🇳🇬 The HELOC Kings: Nigeria’s Cybercrime Masterminds and the Cost of a Stolen Reputation
In December 2025, a U.S. district judge labeled him a “perpetual thief” and a “flagrant serial offender.” Oluwaseun Adekoya, a Nigerian national living in a luxury New Jersey apartment, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a complex fraud that stole millions from Americans’ home equity lines of credit (HELOCs). His case is…
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🇳🇬 Black Axe: Nigeria Mafia Cult
Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks – Black Axe. Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armour carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024. The mission, co-ordinated by global policing agency Interpol, led to…
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🇳🇬 A full-blown industry’: Inside Nigeria’s kidnapping economy
The story is no longer just about banditary. In Northern Nigeria, kidnapping has grown into a sophisticated, systematized corporate machine, an economy where human beings are the raw material and ransom is the currency. That was the stark conclusion drawn by security and governance experts on the December episode of The Africanews Debates. The panel…
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🇯🇲Vybz Kartel and the Skin-Lightening Controversy: What’s Really in These Products and How Do They Affect the Skin?
Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel has long been at the center of regional and international conversations about colorism, skin bleaching, and the commercialization of “lighter skin” as a beauty commodity. Over the years, Kartel has been publicly associated with a line of cosmetic and skin-brightening products—including soaps, creams, and astringents—marketed under the “Vybz” brand. His…
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🇬🇭🇷🇼🇹🇿🇨🇮🇸🇸🇰🇪🇳🇬Skin Lightening Bans Across Africa: Laws on Paper, Products on Shelves
Across many African countries, the fight against harmful skin-lightening products has intensified over the last decade. Nations such as Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, South Sudan, Kenya, and Nigeria have all enacted restrictions or outright bans on cosmetics containing dangerous chemicals like hydroquinone, mercury, and corticosteroids.Yet a troubling reality persists: despite these laws, skin-lightening products…
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🇳🇬 50 children abducted from school in Nigeria have escaped, authorities say
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, as the pope called for the immediate release of those still missing. The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according…
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