Nigeria

Nigerian robotics engineering student Kemisola Bolarinwa has in recent years developed a breast-screening bra, called the Smart Bra, which will undergo a large-scale trial in the country this year

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria has sounded the alarm about the move to remove the fuel subsidy that could bring the country to the brink of collapse

President Bola Tinubu was elected president of the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS at the end of the 63rd Ordinary Session of Ecowas Heads of State and Government, held in Bissau

The tallest man in the country, Afeez Agoro Oladimeji, died on 15 June, at the age of 48, after suffering from chronic hip arthritis; he had sought public help to finance his surgery

Cooking non-stop for over 93 hours, Nigerian chief Hilda Baci was confirmed as the new world record holder for her four days of non-stop recipes last month

The first electric buses for public transport, made by Chinese manufacturer Yutong, will soon circulate in Lagos; governor of Lagos State stated that it is "in line with state's aspiration to become a modernised and mechanised megacity"

Cleaning up decades of oil pollution and restoring environmental health in just one of Nigeria's crude oil-producing states, Bayelsa State, will cost at least $12 billion

An unprecedented number of malnourished children in need of life-saving treatment have been brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Maiduguri, Borno, denouncing an impending catastrophe

Police in Lagos found 63 kilograms of high-potency “Canadian Loud” cannabis hidden in used cars shipped from Canada on April 28; the trove confirms a wave of illegal importations of a popular marijuana strain shipped from Toronto via Montreal

At least 746 Nigerians die each year from complications of oral cancer, with a high rate of cases recorded