Nigeria

Prices of some food items have increased by 42% year-on-year, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics in its new report titled "Selected Food Price Watch for the month of April 2022"

Nigerian airlines have suspended plans to ground domestic flights due to soaring fuel prices, the Association of Nigerian Airlines (AON) has announced after senior levels of government promised urgent action

The Lagos International Jazz Festival was held on April 30 as part of events to mark this year's International Jazz Day with lovers calling for support to grow the genre in the country

Seventeen years after the abandonment of the construction of the Brass Lng plant in Nigeria's Bayelsa State, the federal government is seeking new investors to complete the project

A court ordered the government to enforce its gender policy of reserving 35 per cent of positions in public offices for women, thus answering to what human rights and women's activists have long been demanding

The Nigeria Learning Passport, an online, mobile and soon offline learning platform that will provide continuous education to 3 million students in 2022, and 12 million by 2025, has been launched by the government and Unicef

The 'Nigeria, full stop' initiative is aimed at fighting against the stigmatisation of Nigerian community in Italian media, with about 35 Nigerian associations clustered around it with the intention of showing a lesser known face of immigration

A 102-year-old woman, Nonye Josephine Ezeanyaeche, has announced her intention to run for president in 2023

Thirty-year-old Samuel Ikpefan has been the first cross-country skier in the history of Nigeria to compete in the Winter Games

The financial crimes agency recovered at least $750 million in local and foreign currency linked to corruption and fraud last year, as announced by the Information Minister