Nigeria | The Guardian

Tunde Onakoya, who beat previous record of 56 hours, hopes to raise $1m for children’s education in Africa A Nigerian chess champion has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/20/nigerian-chess-champion-breaks-record-after-playing-nonstop-for-58-hours

The vibrant colours of Lagos take centre stage in this bold image by the Nigerian photographer When location scouting for this shoot, Kamzy Nuel was primarily hunting for colour. He settled on...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/20/kamzy-nuel-best-phone-picture-photograph

Lydia Simon, recovered along with three children born in captivity, was one of 276 schoolgirls taken in 2014 Nigerian troops have rescued a pregnant woman and her three children 10 years after ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/nigeria-woman-rescued-10-years-after-kidnap-boko-haram-chibok

The campaign that came to prominence when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their classes in 2014 has had an impact beyond its first rallying cries It was a kidnapping that changed Nigeria�...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/17/bringbackourgirls-fought-to-keep-global-attention-on-nigerias-stolen-chibok-girls-ten-years-on-it-is-still-fighting

Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphones �...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

More than 80,000 Nigerian women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2020, a statistic activists say reflects a lack of political will to fix a broken medical system Despite having the ...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/16/pregnancy-is-not-disease-why-do-so-many-women-die-giving-birth-in-nigeria-one-of-africas-richest-countries

It has gone from the sidelines of American sport to become a competitive global phenomenon that might one day make the Olympics. We meet the international teams bringing the cheer When photogra...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/13/jump-for-joy-how-cheerleading-conquered-the-world-from-lagos-to-ho-chi-minh-city

This year’s ‘Olympics of the art world’ features many artists wrestling with ideas of colonialism and its lingering influence This year’s Venice Biennale is being billed as an event roo...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/12/war-refugees-destruction-colonialism-and-conflict-key-themes-of-venice-biennale

While some were freed or escaped, the authorities’ waning interest and ongoing mass abductions by militants has left campaigners and families of missing pupils in despair When her Boko Haram ...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/11/nigeria-chibok-boko-haram-girls-school-abductions-islamist-militants-borno-yobe-katsina-kaduna

In 1979, my father Roy Ayers went on an extraordinary three-week tour with the Afrobeat pioneer amid extreme violence in Nigeria. Three band members recount the unforgettable trip In 1977, afte...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/10/life-with-fela-kuti-dangerous-tour-roy-ayers-nigeria

The prevalence of sickle cell disease is changing how Nigerians date, marry and plan their lives. And as genetic testing becomes more common, prospective parents across the world will face simila...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/apr/08/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-love-in-the-sickle-cell-capital-of-the-world-podcast

Boy who took his own life allegedly told to pay $500 to stop personal photos being shared with family and friends Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and after...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/08/nigeria-sextortion-charges-australian-teenagers-death

Amid alarming rates of the illness, many living with it are seen as cursed. Now these myths are being challenged Courage Vidzengsi had her first epileptic seizure when she was eight. Jerking un...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/03/cameroon-health-epilepsy-stigma-witchcraft-curse-seizures

Students and staff snatched by gunmen from school in Kaduna state freed days before ransom deadline The Nigerian army has rescued students and staff who were abducted by gunmen from a school in...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/nigerian-army-rescues-students-abducted-earlier-this-month

Seventeen students and a woman freed after operation in north-west of country Nigeria’s army has rescued 17 students and a woman who were kidnapped in a dawn raid by armed men two weeks ago i...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/23/nigerian-army-rescues-students-kidnapped-two-weeks-ago

The region’s heat index hit 50C in February, leaving millions battling dangerous climate-crisis-fuelled temperatures West Africa heatwave was supercharged by climate crisis, study finds An a...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/22/west-africa-heatwave

High temperatures in February affected millions of people and put further pressure on chocolate prices A searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times mor...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/21/west-africa-heatwave-climate-crisis-study

Adenrele Sonariwo has opened her Rele gallery in Nigeria, Los Angeles and now Mayfair, to showcase the best African artists The US-born Nigerian gallerist Adenrele Sonariwo was four years old w...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/20/africa-art-rele-gallery-adenrele-sonariwo-nigeria-london-african-artists

The Children’s Art Gallery supports young Nigerian artists from low-income families, helping them sell their work around the world and build a better life On a whitewashed wall at the back of...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/13/palette-to-paycheck-the-lagos-gallery-helping-children-make-a-living-from-their-art

Dr Mojola Agbebi’s wise words | Solo women travellers | What the Beeb does best Jomo Kenyatta was not the first of the numerous Africans (and a few Europeans) who recognised church involvemen...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/treasures-in-heaven-and-worldly-goods