Hegseth meets Nigerian NSA: Pentagon talks follow Trump’s ‘guns-a-blazing’ threat; tensions rise

[ad_1] US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Photo credit: AP) US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine planned to held a closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s National security adviser Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at the Pentagon on Thursday evening, amid tensions sparked by President Donald Trump’s threat to send American troops […]

Nigerian farms battle traffic, developers in downtown Abuja

[ad_1] ABUJA: Under the din of traffic from the highway bridge that cuts over his fields, Bala Haruna inspects corn, cassava and okra on his family farm.A pump pulls up water from a nearby stream and is diverted through trenches dug through cropland wedged between four-lane roads — fields which were here long before the […]

‘No bra, no exam’: Nigerian university defends viral video of women being checked, says this will ensure ‘distraction-free environment’

[ad_1] A Nigerian university came under fire for checking whether female students were wearing bras. A Nigerian university has come under immense criticism after a video of a female staff member checking whether a female student was wearing a bra before allowing her into the examination hall went viral. Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ogun State […]

Finland charges Nigerian separatist with inciting terrorism

[ad_1] Representative Image (AI-generated) Finnish prosecutors on Friday said they had charged a man with inciting terrorism online who a media report identified as Nigerian separatist leader Simon Ekpa.Finland’s National Prosecution Authoritysaid in a statement that it had charged “a Finnish individual in a case involving suspected public incitement to commit crimes with terrorist intent […]