Catherine Adeniyi

The gruesome killing of 15 Nigerian soldiers in the community of Okuama in the country’s Delta state made local headlines in March 2024. The Nigerian army said the soldiers were on “a peaceful and mediatory mission” following clashes between the Okuama and Okoloba communities in the s...

In February 2024, Nigerian president Bola Tinubu inaugurated a 188-megawatt power plant in the southern Nigerian town of Aba. The project put Aba in the national spotlight and made headlines in several local news outlets. Developed by Geometric Power Plant, the US$800 million plant is ex...

Some Facebook posts claim that an Igbo teenager from Nigeria’s Enugu state has made a very powerful bomb. As evidence, the posts include three photos: the first shows a young man in a blue blazer, and the other two show what appear to be parts of the bomb and the resulting explosion. T...

Several posts on Facebook claim that the Nigerian government has agreed to allow the south-eastern states to secede, but will retain the south-south. One of the posts reads: “TINUBU ASK BIAFRA TO GO FOR PEACE TO REIGN: The heat of Biafra hits presidency so hard that as a matter of urgency speak...