Catherine Adeniyi

Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been in the news since it began producing diesel and jet fuel in January 2024. The US$20 billion private refinery in Lagos is owned by the country’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Designed to process Nigerian crude oil, it has a refining capacity of 650,0...

In April 2024, Simon Ekpa shared a photo on social media of a vehicle riddled with bullets. He claimed that it belonged to the Nigerian Army. Ekpa is a factional leader within the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a separatist group in eastern Nigeria that seeks to re-establish the Republic of ...

A message doing the rounds on Facebook in Nigeria claims that the West African Examination Council, or WAEC, is recruiting staff for 2024/25. The WAEC is a body set up to run exams in English-speaking countries in West Africa and to award certificates comparable to those given by other internatio...

The chairperson of Nigeria’s electoral body has announced a tenure extension for the chairpersons and councillors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). That’s according to a message circulating on Facebook. Elections in Nigeria are run by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec)...