Nigeria

• Award-winning Halifax filmmaker tells powerful tale of destiny with ‘Kill Your Masters’

  Israel Ekanem’s film centres around two Black slave girls who decide to take their destiny into their hands to liberate themselves from the shackles of their white slave master.

  Canada

  Feb 22
  
• Halifax student advisor uses her six university degrees to inspire Black youth

  Oluronke Taiwo, the Black student advisor at Dalhousie University and University of King’s College in Halifax, inspires students with her own academic and life accomplishments.

  Perspectives

  Feb 16
  
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• Nigeria may ban flights from Canada in retaliation for Omicron measure

  Nigeria plans to ban flights from Argentina, Britain, Canada and Saudi Arabia from this week in retaliation for being added to those countries' red lists.

  Canada

  Dec 12, 2021
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• Around 150 students missing after gunmen raid Nigerian school, officials say

  John Hayab, whose son attends the school and who narrowly escaped the abduction, said about 180 students attend the high school.

  World

  Jul 5, 2021
• What happened to … the Chibok girls and Boko Haram, Part 2

  On Part 2 of the Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella revisits the abduction of the Chibok girls by Boko Haram.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2021
• Over 1,800 inmates escape after armed militia attacks Nigerian prison

  The attacks began around 2 a.m. in the town of Owerri in Imo state and lasted for about two hours, according to a local resident.

  World

  Apr 5, 2021
• Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls freed a week after abduction by gunmen: governor

  Gunmen abducted the girls from a secondary school in Jangebe town on Friday, in the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.

  World

  Mar 2, 2021
• Nigerian forces continue search for 300 abducted girls after teenage boys freed

  The release comes just a day after the raid on a school in Zamfara state where gunmen seized 317 girls.

  Tech

  Feb 27, 2021
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• Mohawk College student makes plea for tuition help after pandemic hits family business hard

  Twenty-three-year-old Oluwapelumi Adegoke has started a GoFundMe to help her pay tuition after the pandemic hit her family's business hard.

  Canada

  Feb 20, 2021
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• Another new coronavirus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria

  The discovery could add to new alarm in the pandemic after similar variants were announced in Britain and South Africa,

  World

  Dec 24, 2020