The Nigerian military offered on Wednesday to deploy in Lagos state if needed amid protests, the governor said on Thursday. Unrest has broken out across the state, which is under Continue Reading
Global outrage mounted Wednesday after security forces in Africa’s largest city opened fire into a crowd of protesters, deepening unrest spurred by anger at Nigerian police. Ten people died and Continue Reading
Lagos was under lockdown on Wednesday as a heavy police presence enforced a round-the-clock curfew, hours after soldiers opened fire on protesters in Nigeria’s biggest city, witnesses said. Slideshow ( Continue Reading
Authorities on Tuesday imposed a round-the-clock curfew on the Nigerian state of Lagos – including Africa’s biggest city – in response to protests against alleged police brutality which they said Continue Reading
In 2018, while much of the world was leaving coal-fired power in the past and moving toward greener pastures (so to speak) coal was barreling full steam ahead in the Continue Reading
A demonstration in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday continued more than a week of protests against police brutality. Nigeria’s army signaled it was prepared to intervene in a standoff between a Continue Reading
A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could Continue Reading
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said in a very rare financials release on Thursday—the second in over four decades—that its losses shrank by 99.7 percent in 2019, while “the Continue Reading
Light sweet Libyan crude is starting to trickle through after an eight-month hiatus as rival groups agreed a tentative truce. The prospect of over 1 million b/d hitting the market Continue Reading
Nigeria’s oil industry regulator, the Department of Petroleum Resources, said Oct. 13 that the country is now aiming to increase its oil reserves, including condensates, substantially to 40 billion barrels Continue Reading
