The first sign that something was wrong at Lekki Toll Gate came when the lights went out. David Emmanuel, Feyishara Temitope and hundreds of other Nigerian protesters had gathered on Continue Reading
Nigeria’s oil production and exports have not been disrupted by the escalating protests against police brutality in the biggest oil producer and exporter in Africa, according to shipping data and Continue Reading
Nigeria is bracing for fresh disruption to its oil production and demand after violence sparked by weeks of nationwide protests against police brutality began spreading into the country’s key oil Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
