Murja Kunya, a TikToker from northern Nigerian city of Kano with more than a million followers was sentenced by a federal high court in the city after pleading guilty to the offence, court documents show.
In a report, the global rights group blamed the government of President Bola Tinubu for failure to protect people in swaths of the country hit by raids by jihadists, and criminal gangs known as “bandits” who attack villages, killing and kidnapping residents.
Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stormed Kwaple village, near the town of Chibok, on several motorcycles, opening fire on residents who had gathered to mourn the death of a community leader in the village, the sources said.
Modern Nigerian artists have been on the rise since the 1980s and 1990s, when scattered across the diaspora wanted their homes “to reflect who they are and their culture,” said Nkiru Nzegwu, a professor of African studies at Binghamton University, in the United States.
With a population of more than 20 million, the country’s sprawling, ever-growing economic capital has for years struggled to keep up with housing demand, with some 3,000 people added to its population per day.
At least 21 government militiamen were killed in an ambush by criminal gangs in Nigeria’s northwest Katsina state, police said late on Friday.
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, passed away at the age of 56 on Tuesday night in Lagos.
South Africa is stripping a would-be Miss South Africa contestant, who was at the centre of a row over her nationality, of her national identity papers, the government said.
A new analysis by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) network of scientists found warming driven by the use of fossil fuels had exacerbated the flooding in Sudan.
Wengi wa wahanga walikuwa wakijaribu kukusanya mafuta yaliyomwagika barabarani baada ya tanki hilo kugonga katika jimbo la Jigawa, kaskazini mwa Nigeria.
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