Tag Archives: local news from Nigeria

Somair, the Nigerien branch of the French uranium miner Orano suspends uranium mining from October 31 due to its inability to export uranium concentrate, a French media reported. “Somair’s worsening financial difficulties have compelled the company to suspend its operations,” ...

“I cut up and dissolved Lumumba’s body in acid. In the middle of the African night, we started by getting drunk to have courage. We got rid of the bodies. The hardest part was cutting them into pieces with a ...

Nigeria’s $20 billion Dangote Refinery, Africa’s biggest refinery that opened earlier this year, is now using the national currency, the Naira, instead of the U.S. dollar to buy crude oil from the state oil corporation.  This move follows a July ...

There is this trending propaganda by some groups trying to twist history by asserting that Northern Emirs killed Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. They even created a #FakeNews headline on a Newswatch front cover purporting to say that. ...

Gmail has become the latest instrument of tech giant Google to censor African Stream. On 1 October, the multinational US corporation locked us out of its Workspace application, causing us to lose access to two years of email messages and ...

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube recently suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania Khalek (@raniakhalek) spoke to Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin (@davidhundeyin). However, at the time ...

The Nigeria Police Force set to implement E- Policing, the police force says they will launched the digital Central Motor Registry Information System (e-CMR), with e-CMR “no more stopping to check papers – our officers are equipped with cutting-edge tech ...

Lost time is never found again, and so does any innocent person apparently murdered cold-bloodedly. This seems to be the case of a young, vibrant and highly educated Adebayo Ola-Smith, a Glo manager, who died on the 31st of August, ...

Earlier, the US and UK issued warnings about the risks of staying in Nigeria amid anti-government protests, urging their citizens to refrain from traveling to the country for the time being. 💬 “We have seen from events as they unfolded ...

A 36-year-old farmer, Sunday Ayenis, from Uba Oka in Akoko Southwest Local Government Area, was killed just days after herders compensated him for damaging his crops. Villagers alleged that the herders were responsible for the killing, saying that Ayenis was found ...