Nigeria

Nigerian citizens who could not complete the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to expand the exercise after the deadline on Sunday, July 31.

Kashim Shettima, the Vice Presidential candidate of the APC (All Progressive Congress) party, has been petitioned by the Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, a civil society group, with the latter asking for his arrest and prosecution over a reported double nomination for the 2023 elections in Nigeria.

Unknown gunmen invaded the Duma village, Tureta LGA, located in the Sokoto State of Nigeria and killed at least twenty-eight people, confirmed the state government on Saturday, July 30.

Officers of the Ogun State Police Command have captured a 53-year-old woman, identified as Chinyere Nwosu, in the Ogun State of Nigeria for the theft of a seven-day-old male child.

Several armed gunmen forced their way into a music video shoot and raped about eight young from the casting team in a small South African town this week, said Police on Friday, July 29.

Huge tensions have surrounded the Agbowo area of Ibadan in the Oyo State of Nigeria and its neighbouring regions as alleged ritualists have reportedly beheaded a girl and removed her private parts.

The death toll due to Lassa fever in Nigeria in 2022 till now has risen to 164 amid government measures to lessen infections around the nation, said the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday, July 29.

Forty-eight containers of captured and condemned pharmaceutical products have been demolished by the NAFDAC - National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control, NDLEA - the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the Department of State Services managed by the Nigeria Customs Service at the waste destruction site of Lagos Waste Management Authority in Epe, Lagos State.

All schools have been asked to shut down and send children home because of security fears in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria and nearby Nasarawa state.