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Barcelona basketball team condemn racist abuse of Nigerian player

Barcelona has condemned racist insults hurled at their first-team player James Nnaji before final against Real Madrid.

Al Jazeera

Maro Itoje interview: Pearl Fund initiative will provide decades of support to children in Nigeria

Saracens and England lock will support an initial group of 40 childen through their full education

Evening Standard

Nigeria Looks To Reduce State Role in Energy Sector

The new administration plans to end the state monopoly on oil and gas.

Reason

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Nigeria, labour unions to agree new minimum wage within 8 weeks

Nigeria’s labour unions threatened to strike after fuel prices tripled due to President Tinubu scrapping fuel subsidy.

Al Jazeera

2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup: fixtures, groups and UK TV coverage

This summer’s Fifa Women’s World Cup will be broadcast live in the UK on the BBC and ITV. All 64 matches from the tournament will be on free-to-air terrestrial TV with both broadcasters showing the final.

The Week

Nigeria's new foreign exchange policy is good news - but it can't work wonders for the economy on its own

The Central Bank of Nigeria recently announced changes to the way the country’s foreign exchange market will work. Foreign currencies can now be bought and sold at rates determined by the market – not by the central bank.

The Conversation

Ending Nigeria's fuel subsidy pushes a shift to solar. Without a climate plan, progress is at risk

Nigeria's removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation

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TV tonight: Joshua Jackson is a sinister surgeon in Dr Death

A chilling and star-packed podcast adaptation gets under way. Plus: Afua Hirsch visits Nigeria and David Harewood delivers a very personal lecture. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Nigeria’s Tinubu removes security chiefs in major reshuffle

Nigeria’s president has named new commanders of the defence forces, army, navy and air force, according to a statement.

Al Jazeera

Nigeria's leader replaces security chiefs in major shakeup

The Nigerian presidency has announced that the president has replaced the chiefs of all the country's security services

The Independent UK

Nigerian health workers and absenteeism: study shows how personal and political relationships protect offenders

Absenteeism of health workers contributes to poor quality of care. A study in Uganda, for example, showed that it reduced the likelihood of people using primary health centres by 30%. Absenteeism also increases the workload for available staff. This adds to work-related stress.

The Conversation

Sir Ben Okri: Being honoured means helping the human race to be more civilised

The Nigerian-born writer has been made Knight Bachelor in the King’s birthday honours for services to literature.

The Independent UK

Nigerian Derry couple speak of hardship of leaving kids behind to study as UK plans controversial migration change

Adamma Antonia Odumukwu and husband Kenneth live, work and study in Derry

Belfast Live

‘She clung to the children’: Nigeria boat tragedy survivors mourn

Survivors and relatives are mourning the deaths of 106 people in a boat tragedy on June 12 after a large wedding party.

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Evening Standard

Most victims in Nigeria wedding boat disaster that killed 108 were women and children

The wooden vessel overturned in the Niger River after reportedly hitting a log on Monday night

Evening Standard

Oxlade at Meltdown Festival review: sporadically dazzling, but the Nigerian star is still a work in progress

A glittery catwalk show of fabulous outfits and high-voltage glamour – and that was just the audience

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m left with nothing’: Nigerians feel brunt of economic shakeup

President Tinubu’s policies please foreign investors, but a devalued currency and soaring petrol prices mean ‘national sacrifice mode’ is widely unpopular

The Independent UK

Nigeria lets market set currency exchange rate to stabilize economy, woo investors

Nigeria’s central bank has ended its distorted foreign exchange rate, a move the new government in Africa's biggest economy hopes will help woo investors and stabilize the local currency

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The Conversation

Nigeria is Africa's leading rice producer, but still needs more - reusing wastewater for irrigation would boost farming

Rice is one of the staple foods globally, ranking third after wheat and maize in terms of production and consumption. It contributes over 20% of the total calorie intake of the human population.

Al Jazeera

‘I lost 10 family members’: Grief after Nigeria boat tragedy

Locals say no gov’t rescue workers have arrived, so they are searching the river themselves after more than 100 killed.

Al Jazeera

Nigeria’s President Tinubu suspends anti-corruption agency head

The previous four anti-corruption heads have also been involved in controversies that led to their removal.

FourFourTwo

Nigeria Women's World Cup 2023 squad: most recent call ups

Randy Waldrum picked 23 players for April friendly matches against Haiti and New Zealand

France 24

A necessary ‘sacrifice’: Nigeria ends almost 50 years of fuel subsidies

More than two weeks after announcing the end of fuel subsidies dating from the 1970s, Nigeria's new President Bola Tinubu called the move a necessary "sacrifice" and promised Nigerians "massive" investment in public services in return.

Al Jazeera

Nigeria allows currency to drop third of value on official market

For decades, multiple exchange rates had led to foreign currency shortages that worsened under Godwin Emefiele.

The Conversation

Nigeria's response to the Sudan crisis is lacking – it could play a leading role in bringing peace

Hostilities between rival military parties in Sudan had claimed more than 600 lives by May 2023.

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