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file - Police fire tear gas during a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, file)

Protesters in Nigeria face possible death penalty as accusation of treason brings outrage

By Dyepkazah Shibayan - Associated Press

Peacemaker Azuegbulam, 27, Africa's first gold medalist at the Invictus Games, center left, warms up before an exhibition sitting volleyball match in Abuja Nigeria, Saturday, May 11, 2024. He was among the soldiers deployed during Nigeria's grinding counter-offensive against Islamic extremists in the northeastern Borno state in 2020 when an anti-aircraft weapon was fired at them. By the time he regained consciousness, his life was no longer the same, starting with his left leg which was later amputated. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria’s wounded soldiers fought to recover at Prince Harry’s Invictus Games

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Pedestrian shop for food at the Mile 12 Market in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Nigerians are facing one of the West African nation's worst economic crises in as many years triggered by a surging inflation rate which follows monetary policies that have dipped the local currency to an all-time low against the dollar, provoking anger and protests across the country. (AP Photo/Mansur Ibrahim)

Nigeria’s currency has fallen to a record low as inflation surges. How did things get so bad?

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A woman prepares food in Niamey, Niger, Saturday, July 29, 2023. The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country's democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with senior civil servants to discuss how they would run the country and as the U.S. and the European Union threatened sanctions against the regime. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

The French embassy in Niger is attacked as protesters waving Russian flags march through the capital

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

People sell grain in Dawanau International Market in Kano Nigeria, Friday, July 14, 2023. Nigeria introduced programs before and during Russia's war in Ukraine to make Africa's largest economy self-reliant in wheat production. But climate fallout and insecurity in the northern part of the country where grains are largely grown has hindered the effort. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Climate and violence hobble Nigeria’s push to rely on its own wheat after the hit from Russia’s war

By Taiwo Adebayo - Associated Press

FILE - People walk through floodwaters near flooded farmlands after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2022 .Authorities in Nigeria say they have activated a national response plan for another round of deadly floods blamed mainly on climate change and infrastructure problems. The West African nation's National Emergency Management Agency said Thursday, July 6, 2023 it has begun to work based on dire forecasts by seeking air support for search and rescue missions while stockpiling relief materials. (AP Photo, file)

Nigeria triggers national response plan for annual deadly floods; 14 states on alert

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Rifkatu Andruwus, 66, stands in front of her makeshift home, at the Durami camp for the displaced, in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, June 9, 2023. Hundreds remain homeless in Nigeria's capital of Abuja after losing their shanties to government bulldozers. Authorities say the demolitions seek to rid the city of crime and restore Abuja's master plan, a conceptual layout meant to promote growth of this oil-rich Western African nation. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu)

They fled the war in Nigeria’s northeast. Then bulldozers levelled their homes at a camp in Abuja

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, center, accompanied by his wife Oluremi Tinubu, right, leaves the party's campaign headquarters after winning the presidential elections in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Election officials declared ruling party candidate Tinubu the winner of Nigeria's presidential election, with the two leading opposition candidates already demanding a re-vote in Africa's most populous nation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declared winner of presidential vote

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Mohammad Barkindo, secretary-general of OPEC, is shown during a panel discussion at CERAWeek by IHS Markit at Hilton Americas,1600 Lamar St., on March 7, 2017, in Houston. Barkindo died late Tuesday, a spokesperson for Nigeria's petroleum ministry told The Associated Press on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

OPEC secretary-general has died, Nigerian officials say

By Chinedu Asadu and Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Protesters run away as police officers use teargas to disperse people demonstrating against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. After 13 days of protests against alleged police brutality, authorities have imposed a 24-hour curfew in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, as moves are made to stop growing violence. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria protesters break curfew amid gunfire, chaos in Lagos

By Sam Olukoya and Lekan Oyekanmi - Associated Press

Electoral officials compile voting results at a collation center in Yola, n Nigeria, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Vote counting continued Sunday as Nigerians awaited the outcome of a presidential poll seen as a tight race between the president and a former vice president. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian president takes early lead amid vote-rigging charge

By CARA ANNA and JEROME DELAY - Associated Press

A child leads a blind man as they walk past a wall of campaign posters in Kano, in northern Nigeria, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. A civic group monitoring Nigeria's now-delayed election says the last-minute decision to postpone the vote a week until Feb. 23 &quot;has created needless tension and confusion in the country.&quot; (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The Latest: Extremist attack in Nigeria kills 4 civilians

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A manual laborer pulls a cart of hay as men drive past on a motorcycle, near the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano, northern Nigeria Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Nigeria's main opposition party charged Thursday that the election commission has kept more than 1 million ghost voters on the national register, raising fears of vote rigging ahead of Saturday's presidential election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

In Nigeria, election spectacle at odds with rampant poverty

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

A young boy scavenges for re-sellable items from garbage on the streets, as he walks past a sign showing incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, left, and local party official Mustapha Dankadai, right, in Kano, northern Nigeria Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. Nigeria is due to hold general elections on Saturday, pitting incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari against leading opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nigeria delays election until Feb. 23 over ‘challenges’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari waves to the crowd during the 58th anniversary celebrations of Nigerian independence, in Abuja, Nigeria. The United States and European Union are expressing concern after Nigeria's president suspended the country's chief justice on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, three weeks before the presidential election, with the U.S. warning it could "cast a pall" over the vote. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria presidential re-election threatened by terror, economy

By Ali Abare Abubakar – Special to The Washington Times

People watch a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, left, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 9, 2018. After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, South Korean and U.S. officials said Thursday. No sitting American president has ever met with a North Korea leader. The signs read: &quot; Kim Jong Un understands that the routine joint military exercises between the South Korean and the United States must continue.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

NK faces no more conditions for talks but yet to contact US

By MARK SHERMAN and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

RETRANSMISSION TO REMOVE NAME OF POTENTIAL RAPE VICTIM - FILE - This May 12, 2014, file image taken from video posted by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show the missing girls abducted from a boarding school in the northeastern town of Chibok. Soldiers have found one of the kidnapped girls, her uncle said Wednesday, May 18, 2016 describing her as pregnant and traumatized but otherwise fine. (Militant Video via AP, File)

1st Chibok girl to escape Boko Haram to be feted in Nigeria

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

Six months into his term, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has still not finished nominating people to serve in his Cabinet. (Associated Press)

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian president, ‘too slow’ to deliver on lofty campaign promises

By Ali Abare Abubakar - Special to The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with newly inaugurated Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, before the start of a formal meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, May 29, 2015. Nigerians celebrated their newly reinforced democracy Friday, dancing and singing at the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the first candidate to beat a sitting president at the polls. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Muhammadu Buhari takes over Nigeria in crisis

By Michelle Faul - Associated Press