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Children displaced by Islamist extremists wheel food handed out to them at the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, amid allegations that officials have diverted aid intended for Boko Haram refugees. (Associated Press/File)

Nigeria’s children struggle against corruption, shaky future in prosperous nation

By Ali Abare Abubakar - Special to The Washington Times

Nigeria adrift as leader in London for month of treatment

By KRISTA MAHR - Associated Press

U.S actor Danny Glover speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in Lagos, Nigeria Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. Glover is in Nigeria to star in a movie based on people who risked and sacrificed their lives to stop the spread of Ebola in Africa's most populous country. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Danny Glover in Nigeria to star in Ebola movie

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

FILE- In this Aug. 12, 2014, file photo, the body of a man found in the street, suspected of dying from the Ebola virus is covered and removed by health workers, in the capital city of Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh, File)

Nigeria declared Ebola-free; Africa’s most populous nation given all-clear by World Health Org

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday Feb. 14, 2014 file photo, anointing water is photographed in Johannesburg, South Africa. T.B. Joshua's Synagogue, Church of All Nations has branches around the world, and a recent YouTube video even credits him with predicting the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. Joshua is one of the best-known preachers in Africa and among the most profitable in Nigeria, the go-to faith healer and spiritual guide for leaders such as the late Ghanaian president John Atta Mills, Malawian president Joyce Banda and former Zimbabwean prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The man who says he comes from the poor village of Arigidi is worth between $10 and $15 million based on assets, according to Forbes magazine, which in 2011 estimated his personal wealth. The church holds some 15,000 people with outside tents for the overflow and Sunday services are beamed worldwide. Yet critics say this wildly popular televangelist hinders efforts to curtail the spread of HIV and tuberculosis with testimonies by church-goers that faith and his holy water can cure both. He is also accused of taking advantage of his followers and tightly controlling those closest to him, who call him &quot;Daddy.&quot;(AP Photo/Carley Petesch, file)

Nigeria preacher: Healer or controversial leader?

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press