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Godwin Emefiele, suspended Central Bank governor, leaves after a court hearing at the Federal High Court in Lagos Nigeria, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Nigeria's suspended Central Bank governor appeared in court on Tuesday in the economic hub of Lagos on charges of illegal possession of a firearm and live ammunition. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria’s suspended Central Bank governor appears in court more than a month after his arrest

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

United States runners Larry James, left, Lee Evans, center, and Ron Freeman are shown after receiving their medals for the 400-meter race at the Mexico City Games in Mexico City, in this Oct. 18, 1968, file photo. Evans won gold, James took silver and Freeman got the bronze medal. Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, died Wednesday, May 19, 2021. He was 74. USA Track and Field confirmed Evans' death. The San Jose Mercury News reported that Evans' family had started a fundraiser with hopes of bringing him back to the U.S. from Nigeria, where he coached track, to receive medical care after he suffered a stroke last week.(AP Photo/File) **FILE**

Record-setting sprinter, ‘68 Olympic activist Lee Evans dies

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A man carries his empty oxygen tank to be filled after arriving at the head of the line, in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Lima, early Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 2021. A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus

By CARLEY PETESCH and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 file photo, people drive past burnt toll gates with anti police slogans sprayed across, in Lagos. Nigeria's army has on Tuesday, Oct. 27 admitted its soldiers were deployed at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos where live rounds were fired last week, killing several peaceful protesters prompting global outrage. At least 10 protesters were killed in the Lekki plaza shooting on Oct. 20, according to Amnesty International.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)

Nigeria’s army admits its soldiers were at Lagos shootings

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

People inspect burnt out government transportation buses at the Berger station near Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Lagos streets were empty and shops were shuttered Thursday, as residents of Nigeria's largest city obeyed the government's curfew, stopping the protests against police brutality that had lasted for two weeks. The #EndSARS demonstrations began in early October with calls for Nigeria’s government to shut down the police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known as SARS. (AP Photo)

Nigeria says 51 civilians, 18 security forces dead in unrest

By SAM OLUKOYA and LEKAN OYEKANMI - 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

People hold banners as they demonstrate on the street to protest against police brutality, in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020. After 13 days of protests against 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 puts curfew in Lagos against anti-police protests

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

People demonstrate on the street to protest against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday Oct. 13, 2020. Crowds protesting against police brutality in Nigeria have taken to the streets for a sixth day across Africa's most populous nation. Fresh protests took place in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, and in the southeastern cities of Port Harcourt and Uyo on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Protesters attacked in Nigerian demos against police abuse

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

Mathematics teacher Basirat Olamide Ajayi, 36, teaches online via her mobile phone from her house in Lagos, Nigeria Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. The teacher from a Lagos public school is helping students across the country, and internationally, learn math virtually during coronavirus restrictions that have prevented most children from returning to class in Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

In pandemic, Nigerian teacher can ‘teach the whole world’

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

The congregation practises social-distancing to curb the spread of the coronavirus during a Sunday mass at the Holy Cross Cathedral in Lagos, Nigeria Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the patience of some religious leaders across Africa who worry they will lose followers, and funding, as restrictions on gatherings continue. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

As Africa’s COVID-19 cases rise, faith is put to the test

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Explosion in Lagos kills at least 15, Nigerians probe cause

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a fire in downtown Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Nigerian firefighters are trying to extinguish a fire at the Balogun market in central Lagos. Thick black smoke and flames are shooting from five-story buildings surrounding the market as fire trucks attempt to get access to the fire. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian firefighters battle huge blazes at market in Lagos

By Sam Olukoya - Associated Press

Nigerians set a bonfire across the road from a South African-owned supermarket Wednesday in Abuja in retaliation for attacks against Africans working in South Africa. Police in South Africa arrested more than 100 people in five areas impacted by days of violence in Johannesburg and Pretoria, an embarrassment for the South African administration as it hosted the World Economic Forum this week in Cape Town. (Associated Press)

South Africa shuts embassies in Nigeria amid violence

By KRISTA MAHR and SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

Man climbs onto plane wing before takeoff at Nigeria airport

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Emergency workers attend the scene after a building collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday March 14, 2019. Search and rescue work continues in Nigeria a day after a building containing a school collapsed with scores of children said to be inside. A National Emergency Management Agency spokesman late Wednesday said 37 people had been pulled out alive, with eight bodies recovered from the ruins.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

The Latest: Nigeria calls off search at collapsed school

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A child is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Rescue efforts are underway in Nigeria after a three-story school building collapsed while classes were in session, with scores of school children thought to be inside at the time. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria halts search a day after school collapses; 8 dead

By SAM OLUKOYA and LEKAN OYEKANMI - Associated Press

In this image taken from video rescue workers and emergency teams work at the scene of a building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday March 13, 2019. A three-story building has collapsed in Lagos, and rescuers rush to pull out scores of children thought to be inside. There was no immediate official word on numbers of casualties. (AP Photo)

The Latest: 8 dead, 37 rescued in Nigeria school collapse

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In this June, 27, 2018 photo, tourists walk through a tunnel at the medieval-area Castle of Lagos in Lagos, Portugal. Lagos, a striking Portuguese beach town of charming coastlines and slightly sandstone cliffs, is the birthplace of the African slave trade in Europe. A museum dedicated to slavery is helping this enclave in the heart of southern Portugal's Algarve region come to terms with its history. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

Correction: Travel-Portugal-Black History Month-Lagos

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

Travel chaos at African championships as athletes stranded

By GERALD IMRAY and SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

This image taken from video on Thursday Feb. 22, 2018, shows the exterior of Government Girls Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Nigeria. Nigeria's security forces failed to respond to several warnings that suspected Boko Haram extremists were on their way to a town where 110 schoolgirls were abducted last month, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday March 20, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Boko Haram returns Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirls, witnesses say

By Haruna Umar and Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim - Associated Press