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Women and children who were held captive by islamic extremists, and rescued by the Nigerian army, are seen upon arrival in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, May 20, 2024. Hundreds of hostages mostly children whose mothers were held captive and forcefully married by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from their key forest enclave and handed over to authorities, the West African nation's army said late Monday. (AP Photo/Jossy Olatunji)

Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria

By Haruna Umar - 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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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, right, sits by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, during an event in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, May 11, 2024. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says it’s been “humbling” to find out through a genealogy test that she is partly Nigerian. She was speaking at a meeting with Nigerian female industry leaders at an event on Saturday, her second day in the West African nation where she is visiting with Harry, her husband. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Duchess of Sussex, called ‘Ifeoma’ in Nigeria, speaks with women about her Nigerian roots

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Prince Harry and Meghan visit children at the Lights Academy in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, May 10, 2024. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have arrived in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Prince Harry, Meghan arrive in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games and meet with wounded soldiers

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Tigran Gambaryan, an American citizen and Binance's head of financial crime compliance, attends a court hearing at the federal High Courts, in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April 4, 2024. Nigerian authorities have asked a local court to prosecute Binance and two of its executives for alleged money laundering and tax evasion. The request was made on Thursday at the high court in the capital of Abuja where one of the executives, Gambaryan, was produced in court while the second remains at large after recently fleeing custody. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga )

Nigeria seeks to try crypto exchange Binance executives over alleged money laundering, tax evasion

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Children run in celebration after a false alarm that kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School students of Kuriga had been released in Kaduna state, Nigeria, Saturday, March 9, 2024. The kidnapping on Thursday was only one of three mass kidnappings in northern Nigeria since late last week, a reminder of the security crisis that has plagued Africa's most populous country. No group claimed responsibility for any of the abductions but two different groups are blamed. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Some of nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in Nigeria’s north are freed after weeks in captivity

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

A women prays for the kidnapped LEA Primary and Secondary School students in Kuriga, Kaduna state Nigeria, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria's northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier in the West African nation's latest mass kidnap which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and slow security response. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Gunmen kidnap nearly 300 students in northwest Nigeria. 2 days later, some lose hope of finding them

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

A boy walks past people selling on the street in Kaduna, Nigeria, Friday , March. 8, 2024. Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria's northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier in the West African nation's latest mass kidnap which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and slow security response. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba )

Gunmen kidnap 15 children in yet another school abduction in northern Nigeria

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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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This undated photograph shows Herbert Wigwe, chief executive of Access Bank, Nigeria in his Lagos office. Wigwe was killed Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 along with his wife and son when a helicopter they were riding in crashed near in Southern California's Mojave Desert. (AP Photo/Ayodeji Owolabi)

CEO of major Nigerian bank killed in California helicopter crash, director-general of WTO says

By Adam Beam and Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

An Ivory Coast supporter reacts before the African Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match between Ivory Coast and DR Congo, at the Olympic Stadium of Ebimpe in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Super Eagles out to stop Elephants’ charge as Nigeria meets Ivory Coast in Africa Cup final

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The defense chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries excluding Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea and Niger, gather for their extraordinary meeting in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, to discuss the situation in Niger. Three West African nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have quit the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS. Their respective juntas said in a joint statement on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 thatt he bloc has imposed “inhumane” sanctions to reverse the coups in their nations and has also “moved away from the ideals of its founding fathers and Pan-Africanism” after nearly 50 years of its establishment. (AP Photo/Richard Eshun Nanaresh, File)

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso withdraw from West Africa regional bloc ECOWAS as tensions deepen

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

FILE - A member of Shell staff on the Bonga offshore oil Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel off the coast of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. Shell said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024 it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion, the latest move by the energy company to limit its exposure in the West African nation amid long-running complaints of environmental pollution caused by the oil industry. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)

Shell to sell big piece of its Nigeria oil business, but activists want pollution cleaned up first

By Taiwo Adebayo - Associated Press

A view of oil installations at the Dangote refinery during the opening ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 22, 2023. Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery, which is Africa’s biggest, says it has begun production, starting with diesel and aviation fuel. This brings to an end a yearslong wait for a plant that analysts said Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, could boost local and regional refining capacity in a region heavily reliant on imported refined products. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria with the aim of reducing need for imports

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

A prosthetist molds a cast for Princess Igbinosa, 10, who lost her leg following a traffic accident in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Princess can now walk, thanks to an artificial limb from the IREDE Foundation, a group providing children like her with free prosthetics and helping their families offset the average cost of $2,000 to $3,000. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to amputee children thanks to crowdfunding

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Babatunde Fatai, a cocoa farmer, holds a cocoa pod at a farm inside the conservation zone of the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Farmers, buyers and others say cocoa heads from deforested areas of the protected reserve to companies that supply some of the world’s biggest chocolate makers. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

By Taiwo Adebayo - Associated Press

A man sells fruits at a market in Lagos, Nigeria Wednesday , Nov 29, 2023. Nigeria's leader on Wednesday presented a $34 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers with a key focus on stabilizing Africa's largest but ailing economy and fighting the nation's deadly security crisis. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria’s leader presents a $34 billion spending plan that prioritizes the economy and security

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by MSF, Dr. Aminu, left, on a routine check up on patients at the diphtheria treatment centre of the Murtala muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. Authorities in several West African countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks, including in Nigeria where a top health official said Thursday Nov. 23, 2023 that millions are being vaccinated to cover wide gaps in immunity against the disease. (Ehab Zawati, MSF via AP)

West Africa responds to huge diphtheria outbreaks by targeting unvaccinated populations

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Nottingham Forest's Taiwo Awoniyi celebrates after scoring their sides first goal during the English Premier League soccer match between West Ham United and Nottingham Forest at the London Stadium, London, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. (Nigel French/PA via AP)

Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi out for months after undergoing groin surgery

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Sudanese refugees gather outside a field hospital in Acre, Chad, Aug. 15, 2023. The United Nations food agency has warned that it might end food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel because of limited funding. The World Food Program says most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and crossed into Chad in the last six months in numbers not seen in the last 20 years. (AP Photo, File )

U.N. warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press