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People move through a market in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. The world's population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, Nov. 15, according to a United Nations projection. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

World population hits 8 billion, creating many challenges

By Dan Ikpoyi and Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

FILE - People walk through floodwaters with flooded farmlands forground after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2022. West and Central African countries are battling deadly floods that have upended lives and livelihoods, raising fears of further disruption of food supplies in many areas battling armed conflict. “Above-average rainfall and devastating flooding” have affected 5 million people this year in 19 countries across West and Central Africa, according to a new U.N. World Food Program situation report. (AP Photo, file)

West Africa floods destroy crops, worsening hunger fears

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

A baggage claim area at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Suitcase hiding 10 pounds of weed, headed for Nigeria, seized at Dulles

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel &quot;Fortuna&quot;, being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, in the port of Wismar, Germany, on Jan 14, 2021. European leaders are turning to Africa for more natural gas as the EU tries to replace Russian exports amid the war in Ukraine. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP, File)

Europe turns to Africa in bid to replace Russian natural gas

By Krista Larson - Associated Press

United States' Sofia Huerta (8) tries to control the ball against Nigeria's Rasheedat Ajibade (15) during the first half of an international friendly soccer match Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Lavelle’s goal gives U.S. women a victory over Nigeria

Associated Press

Copycat Impeachment hearings Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

America’s newest export: Impeachment proceedings

By Saul Anuzis

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

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured over 10 others. Khalid Zadran said Tuesday the blasts occurred in the mostly-Shiite Muslim area in the west of Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Nigeria’s Islamist militants, Iran’s leader, Afghanistan’s Taliban top persecutors of Christians

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

A view of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Nigeria, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Lawmakers in southwestern Nigeria say more than 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at a church. Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole with the Ondo State House of Assembly said the gunmen targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state on Sunday morning just as the worshippers gathered for the weekly Mass. (AP Photo/Rahaman A Yusuf)

Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials say

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

This 1997 image provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the right arm and torso of a patient, whose skin displayed a number of lesions due to what had been an active case of monkeypox. As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, in 2022, some doctors are acknowledging an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades. (CDC via AP, File)

Monkeypox outbreak needs a united response, says WHO Africa

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

First monkeypox death in Nigeria in 2022; 21 cases confirmed

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

People gather Saturday April 23, 2022 at the site of an explosion that took place the day before at an illegal oil refinery in Ohaji-Egbema local government area in Imo state, southeast Nigeria. At least 100 people are feared to have died in the explosion, authorities told The Associated Press, as the search for bodies at the site and for two people suspected of being involved in the incident intensified. (AP Photo)

Manhunt on for suspects as 100 die in Nigeria refinery blast

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, right, inspects the honor guard, during a Naval ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The Nigerian navy on Thursday inducted new boats, ships and helicopter to help secure its waters and fight piracy in the highly perilous sea in the Gulf of Guinea. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the new platforms will “greatly bolster the efforts of the service in securing Nigerian maritime environment.” (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) ** FILE **

More than 200 dead in clashes between armed gangs, farmers in Nigeria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, right, inspects the honor guard, during a Naval ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The Nigerian navy on Thursday inducted new boats, ships and helicopter to help secure its waters and fight piracy in the highly perilous sea in the Gulf of Guinea. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the new platforms will “greatly bolster the efforts of the service in securing Nigerian maritime environment.” (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) ** FILE **

Gunmen kill 47 in latest attacks in Nigeria’s troubled north

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Churchgoers pray during a morning service at the Saint Charles Catholic Church, the site of a 2014 bomb attack blamed on Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, in the predominantly-Christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano, northern Nigeria Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. With the leading contenders both northern Muslims, Nigeria's presidential contest has been largely free of the religious pressures that marked the 2015 vote, but the Christian vote is bound to be decisive in a race that could sweep the incumbent out of power. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nigeria should go back on State Dept.’s religious freedom watchlist, coalition urges

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, accompanied by Senegalese Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall, departs following a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. Blinken is on a five-day trip to Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

In Africa, Blinken sees limits of U.S. influence abroad

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Christiana Eluozu stands outside her house with a damaged roof that she claims was damaged as a result of gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

The IPOB is not a terrorist organization

By Anthony Ejiofor

Illustration on IPOB's status as a Foreign Terrorist Group by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

U.S. ignores small African terrorist group IPOB at its peril

By Ivan Sascha Sheehan

Japan's Saori Miyazaki (32), center, is blocked by United States' Brittney Griner (15), second right, during women's basketball preliminary round game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

US uses dominant inside presence to beat Japan 86-69

By Doug Feinberg - Associated Press

United States of America players celebrate after a three point basket during women's basketball preliminary round game against Nigeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

US women win 50th straight Olympic game, beat Nigeria 81-72

By Doug Feinberg - Associated Press