Catherine Adeniyi

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the recommendations of a committee on the reform of public institutions. The report by Stephen Orosanye seeks to restructure agencies, parastatals and commissions. The Oronsaye committee was set up by the Nigerian government in 2011 t...

Note: This report includes details about developing news stories in the Middle East. Information was, as far as possible, correct at the time of publication but may change rapidly. In April 2024, a number of similarly worded posts appeared on Facebook in Nigeria, claiming that the country had dec...

A video is doing the rounds on Facebook in Nigeria with the claim that a dragon was found in Anambra state in eastern Nigeria. The video appears to show a dragon lying on the ground, while a man narrates the scene in the Igbo language widely spoken in the region. Translated into English, the m...

Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been in the news since it began producing diesel and jet fuel in January 2024. The US$20 billion private refinery in Lagos is owned by the country’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Designed to process Nigerian crude oil, it has a refining capacity of 650,0...