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What You Need to Know: A Nigerian NGO– The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)– has announced its intention today to sue President Tinubu over a $3.4 Billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan that is “missing, diverted, or unaccounted for.”  The loan, received in 2020 by former President Buhari was intended to finance the budget and enable Nigeria to respond to...

What You Need to Know: Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested three workers from Lagos’ Tincan Seaport for attempting to import over 2000 lbs of drugs as well as arms and ammunition.  A dock worker, Falowo Samuel Kayode and terminal supervisors Anjorin Idowu and Uzairu Iguda were taken into custody, while a third worker, Mohammed Sule, is on the...

What You Need to Know: Karon Majiji Village’s Priesthood Orphanage in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, has been shut down by the Federal Capital Territory Administration after 23 children, believed to have been trafficked from Plateau State were located at the premises.  The children, between the ages of one and fourteen, some of whom had been at the uncertified orphanage since...

What You Need to Know: Armed men laid siege to a police station for thirty minutes in Zamfara State’s Kasuwa-Daji town early Tuesday morning, leaving four dead including two policemen. The gunmen then kidnapped forty women and children, presumably to be held for ransom.  Police spokesman, Yacid Abubakar, stated the attack began at around 1:30am and lasted around thirty minutes, stressing that...

One Week In Protests in Senegal have been ongoing for over a week now over the governments decision to delay elections for 10 months, which opposition lawmakers have referred to as a "constitutional coup". A week on, and three protestors have been shot and killed by police during clashes around the country. One was killed in the Senegalese capital of Dakar,...