A lot happened in 2005. It was the year Nigeria introduced the ₦1,000 note and raised the petrol pump price from ₦61 to ₦80. It was the year Governor Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa escaped a money laundering trial in the UK by dressing as a woman—allegedly. It was the year Nigeria lost over 200 lives to …
Discussion forums like Nairaland have emerged as a significant medium for foreign influence operations.
Since the 2022 Ukraine invasion, Russia has co-opted Africa into the battleground through an active disinformation campaign.
For years, families of people arbitrarily arrested and detained in a military barracks in Maiduguri have been exploited by security agents and lawyers who claim they can get their loved ones released. Now, calls coming from detainees suggest there is a new opportunity for them to bribe their way out.
From dozens of countries around the world, members of a violent independence movement are meeting weekly and raising thousands of dollars to fund a war back home.
Boko Haram terrorists are invading an IDP camp at the heart of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria and abducting displaced people, who usually have to sell most of their assets or borrow money to raise huge ransoms. Some of the victims have now relocated someplace else where they feel safer.
Anonymous wants you to spend hundreds of dollars on sport-betting tickets that guarantee huge wins. Anonymous understands you may be reluctant, so Anonymous has prepared a cocktail of underhanded tactics to convince you.
Since Nigeria’s civil war ended decades ago, many groups have continued to advocate for the secession of a Biafran Republic. Today, IPOB is the loudest voice. That title, however, used to belong to another group – MASSOB – which implemented a similar playbook. We go back in time to reconstruct the rise and fall of this organisation.
The terrorists took extreme measures to keep them in their ancestral communities; the soldiers took extreme — even unlawful — measures to push them out.
After years of dedicated learning, graduates of traditional Qur’anic schools in Nigeria step into a world they are not quite prepared for.