Africa

ALGIERS—Algerian authorities on Oct. 18 banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of identification for the decision. The country has been split between moderate and more radical forms of Islam since it was plunged into years of civil war in 1992, when a military-backed government canceled elections that an Islamist […]

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not yet need to be declared as an international health emergency said global health officials. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been tracking the outbreak in recent months of what is regarded as one of the deadliest viral diseases known to humankind. On Oct. […]

Stolen profits from business email compromise (BEC) schemes, including the infamous “Nigerian” email scams, have grown exponentially across the globe over the past decade. From January 2015 to February 2017, identified losses from such scams had increased 1,300 percent, totaling over $3 billion globally. By May 2018, the losses had grown to $12.5 billion, according to the FBI’s IC3 (Internet […]

LONDON—A Nigerian politician who was jailed in Britain for laundering tens of millions of dollars in stolen public funds through British banks and properties lost an appeal against his conviction in London on Oct. 17. The Court of Appeals ruling against James Ibori, a former governor of oil-producing Delta state in southern Nigeria, is a […]

VULINDLELA, South Africa—Sweat streams from the young men’s faces as they pursue a soccer ball across a sun-baked pitch of red dust. In the crowd of spectators is Gethwana Mahlase, a veteran HIV counselor. “Those boys, by the time they get to 30, one in three will probably be infected with HIV,” she said, her […]

GENEVA—The family and colleagues of a Nigerian aid worker who was killed by her Islamic terrorist kidnappers mourned her death on Oct. 16 as the Red Cross said it had refused to pay a ransom for her release. The Nigerian government said on Oct. 15 a medical aid worker held hostage by ISIS in West […]

Nigerian professionals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and engineering are not leaving anything to chance and seeking better career fulfillment overseas.