Toye Olori

ENVIRONMENT: Heavy Rains Paralyse Nigeria’s Largest City

Heavy rains have paralysed Lagos, Nigeria's sprawling commercial hub, forcing the majority of the city's 12 million inhabitants to stay indoors.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Protesting Women Seize another Chevron Facility

By Toye Olori

A group of women protesters, who seized another oil facility in Nigeria on Friday, is demanding 500-million-naira (about 3.5-million-U.S.-dollar) compensation from Chevron for "years of neglect of their communities".

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Protestors End “Stand-Off” with Chevron

By Toye Olori

More than 2,000 women protestors in the oil-rich Niger Delta Region of Nigeria ended their stand-off with Chevron on Thursday following negotiations between the multi-national oil company and community leaders.

HEALTH-NIGERIA: HIV Infections Rising among Young People

By Toye Olori

The number of people living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria has risen from 600,000 in 1991 to 3.6 million in 2002, with more than 50 percent of those infected being in the 15-29 age bracket, according to official statistics.

POLITICS-NIGERIA: Violence Mars Local Council Primaries

By Toye Olori

Political violence has gripped Nigeria ahead of next month's local council elections.

ENVIRONMENT-NIGERIA: New Attempts to Harness Gas Flares

By Toye Olori

The government of Nigeria has embarked on a programme to end gas flares -- which is causing environmental problems -- by 2008.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Police in the Spotlight for Killing Students

By Toye Olori

Parents in Nigeria have urged government to prosecute police officers that deliberately shoot school children at roadblocks in Lagos, the country's commercial hub.

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: Murder of Student Sparks Public Outrage

By Toye Olori

The bullet that cut short Oluwatosin's life came without warning. Oluwatosin, a 15-year-old student, was shot dead on Jun 14 after a bus conductor refused to pay the police a two-cent bribe, according to eyewitnesses.

POLITICS: Nigerians Remember Abiola the Pro-Democracy Campaigner

By Toye Olori

Rallies were held Wednesday in major cities across south-western Nigeria to mark the Jun 12, 1993 presidential elections won by Moshood Abiola, but annulled by the military.

ECONOMY: West Africa Moving Closer to a Common Currency

By Toye Olori

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has put in motion programmes aimed at ensuring the take-off of its long-muted common currency, the Eco, for the sub-region.

ECONOMY: West Africa Moving Closer to a Common Currency

By Toye Olori

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has put in motion programmes aimed at ensuring the take-off of its long-muted common currency, the Eco, for the sub-region.

TRANSPORT-NIGERIA: Flags Fly Half Mast as Air Death Toll Rises

By Toye Olori

Flags were flying at half-mast Monday in all government offices throughout Nigeria, as the West African nation mourns victims of the weekend plane crash in the northern city of Kano.

RIGHTS: Nigeria Seeks Help to End Human Trafficking

By Toye Olori

Nigeria has begun talks with neighbours, which serve as transit routes, to end human trafficking to Europe.

POLITICS-NIGERIA: Govt Secures Deal on Looted Money

By Toye Olori

The Nigerian government is planning to let off members of the late military ruler Sani Abacha's family, who are facing trial, for the return of 80 percent of money that Abacha looted from government treasury and stashed in Swiss banks.

POLITICS-NIGERIA: President Obasanjo under Pressure to Run in 2003

By Toye Olori

Ota Farm, located some 70 kilometres Northwest of Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, is where President Olusegun Obasanjo announced his decision to run in 1999.

POLITICS: Canadian Premier Tours Seven African Nations

By Toye Olori

Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien has begun a tour of seven African nations in preparation for the G-8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta on June 26-27.

ECONOMY: African Leaders Committed to Home-grown Agenda

By Toye Olori

African leaders, who met in the Nigerian capital Abuja this week to fashion out home-grown agenda for the continent, are set to follow Nigeria in 'dumping' the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

RIGHTS-NIGERIA: A Woman Accused of Adultery Freed by Sharia Court

By Toye Olori

Nigerian woman, Safiya Hussaini, who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery by an Islamic court in Sokoto, north-western Nigeria, has regained her freedom following pressures from both local and international organisations to spare her life.

EDUCATION-NIGERIA: University Lecturers Go on Strike

By Toye Olori

University lecturers in Nigeria have gone on strike to demand the re-instatement of their 60 colleagues who were sacked from the University of Ilorin, in central Nigeria, last year.

ECONOMY: Home-Grown Policy Emerges, as Nigeria Withdraws from IMF

By Toye Olori

The shape of Nigeria's home-grown economic policy thrust began to emerge this week as government slammed high-import duties on consumer goods after withdrawing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

/REPEAT/ECONOMY: Home-Grown Policy Emerges, as Nigeria Pulls out of IMF

By Toye Olori

The shape of Nigeria's home-grown economic policy thrust began to emerge this week as government slammed high-import duties on consumer goods after withdrawing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).