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Nigeria Confirms Planned Withdrawal of US Troops

A New York Times report on August 27, 2026, announced that the United States would withdraw roughly 200 of its military personnel from Nigeria, months after deploying them to support counterterrorism operations in the country’s northeast. The move is expected to be completed by late September, while a small team of trainers and intelligence analysts will remain behind.

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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Nigeria Confirms Planned Withdrawal of US Troops

Diphtheria Cases Exceed Ten Thousand as Northern Nigeria Struggles to Cope

What makes the outbreak striking is that diphtheria is almost entirely preventable. A cheap, effective vaccine, usually given as part of the routine DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) immunisation series, has existed for decades and has all but eliminated the disease from most of the world. Nigeria’s neighbors and peer economies with strong routine immunisation systems rarely see outbreaks like this one; when cases do appear elsewhere, they are typically isolated and quickly contained. 

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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Diphtheria Cases Exceed Ten Thousand as Northern Nigeria Struggles to Cope

Jumafor Ajogwu and Yemi Adegbulu Selected for BFI’s TIFF Market Producers Delegation

Two Nigerian filmmakers, Leeds-based Jumafor Ajogwu, Bold Pictures and British-Nigerian Yemi Adegbulu, Sleepwalker Studios, have  been selected as part of the six BFI-supported entrepreneurial UK Black and Global Majority producers to attend TIFF: The Market, the inaugural market at the Toronto International Film Festival. Supported by the BFI National Lottery International Connections Fund, these producers […]

Seyi Lasisi

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Jumafor Ajogwu and Yemi Adegbulu Selected for BFI’s TIFF Market Producers Delegation

Inside Slow Sundays: Book Edition, Where Books Brought Strangers Together

By the time guests began arriving at Nature’s Nook Garden, Lagos had cooled down considerably. Instead of dampening the mood, the weather gave Slow Sundays: Book Edition the atmosphere the evening needed: cool, cosy and unhurried. The first experience from OTRwithBSocials was built around a simple idea. Guests would bring two physical books: one to […]

Anjola Akinmade

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1 day ago

Inside Slow Sundays: Book Edition, Where Books Brought Strangers Together

4 Nigerians On the Times the Country Has Disappointed Them

Living in Nigeria can mean expecting constant disappointment, yet it still manages to shock you. It could be a sudden policy change, an infrastructure project  left incomplete  for years, a hospital that fails you when you need it most because doctors are on strike, or the quiet shame of explaining, yet again, why your passport gets extra scrutiny abroad. Bad governance, a battered economy, terrible infrastructure and systems that seem designed to fail affect the quality of Nigerians’ lives everyday. Anyone who has lived here long enough has at least one moment where the system failed them. In this edition of Nigerian Lives, Culture Custodian speaks with 4 Nigerians about that one moment:

Zainab Nasreen Muhammad

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3 days ago

4 Nigerians On the Times the Country Has Disappointed Them
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