Pelumi Salako

New lit­er­ary fes­ti­vals are spring­ing up in Nige­ria, in­spir­ing an evolv­ing com­mu­ni­ty of more book-lov­ing Africans.

Ac­tivists say vic­tims of se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies are yet to re­ceive com­pen­sa­tion or jus­tice and po­lice bru­tal­i­ty is on­go­ing.

Many Nige­ri­ans say get­ting a pass­port is now cum­ber­some due to cor­rup­tion and gov­ern­ment in­ef­fi­cien­cy.

There are 64 lep­rosy set­tle­ments across Nige­ria but most are in vary­ing states of dis­re­pair with lit­tle to no fund­ing.

Africa’s largest oil pro­duc­er is once again in the throes of a re­cur­rent fuel scarci­ty is­sue.

A year af­ter a 10-month strike shut uni­ver­si­ties, busi­ness­es that need stu­dents for pa­tron­age are still strug­gling.