Eromo Egbejule

Nigeria

West Africa Correspondent at The Guardian

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Articles

Fears of Boko Haram comeback stir in Nigerian birthplace of Maiduguri

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

On the road running from Maiduguri’s airport to the city, the freshly repainted walls of a girls’ college stood in defiant opposition to a years-long campaign by the jihadists of Boko Haram to make good on their name, which translates as “western education is forbidden”. At a nearby roundabout on the outskirts of the capital of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, three uniformed men sprinted after a cement truck, hoping to collect a road levy.
The plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

3 weeks ago | genocidewatch.com | Eromo Egbejule

'I love my country but no one is safe': English-speaking minority refugees caught up in clashes between the military and separatists are stranded in neighbouring countryBy Eromo Egbejule Amid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares.
‘Kush destroys them’: the Guinean rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

At Guinea’s only private drug rehabilitation clinic, Dr Marie Koumbassa and her 15-person team are so convinced that drug use is a national emergency that they work for no pay. Every week, SAJED-Guinée (Service for Helping Young People in Difficult Situations due to Drugs) receives dozens of distress calls from relatives of addicts who are then taken to the facility in the working-class Conakry neighbourhood of Dabompa. In richer areas of the city, cocaine is the drug of choice.
‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

Amid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares. Outside a closed graphic design shop overlooking them from a small hill, Solange Ndonga Tibesa tells the story of being uprooted from her homeland in north-west Cameroon. In June 2019 she and other travellers were abducted with her three-month-old baby by secessionists, who accused them of supporting the military.
Coup leader favourite in presidential race as Gabon goes to the polls

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

An estimated 1 million Gabonese citizens head to the polls on Saturday to vote in the country’s first presidential election since an August 2023 coup ended the 55-year Bongo family dynasty. For Brice Nguema, the junta leader turned civilian head of state, it could be a chance to cement his democratic credentials.
Niger’s junta withdraws from Lake Chad anti-Islamist force

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

Niger’s ruling junta has quit a regional force fighting armed Islamist groups in west Africa’s Lake Chad area, cementing an acrimonious split from former allies in the region. The decision to exit the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) was announced in a bulletin on state television over the weekend. The move “reflects a stated intent to reinforce security for oil sites”, the bulletin stated, without providing further details.
A ‘bridge to prosperity’? Guinea’s junta touts opening of mining megaproject

1 month ago | msn.com | Eromo Egbejule

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A ‘bridge to prosperity’? Guinea’s junta touts opening of mining megaproject

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

Deep in the south of Guinea lies Simandou, an impressive mountain range with a lucrative underbelly: the world’s largest untapped iron ore deposits, amounting to an estimated 2.8bn tonnes. In 2013, it was at the centre of one of the biggest mining financial scandals in history, stemming from an ownership tussle over development licenses awarded in the 1990s during the regime of the west African country’s former authoritarian president Lansana Conté .
“We are all Natasha”: Senator’s sexual harassment claims roil Nigeria

1 month ago | capitalpost.ng | Eromo Egbejule

By: Adamu Muhd Usman “Success is not by our thinking, our wish, our personal opinion, or selfish aggrandisement. It is destined and accompanied by good attitudes of honesty, gratitude, commitment, perseverance, sacrifice, endurance, selflessness, and determination. —– Sule LamidoWhen elections are approaching, political activities hasten. There has been speculation that Sule Lamido of Jigawa State will defect from the PDP and join a new party.
‘We are all Natasha’: senator’s sexual harassment claims roil Nigeria

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

Last July, Nigeria’s third-most powerful man gave a rare apology on the floor of the senate which he heads. Godswill Akpabio had chastised his colleague Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for speaking out of turn, saying: “We are not in a nightclub”. But after receiving what he said was a deluge of insulting text messages from Nigerians, he apologised publicly a few days later.