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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      News in-depthNigeria
      Nigerian rapper’s death exposes murky side of Afrobeats music

      Rising star’s sudden demise after raising maltreatment accusations puts genre in the spotlight

      People hold candle lights and a flare during a minute of silence at a protest inside a park in Lagos, Nigeria to demand justice for Afrobeat star MohBad following his mysterious death
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      ReviewPhotography
      Lagos makes a haunting, brutal subject in MoMA’s photography show

      Artists with a connection to the city evoke its lost mysteries and tumultuous present

      The ‘New Photography 2023’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      FT CollectionsNigeria presidential election 2023
      ‘Godfather of Lagos’ wins tightest Nigerian presidential election in decades

      Opposition alleges irregularities in counting and calls for rerun

      Bola Tinubu celebrates with his supporters after election officials declared him the winner of Nigeria’s presidential poll on Wednesday
    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Collecting
      Nigerian art world in buoyant mood despite turbulent times

      As Art X Lagos opens this weekend, will it feel the effects of the global economic downturn and domestic problems?

      A woman in a purple outfit stands in front of an abstract painting, looking at it closely
    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      African economy
      Nigeria to relaunch national airline two decades after predecessor’s collapse

      Outgoing president Muhammadu Buhari seeks to cement legacy with rebranded Nigeria Air

      Muhammadu Buhari
    • Monday, 21 March, 2022
      HTSI
      All eyes on Lagos: an artistic homecoming

      Founded 10 years ago to champion African art, Tiwani Contemporary has returned to its roots

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Travel & leisure industry
      Stay-at-home Nigerians fuel hospitality boom

      Covid-era travel restrictions have helped energise Lagos’s bar and restaurant scene

      Sun, sea and capital controls: Nigerians unable to take their money overseas have been spending it at destinations such as Ilashe Beach near Lagos
    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Education
      Lagos turns to edtech partner to raise school standards

      The state says its alliance with NewGlobe is improving numeracy and literacy

      Top marks? A teacher at a school in the EkoExcel programme, which Lagos says is raising standards
    • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
      Art Basel OVR:2021
      Adenrele Sonariwo is leading Lagos’s art-world charge

      Her Rele gallery is telling new stories from Nigeria as the national art scene bubbles up

      A woman looking off to the right, in front of a brown-yellow leafy background
    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      News in-depthNigeria
      ‘Godfather’ of Lagos aims to become Nigeria’s next president

      Bola Ahmed Tinubu shaped the megacity but has been dogged by allegations of corruption

      Bola Ahmed Tinubu, pictured in Abuja in 2019
    • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
      ReviewMusic
      Wizkid at the O2 Arena — Afrobeats fireworks from Nigeria’s finest

      The show offered spectacle and a fervent atmosphere, even if one special guest was in poor taste

    • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
      FT Wealth
      Gun for hire: Nigeria security fears spark boom in private protection

      Many guards for wealthy and middle-class people are hired police officers

    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      Nigeria
      Nigerian businesses at risk of double taxation

      Federal government battles country’s wealthiest states over right to collect VAT revenues

      Shoppers in Lagos
    • Friday, 18 June, 2021
      Nigeria
      Lagos luxury property: ‘No matter how bad the economy, they buy’

      Plunging currency fuels demand for upmarket apartments as wealthy seek home for cash

    • Monday, 19 April, 2021
      InterviewFilm
      Mo Abudu: media mogul putting Africa in the picture

      Her Nigeria-based film and TV company EbonyLife has signed deals with Netflix and others as the market grows for non-western content

    • Monday, 1 February, 2021
      Nigeria
      How Lagos loses out in battle for investors

      Governor seeks autonomy as Nigeria’s commercial hub competes with nation states

    • Monday, 28 December, 2020
      Nigeria
      Nigeria’s port crisis: the $4,000 charge to carry goods across Lagos

      Congestion, bribery and storage costs add to problems for importers in Africa’s largest economy

    • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
      Nigeria
      Nigeria central bank under scrutiny over protests crackdown

      Officials deny targeting anti-police demonstrators who brought Lagos to a standstill

    • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
      Fintech
      Africa’s booming tech hub of Lagos braces as pandemic bites

      Nigerian city is the heart of continent’s fintech scene but has been hit by oil-price collapse and regulation

      All smiles? Lagos-based payment company Paystack has just been acquired, but Nigeria faces recession
    • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
      Wale Lawal
      Nigeria’s problems cannot be solved by young people alone

      The government’s brutal response to peaceful protests shows elders must reckon with a moral crisis

    • Friday, 23 October, 2020
      Nigeria
      ‘It was carnage’: Nigeria reels from bullets and brutality of protest crackdown

      Peaceful demonstrations in Lagos end in violence and reports of 10 dead

    • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
      Nigeria
      Unrest in Lagos as outrage over violent crackdown escalates

      Nigerian city under lockdown day after demonstrators were fired on by security forces

    • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
      Kingsley Moghalu
      A brutal crackdown in Nigeria exposes weakness at the top

      Protests against police violence and poor governance show young people have found a powerful voice

      Anti-police demonstrators in Lagos. Amnesty International is investigating at least 10 deaths since the protests began
    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
      Nigeria
      Nigeria cracks down on peaceful protesters

      Reports of shooting by security forces in Africa’s biggest city as demonstrators dig in

    • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
      Nigeria
      Nigeria dissolves violent crime police unit after anti-brutality protests

      Special Anti-Robbery Squad had been the target of days of mass demonstrations throughout country

      A demonstration calling for the scrapping of the controversial police unit at Ikeja on Friday
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