#nigeria

#nigeria

The acquisition brings together two of Africa's leading fintech infrastructure companies. Flutterwave operates one of the continent's widest payments networks, while Mono, often described as the "Plaid for Africa," has built APIs that allow businesses to access bank data, initiate payments, and verify customers. Mono has raised about $17.5 million from investors, including Tiger Global, General Catalyst, and Target Global.

Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have passed their condolences to the families of Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, the two friends who died in a car crash in Nigeria this week in which Anthony Joshua was also injured. Ayodele, also known as Latz, was a personal trainer of Joshua, while Ghami acted as strength and conditioning coach for the 36-year-old boxer. Joshua remains in hospital in Lagos where he was described by his management team as being in a stable condition.

"ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not see for many years, and even Centuries!"

In his announcement, Trump said the strikes were aimed at Islamic State militants who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! A Defense Department official told the Associated Press that the US worked with Nigeria to carry out the strikes, and that they'd been approved by that country's government.

Trump's rhetoric risks recasting criminal violence and state failure as a religious war with devastating consequences for civilians. In early November, United States President Donald Trump declared that Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. In a series of posts on his Truth Social platform, he accused radical Islamists of mass slaughter and warned that the US may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns-a-blazing.

Amid reports of gunfire and civilians scampering to safety in the economic capital, Cotonou, Beninese and others across the region waited with bated breath as conflicting intelligence emerged. The small group of putschists, on the one hand, declared victory, but Benin's forces and government officials said the plot had failed. By evening, the situation was clear Benin's government was still standing.

President Tinubu has nominated former military chief Christopher Musa as the new defense minister Musa was sacked as chief of defense staff in October He will replace Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who resigned as defense minister on Monday The leadership shakeup comes as Nigeria faces a fresh wave of mass kidnappings Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has nominated the country's former top general, who he forced out in October, as the new minister of defense. Christopher Musa will need to be confirmed by the senate

The early Friday raid on St Mary's co-educational school in Niger state in western Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary school in neighbouring Kebbi state, abducting 25 girls. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had earlier reported 227 people seized, but the new number came after a verification exercise that concluded 303 students and 12 teachers were abducted. The number of boys and girls aged between eight and 18 years kidnapped from St Mary's is almost half the school's student population of 629.

A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of a separatist group, on charges related to terrorism. Kanu founded the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) separatist group that called for independence from Nigeria. "His intention was quite clear as he believed in violence. These threats of violence were nothing but terrorist acts," judge James Omotosho said at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The conviction came after a long-running trial, with the case going back to comments made in 2015.