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The government denied using live rounds, asserting that the situation was under control after clearing the protest area. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] According to anonymous sources in local hospitals speaking to The Guardian , the families of the deceased speaking to Al Jazeera , government officials had confiscated records of dead and injured.
While the Transmission Company of Nigeria declined to comment, an anonymous source told the BBC that the move followed a directive from President Bola Tinubu. [64] The World Bank suspended disbursements to Niger until further notice. [65] Military chiefs of ECOWAS member states met in Abuja, to discuss the situation in Niger. [66]
The 2023 Pakistan blackout was a power outage that occurred across the entirety of Pakistan on 23 January 2023. [1] This was the second major grid breakdown in Pakistan in 2 years, and the second largest blackout in history. [2]
Twitter was blocked in Nigeria from 5 June 2021 to 13 January 2022. [1] [2] The government imposed a ban on the social network after it deleted tweets made by, and temporarily suspended, the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, warning the southeastern people of Nigeria, [3] [4] predominantly Igbo people, of a potential repeat of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War due to the ongoing insurgency in ...
The National Examination Council announced an indefinite postponement of the 2020 common entrance examination into 104 Unity schools in Nigeria, which was supposed to hold on 28 March. [64] Enugu State government banned all social and political gatherings in the state. [65] Actors Guild of Nigeria banned movie sets across Nigeria. [66]
1 January – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) destroys a Boko Haram settlement at Mana Waji in Borno State, killing dozens. [1]2 January – Journalist Omoyele Sowore and four other activists are arrested and beaten during a protest in Abuja.
Bandits in Nigeria have been known to ride into villages on motorcycles to loot and kidnap the inhabitants, killing anyone who resists. Kidnapping is a very profitable venture in northwest Nigeria. Between 2011 and 2020, Nigerians paid at least 18 billion naira to free family members and friends. [5] [27]
Ongoing (Map of the current military situation) Expansion of conflict into neighboring Cameroon, Chad, Mali, and Niger [52] [54] Turkish forces and Syrian mercenaries deployed to Niger; Coalition offensive in 2015 forces Boko Haram to retreat into the Sambisa Forest; Abubakar Shekau killed on 19 May 2021 amid ISWAP's capture of Sambisa Forest