Jul 30 Watch 10:45 Human traffickers lead young Nigerians on a dangerous path By William Brangham, Jason Kane Modern-day human trafficking begins in places like rural Nigeria, where young people dream of economic opportunity and a better life for their families, and are willing to give up everything to try and find it. But as many Nigerians learn,… Continue watching
Jun 26 Twitter Chat: How AIDS continues to grip at-risk communities By Lora Strum Russia, Nigeria and Florida are three of the regions hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS crisis. The PBS NewsHour will be joined on Twitter on June 26 at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss why the AIDS epidemic continues to cripple these… Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch 10:49 Why Nigeria has more HIV-positive infants than anywhere else By William Brangham, Jason Kane Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission is considered one of the most basic goals for curtailing the AIDS epidemic, and Nigeria is struggling mightily. In our series "The End of AIDS: Far from Over," William Brangham and Jason Kane examine why this… Continue watching
Apr 30 WATCH: As Supreme Court weighs travel ban case, Trump says he won’t apologize for immigration rhetoric The president said Monday at the news conference with Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari that he had nothing for which to apologize. Continue reading
Mar 23 Photos: More than 100 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls return home By Larisa Epatko "They kept us in a big, covered house where no-one could spot where we were, even by air we could not be seen," one of the girls said. Continue reading
Mar 21 Boko Haram returns Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirls, witnesses say By Haruna Umar and Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim, Associated Press Boko Haram extremists returned almost all of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said Wednesday. Continue reading
Nov 21 Watch 4:09 News Wrap: Suicide bomber blasts Nigerian mosque By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, at least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Nigeria. Also, the U.S. military said it killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants in a recent airstrike in Somalia… Continue watching
Oct 24 Inside Nollywood, the booming film industry that makes 1,500 movies a year By Elizabeth Flock Nollywood is now the world’s second largest film industry in terms of number of films produced. Here's how it happened. Continue reading
Aug 23 Boko Haram has used 83 children as human bombs so far this year By Synclaire Cruel The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday. Continue reading
May 07 Dozens of Nigerian school girls freed by Boko Haram By Michael D. Regan Dozens of Nigerian school girls who were released by Boko Haram this weekend years after they were kidnapped met with the country's president on Sunday. Continue reading