Tim Cocks

Nigeria, Islamists may have committed crimes against humanity: HRW

August 22, 2019 at 11:17 a.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Islamist sect Boko Haram and Nigerian security forces might well have committed crimes against humanity during three years of conflict that has killed at least 2,800 people,...

Nigeria, Islamists may have committed crimes against humanity: HRW

August 23, 2021 at 8:39 p.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Islamist sect Boko Haram and Nigerian security forces might well have committed crimes against humanity during three years of conflict that has killed at least 2,800 people,...

Special Report: In Nigeria, a concrete get-rich scheme

August 23, 2021 at 6:55 p.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Aliko Dangote has always liked making things to sell. As a child he boiled up sugar to make sweets he sold around town; these days he cooks...

Special Report: In Nigeria, a concrete get-rich scheme

August 22, 2019 at 10:41 a.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Aliko Dangote has always liked making things to sell. As a child he boiled up sugar to make sweets he sold around town; these days he cooks...

Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers

August 22, 2019 at 10:26 a.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy said it had freed 28 local oil workers who were being held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The hostages were...

Fuel shortages in Nigeria as union attacks subsidy halt

August 23, 2021 at 5:43 p.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's capital city Abuja suffered severe fuel shortages on Wednesday, as a trade union halted deliveries and threatened to cut supplies to the rest of the country...

Fuel shortages in Nigeria as union attacks subsidy halt

August 22, 2019 at 10:21 a.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's capital city Abuja suffered severe fuel shortages on Wednesday, as a trade union halted deliveries and threatened to cut supplies to the rest of the country...

Insight: A year on, Nigeria’s oil still poisons Ogoniland

August 23, 2021 at 4:49 p.m.

OGONILAND, Nigeria (Reuters) - A bright yellow sign above the well in this sleepy Nigerian village says 'caution: not fit for use', and the sulphurous stink off the water that...

Insight: A year on, Nigeria’s oil still poisons Ogoniland

December 24, 2018 at 5:35 p.m.

OGONILAND, Nigeria (Reuters) - A bright yellow sign above the well in this sleepy Nigerian village says 'caution: not fit for use', and the sulphurous stink off the water that...

Analysis: Nigeria, a rugged road to high returns

August 23, 2021 at 3:10 p.m.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Bomb blasts, gun attacks, airline crashes, kidnappings, industrial-scale oil theft, armed robberies and fraud costing billions of dollars. Such things might give pause to anyone thinking of...

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