Nigerian refugees information

Nigerian refugees are persons originating from the country of Nigeria, but seeking refuge outside the borders of their native country. Nigeria has a refugee...

Nigerian refugees in Niger are people from Nigeria but taking refuge in Niger. This is predominantly as a result of the Boko haram insurgency in North-Eastern...

The Nigerian Armed Forces are the combined military forces of Nigeria. It consists of three uniformed service branches: the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy...

Region, Cameroon hosts 114,300 Nigerian refugees, with the population sharing their already scarce resources with the refugees. In comparison, in 2017, Cameroon...

government crackdown against the civilian press. In recent years, refugees from Nigeria fleeing violence from Boko Haram have settled in Diffa and surrounding...

Tanitoluwa Emmanuel "Tani" Adewumi (born September 3, 2010) is a Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of FIDE Master (FM). A chess...

fighters) in Nigeria to give bay'ah (fealty) to the Islamic State and wage war against the Nigerian murtaddin (apostates) fighting for the Nigerian taghut (idolatrous...

spying for Boko Haram as he investigated the living conditions of Nigerian refugees camped in the country's north. Ateba was based in Lagos and had travelled...

Nuzo Onoh (born 22 September 1962) is a Nigerian-British writer. She grew up the third of eight children of the late Chief Mrs Caroline Onoh, a former...

Marcus Omofuma (10 May 1973 – 1 May 1999) was a Nigerian asylum seeker in Austria who died due to police brutality while being deported. His death became...

British-Nigerian gay rights activist, public speaker, blog writer and HIV/LGBT advocate who gained international attention when he became the first Nigerian to...

Koulfoua is an island on Lake Chad in Chad. In summer 2015, thousands of Nigerian refugees settled on the island, fleeing Boko Haram. In December 2015, was attacked...

enslavement. Many Nigerians of Igbo origin were also brought into the U.S. in the late 1960s as war refugees during Nigerian Civil War. Some Nigerian ethnic groups...

British Nigerians (here meaning British people of Nigerian descent rather than Nigerians of British descent) have formed long-established communities in...

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The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra...

of Hearts, Bose Aggrey believes that the place will motivate stranded Nigerian abroad to return home. Our Reporter. "FG establishes IDP centre in Lagos"...

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history of Nigeria. Britain eventually gained control of the Nigerian administrators covering the period . After independence, the Nigerian economy seemed...

000 refugees a week were crossing the border into Diffa region; four out of five were women and girls. By October 2015 the number of Nigerian refugees in...

playing happily with a group of Nigerian children. The primary characters in The Other Hand are Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee, and Sarah, a middle-class Englishwoman...

held on lichess.org. In August 2020, 9-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee living in the US, defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura in a blitz game on Chess...

Semira Precious Adamu (15 April 1978 – 22 September 1998) was a 20-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker who was suffocated to death by two Belgian police officers...

estimated 46.18% of the Nigerian population; two-thirds of which are Protestant. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2011, Nigeria had the largest Christian...