https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AT_fdb7G6tg/mustapha-adamu RSS for Node Thu, 14 May 2026 06:18:56 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-17/death-toll-in-fiery-nigerian-tanker-explosion-mounts-to-153 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-17/death-toll-in-fiery-nigerian-tanker-explosion-mounts-to-153 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:06:59 GMT The remains of a fuel tanker in Majiya, Nigeria, on Oct. 16. Photographer: Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-16/nigeria-tanker-explosion-kills-at-least-90-people-pt-reports https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-16/nigeria-tanker-explosion-kills-at-least-90-people-pt-reports Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:03:00 GMT Residents look at the site of an explosion of a fuel tanker in Majiya, Nigeria on Oct. 16. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-30/nigeria-s-adamawa-state-declares-curfew-after-warehouse-attack https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-30/nigeria-s-adamawa-state-declares-curfew-after-warehouse-attack Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:21:48 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/chaos-ensues-as-nigerians-wait-hours-at-atms-to-withdraw-43-of-cash https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/chaos-ensues-as-nigerians-wait-hours-at-atms-to-withdraw-43-of-cash Sat, 04 Feb 2023 05:00:00 GMT Customer queue outside an ATM in Lagos on Feb 2. Photographer: Anthony Osae-Brown/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-15/bumper-times-for-gold-grain-traders-as-nigeria-redesigns-naira-ngn https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-15/bumper-times-for-gold-grain-traders-as-nigeria-redesigns-naira-ngn Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:00:00 GMT Traders at Dawanau international grains market, Kano’s biggest market of the commodities. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/currency-redesign-deadline-sparks-rush-to-buy-dollars-in-nigeria https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/currency-redesign-deadline-sparks-rush-to-buy-dollars-in-nigeria Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:59:49 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-01/northern-nigerian-states-limit-residents-movements-over-attacks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-01/northern-nigerian-states-limit-residents-movements-over-attacks Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:16:38 GMT A trader display farm produce at Wuse Market, Abuja, Nigeria, on August 17, 2021. - Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria's farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to supply problems and adding to the already high cost of food in Africa's most populous country. Nigeria's Middle Belt and northwestern states have for years been caught in violence between normadic herdsman and farmers as climate change intensifies rivalries over water and land. But that violence has spiralled into security crisis tit-for-tat attacks and expanded into widespread kidnapping, cattle theft and criminal banditary. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-09/tycoon-dangote-can-t-get-enough-tomatoes-to-run-plant-profitably https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-09/tycoon-dangote-can-t-get-enough-tomatoes-to-run-plant-profitably Fri, 09 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT Vendors sell fresh tomatoes on a stall at Orange Market in Mararaba, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. By the end of the year, as many as 12,000 people globally could die a day from hunger linked to Covid-19, potentially more than those perishing from the virus itself, charity Oxfam International estimates. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/nigeria-to-use-greater-military-force-to-tackle-insecurity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/nigeria-to-use-greater-military-force-to-tackle-insecurity Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:01:38 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/nigerian-police-confirm-release-of-abducted-school-girls https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/nigerian-police-confirm-release-of-abducted-school-girls Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:05:09 GMT Desks and chairs are seen at the Government Girls Secondary School where more than 300 girls were abducted by gunmen on Friday, in Jangebe town, Zamfara state, northern Nigeria, Monday, March 1, 2021. Families in Nigeria waited anxiously on Monday for news of their abducted daughters, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of school students in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/nigeria-says-344-students-kidnapped-last-week-have-been-released https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/nigeria-says-344-students-kidnapped-last-week-have-been-released Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:07:19 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/nigeria-state-says-16-kidnapped-boys-rescued-by-security-agents https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/nigeria-state-says-16-kidnapped-boys-rescued-by-security-agents Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:53:10 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-14/nigerian-state-says-337-students-missing-after-gunmen-attack https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-14/nigerian-state-says-337-students-missing-after-gunmen-attack Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:57:21 GMT People gather inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Saturday Dec. 12, 2020. Nigerian police say that hundreds of students are missing after gunmen attacked the secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state. Katsina State police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement that the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot with AK-47 rifles. (AP Photo/Abdullatif Yusuf) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-05/rising-attacks-on-nigerian-farmers-hit-nation-s-food-reserves https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-05/rising-attacks-on-nigerian-farmers-hit-nation-s-food-reserves Sat, 05 Dec 2020 06:00:00 GMT TOPSHOT - Mourners attend the funeral of 43 farm workers in Zabarmari, about 20km from Maiduguri, Nigeria, on November 29, 2020 after they were killed by Boko Haram fighters in rice fields near the village of Koshobe on November 28, 2020. - The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe. The victims were labourers from Sokoto state in northwest Nigeria, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, who had travelled to the northeast to find work. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) (Photo by AUDU MARTE/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-15/a-nigerian-farmer-s-murder-shows-food-security-at-tipping-point https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-15/a-nigerian-farmer-s-murder-shows-food-security-at-tipping-point Tue, 15 Sep 2020 04:00:54 GMT Hausa-Fulani pastoralists on the move while grazing cattle on the outskirts of Sokoto, Nigeria, in 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/mystery-deaths-thrust-kano-into-epicenter-of-nigeria-virus-fight https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/mystery-deaths-thrust-kano-into-epicenter-of-nigeria-virus-fight Tue, 05 May 2020 10:05:11 GMT Beds at a Covid-19 coronavirus isolation center being built with donations from Dangote at the Sani Abacha stadium in Kano, on April 7. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-15/nigeria-s-biggest-tomato-plant-idle-again-as-farmers-dump-crop https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-15/nigeria-s-biggest-tomato-plant-idle-again-as-farmers-dump-crop Sun, 15 Sep 2019 07:19:24 GMT Harvested tomatoes sit stacked at a tomato farm in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in Japan, on Dec. 16, 2018. Japan, the country that brought robots to car factories, looks set to stay resolutely old school in agriculture as it seeks to attract more foreign workers to replenish an aging workforce. Photographer: Takaaki Iwabu/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/dangote-s-nigeria-tomato-plant-resumes-after-years-idling https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/dangote-s-nigeria-tomato-plant-resumes-after-years-idling Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:21:11 GMT Aliko Dangote Photographer: JWei Leng Tay/Bloomberg