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In this March 26, 2019, file photo, an airline passenger walk in the arrivals terminal at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. Newly documents filed in a federal lawsuit claim that U.S. government searches of phones and laptops at airports are on the rise and are being conducted for reasons beyond immigration and customs enforcement. There were 33,295 searches in fiscal 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Customs officials at Dulles airport seize marijuana from Nigeria-bound passenger

Listen to the Voiceless at Africa Leaders Summit Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Remember the voiceless at the Africa Leaders Summit

Nigeria’s push for a cashless society is taking another step as Africa’s most populous country will soon limit the amount of money citizens can withdraw each day. (File photo credit: vkilikov via Shutterstock)

Nigeria to cap ATM withdrawals at $45 a day in push for cashless society

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, from right, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., attend a World AIDS Day event hosted by the Business Council for International Understanding in Washington, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Nigeria skates on State Dept. rights blacklist for second consecutive year, critics charge

People move through a market in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. The world's population is projected to hit an estimated 8 billion people on Tuesday, Nov. 15, according to a United Nations projection. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

World population hits 8 billion, creating many challenges

FILE - People walk through floodwaters with flooded farmlands forground after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2022. West and Central African countries are battling deadly floods that have upended lives and livelihoods, raising fears of further disruption of food supplies in many areas battling armed conflict. “Above-average rainfall and devastating flooding” have affected 5 million people this year in 19 countries across West and Central Africa, according to a new U.N. World Food Program situation report. (AP Photo, file)

West Africa floods destroy crops, worsening hunger fears

A baggage claim area at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Suitcase hiding 10 pounds of weed, headed for Nigeria, seized at Dulles

A tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel "Fortuna", being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, in the port of Wismar, Germany, on Jan 14, 2021. European leaders are turning to Africa for more natural gas as the EU tries to replace Russian exports amid the war in Ukraine. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP, File)

Europe turns to Africa in bid to replace Russian natural gas

United States' Sofia Huerta (8) tries to control the ball against Nigeria's Rasheedat Ajibade (15) during the first half of an international friendly soccer match Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Lavelle’s goal gives U.S. women a victory over Nigeria

Copycat Impeachment hearings Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

America’s newest export: Impeachment proceedings

Mohammad Barkindo, secretary-general of OPEC, is shown during a panel discussion at CERAWeek by IHS Markit at Hilton Americas,1600 Lamar St., on March 7, 2017, in Houston. Barkindo died late Tuesday, a spokesperson for Nigeria's petroleum ministry told The Associated Press on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

OPEC secretary-general has died, Nigerian officials say

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured over 10 others. Khalid Zadran said Tuesday the blasts occurred in the mostly-Shiite Muslim area in the west of Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Nigeria’s Islamist militants, Iran’s leader, Afghanistan’s Taliban top persecutors of Christians

A view of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Nigeria, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Lawmakers in southwestern Nigeria say more than 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at a church. Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole with the Ondo State House of Assembly said the gunmen targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state on Sunday morning just as the worshippers gathered for the weekly Mass. (AP Photo/Rahaman A Yusuf)

Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials say

This 1997 image provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the right arm and torso of a patient, whose skin displayed a number of lesions due to what had been an active case of monkeypox. As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, in 2022, some doctors are acknowledging an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades. (CDC via AP, File)

Monkeypox outbreak needs a united response, says WHO Africa

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

First monkeypox death in Nigeria in 2022; 21 cases confirmed

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In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari waves to the crowd during the 58th anniversary celebrations of Nigerian independence, in Abuja, Nigeria. The United States and European Union are expressing concern after Nigeria's president suspended the country's chief justice on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, three weeks before the presidential election, with the U.S. warning it could "cast a pall" over the vote. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

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Nigeria’s effort to eliminate polio, said that in the past, he and colleagues balked at describing outbreaks as “vaccine-derived,” wary it would make people fearful of the vaccine.

Polio in U.S., U.K. and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine →

Nigeria will eventually win,” said Buhari, who was elected after vowing to end Nigeria’s prolonged security crisis.

Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials say →

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