Nigeria

Nigeria’s Customs Service seized 2,820 donkey skins worth US$116,000, which were to be smuggled out of the country –...

A subsidiary of the Swiss commodities giant Glencore admitted it paid millions of dollars in bribes to African officials to...

The police in southeast Nigeria rescued 35 girls aged 14 to 17 who were exploited for prostitution and ‘baby harvesting’ in...

The Nigerian Army destroyed 40 illegal refineries and arrested 21 people in a continued clampdown against oil theft in the...

After three months of calm that offered hope the problem may be receding, another incident of piracy has been reported in...

On Monday, Nigerian Police Force arrested five of its colleagues, including the country’s most decorated policeman, over...

After a sharp increase in 2020, new figures show that piracy in the Gulf of Guinea declined in 2021, particularly after the...

Alongside other forms of cybercrime, romance scams have been on the rise since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and have...

High demand for West Africa’s rosewood timber, specifically from Chinese markets, has spawned corruption across the region’s...

An international foundation dedicated to the fight against illicit wildlife trade said on Tuesday that it hopes the case of...

The U.S. and Nigeria signed an agreement last week to stem the flow of illegally trafficked cultural material out of the...

The scourge of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has led to costs upwards of US$1.9 billion a year for the nearly two dozen West...