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Cookathons, speechathons and skipathons: the rapid rise of obscure world record attempts in west Africa

Guinness World Record attempts have risen sharply in the last year and a half – but controversy has followed In…

Eromo Egbejule Eromo Egbejule

‘People were going crazy’ – how the Super Eagles took the world by storm

A new documentary looks at what Nigeria’s success in the 1990s meant to its people, including the daughter of the…

Ed Aarons Ed Aarons

A mother’s mission to stop jaundice causing cerebral palsy in Nigeria

Although Babatunde Fashola, affectionately known as Baba, is 22 years old, he is less than 70cm (2ft 4in) tall. He…

Nkechi Ogbonna Nkechi Ogbonna