0ver it —— nigeria. how many languages do we have? over 300. and it —— nigeria.'m it —— nigeria. how many languages do we have? over 300. and i'm not talking about dialects, i'm talking about languages. and you want to make a country out of that, you've got to settle on a means of communication which is common to everyone. i have advocated, by the way, africa having a common language. at the writers of the african peoples, we will work towards making swahili acceptable as the language... which is the language spoken mostly in east africa. you have brought up a stack —— east africa and a known writer says he is very troubled by the fact that he wrote in english and he says it is the intellectuals who are responsible for advancing their language. when an intellectual abandons it to write in another language, it leaves his language with one less mind. so he's made a real effort to write in his native... i want the people to read me. i want a lot of people to read me. i want a lot of people to read me. what is the language of coup d'etat, to for instance? when we wa

lending so much money to nigeria to build the biggest oil refinery on the globe. and. suspends classes across the country. protests. to business africa's richest man just found a way of getting even richer. is building the world's biggest oil refinery in nigeria and he's got the backing of the world bank itself itself as a champion of green energy it has been funneling twice as much money into fossil fuels in africa. over the past five years this project is just one example as funny reports. we receive rare access to these gigantic construction site. the man behind it. asked to meet a diverse fourteen point one billion us dollars on the construction site. reporting to various international contractors china is one of them the space below the screen offers prefer spite from the burning sun. it's easy to get lost temporary street this is one of the biggest. the world today and tomorrow this is supposed to be the location of the biggest horrified every endeavor but it's just a noble. goal to produce refined that nigeria one of the biggest exporters of crude does not have

the big bucks consultants say nigeria's music market is six weeks quote. and the president is going to stand up for africa women calls for the removal of obstacles for female entrepreneur. in physical and let's do business final east. comfort for investors efficient line in china today the slowdown in economic growth is not as bad as thought gross domestic product rose in the first quarter by six point four percent year on year and output surged last month. news that china's economy had risen six point four percent in the first quarter comes the welcome surprise weak global demand in a bruising trade war with the united states has weighed on the world's second largest economy for months beijing warns china isn't out of the woods yet. given slowing global growth and trade international uncertainty and domestic structural issues reform in development is an arduous task downward pressure remains. the uncertainties include the trade dispute with the u.s. it has dampened export growth and rattled market nerves investment is dropping their concerns about real es

but it's no longer business as usual in nigeria.are on trial, legislators who are on trial, former governors, who normally would step out of office but were grabbed by anticorruption agencies. so progress is being made. there is a change as far as corruption is concerned. a tick in the box for president buhari? yes, yes, no, on that issue, corruption as far as i'm concerned, it has got to pass. the younger, the new generation, has got to be made to understand that this country is theirs and they simply must wipe out the deficit of former leadership. take for instance boko haram. if action had been taken at the very beginning, and by the beginning i'm not talking about the reign ofjonathan — when the first governor decided to make his state a theocratic state, that is when action should have been taken. the president at the time compromised because he was ambitious and he needed the support of that governor, and so one state after the other, and when you start operating a theocracy, a movement will get up and say, you are not holy en

millions of farmers in nigeria his life has always been circling around this tomato harvesting. week. i was a boy the twenty five year old makes about. a month roughly twenty dollars not enough to afford children he says not even enough to buy a fridge but. we need. to store the two made to. lose in the to make business because of the. story he's one of. one hundred fifty dollars too much for small formers. nationwide nigeria loses about forty percent of its to make to production and there's competition with cheap products from the supermarket shelves full of tomato ketchup and tomato paste so this tomato ketchup from the netherlands. is from egypt. in this supermarket. in the same situation with the tomato cans here as it is from the united kingdom. this one for example is from italy. nigeria the second biggest a major producer in africa is highly dependent on tomato imports to meet demand at the local market in ca do not it's full of domestic tomatoes but cannot be kept fresh these baskets right here of course used to store tomatoes but at the bottom this is where they get cru

skeptical he sees nigeria as future beyond i think. of them because the oil is you know we're no longer sustainable going forward. and i just as i've been developing every day at the recent climate summit in kenya the role bank underlined its commitment to end support for oil and gas furthermore there was key emphasis on africa's capacity to go green how come germany who is not so much. enjoying. seven percent of their install electricity capacity to come from solar and in africa this capacity to be one point five percent. according to an international research project which t w was part of the world bank has invested in a number of fossil fuel projects in africa these include financial intermediary investment and a one hundred fifty million us dollar loan to then go to three finery project by roald banks i.f.c. to world bank says this loan was quote designed to help nigeria increase the value addition of its natural resources sector specifically to fertilizers. to roll bank should have instead used its investments to empower nigeria t

a call to modernize nigeria is sub-saharan africa's biggest tomato producer but so much of the produce goes to waste instead of the country imports county made those farmers say the system needs to change. also on the show albanian kasha growers discovered. new and lucrative use for that leftover shells that usually go to waste. and adding vaults to vintage cars one british startup finds a way of keeping prosecutes on a roll. on thanks for joining us nigeria's climate is just perfect for growing tomatoes but house of it goes to waste even before getting to market producers claim poor infrastructure and corruption and consumers turn to imported canned tomatoes instead our reporter a family fish are met a young farmer who's trying to beat the system. one of millions of farmers in nigeria his life has always been circling around this tomato harvesting do not. come here so when there's a new week why i mean it's my passion so yes i was a boy the twenty five year old makes about kind of pounds in a month roughly twenty dollars not enough to afford children he says not even enough to buy a f

to change to have a turnaround in spite of the facts of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time says. for him the green are the better but sourcing quality materials to work with can be a challenge. so it's very it's even a problem that the industry is freeze and now to getting that much out of those who do have their own patents in the shops. while filmmakers around the world increasingly trying to animated characters nollywood still thrives on the hand crafted magic of. using low tech special effect to create zombies like this. that's it some good news i forgot you go catch our news on our websites and facebook page leaving now with some of the best well press photo award shops in africa i saw. the for. decades it was an industrial powerhouse with the famous football team intrusive. but the heyday of cold steel and heavy industry is long gone i want to find out how all of this stuart months past and present shapes the city to this day. explores the cit

to change to have with turn around in spite of the feds of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time. for him the green are the better but sourcing quality materials to work with can be a challenge. so it's really it's even a problem that the industry is freeze and now to get in the multitude of those who don't have their own pants in the shops. while filmmakers around the world increasingly turn to animated characters nollywood still thrives on the hand crafted magic of artists like using low tech special effect to create zombies like this. that's it from v.w. news africa you go catch our news on our website and facebook page leave you now with some of the best well press photo awards shops in africa i found out. i. think is everything the first time i make a muslim. song much different culture between here and there so a challenge in court if. traditionalists think it was worth it for me to come to germany. got my license to work as a swimming instructor an

and nigeria hello everybody and hi-z. i'm now it's a me here in lagos we are really in a element today we had to guinea and we visited a school garden in uganda but that's not all. how to go fishing in the area. how shepherds in germany are contributing to biodiversity and how a man in nigeria is the decanting it's nice to address conservation. in ingle fishing is coming west africa's coastal waters there are a number of reasons for that either there are no regulations all fishel is turn a blind eye in some places gigantic to all us on europe and china depleting the fish stocks one country in the region is taking steps to control illegal fishing and its waters namely live baby we have company the activists on the nile in conservation and geo sea shepherd on patrol. this is robots part comes to town in the area nearly everyone here. leaves from fishing but in the past few decades larger trailers have decimated fish stocks. local fishermen were getting desperate and to the national coast guard started patrolling together wi

to change to have a turnaround in spite of the feds of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time he says. for him the glory are the better but sourcing quality materials to work with can be a challenge. so it's very it's it's even a problem that the industry is freeze and now to get in that material because we don't have there are parts of the shops. while filmmakers around the world increasingly trying to animated characters nollywood still thrives on the hand crafted magic of artists like using low tech special effect to create zombies like this. that's it from africa you can catch our news on our website and facebook page levy now with some of the best. shops in africa. how about taking a few grand success you could even take a chance on. don't expect a happy ending. last june. what's the connection between bread flour and the european union you know your bottom dollar bill be your correspondent baker you can stretch this if you live with the rules set

to change to have a turnaround in spite of the feds of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time he says. ahem the green are the better but sourcing quality materials to work with can be a challenge. so it's really it's even a problem that the industry is treason now to getting that material because you don't have their own pants in the shops. while filmmakers around the world increasingly trying to animated characters nollywood still thrives on the hand crafted magic of artists like using low tech special effects to create zombies like this. that's it from news africa you can catch our news on our web site some things change leave you now with some of the best well press photo awards shops in africa. the for. your supply chain reaction grocery. began around six hundred years ago in the midst of the revolution in far less minutes people became aware of their abilities and strengths in a new way there was an outpouring of self-confidence mentioned before.

comes to refined oil too but not everyone's a fan akpan ekpo says oil can't be nigeria's future. and i do because the oil is here we're. still able to move forward. and i guess office i've been developing. at the recent climate summit in kenya the world bank emphasized its commitment to ceasing support for oil and gas and urged africa to shift to sustainable alternatives how come germany who is not so much. enjoying so shy could pay a seven percent of their installed electricity capacity to come from solo and in the africa this capacity to be one point five percent how come however according to an international research project which d.w. was part of the world bank has invested in several fossil fuel projects in africa including financial intermediary investment and a one hundred fifty million u.s. dollars loan to denko taste refinery project by the world bank's i.f.c. the world bank says this loan was designed to help nigeria increase the value addition of its natural resources sector specifically through fertilizes akpan says instead the world bank should have invested in a sta

and you can see them in gray now nigeria as you know is africa's largest economy. all right let's introduce our guests now from nairobi we have. two c.e.o. of rich management and in emerging markets economists from our bureau in the ivory coast we have stephen a co-founder of commodity monitor and from london we have a lucia go and founder and managing partner of obscenities in a finance firm focusing on east west and central africa thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you then in london first of all tell us why do you think nigeria africa's largest economy is not taking part in this free trade deal thanks martin i think that it's wise for the government of running government consider this carefully i think major choosing not to participate immediately is presented as is quite wise but it's been five years in the making aleutian and it was only in twenty eighteen i believe that the president will hurry decided not to take part and he just didn't turn up for the meeting in kigali. i think this is something you said when you were interested

know that nigeria for instance is not. the same it. was no but kenya was also a good example of that said they implemented so they are some notes but now we have to also gets to specific a specific italy to see why for instance nigeria is not yet. clear is because so little bill dealing. who is double dealing with the europe because there should be that and that is what is largely creating mistrust if you are going to do with. africa as an entity but i have a key happened to accept an african agenda on an african free trade area and also to adapt our plans our regional agreements to do what you planned because i think it's we have profited as europeans amongst hours trading amongst ourselves that this has made us strong and wealthy and i would wish that this african agenda to have a free trade area into africa that that is being supported from our side and one more thing or it by if they want know if they if africa wants to protect itself from us they could already prior to having their own integration they could erase set up a pan afr

oil said that nigeria biggest export is of crude. refined oil anymore. beyond oil. be. recent climate summit in kenya the well. being support for oil and emphasized africa's. in. how could they earn money who is not. much. enjoying sunshine. seven percent of their installed electricity pickup possibly to come from solar and in the africa this capacity to be one point five percent how come. however according to an international research project which d.w. was part of the world bank has invested in a number of fossil fuel projects in africa these include financial intermediary investment and a one hundred fifty million us dollar loan to tango taste refinery project by the world bank's i.f.c. the world bank says this loan was designed to help nigeria increase the value addition of its natural resources sector. but instead the world bank should have used its nigeria with. the supply. of enclave. that we. live. everywhere in nigeria not just at the oil refinery. but his man proudly sells denko tastes. from into much. sometimes. i'm. going. to. dance about the project that. b

to change to have a turn around in spite of the foods of job in nigeria. with or without the hand of god nigerian film is booming talent techniques and production standards are improving all the time says. ahem the green are the better but sourcing quality materials to work with can be a challenge. so it's very it's even a problem that the industry is freeze and now to getting that material because we don't want there are parts of the shops. while filmmakers around the world increasingly turn to animated characters nollywood still thrives on the hand crafted magic of artists like using low tech special effect to create zombies like this. about that from v.w. news africa you go catch our news on our website and facebook page leave you now with some of the best weld press for two awards shops in africa i set out. on offense may have thick skins but they're still wary of the. super pac a dumpster void places wendy's and buzzing around. that gave environmentalist in south africa's clue the national comic and ikea. museum behind to protect endangered tree speci

no i don't think so nigeria needs a concentrated effort. it has to be collaborative effort between each year commitment chat at least and that year and all of these other countries needs help . most of them but at the hawke back to conventional days there are all the best of the structures the way they teach these soldiers and train them is a come in a conventional manner unfortunately they are facing a counter-insurgency or an insurgency in the me and they need to adopt a counterinsurgency strategy and tactics and equipment and formations they need help with that they need to be assistance in order to restructure the material the manpower on the ground fantastic they brave the stronger physically capable they nationalistic they are out of their countries they will find that they need to be helped how to find and they need to be equipped critic the untrained cricketing. iraqi that back in sierra leone excited about comes so successful because it was able to get help from local militias who knew the areas and the people in the side against a

and you can see them in gray now nigeria as you know is africa's largest economy. all right let's introduce our guests now from nairobi we have. two c.e.o. of rich management and in emerging markets economists from our bureau in the ivory coast we have stephen a co-founder of commodity monitor and from london we have a lucia go and founder and managing partner of obscenities in a finance firm focusing on east west and central africa thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you then in london first of all tell us why do you think nigeria africa's largest economy is not taking part in this free trade deal thanks martin i think that it's wise for the government of friendly government consider this carefully i think major choosing not to participate immediately is presented as is quite wise but it's been five years in the making aleutian and it was only in twenty eighteen i believe that the president will hurry decided not to take part of he just didn't turn up for the meeting in kigali. i think this is something you said when you were interested

and jenny should be commended and it's vital when we look at nigeria nigeria has been attempting to prosecute member the book her on and that terrorism not been convicted over one hundred about one hundred twenty. one members but none of these people have been charged with the crime of sexual violence despite the fact that it's well known that sexual violence is a key strategy of their military strategy of their militant their militia strategy right so the resolution by germany is stating that state we recognize that you national governments are failing to take full responsibility training the culture of impunity and that sexual violence must be elevated to the level of the security council at the highest political level in order to be enforced and monitored ok doctor to say. author and specialist on gender based violence a stanford university thank you thank you for five years of civil war in south sudan has left possibly tens of thousands of people without limbs some directly as a result of armed conflict of this have lost on the lake simply through lack of medical treatment for other condi

expressway which links the nigeria's capital to other parts of the northwest nigeria exports feel that that he's a void that is being filled by gunmen in the western nigeria taking full advantage of lots of government presence or little of government presence in that region so it's it's a very very tough situation for the nigerian government i didn't government says they want to give this order so that they can clear areas that be targeted by these bandits as they call them as well as stop mining activities to reorganize or restructure the process as well as deal with rising cases of criminality in northwest nigeria in particular as interested which is seen more than one hundred people dead in the last two or three weeks britain's prime minister is due to visit berlin and paris for yet more talks on breck's it that's before especially europe and summit on wednesday to resume an opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn tense agree on a compromise divorce still from the e.u. jonah hill has the latest update from west minister during a crystal. we enter. the latest crucial week not the first

six schoolgirls in chibok in northeastern nigeria the kidnapping received global condemnation. michelle obama joined the solidarity campaign to demand the release. of promised to sell them into slavery and what i do not to declare want to how to how. little or not elaborate do you go on and on since the start of the insurgency the violence has resulted in more than twenty three thousand dead and over two million people displaced. to understand how the armed group has become so dangerous it is necessary to return to northeastern nigeria to the capital of the state of borno might a goody the birthplace of boko haram. ah.

africa will be getting into the next fifteen minutes five years after they can nothing of the girls in nigeria one father on how his joy. has turned to. in was a long queues for doctors and medicine more than a month off the cycle you die it's the country you take you to where there's a cry for peace and medical need. to go behind the scenes of not to meet the make up just bringing zombies to life. thanks for joining us five years ago extremists stormed the school in northeastern nigeria and i more than two hundred ago half of the girls are still missing many of

and you can see them in gray now nigeria as you know is africa's largest economy. all right let's introduce our guests now from nairobi we have. two c.e.o. of rich management and emerging markets economists from our bureau in the ivory coast we have stephen a co-founder of commodity monitor and from london we have a lucia go and founder and managing partner of obscenities in a finance firm focusing on east west and central africa thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you then in london first of all tell us why do you think nigeria africa's largest economy is not taking part in this free trade deal thanks martin i think that it's wise for the government of friendly governments consider this carefully i think major choosing not to participate immediately is presented as is quite wise but it's been five years in the making aleutian and it was only in twenty eighteen i believe that the president will hurry decided not to take part of he just didn't turn up for the meeting in kigali. i think this is something you said when you were interested in

expressway which links the nigeria's capital to other parts of the northwest nigeria the few experts feel that there is a void that is being filled by government and local western nigeria taking full advantage of like a government presence or little of government presence in that region so it is a very very tough situation for the nigerian government i didn't government says they want to give this order so that they can clear areas that are being targeted by these bandits as they call them as well as stop mining activities to reorganize or restructure the process as well as deal with rising cases of criminality in northwest nigeria in particular is interesting which is seen more than one hundred people dead in the last two or three weeks i still photos are attacking the taliban in eastern afghanistan the fighting in can our provinces forced many civilians to skimp on food it's like foods water and clothing and in jalalabad the capital of neighboring province and islip feeling it's claimed the sponsibility for a roadside bomb explosion that blast kills at least three people and injure

a family of well know well university in the family in the southwest of nigeria. area share on the university campus is an open and airy. tailored to the hot climate and they are ruber culture when he taken to university became the symbol of the fledgling democracy rethink new discoveries is very important for nigeria for the jews because it was. initiated exactly maybe sixty the movement of independence of nigeria from the british. rule. so basically for them it's the first action in the jury and university and it stands for a protest against the architecture back then modernism was progressive and today three f. rat aims to find out in his film moving away. if there. was. to. be a. remember see it sophie screwed to do this it is there are far worse than far more people are interested to be talked to these are prompts. these lurkers sir cried spritz around two hundred kilometers to the south is lagos. nigeria as largest city is constantly changing. like the representatives of contemporary bauhaus. asks how do we want to live now and in the future she thinks of th

expressway which links the nigeria's capital to other parts of the northwest nigeria the few experts feel that there is a void that is being filled by government and local western nigeria taking full advantage of lots of government presence or little of government presence in that region so it is a very very tough situation for the nigerian government i did and government says they want to give this order so that they can clear areas that are being targeted by these bandits as they call them as well as stop mining activities to reorganize or restructure the process as well as deal with the rising cases of criminality in northwest niger in particular as interested which is seen more than one hundred people dead in the last two or three weeks. the u.s. secretary of homeland security kissin nielsen is donald trump made the announcement over twitter and all the official line is that nielsen resigns trumps made no secrets about his anger at high things have been going on the border with mexico that's equal him as the reports. it's fair to say that cures didn't ailsa and will go down in hi

nigeria has suspended mining in one of its northern states in order to ole foreigners engage in mining activities to leave the move comes after a surge in crime in zamfara state the military police and state security forces have been deployed in recent weeks to tackle criminal gangs behind a spate of killings and kidnappings armitage aris has more from a butcher. the nigerian government says there is a nexus or some form of connection between mining activities in central state and the rising spate of killings and attacks in that state and other parts of northwest nigeria but communities say these attacks have been going on long before. the presence of miners in the mining areas of some sort of state for example they give example of the speed of kidnappings in that state as well as the austin one thousand destruction of property ends up arrested and other parts of northern north western nigeria as well as the kidnappings of the become so rampant on the one hundred sixty kilometers to could not express with which links the nigeria's capital to other parts of the northwest nigeria the few

to nigeria and l. the country is africa's biggest economy and the continent's largest oil producer bob that wealth hasn't trickled down for more than half the population living in extreme poverty the president promised to diversify the economy and his recent election campaign barters how do we toss our reports from state nigeria is even struggling to grow its own food. first is cleaned the machine also peels off the skin removing any soil live from the plant. in its ground into a sticky pulp the water is squeezed out after a few more processes but becomes a flower a staple food for nigerians the government's trying to increase food production for local consumption as well as to sell a broad it says agriculture could help reduce nigeria's dependence on crude oil. exports imports. export to. nigeria is the largest producer of casaba in the world to encourage more farmers to grow the crop commercially the government says it will improve access to finance and will try to attract more private investment in