Nigeria is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, with skyrocketing inflation, a national currency in free-fall and millions of people struggling to buy food.
Only two years ago Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria is projected to drop to fourth place this year.
Hospitals are overrun with women wracked by spasms from calcium deficiencies.
A nation of entrepreneurs, Nigeria’s more than 200 million citizens are skilled at managing in tough circumstances, without the services states usually provide.
They take up arms and defend their communities when the armed forces cannot.
Organizations:
Unions
Locations:
Nigeria, stampedes