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Israel-Nigeria relations

Igbo Jewish leader Lizben Agha (courtesy)
August 9, 2021, 5:00 pm
Nigeria releases local Jewish leader who was arrested with Israeli filmmakers
Igbo community’s Lizben Agha, held for a month without charges, is freed almost two weeks after Israeli trio sent home
By Lazar Berman
Three Israeli filmmakers held in Nigeria for 20 days pictured after their release, on their flight from Abuja to Istanbul before boarding a plane for Israel, July 28, 2021 (courtesy)
August 2, 2021, 3:59 pm
‘We didn’t know if they’d execute us’: Full saga of Israeli trio held in Nigeria
How 3 Israeli filmmakers who came to document Igbo Jews found themselves locked in a dark cage with terrorists in a Nigerian prison
By Lazar Berman
Three Israeli filmmakers held in Nigeria for 20 days prepare to board a flight from Abuja to Istanbul on their way home, July 28, 2021. From L-R, Andrew Leibman, Rudy Rochman, Deputy Ambassador Yotam Kreiman, David Benaim (Israel Embassy in Nigeria)
July 29, 2021, 12:21 pm
Israeli filmmakers arrive home after 20 days in Nigerian prison
Lapid thanks his staff, Nigerian authorities for working to free trio suspected of contact with Biafran separatists, says Israel worked with French, US embassies to secure release
By Lazar Berman
(L-R) Deputy French Ambassador to Nigeria Olivier Chatelais, David Benaym, Andrew Leibman, Acting Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Yotam Kreinman, US Embassy in Nigeria FBI Legal Attaché Ahmadi Uche, Deputy US Ambassador to Nigeria Kathleen FitzGibbon, Abuja Chabad Rabbi Mendy Sternbach; US citizens services representative in Nigeria, Rudy Rochman and Gabbi Kreinman pose for a photo at Chabad Lubavitch in Abuja, Nigeria on 28 July, 2021, after Leibman, Rochman and Benaym were released from detention. (Courtesy)
July 29, 2021, 12:03 am
Israeli filmmakers leave Nigeria after nearly 3 weeks in prison
Trio en route to Israel via Turkey and expected to land Thursday morning after being held for suspected contacts with separatists
By Lazar Berman
Zionist activist Rudy Rochman pitches his project, 'We Were Never Lost.' (Screenshot)
July 16, 2021, 6:46 pm
Israeli filmmakers to spend second Shabbat in Nigerian jail
Still without legal representation and not charged with any crime, trio receiving support from Chabad, embassies
By Lazar Berman
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, wears a Jewish prayer shawl as he leave his house in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, to meet veterans of the Nigerian civil war, on May 26, 2017. (Marco Longari/AFP)
June 29, 2021, 8:17 pm
Nigeria announces arrest of separatist leader who fled to Israel, UK
Nigerian AG says Nnamdi Kanu, head of the Indigenous People of Biafra movement, was ‘brought back’ to the country from unknown location
By AFP
In this Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 file photo, Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu attends a court hearing at the Federal High court in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/ File)
October 22, 2018, 6:03 am
Nigerian separatist leader admits he’s in Israel, says owes life to Jewish state
Pro-Biafran chief Nnamdi Kanu, who faces treason charges, gives credit to Mossad, but does not detail assistance; vows to return home and ‘bring hell with me’
By AFP
An aerial view of the Israel Shipyards facility in the Port of Haifa, June 2013. (CC-BY-SA-3.0 Meronim/Wikipedia)
March 18, 2018, 12:09 pm
Shipbuilder suspected of bribing Nigeria for multi-million dollar deal
Police arrest 3 senior figures in Israel Shipyards on suspicion of paying off official to win international tender to sell warships
By Michael Bachner
Osita Ebiem
December 27, 2017, 3:54 pm
Osita Ebiem
The Igbo of Nigeria stand with Israel
Yes, a whopping majority of UN member states voted against the US Embassy move, but that doesn’t make them right
Israel's ambassador to Nigeria Guy Feldman (L) addresses the media at the Executive Secretary Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission Rev. Tor Ujah May 14, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)
May 17, 2017, 1:41 pm
Israeli envoy cancels bash, funds Nigeria refugee kids soccer
In lieu of embassy’s Independence Day reception, Guy Feldman sets up league for 225 children who escaped Boko Haram jihadists
By JTA
Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. (YouTube/nhcwindhoek)
From the WebOctober 18, 2015, 1:43 am
Nigeria, Israel strengthen non-oil ties
The Nation: An African economy with an emphasis on a single export hopes to diversify
IIllustrative photo of Nigerian army soldiers on patrol on March 5, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/SUNDAY AGHAEZE)
March 8, 2015, 6:22 pm
Israeli kidnapped in Nigeria ransomed by employer
Man in his 70s who was held for 5 days says he was mostly treated well by armed gang and only beaten twice
By Avi Lewis
Illustrative photo of a Cobra AH-1 attack helicopter (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)
January 26, 2015, 11:01 pm
US said to block Israeli arms deal with Nigeria
Washington cites human rights abuses and widespread corruption in nixing helicopter sale, report says
By Tamar Pileggi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
December 31, 2014, 11:54 am
PM thanks African leaders for thwarting Palestinian UN bid
Netanyahu calls Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan; Liberman says vote shows ‘provocation will not achieve anything’
By ToI Staff and AP
Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks after the UN Security Council approved an anti-settlements resolution, December 23, 2016 (Frank Franklin II/AP)
December 31, 2014, 4:37 am
A stinging defeat for Abbas, but no great victory for Israel
Netanyahu persuaded Nigeria to abstain as UN Security Council rejected Palestinian statehood, but could only muster US and Australian opposition, and the French let Israel down
By Raphael Ahren
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