Politics Nigeria in the Eyes of the World - ThisDay

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Nigeria has lately attracted unsavoury global attention, in spite of the assistance the world powers are willing to render in the fight against terror. Shola Oyeyipo writes

In time past, Nigeria despite its limitations enjoyed some passable coverage in the global media. But that appears to have stopped.

Lately, the country has become one of the most featured in the global media giants like the Cable Network News (CNN), Aljazeera, China Cable Television (CCTV), Euro News, Sky News, virtually all African broadcasting channels and networks across the world. This is in the wake of the abduction of about 300 school girls from their school in Chibok, Borno State, North-east Nigeria, more so that their whereabouts is unknown.

Some analysts thought the repeated Boko Haram attacks shortly before the World Economic Forum (WEF) were some sort of scare tactics. But the global outrage that greeted the abduction came at about the same time that Nigeria hosted the World Economic Forum in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The forum itself was held amidst tight security.

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Source: #ThisDayLive

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