By Economic Confidential – June 19, 2018 Eye Screening and Surgery Free Eye Surgery for 150 Patients In continuation of her Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Source: CNN By Bukola Adebayo, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Twin bomb blasts at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 20 people and wounded scores more, local police told CNN. […]
Published 6 June 16, 2018 By ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan The Amir (president) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria, Dr Mashu’ud Aderenle Fashola, has warned that without the pursuit of justice, […]
on May 21, 2018 By SUNDAY OJEME With the level of poverty in the country spreading fast and becoming unbearable for a segment of Nigerians, the time has come to set religion aside and embrace Islamic insurance. SUNDAY OJEME writes Earlier in the year, precisely in February, another opportunity […]
Source: CNN By Chika Oduah for CNN Dapchi, Nigeria (CNN)Under normal circumstances, Leah Sharibu would have shared a special birthday meal with her family under the bamboo covering protecting them […]
A panel discussion on the theme “Developing the Youth: the Roadmap to a Brighter Future”, where the three panelists unanimously agreed that Nigeria youths can actually save this country from […]
Source: BBC News A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in central Nigeria is increasingly assuming a religious dimension, writes the BBC’s Mayeni Jones after visiting Benue state. Sebastian Nyamgba is a tall, wiry farmer with sharp cheekbones and piercing eyes. He guides me to a small bungalow adjacent […]
Source: The New York Times By EMMANUEL AKINWOTU and AURELIEN BREEDEN Suicide bombers attacked a market and a mosque on Tuesday in Mubi, Nigeria, killing at least 27 people. CreditEPA, via Shutterstock ABUJA, Nigeria […]
Source: Associated Press By IBRAHIM ABDUL’AZIZ YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A pair of explosions killed at least 28 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria and wounded at least 56 […]
Source: CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)At least 19 people were killed Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at a church in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, police said. Two priests and 17 worshippers were killed when armed men, believed to be cattle herders, stormed a Catholic church during early morning Mass on Tuesday in […]
Muhammadu Sanusi II, former top banker of Nigeria, to deliver keynote April 23, 2018 | By Mohamed Abdelfattah Muhammadu Sanusi II, current Emir of Kano and former governor of […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker | Photographs by Lynsey Addario for TIME After spending 15 months in captivity in a run-down brothel in the Italian city of Torino, Wealth finally saw her chance to escape. The 23-year-old Nigerian had scraped together nearly 50 euros in tips from a couple of regulars and […]
Source: Reuters BY Abraham Achirga, Afolabi Sotunde ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shi’ite Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader, Reuters witnesses said. The protesters are demanding the release of Ibrahim Zakzaky, […]
Source: The Guardian By Azimazi Mimoh Jimoh (Abuja), Seye Olumide and Chris Irekamba (Lagos) British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has called for same-sex marriage in Nigeria and all other countries within the Commonwealth. At the first joint forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Westminster yesterday, the prime minister […]
Source: The Guardian By Igho Akeregha, Oludare Richards, Tina Abeku (Abuja) and Abdulganiyu Alabi (Kaduna) It was violence yesterday as members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shiites, clashed with the police in Abuja. A senior member of the group, Abdullahi Mohammed Musa, informed The Guardian on […]
By Isa Sa’idu, Zaria | Publish Date: Apr 11 2018 The Ahmadiyya Nigeria Muslim Organisation has donated 1,175 pints of blood to patients in various Nigerian hospitals as part of its humanitarian […]
Source: The New York Times Kidnapped as Schoolgirls by Boko Haram: Here They Are Now The New York Times met and photographed dozens of the students abducted by Boko Haram. Now at a university, they say they are the lucky ones. But their celebrity has a price. By Dionne Searcey […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Drew Hinshaw,Joe Parkinson and Gbenga Akingbule DAPCHI, Nigeria—Nigeria said it is holding peace talks with a local Islamic State faction, in a test of whether a secular […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA and BASHIR ADIGUN LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram captivity after the extremists released 104 […]
Source: BBC News Nearly all of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants in the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the government says. Officials said at least […]
