While the UK prime minister’s visit highlighted the ongoing ties between the UK and Nigeria, very few people are aware of the conflict in the north-east of the country Mamadou […]
Source: BBC News A 94-year-old traditional priest has been arrested in Nigeria after cursing the alleged perpetrators of a recent spate of violence. Anazo Ilomuanya was hired by a group […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria now faces a deadlier threat than its own Boko Haram insurgency, with fighting between farmers and herdsmen over scare […]
Source: Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian officials say that seven people have been killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Konduga town in the country’s north. […]
Source: The Guardian BY Rebecca Ratcliffe Sister Kate is one of a team promoting testing and treatment that could save millions of lives Sister Kate Costigan takes to the road to […]
Source: Reuters BY Joshua Inuwa JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – More than 200 people were killed over the weekend in violence in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the state governor said, making […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores are dead after vicious weekend clashes in central Nigeria between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers, with one report […]
Source: Al Jazeera News Eighty-six people have been killed in an attack by herdsmen on six villages in central Nigeria, local media reported. Another six people were wounded and 50 homes […]
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 […]