Some 168 people are still missing in Nigeria after a deadly attack on a busy train last week, the state rail company said. It is not clear how many of the 168 have been kidnapped for ransom — some may have gone home without telling the (...)
Armed with a sharp knife, a megaphone and dressed all in black, Gbenga Adewoyin could have passed for a medieval witch hunter, a herbal salesman or an urban preacher as he walked around a market in the south-western Nigerian city of Ibadan.
Those (...)
The Voluntary campaign to combat blindness and diseases causing it, launched by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), in Ibadan, Nigeria, has conducted 694 surgeries.
This comes within the framework of the KSrelief voluntary (...)
The voluntary medical team of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) arrived in Ibadan, Nigeria yesterday, as part of the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its diseases. The campaign will continue from 5-19 (...)
FOUR months after giving birth in Umuahia, the capital of Nigeria's southeastern Abia state, 23-year-old single mother Amarachi Amadi is still in hospital with her baby girl. While the mother and her daughter are in good health, they are not allowed (...)
At least 102 people are believed to have died in flooding in south-western Nigeria since the weekend, according to a BBC report quoting the Nigerian Red Cross on Thursday.
Heavy rainfall caused a reservoir in the city of Ibadan to overflow, washing (...)
Flash flooding across Nigeria's southwest killed at least 102 people in the last week, AP quoted the country's Red Cross as saying Wednesday.
Some 1,500 people remain displaced by the torrential downpours, officials said.
The major flood hit (...)
Fasting is one of the commandments of Almighty Allah on Muslims and it is not identified with the Muslim world alone but with other faiths as well.
Fasting, according to Muslim scholars, has literal and technical meanings. Fasting is defined as (...)
A member of Nigeria's parliament was killed in an apparent assassination, a top police officer said Saturday, according to dpa.
Parliamentarian Olusegun Oladimeji, 62, was shot dead at an eatery
in Ejioku in the Lagelu council area of Oyo State in (...)
Eight inmates of Agodi Prison in Ibadan, Oyo State,
southwest Nigeria, were killed and 18 injured including prison
officers Tuesday during an attempted jail break, the state's
Controller of Prisons, Maureen Omeli said, according to dpa.
Four (...)
At least 51 people have died and hundreds been hospitalized following a major outbreak of cholera in southwestern Nigeria, health officials said on Tuesday.
Five people died in the Owan East local government area of Edo state on Sunday and 46 (...)
