Tag Archives: NIGERIA

Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced about 23,000 refugees to flee to Niger since April and raised concerns about the deteriorating security situation, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. The numbers fleeing to neighbouring Niger have almost tripled from last year when the agency reported the first influx …

Four suspected cultists with guns were apprehended on Sunday, May 10, by Ngwuru Neighbourhood Watch in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.   The chairman of the neighbourhood watch, Mr Ferdinand Onah said that the boys who are in their early 20s were apprehended at Ogbaegu, in Ngwuru following intelligence …

What would have been mere enforcement of wearing of face mask in Anambra State on Monday turned into a tragedy as 22-year-old Cletus Chisom was stabbed to death by Mr. Ibuchi Nwoju, a security man. According to a witness, the security guard was monitoring the use of face mask at …

The Special Adviser to Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa state on Adult and Higher Education, Ibrahim Isma’il, is dead. The news is coming weeks after the death of the special adviser on to the governor on Assembly matters Alhaji Yahaya Muhammad. Auwalu D. Sankara, Isma’il died on Friday after suffering …

Pandemonium broke out at one of the isolation centres located at Kwanar Dawaki, in Kano state, when some COVID-19 patients held health workers hostage for four hours. The former chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Kano branch, Professor Aminu Mohammed confirmed the aggrieved patients took two medical doctors and one nurse into captivity. …

A sex worker in the northern Nigerian has told the BBC how coronavirus has affected her livelihood. She lives in the main Muslim state of Kano, which is in the fourth week of a lockdown. No-one is allowed to leave their houses, except on Mondays and Thursdays between 10:00 and …

Nigeria will begin a “gradual easing” of coronavirus-related lockdowns in the federal capital territory of Abuja, and Lagos and Ogun states from 4 May. The lockdowns had been due to end on Monday night, but President Muhammadu Buhari said they needed to continue. He also ordered new nationwide measures against …

Confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria has now hit 1095 after 114 people tested positive in 24 hours.   According to the Nigeria Center of Disease Control (NCDC), 80 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 21 in Gombe, 5 in FCT, 2 in Zamfara, 2 in Edo, 1 in …

I am a Ghanaian and arguably a Nigerian also, I lived in several parts of Nigeria for over two decades and I have lived here in Ghana for almost same period – so I am writing from a combined experience of about 40 years. I know the difference between the …

Angry Nigerian youths have reportedly burnt down a police station and freed all prisoners after one of their colleagues was shot dead during lockdown. In the heartbreaking video, the youths can be seen vandalizing government properties and claiming that they have defeated the police together with the military. The news …