BAR Beach in Lagos was once a meeting place for the people of this sprawling megacity. Informal bars stretched along the narrow belt of sand, church groups came to pray, children played in the water and touts, prostitutes and others … read more
Six Nigerian pilgrims have been confirmed dead while four have been declared missing in the crane accident which took place in a Mosque in Kaabah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Friday. The deceased, it was learnt on Sunday, had been buried … read more
Four children and a teacher were killed when an Islamic primary school collapsed near the central Nigerian city of Jos, the country’s main relief agency said today. The tragedy happened last evening at the Abu Naima school in the Bukuru … read more
Buharimeter, a platform monitoring the implementation of the electoral promises of President Muhammadu Buhari, has reported that about 800 Nigerians were murdered by the extremist Boko Haram sect within the first 100 days of Buhari’s presidency, Premium Times reports. The … read more
The body of a 42-year-old construction-site manager from Kfar Saba, Israel, who was killed in a failed kidnapping attempt earlier this week in Nigeria was returned to Israel for burial today. Nir Rosmarin, a father of five, was a pillar … read more
Nigeria’s president on Friday ordered security to be tightened at camps for people displaced by the Boko Haram conflict after seven people were killed in a bomb blast. The explosion happened at the Malkohi camp near the Adamawa state capital … read more
Former Chairman of Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism, Senator Hassan Barata, is in detention in Saudi Arabia, The Nation says. Barata represented Adamawa South in the sixth Senate, having been elected in 2011 on the ticket of the Peoples … read more
A bomb blast hit a Nigerian internally displaced persons (IDP)camp on Friday morning on the outskirts of Adamawa state capital Yola in the northeast of the country, a spokesman for the government emergency agency said. The blast is the first … read more
Nigeria’s military has banned the use of horses in the northeastern state of Borno to stop deadly raids by Boko Haram gunmen, a regional military spokesman said today. Militants on horseback have in recent weeks attacked remote communities in the … read more
Intelligence reports have revealed at least half of the schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria last year are still alive but being held in secret locations, according to a Nigerian news site. This Day Live says it has been informed by an … read more