The President of the International Council for Ifa Religion, Chief (Dr.) Fayemi Fatunde Fakayode, has asserted that Nigeria’s current economic turmoil is deeply rooted in the foreign culture of ...

Johannesburg — More than 140 people were killed and dozens more injured Tuesday night when a fuel tanker crashed and then exploded in Nigeria, local officials said. A police spokesperson said ...

LAGOS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people expected to be food insecure next year, a one third jump from this year due to economic ...

The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153, with another 100 people injured, police told CNN Thursday. The blast, which happened late evening local ...

Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them ...

A global rating agency, Fitch Rating, has maintained a positive outlook for Nigeria, affirming the country’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating at ‘B-’. The rating agency ...

Nigeria is no longer on the international list of countries prone to piracy by the International Maritime Bureau. The Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command, Rear Admiral Saheed Akinwande ...

Several similar disasters have taken place in recent years. By Ismail Auwal and Elian Peltier Ismail Auwal reported from Kano, Nigeria, and Elian Peltier from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. More than 150 ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency ...

More than 150 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded after an overturned fuel tanker exploded in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said. The crash on Tuesday night took place on an ...

Majia, Nigeria – Days after a fuel tanker explosion killed 170 mostly young people in Majia, a farming town in northern Nigeria’s Jigawa State, the close-knit community is still reeling from ...