Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about a new initiative to reclaim artwork looted from Africa by colonial powers.
ABUJA — What if Africans somehow managed to access museums across the Western world, gather all the artwork looted from (...)
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Zubairu Dada, received yesterday in Abuja, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Africa, Nassirou Bako Arifari, (...)
The deaths of more than 100 people following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria has thrown a spotlight on the lucrative world of illicit refining, which the BBC's Mayeni Jones and Josephine Casserly have been (...)
In a series of letters from African journalists, to mark eight years since the Chibok school abductions, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani speaks to a rescued girl who has been treated very differently to her former classmates (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed the day before yesterday 420 Ramadan food baskets in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, benefiting 2,520 individuals.
This comes within the framework of Ramadan Feeding Initiative, (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed the day before yesterday 197 Ramadan food baskets in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, benefiting 1,182 people.
This comes within the framework of Ramadan Feeding Initiative, which (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed the day before yesterday 770 Ramadan food baskets in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, benefiting 4,620 people.
This comes within the framework of Ramadan "Eta'am" initiative, (...)
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 (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed Thursday 300 Ramadan food baskets in Abuja, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, benefiting 1,800 people.
This comes within the framework of Ramadan "Eta'am" initiative, which aims to (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) inaugurated Wednesday Ramadan food baskets distribution project in Abuja, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The project aims to distribute 2,300 food baskets, benefiting 13,800 people in (...)
Suspected bandits attacked a passenger train headed to a northern Nigerian city from the capital Abuja Monday evening after they trapped the train, officials said.
The bandits are reported to have abducted an unknown number of passengers from the (...)
Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, has ended a four-day visit to Nigeria, pledging support and promising the United Nations will do everything it can to help rebuild the lives of vulnerable families who have been impacted by violence and (...)
Extreme poverty in West Africa rose by nearly three per cent in 2020, another fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN-backed report launched on Thursday that looks at the socio-impact of the crisis has revealed.
The proportion of people living on (...)
Nigeria has lifted its ban on Twitter seven months after clamping down on the social networking site, BBC reported.
Nigeria's government suspended Twitter last June after the company deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari about punishing (...)
A violent mafia-style gang in Nigeria linked to murder and fraud has infiltrated the country's political system and launched a global scamming operation well beyond Nigeria's borders, according to thousands of hacked documents and testimonies seen (...)
Authorities in Belarus say the migrant camp on the border with Poland has been cleared, and its people have now been moved to a nearby shelter. Meanwhile, several hundred have been repatriated to Iraq, after giving up any hope of reaching (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Friday that the war in Tigray has put Ethiopia on a "path to destruction" that could reverberate throughout east Africa, telling CNN that the country's leader, Abiy Ahmed, must fulfill "his responsibility" (...)
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria received Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan at the Presidential Palace here on Tuesday.
During the audience, Prince Faisal conveyed the greetings of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) launched technical assistance for the development of the call and monitoring center at the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency, as part of the KSrelief's strategy aimed at raising the (...)
Coronavirus deaths in Africa rose rapidly over the past month, as fatalities surged by 80 percent within the last four weeks, the World Health Organization has said.
WHO's Vaccine Introduction Officer for the African Region, Phionah Atuhebwe, said (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
During the period of 7-14 July 2021, KSrelief's medical team examined 694 (...)
Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020 — some 161 million more than for 2019 — the UN Secretary-General said on Monday; "new, tragic data", which indicates the world is "tremendously off track" to achieve the (...)
At least 26 students and a teacher have been rescued after armed men raided a private secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna State early Monday and kidnapped scores of people, said police.
Officials from the school in Kaduna's Chikun (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has concluded implementing the voluntary medical campaign to combat blindness and its causes in Kano, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
During the period of 22-29 June 2021, KSrelief's medical (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) contributed to the Initiative for Living and Livelihood Fund for Rehabilitating Watari Dam, Kano, Nigeria, in collaboration with a number of donors.
The initiative aims at enabling the (...)
