Nigeria has lifted a ban on mining exploration in the northwestern state of Zamfara after a five-year suspension, the mining minister said, citing improved security.

At least 32 people were killed in crowd crushes at two separate charity events in Nigeria on Saturday, police have reported.

Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has insisted that the controversial federal government’s tax reform bills currently before the National Assembly will retool Nigeria’s economy for the benefit of all Nigerians.

In the third such incident this week, at least 22 people were killed in a rush for free food at a charity event.

President Bola Tinubu has dropped a direct bombshell on former President Olusegun Obasanjo as he revealed how the ex-president underdeveloped Nigeria.

In 2022, a stampede at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The Associated Press, a shocking development at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy. One witness said the dead included a pregnant woman and many children.

Three United Methodists were killed Dec. 15 when a church in Nigeria was attacked allegedly by supporters of the Global Methodist Church.

At least 35 children were killed and six others critically injured in a crowd crush at a funfair in the Nigerian city of Ibadan on Wednesday, police said.

A Christian mother in Nigeria was acquitted of blasphemy charges after being imprisoned for condemning the mob murder of a Nigerian Christian student.

My childhood memories was the annual visit with my family members to my hometown in Anioma part of the then Bendel State during Yuletide.

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of an Icelandic saint, Bartolom de las Casas meets with the king of Spain, and a wave of Christmas bombings in Nigeria