•Participants at the 2026 World Food Safety Day The federal government today raised fresh concerns over the growing burden of foodborne diseases in Nigeria, revealing that unsafe food causes more than 53,000 deaths and nearly 50 million illnesses annually across the country. The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, di...
•Tinubu and terrorists At least 8,521 Nigerians sought refuge in Niger, Cameroon and Chad between December 2025 and May 2026 as a result of insecurity in the North-West and the North-East. This is according to an analysis of data from the UNHCR Nigeria Forcibly Displaced Populations dashboard, obtained by our correspondent for the six-month pe...
•Nigerian returnees Screening of Nigerians who desire to leave South Africa following xenophobic attacks has commenced. This comes a month after the Nigerian Government announced the special repatriation plan, reports The Guardian. A public notice issued by the Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria notes that the exercise will run until Sunday ...
•Nyesom Wike Nigerians have criticised the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for linking recent protests across the country, including a demonstration by members of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) in Abuja, to political motives. Many Nigerians, however, rejected the characterisation, stressing that the kidnappi...
•Deportees from US Nigeria will receive the highest number of deportees among West African countries after the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the removal of 110 Nigerians as part of a wider crackdown that will see 355 nationals from the sub-region returned home. The DHS yesterday published names and photographs o...
•Makinde A former member of the House of Representatives and Chairman of the Governing Council of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, Rotimi Makinde, has called on Nigerians to reject vote buying and ensure that incompetent leaders are voted out in the 2027 general elections. Makinde made the call during an interview that has since...
•Wike and cows on Abuja roads The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has taken responsibility and begged for forgiveness from Nigerians over the continued presence of cows on major roads and streets across Abuja, admitting that the situation remains a concern despite efforts to improve the capital city. Wike said this duri...
A severe domestic energy crisis is forcing millions of households across Nigeria to abandon clean energy alternatives and revert to primitive cooking fuels. Driven by an unprecedented surge in the prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, commonly known as cooking gas, and kerosene, many families in both rural and urban areas are returning to fi...
•Police officers during a raid on the abandoned building in Rome, Italy, where a Colombian tourist was allegedly held captive and gang-raped for 72 hours Italian police have arrested two Nigerians and three other African migrants over the alleged abduction and gang rape of a Colombian tourist in Rome. According to a report by British […...
•An illustration of xenophobic attacks in South Africa The Nigerian community in South Africa says at least 105 Nigerians have been killed in the country over the past seven years, following the wave of xenophobic attacks against migrants. This is contained in a statement signed by the community’s leaders, Smart Nwobi and Frank Onyekwelu of [&...
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