Tag: Nigeria

Mass shooting at Nigeria church kills dozens

A Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria became the site of a bloody attack on Sunday, according to local lawmakers. Attackers stormed into the church in the city of Owo and began “shooting sporadically,” Adeyemi Olayemi, the legislator representing the Owo constituency in the Ondo State House of Assembly confirmed. According to a survivor, the Mass had just […]

Former Migori Senator Wilfred Machage is dead

Kenya’s High Commissioner to Nigeria Wilfred Machage has died. The ex-Migori senator’s family confirmed that he succumbed to an illness that he suffered while in Nigeria. The veteran politician is said to have collapsed and died in his home in Abuja, Nigeria. Speaking to a local publication, Machage’s brother revealed that the former diplomat collapsed […]

Lady rejects her man’s proposal not knowing she was to receive new car if she accepted (Video)

A Nigerian man was turned down by his woman after he proposed at a mall with a new car gift to go along with it if she agreed to marry him The man went down on his knee at a mall in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, but the lady rejected his proposal and even started […]

UN condemns castration for rapists in Nigeria

The law says males convicted of raping a child under the age of 14 should be surgically castrated and given the death penalty.

Nigeria governor approves law to castrate, remove fallopian tubes of child rapists

The governor of Nigeria’s north-western Kaduna state, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, has signed a law providing tough penalties for convicted rapists. The law provides for surgical castration and death sentence for those convicted of raping a child below the age of 14. Where the victim is over 14 years, the law provides for surgical castration and […]

Newspaper condemns ‘verbal assault’ on journalist: VIDEO

A Nigerian newspaper has condemned a former government minister for what it termed as a verbal assault on its journalist who had questioned the source of funding of his tour of the southern Cross Rivers state. Femi Fani-Kayode, who served as the aviation minister in 2006, took offence to the questioning and was filmed giving […]

Over 1.5m Nigerian high school students begin final exams

Nigeria has the highest number of candidates by far – with more than 1.5 million students in more than 19,000 schools.