Tension run high in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria's Kwara State as Muslims and Christians violently clashed over the use of hijab in state schools controlled by the church.
An unknown number of school children and teachers have been kidnapped by gunmen from a primary school in Nigeria in a fresh attack in the north of the country, local authorities said in a statement on Monday.
The Kaduna State Commissioner for International Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement that the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization was attacked on Thursday night.
Nigeria Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick was on Friday (today) elected into the FIFA Council at the Confederation of African Football’s 43rd General Assembly in Rabat, Morocco.
The British High Commission to Nigeria, Ms. Catriona Laing has said the British Government will return to Nigeria £4.2million being part of the funds so far recovered from friends and family members of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori.
Authorities in Nigeria’s Zamfara state have declared a curfew and shut market activities after violence marred the return of hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls to their families, a state spokesman said.
