KATSINA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Nigeria's former President Muhammad Buhari was buried on Tuesday in the backyard of his home in northern Katsina state, as residents climbed trees to bid farewell to the 82 ...

The burial of Alhaji Aminu Dantata has been postponed to Tuesday, July 1, due to delays in transporting his remains from the UAE to Medina, Saudi Arabia Nigeria’s Minister of Information confirmed ...

Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari salutes during an inspection of guards on parade to mark Democracy Day in Abuja, on June 12, 2019 [File: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP] Nigeria’s former President ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday declared Nigeria has become a burial ground for policies, making the nation to take two steps forward and three steps backward. The former President ...

The immediate past governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has accused his successor, Governor Hyacinth Alia, of covering up alleged mass burials in the state to make it appear that the state is ...

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian senator and several other people were killed on Sunday when gunmen attacked a mass burial for 63 victims of violence the previous day in ethnically mixed Plateau ...

NNEWI, Nigeria (AP) – The late leader of Nigeria’s breakaway Republic of Biafra received final honors Friday from a nation he once fought bitterly against in a war that saw 1 million people killed.

People in Ebola-hit eastern DR Congo are struggling to come to terms with high-security burials that are part of a hard-pressed strategy to roll back the disease. Health workers dig the graves and ...

Kyari died in Lagos on Friday, April 17, 2020, before his body was flown to Abuja where he was buried the following day. As one of the most powerful men in the presidency, his death has been a ...