Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Nentawe Yilwatda, has said that recent stampede ...

In 2022, a stampede at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The ...

Several children were killed in a stampede on Wednesday at a school-organized holiday fair in southwestern Nigeria, according ...

Several children have died following a stampede during a school holiday fair in Nigeria. Authorities said the incident happened Wednesday at the Islamic High School, in Basorun, Oyo State.

Security forces arrest organisers of event, which was attended by about 5,000 people drawn by ‘exciting prizes’.

The death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events in Nigeria has increased from ... only days after another stampede in which 35 children were killed. Africa’s most populous ...

Authorities in Nigeria say ten people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in the capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at a Ch ...

In March, two students died and 23 were hurt after being crushed as thousands gathered for free bags of rice handed out by ...

“There is hunger in this Nigeria. Every Nigerian needs food,” one woman, in tears, told the local Arise television after the stampede in Abuja. The economic crisis is blamed on the government ...

Most recently, the Nigeria Customs Service in February suspended its program to distribute seized bags of rice to needy residents following a deadly stampede at its Lagos office. The incident ...