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

The Labour Party's Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim condemned recent stampedes in Oyo and Anambra, linking them to Nigeria's ...

Scholars warn that disinformation and rumours on social media have also hindered disaster responses ... on scooters because rumours produced "a stampede from the beach to higher ground".

The group also highlighted the stampede that occurred in Okija, Anambra State, during a long-standing charitable initiative organised by Chief Ernest Obiejesi, popularly known as Obi Jackson.

This year alone, Nigeria has recorded a chilling catalogue of unnatural disasters. There was the ... were trampled to death when a stampede ensued during the sharing of rice handed out by the ...

The PUNCH reports that about 40 children died during a stampede at a children’s fair in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday. Similarly, on Saturday, a stampede during the distribution of rice and ...

The police have confirmed that 22 people died in the Okija Christmas rice stampede which happened on Saturday ... The federal ministry of humanitarian affairs and disaster management should ...

What was meant to be a day of support turned into a disaster, leaving a heavy impact ... during a Christmas funfair at a school in Ibadan, a stampede resulted in the deaths of 35 children, with ...

Evidently, the disaster was minimised ... The small gate was opened, but it perhaps only worsened the stampede. People stomped on falling people like horse hooves on grass. The desperation ...

A stampede at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church ... to use the 112 emergency toll-free number in the event of any disaster. When PREMIUM TIMES visited the church, the shoes and clothes of some ...

A stampede at a school fair in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ibadan has left 35 children dead and seriously injured six others, police said on Thursday. “Eight persons have since been ...