The police have confirmed that 22 people died in the Okija Christmas rice stampede which happened on Saturday, December 21The ...

The Anambra State Police Command has secured the site of the tragic stampede in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area, where ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), through its Directorate of State (DOS), has expressed deep sympathy to the people of ...

The stampedes in Ibadan, Abuja, and Okija, which claimed lives and left many injured, have highlighted a glaring need for ...

A businessman, Mr. Obele Ugo, has said he lost three persons during the stampede that claimed many lives at the Okija ...

The spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, was reacting to the stampede that killed several people in the Okija area of Anambra State last week. In a statement he signed, Powerful said the organizer of ...

In the third such incident this week, at least 22 people were killed in a rush for free food at a charity event.

Nigerian police say the death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events has increased from 13 to 32 ...

Two crowd stampedes, one in the capital Abuja and another in the southern town of Okija, have killed "many" people, the Nigerian president's office said Saturday, days after a similar tragedy.

Rotimi said the speaker of the House of Reps,Tajudeen Abbas described the incidents as unfortunate and called for a thorough ...

The number of dead from a crowd crush in the south-east town of Okija in Nigeria has risen to 22, police say. It is the third case this week of people being crushed to death at events where free ...