Saudi Arabia

 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari, at present, is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attending the third edition of…

Jamal Khashoggi’s friends, rights activists and press freedom groups will hold a memorial in Istanbul on Wednesday outside Riyadh’s consulate, where the Saudi journalist was murdered. The event on the first anniversary of his death will…

The Tunisian government on Friday said it would allow the country’s late autocrat Zine-Abidine Ben-Ali to be buried in his homeland after his death in exile in Saudi Arabia. Ben Ali died on Thursday at a Saudi hospital at the age of 83,…

Millions of Muslims in Nigeria join fellow adherents of the Islamic faith in commemorating the annual Eid-el-Kabir (the great festival or Eid-el-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice). The Eid, which falls on the 10th day of Dhulhijjah, the twelfth…

Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, on Monday, departed Abuja for Saudi Arabia to join millions of Muslim faithful from around the world who were gathered in the Holy Land for this year's Hajj. A statement by the Special Adviser on Media…

A British court on Thursday ruled that the British government had acted unlawfully in allowing arms exports to Saudi Arabia that might have been used in the conflict in Yemen. “The Court of Appeal has concluded that the process of…

There is credible evidence that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-level officials are individually liable for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a UN expert says. A report by special rapporteur Agnes Callamard…

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) says it will support countries of the Sahel region, particularly Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, by building their defence and security forces to counter terrorism and combat organised crime.…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday observed Juma’at prayer at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, with about 53 world leaders and hundreds of thousands of Muslim faithful. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President…

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on Monday, received the freed victim of the Saudi Arabia drugs trafficking, Zainab Aliyu. The Nigerian student, who was held in Saudi Arabia on drug smuggling charges, had recently been reunited with…