Yoruba indigenous religion, also known as Orisa spirituality, is practiced by a very small percentage of the population today. In this report, Arise News Correspondent Laila Johnson-Salami visited the

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Wembley Stadium, the UK’s largest, has long been considered the home of English football. But the town of Wembley itself, in the North-West London Borough of Brent had been largely

Nigerian Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has alleged that the Nigerian Military is colluding with marauding bandits who have been responsible for crimes including murder, rape and the kidnapping

Nigeria’s pro-democracy group, National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) is accusing the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari of reneging on all his campaign promises during the 2015 elections. Spokesman of the group Mr

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Nigeria’s Minister of Labour Chris Ngige says there’s not much he can do to ensure medical workers in the states of the country who are being owed their allowances are

Economist and chief executive officer of CFG Advisory, Tilewa Adebajo says a failure of economic leadership in Nigeria has resulted in the country not attaining its full potential of a

[bc_video video_id=”6259113772001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”default” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has weighed-in on the debate

The World Bank has stated that inflationary pressure in Nigeria has pushed about seven million Nigerians below the poverty line in 2020 alone. The World Bank gave the data in

[bc_video video_id=”6258803491001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”default” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was a guest on ARISE News on Monday to speak on

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  Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari spoke exclusively to ARISE NEWS in the first interview he has granted since beginning his second term in office more than two years ago.  He

A former Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Maurice Iwu says the rising cases of violence in Imo state is the southeastern state’s share of the national

A former Secretary to the Government of Imo State Uche Onyeagocha says the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is not “statesman” enough to appreciate that citizens from all regions of the

A week ago, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State marked his second year in office. In those two years, the governor has been confronted with a mixed bag of issues,

[bc_video video_id=”6257512715001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”default” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] Multiple-award winning Nigerian architect Jumoke Adenowo was recently listed by renowned art historian Agata Toromanoff

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Parents of kidnapped students of an Islamic school in Nigeria’s Niger state are again pleading with authorities to step up efforts to save tens of students abducted by gunmen. In