LAGOS, Nigeria — Bands of Muslims and Christians rioted Saturday in the streets of the northern city of Kano, burning places of worship and looting stores and businesses. At least 13 people were ...

Kano, Nigeria - Some 150 people have been arraigned in courts in connection with last weekend's riots that claimed dozens of lives in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, police said on Wednesday.

Seven days after the eruption of violence following a peaceful demonstration to protest American-led air strike on Afghanistan in the commercial city of Kano, residents are still skeptical of each ...

LAGOS, Nigeria, Oct. 14 -- At least 200 people died in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, during two days of anti-American riots led by Muslims protesting the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan ...

The issues which caused the Kano Riots of 1953 still exist in Nigeria today. While there were complications along the way, such as the Western Parliament elections which effectively split the ...

Kano residents have expressed concerns over the plan by the 15th and 16th Emirs of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, to hold Sallah Durbar, as part of the traditional ...

The riots broke out after protests on October 12 ... one of the organizers and leader of an Islamic group in Kano, said. According to news reports, following the demonstrations youths began ...

LAGOS, Nigeria, Oct. 13 -- Bands of Muslims and Christians rioted today in the streets of the northern city of Kano, burning places of worship and looting stores and businesses. At least 13 people ...

Also speaking, Wole Ogunnaike, a Clergyman in Sabon Gari area of Kano State, gives an account from 1990 how he witnessed series of riots in the state including the Reinhard Bonnke’s riot of 1991.

The Public Relations Officer, NCoS Kano State Command ... the command has set up a committee to unravel the cause of the riot as well as examine the influx of illicit substances into the facility.

Kano is one of northern Nigeria's ancient city-states Kano, now the scene of anti-Christian riots, was once one of northern Nigeria's most powerful city-states. It was converted to Islam in the 15th ...