Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has announced that it will partially lift its suspension on international flights from Tuesday, six months after travel curbs were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The kingdom’s interior ministry on Sunday stated…

Saudi authorities has discharged and acquitted a Nigerian citizen, Ibrahim Abubakar, of drug trafficking charges against him. Abubakar was arrested in December 2018 alongside Zainab Aliyu, a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano…

Saudi Arabia's ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh, for medical tests due to inflammation of his gallbladder. This was made known by the kingdom’s Royal Court in a…

Zainab Aliyu, a lady who was wrongly jailed in Saudi Arabia for carrying drugs she had no knowledge of, and rescued with the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari, has completed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Shortly…

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Saudi Arabia has announced that only ‘very limited numbers’ of people will be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage, that traditionally attracts over 2 million people from around the world.…

Saudi Arabia has announced that it would lift the nationwide curfew imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, it emerged on Saturday. The curfew will be lifted across the monarchy starting 6 a.m (0300 GMT) on Sunday, along with…

The children of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have publicly forgiven their father's killers, likely sparing the five convicted killers the death penalty. Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist who fled the Saudi kingdom…

Federal Government has evacuated a new batch of 292 stranded Nigerians from Saudi Arabia, it emerged on Tuesday. The flight conveying the evacuees arrived yesterday night at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.…

Saudi Arabia has in its “human rights advancement” abolished court-ordered flogging as a punishment for offences. Supreme Court in Saudi Arabia said this is an extension of human rights reforms brought by King Salman and his son, the…

Malam Ibrahim Ibrahim in the middle A criminal Court in Makka, Saudi Arabia has discharged and acquitted a Nigerian man identified as Sheikh Ibrahim Ibrahim who was on death roll for 3 years after being accused of drug trafficking.…

Restaurants and cafes in Saudi Arabia are no longer required to have gender-segregated entrances, officials said, in a further easing of social restrictions in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom.Eateries have long required one…

Twitter Inc shares fell almost 7 percent after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that it said might be from state-sponsored hackers. In what appeared to be an unrelated issue, a security firm also said that hackers…

Reports from Saudi Arabia have it that no fewer than three local government chairmen of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from Zamfara state, Nigeria, who were on holy pilgrimage, have lost their lives in a fatal road accident in…

A Nigerian on Hajj to Makkah has died after he fell from a faulty elevator this morning. The deceased was a Niger State pilgrim who was in Mecca for the 2018 Hajj. The Commissioner in charge of health of the National Hajj…

Two Nigerian women have reportedly been killed by their employers in Saudi Arabia. The women were trafficked to Saudi Arabia to work as maids in different households. They were both killed within a space of two weeks after being…