The general manager of Sanda Kyarimi Zoo in the Borno state of Nigeria said several animals pushed out of the zoo by flood waters have been recovered Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

Floods in northern Nigeria have killed more than 80% of animals in a zoo including lions, buffaloes and ostriches. Some deadly animals, like snakes and crocodiles ...

Nigeria has the ability to increase its contribution to the Global $1.72 trillion value of farmed animals, through pastoral farming, according to the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Federation of ...

The best animals to slaughter for the Ileya (Sallah) festival, four other animals that are halal, and the best market to buy them. Eid al-Adha, also known as Ileya in Yoruba and Babbar Sallah in Hausa ...

The ex-Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has valid licences to keep wild animals in his private residence in Kano, the Kano Zoological and Wildlife Management Agency has confirmed.

With Northern Nigeria in turmoil, police in the town of Kano are rounding up stray goats in an effort to clean up the streets and institute small-scale law and order. The problem: about 4 million ...

Across Nigeria, animals are feeding on plastics, chemicals, pesticides, and polluted water and whatever they consume eventually finds its way into our own bodies. From refuse dumps to industrial waste ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...