Tag: Kaduna

Hope for victims of the Nigerian conflict claiming more lives than Boko Haram

February 17, 2017 Nigeria Bayelsa, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt

In the village of Goska, houses were destroyed, churches burnt and shops vandalised in a December attack.World Watch Monitor The two Nigerian villages are barely five minutes’ drive apart. In one, Goska, houses were destroyed, churches burnt, shops vandalised, carcasses of animals littered the streets and most of the . . . Read More

Kaduna deaths – Nigeria army complicit?

February 9, 2017 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria

Does anyone hear? Does anyone care? The UK ‘Spectator’ reporter Douglas Murray is dismayed after visiting northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, where he found communities torn apart by a conflict that has been allowed alternately to simmer and rage, for years, without intervention. In the last couple of months the . . . Read More

Nigerian Human Rights Commission calls on President to stop ‘callous’ Kaduna killings

January 5, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Muhammadu Buhari

The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the ongoing deadly attacks committed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in southern Kaduna.

Nigerian girls abducted, forced to convert, marry

November 24, 2016 Nigeria Bauchi, Bayelsa, Children, ECWA, Kaduna, Kano, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Sharia, Sultan of Sokoto

More details have emerged of the scale of abductions, forced conversions and then marriage of Christian girls in northern Nigeria. For instance, in the state of Kano in the last five years, over 40 Christian girls have been abducted and Islamised, and many married to Muslims. But locals say many . . . Read More

45 killed in yet another attack on Christian communities in Kaduna

November 19, 2016 Nigeria ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna

A spate of attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria last weekend left 45 dead and several more injured. The attacks took place in five villages in the Kauru Local Government Area, in the Middle Belt state of Kaduna – an area mostly populated by Christians, on Sunday 13 November. Most . . . Read More

Nigerian Middle Belt state: 800+ Christians killed, 800+ injured, 100+ churches destroyed

October 26, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Taraba

Nigeria’s Middle Belt is the scene of ever-continuing attacks on Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, including this past week where attacks have occurred in both Kaduna and Benue states. Now a recent report about another state in the Middle Belt, Nasarawa, shows that it too has been the scene . . . Read More

40 killed as suspected Fulani herdsmen raid Christian community in Nigeria

October 20, 2016 Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Nigeria

The aftermath of the attack in Godogodo, a Christian settlement in Nigeria’s northern State of Kaduna, Oct. 2016.CSW Nigeria Gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen have killed more than 40 people in Godogodo village, a Christian settlement in the Jama’a Local Government Area in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna. . . . Read More

Fulani attack kills 10 in Christian area

August 17, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Nigeria

Ten people have been killed after another attack by ethnic Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of 16 Aug. in the Christian-dominated Jema area of Nigeria’s Kaduna state. Earlier this month, after an attack on three villages in the same area. Attacks by the herdsmen have claimed hundreds of lives. . . . Read More

More attacks on Christians in northern Nigeria

August 4, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Children, Kaduna, Nigeria, Women

Attacks against Christians in Nigeria continue, particularly at the hands of Fulani herdsmen. On 2 August, according to local media, at least 30 people were killed in north-eastern Nigeria in the Christian-dominated Demsa area of Adamawa State in an attack on the village of Kodomun and others nearby. “The attackers invaded . . . Read More

Nigeria considers giving Islamic appeals courts authority to take criminal cases

June 5, 2016 Nigeria Apostasy, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Hudud, Islamic extremism, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sharia, Yobe, Zamfara

A Sharia court in northern Nigeria.Courtesy of Open Doors The situation Nigeria’s National Assembly is considering a change to the country’s constitution that would expand the scope of jurisdiction of the country’s Islamic Sharia courts of appeal. Currently, the constitution limits those appellate courts to matters concerning family law. . . . Read More

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