Tag: Nigeria

‘Please wish her happy birthday’ – missing Chibok girl’s mother

June 14, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Yobe

For the 20th birthday of one of the missing Chibok girls, her mother has sent a plea: “Please wish her a happy birthday and remember her in your prayers,” CNN reports. The mother of Dorcas Yakubu – kidnapped by Boko Haram from a boarding school in Nigeria’s north-western town of . . . Read More

‘Fulani herdsmen attacks have caused $1 billion damage in just one Nigerian state’

June 13, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Attacks attributed to Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s central state of Benue have caused damage to properties worth the equivalent of over one billion US dollars (400 billion nairas), says the state governor. Samuel Ortom told a local radio station the estimate was based on preliminary findings into attacks in the . . . Read More

Ad in Vanity Fair tells #MeToo celebrities of women who suffer for their faith

June 8, 2018 International Boko Haram, India, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Religious freedom, Women, Yazidis

Rebecca Bitrus was abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 and suffered because of her faith. (Photo credit: Claire Giangravé/Crux news agency)

An ad in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair has called for the global #MeToo campaign to include women who suffer violence because of their religion. The Vanity Fair ad includes an open letter to some of the actresses who spoke out as part of the #MeToo initiative, like Asia . . . Read More

Nigerian pastor says security services threatened to kill him after Muslim woman’s conversion to Christianity

June 6, 2018 Nigeria Christian Association of Nigeria, Islam, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

The Nigerian pastor who played a central role in the conversion of a young Muslim woman to Christianity has denounced the response of the country’s security services, from which he alleges he has received death threats. The first response of the Nigerian Department of State Security Services (DSS), in January, . . . Read More

Nigeria: 7 more killed by suspected herdsmen in what Benue governor calls a ‘jihad’

June 4, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

A fresh attack attributed to Fulani herdsmen has left seven killed in Tseadough village, in the Kwande local government area of Benue state, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. The assailants stormed the village in the early hours of Sunday 3 June, while people were asleep, the Chairman of Kwande Local Government . . . Read More

Nigeria: Seminary attacked, priest shot for ‘asking herdsmen to stop invading our school’

May 29, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Jihad, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Armed men, believed to be Fulani herdsmen, yesterday (28 May) attacked a Catholic boys’ secondary boarding school in Jalingo, capital of the Nigerian central state of Taraba. A priest was shot in the leg, while valuables worth thousands of dollars were destroyed, ‘This Day Live’ reported. The priest, named as . . . Read More

Amnesty accuses Nigerian army of raping women and girls who fled Boko Haram

May 24, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, IDPs, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Women and girls detained by Boko Haram have then been raped by their military ‘rescuers’ reports Amnesty International in a report that has taken two years and 250 interviews. Nigerian troops sometimes separated women from their husbands and raped them, sometimes in exchange for food, in refugee camps, the rights . . . Read More

Nigeria: 10 killed in Kogi state as herdsmen attacks move south

May 16, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Donald Trump, Fulani herdsmen, Kogi, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

At least ten people were killed as suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked Christian communities in Kogi state on Monday, 14 May. Nigeria has been plagued by violence attributed to the herdsmen, particularly in the Middle Belt and northeast. But now the violence is also affecting the predominantly Christian south states, with . . . Read More

Nigeria: Leah Sharibu’s 15th birthday passes in captivity

May 15, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Yobe

The single remaining Nigerian teenager still being held captive by Boko Haram following a raid on her school in February had her 15th birthday yesterday (14 May) in captivity, reported Nigeria’s Premium Times. Leah Sharibu was the only Christian taken when the militant Islamist group abducted 109 girls during a . . . Read More

Nigeria: Fulani herdsmen conflict has growing religious dimension – BBC

May 11, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Benue, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Donald Trump, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Maiduguri, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, West Africa

Following the shooting dead of two Catholic priests and over a dozen parishioners at a church in Nigeria’s Middle Belt last month, the BBC has visited the village and spoken to survivors. Fr. Joseph Gor and Fr. Felix Tyolaha were killed during the morning Mass at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, in . . . Read More

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