As Muslims worldwide begin the Ramadan season by observing sawm or fasting from dawn to sunset, the Islamic police in a Nigerian state arrested almost a dozen Muslims for not observing this important pillar of the Islamic faith.
A crisis is brewing in northeastern Nigeria as local media reports of suspected Islamic militants abducting dozens of victims near a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) emerged this week.
"It was on Sunday that we got information that over 200 displaced people went to get firewood but unfortunately Boko Haram kidnapped them, allowing only the very young and very old to return."
As many people around the world celebrate the Christmas season and the upcoming New Year, Nigerians are shocked and outraged after a massive armed attack in central Nigeria that saw 160 people dead and more than 300 others injured, with the number of dead and injured still expected to rise as families and authorities continue to search for the missing victims.
When she heard about the news of Deborah Yakubu, a Christian university student in Nigeria, being lynched by a mob of Muslim students over alleged blasphemy, Rhoda Ya’u Jatau shared a message among her co-workers that criticized the lynching via WhatsApp.
Nigerian woman jailed for ‘blasphemy’ for 18 months over WhatsApp message
Sixty-seven people were arrested and detained by authorities in Nigeria for celebrating a gay wedding, making it one of the largest arrests in a country that outlaws homosexuality.
In northwestern Nigeria, an angry mob killed a man after accusing him of blasphemy on June 25th, triggering outrage from human rights groups who raised concerns about the growing threat against religious freedom in the region.
More than a year after a landmark case in Nigeria that saw atheist Mubarak Bala imprisoned for expressing his views on religion, a US congressman took up his case and joined in the calls to free Bala.
BBC Africa released a new documentary this week shedding light on the obstacles humanists and atheists face in Nigeria while telling the story of a Nigerian imprisoned for blasphemy charges.
The program, narrated by BBC journalist Yemisi Adegoke, documents Mubarak Bala’s landmark case, which reveals the threats to religious freedom and tolerance in the West African country.
A group of women accused of using witchcraft was killed by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram after the death of a militant commander's children in the Borno state of north-eastern Nigeria, said relatives, residents, and a woman who escaped.
A Christian woman is on trial for blasphemy after forwarding a WhatsApp message. Her actions sparked Muslim riots in northeast Nigeria.
Rhoda Ya'u Jatau, a 45 years old Christian health worker, was arrested on May 20 in Bauchi state. Her crime was receiving and forwarding a WhatsApp message from Ghana denouncing the horrible murder of a university student from the Sokoto state, Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, who was also wrongly accused of blasphemy.