The case of Eritrea is particularly instructive, as it demonstrates what can happen to the freedom of religion, conscience ...

Focusing only on Boko Haram's ISWAP faction is no longer an option for the region's security forces.After being weakened by ...

The threat of flooding once again looms over the city of Maiduguri, in north-eastern Nigeria, a year after torrential rains and the collapse of a dam left entire neighbourhoods submerged in water. For ...

The Yobe State Government has dismissed a report claiming that 84 persons were killed in a bandit attack on the Mafa ...

Sultan Bello Mosque in the city of Kaduna, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Anasskoko, Creative Commons) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian ...

A Nigerian court has sentenced the presumed leader of the Ansaru jihadist group, Mahmud Muhammad Usman, to 15 years in prison ...

A Nigerian court has sentenced a top militant leader of an al-Qaida-linked group on the country’s most-wanted list to 15 years in prison for illegal mining and using the proceeds to fund terror attack ...

A Nigerian court has sentenced a top militant leader of an al-Qaida-linked group on the country’s most-wanted list to 15 ...

Two recent episodes of religiously motivated violence in northern Nigeria serve as a reminder of the growing threat to law ...

Soldiers at Burial Site Stop PhotosBy Lawrence ZongoAt least seven Christians were buried on Sunday, August 31, in the Irigwe farming hamlet of Nti Roku—known locally as Angwan Rimi an ethn ...

A survivor of the 2014 Chibok school abduction by dreaded Boko Haram terrorists, Mary Katambi, has emerged winner of the ...