Tag: Lagos

Fulani violence against Nigeria Christians hits record high

May 25, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Catholics, Children, Dapchi, Education, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Lagos, Leah Sharibu, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Taraba

Catholics protest in Kaduna state on 22 May, 2018.

Violence attributed to militant Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria has reached a record high this year. The Governor of the central state of Benue said this week that 492 people have been killed in his state alone so far this year. Governor Samuel Ortom was speaking 22 May at the mass . . . Read More

6 Nigerian nuns released 2 months after kidnap

January 9, 2018 Nigeria Catholics, Edo, Kidnapping, Lagos, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Altar in the Catholic church in Bauchi, northeast Nigeria. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2010)

Six Catholic nuns from a convent in the southern Nigerian state of Edo were released on Sunday (7 January), two months after they were kidnapped by armed men. The nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Christ, were released after police intervention and were said to be . . . Read More

Nigerian President’s ongoing medical treatment raises fears of yet more sectarian power struggles

July 13, 2017 Nigeria APC, Katsina, Lagos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

In Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has not been seen in public for more than two months, raising fears of a power struggle over who might succeed him, which could lead to sectarian violence in Africa’s most populous country. Because Nigeria is divided between a mostly Muslim north and a predominantly . . . Read More

Food aid starts to reach 5m Boko Haram victims, now at risk of famine

July 10, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Cameroon, IDPs, Jos, Lagos, Migrants, Refugees

15,000 families who are facing 'acute food insecurity' in northern Nigeria receive food aid. (Photo: Open Doors)

It’s been called the “greatest crisis on the African continent“. The UN’s World Food Programme in mid-June warned that hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds to feed them. It needs $172 million to help. Now the militants . . . Read More

African mission leader searches for positives despite deadly surge of jihadist violence

May 30, 2017 Africa, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Europe, Garissa, Gloria Argoti, Islamic extremism, Ivory Coast, Jeff Woodke, Ken Elliott, Lagos, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia

Attacks attributed to radical Islamic groups are happening on a weekly, or even daily, basis in Africa, posing security concerns across a vast swathe of the continent. The phenomenon has dramatically affected Church activities in various regions. But Rev. Reuben E. Ezemadu, Coordinator of the Movement for African National Initiatives . . . Read More

UPDATE: Kidnapped German archeologists freed; no ransom paid

February 27, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Lagos, Middle Belt, West Africa

In the village of Goska, houses were destroyed, churches burnt and shops vandalised in a December attack.World Watch Monitor UPDATE (27 Feb): Two German archaeologists kidnapped in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna were freed on Saturday (25 Feb). Peter Breunig and Johannes Buringer were taken by gunmen on 22 . . . Read More

At least 26 killed, despite increased Nigerian Army presence in S. Kaduna

February 22, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Fulani herdsmen, Jama'atu Nasril Islam, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Lagos, Nigeria

UPDATE (22 Feb): Heavily-armed Fulani herdsmen carried out raids on communities in Kaduna State, central Nigeria, on 19 and 20 February, destroying homes and claiming at least 26 lives, including two policemen. According to CSW, hundreds of militiamen reportedly descended on Bakin Kogi in the Kaninkon Chiefdom of Jema’a Local Government . . . Read More

Chibok victim: Kidnappers threatened to shoot

May 9, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Goodluck Jonathan, Kaduna, Kano, Kidnapping, Lagos, Samuel Dali

In this image captured from a 57-minute video released May 5, a man purported to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says he will sell the girls kidnapped April 14 from school in Chibok village, in Borno state, Nigeria.You Tube One of the Nigerian girls to escape her Boko . . . Read More

Boko Haram kidnaps more girls; outrage mounts

May 7, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Education, Gwoza, Kano, Kidnapping, Lagos

The number of Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram continues to increase, as does global outrage. Between eight and 11 more teen-aged girls were kidnapped May 4 by the Islamist group, which on April 14 abducted more than 230 schoolgirls, most of them reported to be Christian, from the northeastern . . . Read More

Former Nigerian Governor allows ‘under-age’ marriage loophole into Constitution

July 23, 2013 Nigeria Christian Association of Nigeria, Constitution, Gombe, Lagos, Sharia, Zamfara

The first Governor to introduce sharia law into a Nigerian State (Zamfara, in 2000), now a Senator, has succeeded in stopping the removal of a clause from Nigeria’s Constitution, which critics say remains a loophole through which marriage of under-age girls remains possible under sharia law. It happened during the . . . Read More

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