Tag: Nigeria

New military plan to combat Boko Haram progress

October 8, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Churches, Nigeria

UPDATE: Close to 200 churches have been destroyed by Boko Haram forces in northern Nigeria in the last 60 days, according to Catholic news agency, Agenzia Fides. The latest ransacking of towns and villages has left more than 190,000 people newly displaced in the lead up to what should have . . . Read More

‘How can I celebrate my birthday with a homeless, scattered family?’

October 3, 2014 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Gwoza, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

Dr Rebecca Dali is the founder of Centre for Caring, Empowerment and Peace Initiatives.Courtesy of CCEPI Nigerian Rebecca Dali’s birthday is 1 October – the same date as her country’s Independence Day. But this year there was little time for celebration because her home town of Michika is overrun . . . Read More

Nigerian Bishops: ‘Stop playing politics, protect innocent citizens’

September 24, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Catholics, Delta State, Islamic extremism, Maiduguri, Nigeria

Most Rev Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria.World Watch Monitor Catholic Bishops in Nigeria have called on the government to protect the lives and property of its people, as militants intensified their killing spree across the country. In a statement ”While Nigeria bleeds and . . . Read More

Nigerian Christians: ‘We are on the run’

September 16, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Stephen Davis, Sunni, Yobe

What ISIS has done in Iraq, Boko Haram is doing in Nigeria, a Nigerian cleric says. ”The news is really bad. When they attacked our hometown, we decided to vacate the place. In Michika and surrounding areas, soldiers were running away. Some of them were killed or wounded and lot . . . Read More

Missing Chibok girls ‘raped almost daily’

August 28, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria, Rape, Stephen Davis, Women

Canon Stephen Davis, a special adviser to the President of Nigeria in the attempts to find and recover the Chibok girls, still missing since April, has returned to Australia and spoken to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He says he managed to smuggle out of the country footage of a handful . . . Read More

‘Future of Church in NE Nigeria also threatened’ says Chibok leader

August 28, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Gwoza, Nigeria, Samuel Dali

Some Christian families displaced by violence in Yobe State, have moved to Jos. Nigeria, January 2014.World Watch Monitor Nigeria’s radical Islamist sect, responsible for the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Chibok in April, appears relentless in its fight for the establishment of an Islamic state in Africa’s most . . . Read More

Boko Haram overruns town, kills 100

August 11, 2014 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Gwoza, Katsina, Nigeria, Sabon Gari

Some of the displaced children in Gulak Adamawa state. Christians in Gulak are caring for about 300 children orphaned or separated from their parents because of Boko Haram attacks. May 22, 2014World Watch Monitor Suspected members of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram have taken over Gwoza, a major . . . Read More

Cameroon pastor among 25 killed as Deputy Prime Minister’s wife kidnapped

August 4, 2014 Cameroon Adamawa, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Far North, Kidnapping, Maroua, Nigeria, Ramadan, Yaoundé

At least 25 people were killed in Cameroon, among them a church leader, as militants carried out two attacks in the far north of Cameroon at the end of July. In one attack in the town of Kolofata, the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister and her maid were kidnapped, . . . Read More

Chibok, 3 months later

July 14, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Islamic extremism, Jama'atu Nasril Islam, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Stephen Davis, Sultan of Sokoto

Three months to the day after more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped from their school in northeast Nigeria, headlines have been dominated by the visit of another teenager, 17 year old Pakistani Malala Yusufzai, to some of the missing girls’ families and the Nigerian President. But there is no . . . Read More

50 killed in Nigerian church attacks

July 2, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, ECWA, Nigeria

Some of the parents of Chibok’s kidnapped girls. Chibok, Nigeria May 11, 2014World Watch Monitor Scores killed and five churches burnt down as militants raided Christian villages near Chibok, where nearly 300 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in April. On June 29, assailants on motorbikes and in . . . Read More

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