Muslim militants set upon Christians and burned churches in Niger state, northern Nigeria, during Easter celebrations last weekend. Christian services and processions were attacked in the state capital of Minna and the nearby town of Gwada.
[T]he day turned bloody in Gwada, where three churches were burnt while about 26 Christians were injured. In Minna, [...]

The police commissioner of Kano State, Nigeria, has been warned not to block enforcement of Sharia law, especially the provisions against consuming or distributing alcohol. Sheik Umar Sani Fagge, Commissioner of the Sharia Commission, said this in a recent speech.
Speaking in Kano, while delivering lecture on challenges of shariah implementation, Fagge said, ” the [...]

Last week, a Christian leader alleged that terrorists are being trained in the bush of northern Nigeria. Now comes a police intelligence report saying much the same thing.
A Shiite Muslim sect is engaged in gun-running and training of militant youths drawn from 13 states in the predominantly-Muslim northern Nigeria as well as neighbouring Niger [...]

A leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria alleges that terrorists are being trained in remote areas of northern Nigeria. CAN General Secretary Elder Saidu Dogo says that, if thew government does not act against such activities, the country could be destabilised.
“We should be expecting more crises because there are trainings going on in [...]

Recent Muslim attacks on Christians in Bauchi State, Nigeria, killed 14 people and forced 4500 to flee their homes. The state government waited five days before offering relief materials to internally displaced persons. That aid has now been refused and refugees are demanding that the governor pay them a personal visit.
Lamenting bitterly, the [...]

It is now estimated that one million Nigerian children are sold into internal and external slavery every year. One of Nigeria’s leading experts on human trafficking, Professor Sola Ehindero, says that the trade in human beings, particularly children, is so pervasive and growing so fast that it threatens to “derail the national economy”.
“People have [...]

In October 2007, a Sharia court in Kano, Nigeria, sentenced Sani Kibili to three years imprisonment for blasphemy against Islam. The case was manifestly unjust because Mr Kibili is a Christian and should not have been brought before a Sharia court in the first place.
Open Doors UK has released a statement with the welcome [...]

The national government of Nigeria has set up a committee to investigate the anti-Christian riots that occurred in the city of Jos, Plateau State, in late November.  The Plateau State Government, however, opposes the federal investigation and has challenged its legality.
THISDAY learnt that the Plateau State Government has written to challenge the legality of the [...]

Thirty million children in northern Nigeria are to be immunised against polio and measles, even though “radical Muslim clerics and some medical doctors” claim the vaccines are part of an American plot to sterilise girls and depopulate the world.
For five days 200,000 health workers will be stationed at 33,000 schools throughout northern Nigeria to administer [...]

Christians in Jos state, Nigeria, are upset by “biased and inaccurate” media reports of last weekend’s rioting and destruction.  Most media reports stated that Muslim-Christian violence broke out after election tallies were announced but, in fact, organised and armed mobs of Muslims launched co-ordinated attacks on Christian homes, churches, and businesses even before results were [...]

Muslims are harassing Christians again in Bauchi, one of twelve Muslim-majority states in Nigeria that have adopted sharia law. Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports that two churches have recently been destroyed. Tension is running so high that  state troops had to be placed on guard around a church construction site.
Reports indicate that local Muslims [...]

Last month, Nigerian-born US-based blogger Jonathan Elendu was detained by Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) and held incommunicado for eleven days before being released without charge.  Now comes news that SSS have arrested another US-based Nigerian blogger Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, who runs HuHuOnline. Mr Asiwe is still in custody and has been held without charge [...]

An international blogburst is happening today to call attention to the injustice visited upon blogger Jonathan Elendu (at right) by Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS). Mr Elendu was detained as he arrived on a flight from the United States on Saturday, 18 October, and held incommunicado for eleven days in apparent contravention of constitutional [...]

The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) of Nigeria has expressed serious concern about the condition of Jonathan Elendu (at right), the blogger who has been held incommunicado since his arrest on 18 October. HURIWA has been told that Mr Elendu is being physically and psychologically tortured by state security police.
Elendu has been held in [...]

A Nigerian-born, US-based blogger named Jonathan Elendu was taken into custody by State Security Service (SSS) upon arrival in Nigeria on a flight from the United States.  Mr Elendu, who blogs at Elendu Reports from Lansing, Michigan, has been held without charge since last Saturday.
Nigerian newspaper P.M. News has information from unnamed sources:
[T]he publisher [...]