Tag: Yobe

Nigeria considers giving Islamic appeals courts authority to take criminal cases

June 5, 2016 Nigeria Apostasy, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Hudud, Islamic extremism, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sharia, Yobe, Zamfara

A Sharia court in northern Nigeria.Courtesy of Open Doors The situation Nigeria’s National Assembly is considering a change to the country’s constitution that would expand the scope of jurisdiction of the country’s Islamic Sharia courts of appeal. Currently, the constitution limits those appellate courts to matters concerning family law. . . . Read More

1.3 million Christians displaced in N. Nigeria

May 31, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Agatu, Benue, Borno, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Yobe

Christians in northern Nigeria have paid a heavy price for Fulani herdshmen’s attacks and Boko Haram’s insurgency, which aims at implementing Sharia in Africa’s most populous country. An estimated 11,500 Christians were killed, over 1.3 million others were displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or abandoned between 2006 and 2014, said . . . Read More

Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

November 12, 2015 Abuja, Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, EYN, Genocide, Jos, Kaduna, Niger, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, UN, West Africa, Yobe, Yola

A special report by IRIN, built on field visits to Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Lake Chad Basin region. In Europe, Syrian refugees with the means head for their country of choice, armies of aid . . . Read More

500 days since Chibok girls’ kidnap

August 27, 2015 Nigeria Abuja, Adamawa, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, IDPs, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali, Yobe

It’s been 500 days this week, since the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a secondary school in the predominantly Christian village of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria. Since then, little has been heard of their fate: some are presumed to have been forced into marriages, or used . . . Read More

Boko Haram victim ‘left for dead’ in 2012 loses sister and her two children in church bomb

July 7, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Churches, Jigawa, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sabon Gari, Yobe, Zaria

The sister of a man whose miraculous survival from a shot in the head by Boko Haram took him to testify to the US Congress, has been killed with two of her children. Tabita Adamu, 44, her 18-year-old daughter, Haske, and 11-year-old son, Nuhu died in the July 5 bomb . . . Read More

Killings escalate in Nigeria

July 6, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Churches, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Potiskum, Yobe

The suicide bombing of a church in Nigeria on Sunday caps a week of killings that has left over 200 people dead, reports the BBC. In the first incident six worshippers were killed as they were entering a church in Potiskum in the north-east area where until recently Boko Haram . . . Read More

5,000 killed, 100,000 displaced by Boko Haram

May 14, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Catholics, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Yobe

A new report has highlighted the scope of Boko Haram’s attacks against Christians in north-east Nigeria. More than 5,000 Catholics have been killed, 100,000 displaced and 350 churches attacked – “a good number of them destroyed more than once” – according to the ‘Situation Report’ from the Diocese of Maiduguri, . . . Read More

Northern Christians accuse government of neglect as Boko Haram continue its killing spree

November 28, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Damasak, EYN, Gombe, IDPs, Islamic extremism, Jos, Nigeria, Yobe

Displaced Christians expressed their anger at the headquarters of the Church of the Brethren, or EYN Church, in Jos. Nov. 17World Watch Monitor Hundreds of Christians, displaced by the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria’s North, have been staging protests to express their anger over the government failure to protect them . . . 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

Nigeria ‘at war’ with Boko Haram

March 6, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Goodluck Jonathan, Kaduna, Niger, Sultan of Sokoto, Yobe, Zaria

Goodluck Jonathan pictured at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January.Jolanda Flubacher, WEC / Flickr / Creative Commons The Nigerian President’s spokesman has said that the conflict with Boko Haram is a “war situation”. Speaking to Lagos-based Channels TV on Feb. 28, Doyin Okupe . . . Read More

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