A prominent Nigerian atheist who was imprisoned for blasphemy has just been freed after serving more than four years in prison and is now living in a safe house as his legal team fears his life may still be in danger.
Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in northern Nigeria that killed over 30 people, according to local authorities on June 30th.
A series of suicide attacks in Nigeria, targeting a wedding ceremony, a hospital, and a funeral, have claimed the lives of at least 18 people and left dozens more injured. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosions pic.twitter.com/YzPVKsVKoa
After going through an arduous legal battle that lasted over four years since his arrest in April 2020 for blasphemy, a Court of Appeal in the northern Nigerian state of Kano reduced Mubarak Bala’s sentence from 24 to 5 years in prison on May 13th.
As Muslims worldwide begin the Ramadan season by observing sawm or fasting from dawn to sunset, the Islamic police in a Nigerian state arrested almost a dozen Muslims for not observing this important pillar of the Islamic faith.
A crisis is brewing in northeastern Nigeria as local media reports of suspected Islamic militants abducting dozens of victims near a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) emerged this week.
"It was on Sunday that we got information that over 200 displaced people went to get firewood but unfortunately Boko Haram kidnapped them, allowing only the very young and very old to return."
As many people around the world celebrate the Christmas season and the upcoming New Year, Nigerians are shocked and outraged after a massive armed attack in central Nigeria that saw 160 people dead and more than 300 others injured, with the number of dead and injured still expected to rise as families and authorities continue to search for the missing victims.
When she heard about the news of Deborah Yakubu, a Christian university student in Nigeria, being lynched by a mob of Muslim students over alleged blasphemy, Rhoda Ya’u Jatau shared a message among her co-workers that criticized the lynching via WhatsApp.
Nigerian woman jailed for ‘blasphemy’ for 18 months over WhatsApp message
Sixty-seven people were arrested and detained by authorities in Nigeria for celebrating a gay wedding, making it one of the largest arrests in a country that outlaws homosexuality.
In northwestern Nigeria, an angry mob killed a man after accusing him of blasphemy on June 25th, triggering outrage from human rights groups who raised concerns about the growing threat against religious freedom in the region.
More than a year after a landmark case in Nigeria that saw atheist Mubarak Bala imprisoned for expressing his views on religion, a US congressman took up his case and joined in the calls to free Bala.
