Trump warned terrorists there would be ‘hell to pay’ if slaughter of Christians continued in Nigeria Nigeria said it shared intelligence with the U.S. ahead of Christmas night airstrikes on ISIS targets in the country. The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign … Read More
Last group of freed Nigerian schoolchildren are due to be taken to Minna later on Monday to meet their relatives in time for Christmas celebrations, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson said. A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by … Read More
MINNA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s government on Monday rescued 100 schoolchildren abducted last month from a Catholic school in Niger state, in one of the country’s biggest mass kidnappings in recent years. The students arrived at the government … Read More
Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and been reunited with their parents, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Catholic church. But about 253 kidnapped students … Read More
Abuja, NigeriaCNN — Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 school children in Nigerialast Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community … Read More
A series of attacks on villages in central Nigeria over the last few days have killed nearly 200 people, local authorities said on Wednesday, in the latest case this year of such mass killings blamed on the farmer-herder crisis in … Read More
At least 85 civilians were killed in Kaduna state, north-west Nigeria, in an air strike during a Muslim religious celebration on Sunday, the local emergency management authority said. The civilians were killed in a “bombing mishap”, President Bola Tinubu said … Read More
At least 15 people were killed at a mosque in the Zamfara state of northwest Nigeria on Saturday, locals said. Three locals told Reuters that the attack in the Bukkuyum local government area happened during Friday prayers at the Jumu’at … Read More
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced a total 65,145 suspected cases of cholera, including 2,141 deaths, representing a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 3.3 percent reported from 23 states and the FCT, as at Sept. 2, 2021. … Read More
Journalists protest the murder of their colleague Maria Helena Ferral at Lerdo square in Xalapa, Veracruz state, Mexico, on April 1, 2020. (AFP/Hector Quintanar) Retaliatory killings of journalists worldwide rose significantly in 2020 from the previous year, but deaths covering … Read More