#nigeria

Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (May 23) killed 14 Christians in a village near Jos, Plateau state and eight others in another village, sources said.

A pastor in Nigeria abducted from the northeastern part of the country by Islamic extremist militants reportedly says in a video that they will kill him on Wednesday (March 3) if their ransom demands are not met.

Rev. Polycarp Zongo, a pastor who was abducted in northeastern Nigeria, was released on Oct. 30. Meanwhile, Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa state have kidnapped a 6-year-old Christian boy after killing his father.

The Nigerian government believes Boko Haram had to resort to “soft targets” such as churches and schools, and they’re bent on a “satanic strategy” of triggering a “religious war” and throwing the nation “into chaos.”

The insurgents overpowered police and vigilante defenders before burning a police station, police barracks, church buildings, a hospital and a health center and the homes of two local officials.

In an opinion piece published by Christianity Today, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari claims that the vast majority of those victimized by Boko Haram are Muslim. The Christian Association in Nigeria is crying foul.

Herdsmen killed 17 people in Marish and Ruboi villages in Nigeria on Monday after killing 15 people in an attack on Kwatas on Sunday (Jan. 26), bringing the death count to 32

A video of a Nigerian student killed by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is circulating the internet. Christian Ropvil Daciya Dalep was identified by members of his ethnic Mupun people as the student killed in the video.