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Originally published in World Watch Monitor A female preacher was hacked to death in the early hours of July 9 near Nigeria’s capital. “Buckle Up” Nigeria’s largest Church organisation issued a statement July 10 decrying not only the recent violence against Christians, but the government’s “lukewarm” response to it. ‘‘The […]
Originally published in CBN News Hundreds of Nigerian Muslim and Christian youth stormed a government building in Abujah this week to stop Sharia law from ruling their nation. Legislatures passed a bill that many fear will mean the Islamisation of Nigeria. The measure, sponsored by Hon Abdullahi Balarabe Salame, was […]
Originally published in Fox News Dozens of emaciated-looking Boko Haram members begging for food have surrendered in northeast Nigeria, the military and a civilian self-defence fighter said on Wednesday (March 2, 2016). Seventy-six people including children and women gave themselves up to soldiers last Saturday in Gwoza, about 96km southeast […]
Originally published in Yahoo News The Nigerian army on Wednesday said it had freed more than 330 people, mostly women and children, from Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest stronghold in the volatile northeast. “The (army) unit … rescued 338 persons that were held captive by the terrorists,” the army said of […]
Originally published in The New York Times Suicide bombers, some screaming “God is great,” killed at least 40 people in two northeastern Nigerian states Wednesday, including explosions in two mosques, officials and witnesses said. All the bombers died. Earlier, Boko Haram Islamic extremists had attacked a rural military camp in northeastern […]
Originally posted in Testimony 1 Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) on Saturday announced that it is giving financial rewards of N91 million (R5.8 million) to its members who graduated with first class from different universities across the country. General Overseer of MFM, Daniel Olukoya, made the announcement […]
Originally published in CBN. In Nigeria, Christians in the Muslim-majority North have been the targets of relentless deadly attacks by Islamic extremists. More than 200 pastors in the Northeastern Borno state have either fled, closed their churches, or have been murdered by the militant Islamic group Boko Haram. Christian leaders who […]
Originally published in Charisma News On May 14, in plain view of his wife and one daughter, the Rev. Faye Pama Musa, general overseer of the Rhema Assembly International Church and secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Borno State, was gunned down by suspected Boko Haram Islamic […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Suspected terrorists from the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group set off four bombs that hit two churches in Kano city on Monday night (July 29), killing at least 45 people, sources said. The Rev Ramsey Noah, chairman of the Kano state chapter of the […]
Originally published by Reuters Nigerian soldiers have killed three members of Islamist militant sect Boko Haram and arrested 25 more in the northeast, the army said on Tuesday, two weeks after the launch of a major ground and air offensive to crush the group’s four-year rebellion. President Goodluck Jonathan declared […]