NEWS ALERT: Nigeria Militants Declare Islamic Caliphate After Killing 100 Christians
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- The leader of Nigeria's feared Boko Haram group says a northeastern town is now part of an Islamic caliphate after his militants killed more than 100 civilians there, most of them Christians.
URGENT BREAKING NEWS: Hundreds Dead As Christians, Muslims Clash In Nigeria
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
JOS, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- At least some 400 people have been killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in the central Nigerian city of Jos where Christians and Muslims clashed in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years.Fighting began Friday, November 28, amid a dispute over the result of a local election, witnesses said Saturday, November 29.
BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria Church Attacks Kill 7; Christians ‘Gunned Down’ (Update)
(ADDS CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILTY FROM BOKO HARAM, CHANGING LEAD AND DEATH TOLL)
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
JOS, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Islamic group Boko Haram claimed responsibility Sunday, June 10, for bombing a church and spraying another congregation with bullets in Nigeria's troubled northern and central region, killing at least seven people, including a suicide bomber and injuring over 40 others
Nigeria Christians Concerned After Islamists Escape Prison
By Joseph C DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent with BosNewsLife Africa Service
BAUCHI, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in northern Nigeria feared more attacks against them Thursday, September 16, after a radical Muslim sect freed hundreds of its supporters.
Nigeria Muslim Militants Attack School, Church
By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Paul Jongas reporting from Nigeria
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Angry Muslim crowd torched a church and attacked a school in northern Nigeria during a protest against alleged blasphemy of Islam's Prophet Mohammad by a schoolteacher, local media reported Tuesday, April 1.
BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria Church Attack Kills 22; More Unrest Reported
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamic militants armed with guns and explosives attacked a busy church service in a northeastern Nigerian village, killing at least 22 people, witnesses and church officials said Monday, January 27. The attackers reportedly set off bombs and fired into the congregation in the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday, January 26, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four hour siege.
Residents of Nigerian City Traumatized After Easter Bombing (Special Feature)
By Lekan Oyekanmi, Voice of America Correspondent reporting from Kaduna, Nigeria
KADUNA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Still traumatized residents in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna are trying to resume their lives after an Easter Sunday car bombing that killed at many as 38 people. Scores of wounded and witnesses are attempting to come to grips with the attack.
Nigeria Militants Kill Dozens In School; Christian President Concerned
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigeria's embattled Christian president condemned on Wednesday, February 26, an overnight attack on a school in the country's troubled north-east by suspected Islamist militants, in which as many as 40 students died.
NEWS ALERT: Thousands of Christians Flee Mass Killings In Nigeria
By BosNewsLife Africa Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of people, most of them Christians, remain displaced in Nigeria's farming belt where hundreds of people have been killed by Fulani cattle herders backed by Islamic terror groups, BosNewsLife learned.