college student, focused international attention on Nigeria's Christians and their persistent abuse Last year, Nigeria accounted for nearly 80% of Christian deaths worldwide, with more than 4,650 believers Considering the widespread and wanton religious brutality in Nigeria, and President Buhari's refusal Nigeria is Africa's most populous and financially significant nation. In the wake of this latest tragedy and ongoing violence, re-designating Nigeria as a CPC should be an

13 years or since July 2009 Boko Haram uprising 30, 000 moderate and defenseless Muslim lives lost Nigeria : The World’s Greatest Enemy of Christianity The Federal Republic of Nigeria ended the year 2021 with Nigeria also became “the Greatest Enemy of Christian Faith in the World” and “a country with the world Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch index on global killing of Christians: “4,650 Christians were killed in Nigeria For the fifteen months from January 2021 to March 2022, Nigeria saw a total 6006 Christian deaths. 45,644

Jatau, 45, was arrested in Nigeria’s Bauchi State on May 20, after she shared a video condemning the recent murder of Deborah Yakubu, a Christian university student in Nigeria who had herself been accused The open letter comes as Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, is arriving in Washington DC for the human rights groups, had called on the State Department to add Nigeria to the CPC list. USCIRF called the refusal to add Nigeria to the list “inexplicable” in light of “the State Department

June 21, 2022 By Nina Shea Sixteen days after the massacre on Pentecost Sunday in Nigeria, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Ondo state, we know one thing for certain: Nigeria’s government is been held by the State Department and influenced Secretary Antony Blinken’s delisting last fall of Nigeria Nigeria’s Christian Association implored the government to protect the bishop. On May 16, the Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was in Nigeria and met with Bishop Jude.

Soldiers, Police, Gov't Abducted 2000 Persons, Disappeared 500 & Killed 140 Since Jan 2021 Nigeria protest against police violence credit: Human Rights Watch Onitsha-Nigeria, 26th May 2021 It is the new finding leading research and investigative rights group that no fewer than 2000 law abiding citizens of Eastern Nigeria have since January 2021 been abducted by soldiers of the Nigerian Army and operatives of the Nigeria Eastern Nigeria, they are also responsible for many of the referenced abductions and most of the disappearances

Intersociety, Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria Sunday, 6th June 2021 The International Society for Civil Liberties The latest armed violence from the Government of Nigeria started some minutes before 3 am the early morning The crude method by the Government of Nigeria including invasion of citizens’ homes at ungodly hours Also under Nigeria’s extant laws, applicable globally, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and other licensed legal The security forces of Nigeria are hereby called upon to withdraw and discontinue their siege and follow

Since 2012, Genocide Watch has issued Genocide Warnings for Nigeria because of Boko Haram, an Islamist There are now 25 million Fulani in West Africa, fifteen million in Nigeria. Massacres by Fulani militias have killed over 2000 Christians in Nigeria since 2016. Commission of Inquiry should go to Nigeria to investigate the massacres. Churches in Nigeria should create human rights centers to warn and report on massacres.

Several people are dead in northeast Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village Boko Haram have carried out a number of attacks in northern Nigeria where they are fighting to overthrow To protect themselves, communities in northern Nigeria have resorted to armed vigilantes and militia claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 300 schoolboys in Katsina state, although the Nigerian

when it designated Nigeria as one of world’s ten worst abusers of religious freedom, as a Country of riding motorcycles, and he was trafficked into Nigeria. Brownback explained, for Nigeria’s CPC designation this month. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and with its largest economy, is in crisis. step this month in designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 8 (Reuters) - An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following There have been a series of attacks in northwest Nigeria, which has seen a sharp rise in mass abductions In a separate incident, 30 students abducted from their college in the northwestern Nigerian state of

Fulani herdsmen pose for a picture in Zango, Zango-kataf local govt, Kaduna State, Nigeria, in March 22, 2014. | REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde ABUJA, Nigeria — Suspected Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists in the past month killed at least 30 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria and 10 in Kaduna state, where Solomon Mwantiri of the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria said in a press statement that Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria