Jihadists from Boko Haram and the ISIS-backed Islamic State-West Africa Province (ISWAP) — once the same group — have reportedly intensified their attacks against Nigerian military facilities over the past week, killing several officials and civilians, local outlets reported on Tuesday.
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Tuesday announced it has opened an investigation into Chinese e-commerce titan Temu for allegedly violating Nigeria’s data protection laws.
A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, convicted two Chinese citizens on Wednesday on charges of “cyber-terrorism,” accused and pleading guilty of participating in a massive “cryptocurrency, investment and romance” fraud scheme.
House Republicans, led by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Riley Moore (R-WV), introduced a bill on Monday calling for the State Department to offer comprehensive reports on American actions to protect Christians persecuted by a host jihadist terror threats in Nigeria, as well as efforts to convince the Nigerian government to take the threat seriously.
According to a U.S. official who spoke to media outlets on Tuesday, the Pentagon will send about 200 troops to Nigeria within the next few weeks to train the Nigerian military in counter-terrorism tactics.
Three separate attacks this week have left untold dead – at least 162 and counting – in Kwara state, western Nigeria, many of the victims reportedly Muslims slaughtered by an Islamic State offshoot for failing to accept its jihadist ideology.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday that a small number of American military officers have been deployed to Nigeria to assist with counter-terrorism efforts.
China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to be flagging in Africa, as new loans for infrastructure projects are down by over 50 percent – and more money is now flowing from African debtors to Chinese banks than the reverse.
Former North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker (R), whom President Donald Trump recently appointed to a newly-created religious liberty role, said the administration is “relentless” in holding the rest of the world “accountable” for protecting human rights in an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
The Christians of Nigeria have shown “remarkable resilience and faith” in one of the most violent persecution climates in the world.
Thousands of people in northwestern Nigeria have fled their homes after a powerful gang leader threatened to exterminate them.
Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors released the 2026 edition of their World Watch List on Wednesday, highlighting the most dangerous countries on Earth to practice Christianity.
In his New Year’s Day address to the nation, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu celebrated “decisive” U.S. airstrikes against terrorist targets in northwestern Nigeria, and promised that collaboration with international partners against “criminal and terrorist elements determined to disrupt our way of life” would continue.
British heavyweight boxing star Anthony Joshua was rushed to the hospital Monday morning after suffering injuries in a serious car accident that killed two people in Nigeria.
The head of the largest organization representing the Tiv people of central Nigeria told local media he sent a letter to President Donald Trump this weekend thanking him for approving airstrikes against jihadists exterminating Christian communities nationwide.
The Washington Post’s editorial board is praising President Donald Trump’s recent deadly strikes on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) said that she hopes extremists will be deterred by the strikes in Nigeria, “But if they don’t, I do think that Congress needs to take
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Atlantic Council Distinguished Fellow J. Peter Pham, who served as United States Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, said that there are issues with coordinating strikes with Nigeria’s government because “certain parts of the
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Carl Higbie Frontline,” Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) praised the strikes in Nigeria over Christmas but said that it is crucial for the U.S. “to work with Nigerian government officials to get them to focus
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Early Start,” Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar argued that the Nigerian government has the will to fight terrorism but “We may have institutional challenges, partly due to, for instance, the Leahy law that stopped the
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) stated that the strikes in Nigeria are the administration “making sure they sow chaos and distraction.” Co-host Kate Bolduan asked, “[T]he Foreign Minister of Nigeria was on this morning
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said that she wishes that instead of undertaking strikes, the Trump administration focused on things like regaining “our role again as a leader in providing USAID” in parts of
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Early Start,” Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar stated that the American strikes in the country on Christmas were “coordinated with the U.S.,” and the fight in the area is “not about religion. It is about
Both Syria and Nigeria were struck by deadly mosque bombings this week, killing and injuring dozens of people. Both attacks were timed to coincide with prayer services to inflict maximum carnage.
President Donald Trump stated that, acting as Commander in Chief, he directed the United States to carry out a “powerful and deadly strike” in northwest Nigeria against ISIS terrorists, whom he identified as responsible for targeting and killing innocent Christians at historically severe levels.
Nigerian activists and leaders at the front lines of the jihadist mass killings in the country denounced attempts to erase the religious aspect of the persecution in the country during a recent online press briefing alongside the human rights organization Open Doors, noting the overwhelming evidence that the killers are seeking to eliminate Christianity entirely.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a Christmas Eve message from Jerusalem stressing that Israel is “the only country in the Middle East where the Christian community is thriving” and pledged that the Jewish state “will always stand” with Christians worldwide.
Nigerians speaking to the newspaper Daily Trust expressed extreme hesitation in traveling out of the capital city of Abuja to spend Christmas this week with family, citing the “insecurity” crisis caused by a growing wave of systematic attacks by jihadists against Christian communities nationwide.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) urged Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday to use the federal government to protect worshippers in the face of expected increased jihadist attacks during the Christmas season.
New England Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson, who dedicated his life to Jesus Christ a few years ago, is raising awareness about Christians being persecuted all over the world.
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the Nigerian Army of opening fire on protesters and killing nine women.
Police in the southeastern Nigerian state of Imo are investigating a possible organ-harvesting ring after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel.
The Interior Ministry of Benin announced on Sunday that an attempted military coup against President Patrice Talon had been thwarted.
The Catholic Diocese of Zaria in Nigeria’s Kaduna state said on Wednesday that a priest named Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ezema was kidnapped from his church Tuesday night.
A top official in Nigeria condemned calls from prominent American and other human rights figures for the country to abolish the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, on citizens regardless of religion, dismissively remarking, “we are not Venezuela.”
Archbishop Henry Ndakuba on Friday announced that kidnapped Anglican priest Edwin Achi had been murdered by his abductors, a month after he was kidnapped from his home in the state of Kaduna and held for ransom.
Nigerian Defense Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar tendered his resignation on Monday, the office of President Bola Tinubu confirmed, amid a growing wave of jihadist violence against Christians in the country.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a station of national emergency over a string of brutal attacks and kidnappings, including mass abductions of school children.
The World Food Program (WFP), an arm of the United Nations, warned on Tuesday that parts of Nigeria may face unprecedented hunger in the most perilous parts of the upcoming year, leaving as many as 35 million people facing “severe food insecurity.”
Nearly a month after President Donald Trump announced that he would return Nigeria to the State Department’s list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom, Pope Leo XIV has emerged as one of the most prominent voices quietly, but consistently, offering support to the cause.
