Blasphemy killing of Sokoto student and ISWAP execution video are latest examples of sectarian tensions in Africa’s largest nation. Thousands of churches across Nigeria demanded an end to sectarian ...

Sir: Our eyes are filled to the brim with tears; our minds distraught with misery, pains and grief; the air and land saturated and flowing with blood since Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of Shehu ...

Samuel was brutally murdered in Sokoto by an angry mob of Muslim students after she was accused of insulting Prophet Mohammed. Chinyere denied the accusation at a news conference in Port Harcourt on ...

To the religious bigot, humanity is barely skin-deep. He lives in a world of surfaces, a world of masks and artifice. Thus he espouses the absoluteness of externals. To such a zealot, Deborah Samuel’s ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A student was beaten and burnt to death Thursday by fellow students in northwestern Nigeria after she was accused of making a blasphemous social media post, witnesses and police ...

Jacob McGee, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, has defended the designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, CPC, under the ...

Allegedly, Deborah had requested that other students do not post religious material in a Whatsapp group meant for school assignments. Other reports state that she made a statement on social media ...

Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a Christian university student in northern Nigeria, was attacked and killed in May by a mob of Muslim students and Islamic extremists. School officials and security officers at ...