Nigeria

Amnesty calls on Nigeria to disclose findings of official probe into rights abuses

Sep 12, 2020 01:28

Amnesty International has called on Nigeria to disclose the findings of a probe that was ordered by the government three years ago into rights abuses committed by security forces.
Gunmen kill 22 people in two separate attacks in central Nigeria: Officials

Sep 04, 2020 10:24

Gunmen have killed 22 people, including 19 vigilantes, in two separate attacks in central Nigeria, officials said Friday, in the latest violence by cattle rustlers in the region.
Nigerian forces martyred mourner in Kaduna’s Ashura procession

Aug 31, 2020 01:57

Nigerian forces have martyred a mourner and a press reporter after attacking the Ashura procession in the northern state of Kaduna.
Boko Haram massacres 75 people in Nigeria: Report

Aug 27, 2020 07:14

At least 75 members of a community have been killed by the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria’s northeastern province of Borno, a report says.
Over 1,100 villagers killed in Nigeria in 1st half of 2020: Amnesty

Aug 25, 2020 01:39

Over 1,100 people have been killed in rural areas across several states of central and northwestern Nigeria amid an alarming escalation in raids and kidnappings by armed bandits in the first half of the year, Amnesty International says.
Three Shia mourners martyred, dozens wounded in Nigerian police attack

Aug 23, 2020 04:17

At least three people have been martyred and dozens of others injured after Nigerian police attacked mourners marking the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shias’ Imam and grandson of Prophet Mohammad (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny), in the Northern State of Kaduna.
Deadly communal violence hits central Nigeria

Aug 11, 2020 06:24

Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said today.
Sheikh Zakzaky’s lawyers demand dismissal of case, immediate release

Jul 17, 2020 07:46

The lawyers of the jailed Muslim religious scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have called for the dismissal of the case against him and his wife as well as their immediate release from the Nigerian government's captivity.
Black lives do not matter even in black Nigeria

Jul 02, 2020 07:55

If the slogans and the placards reading "Black Lives Matter” in protest to the sporadic killings of citizens of color by the white-skinned US police forces have caught the attention of the international media, these same media horns have not much focused on the organized killing of black Nigerian Shi’a Muslims by the Nigerian regime of the same dark color which also claims to be Muslim.
20 soldiers, 40 civilians killed in Nigeria attacks

Jun 14, 2020 04:29

At least 20 soldiers and more than 40 civilians have been killed in two separate militant attacks in northeastern Nigeria.