Two men have been executed in Iran on charges of blasphemy, according to an announcement on Monday by the Iranian judiciary. The two men, named Yousef...
A 30-year-old vigilante, Ahmad Usman, has been set ablaze around Tippa garage at Federal Housing Estate in Lugbe Area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the...
The prime suspects in the death of Deborah, a year-two student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto have been declared wanted by the state police...
Pastor Emmanuel Maaaji of the First Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Tunga Magajiya, Niger, has confirmed the arrival in Magajiya of the body of the slain...
President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala, has been arrested for ‘insulting Prophet Muhammad’ on Facebook. Bala was arrested by men of the Nigerian Police...
All States with blasphemy laws on their statute books should repeal them to increase freedom of religion or belief, a UN human rights expert has said....
By Godwin Onyeacholem Indeed, for any keen observer of governance in post-colonial Africa, Nigeria must be a very depressing address. And this is more so...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has strongly condemned the release, without trial, of all suspects in the murder of a 74-year-old Christian woman, Bridget Agbahime,...
A Kano Magistrates’ Court on Thursday discharged all the five suspects, who allegedly killed a trader, Mrs. Bridget Agbahime, in Kano on June 2 over allegations...
Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has said the murder of eight persons at Talata-Mafara in the state was caused by false alarm. NewsWireNGR recalls that the...
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Wednesday tasked northern governors to stop further killing of Christians in the region. Rising from a joint meeting of...
(Here is an excerpt from an essay originally written in circa 2009. The full essay made it as a chapter into my 2010 book, You’re Not...
