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Kaduna State journalist jailed after reporting attacks on Christians

Shortly after reporting on massacres that claimed the lives of 42 Christians in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, Luka Binniyat – a Nigeria Report contributor - was jailed by the country's federal government.

Videos · 23. November 2021

The recent US removal of Nigeria from the religious freedom blacklist

Dr Onyemaechi Franklyne Ogbunwezeh interviewed on NewsBand TV about the decision of the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to delist Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act.

Videos · 22. November 2021

Blinken: Nigeria's delisting based on facts

Dr Onyemaechi Franklyne Ogbunwezeh interviewed on Arise TV about the decision of the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to delist Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act.

Nigeria's little known Fulani Christians worship in secret

Rev. Buba Aliyu, a former Muslim from the Fulani tribe, is credited with the conversion of thousands of Fulani Muslims to Christianity, writes Masara Kim.

“They came killing and destroying” - Survivors recall devastating attack on Southern Kaduna village

Southern Kaduna State has been at the forefront of attacks by Fulani militants in recent months. On 26 September 2021 alone 34 people were killed when suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded the mainly Christian village of Madamai in Kaura local government area. At least seven others sustained injuries.

A eulogy for Dr. Obadiah Mailafia

Today, 5 November 2021, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, a courageous critic of the Nigerian government, will be laid to rest. Dr. John Eibner, the International President of CSI, wrote a letter to Dr. Mailafia's widow on the occasion.

A “peace deal” with killers of Plateau State Christians?

Questions are being raised about whether the Muslim Fulani community and the Christian Irigwe people of Bassa County, Plateau State have signed a peace deal, writes Masara Kim.