Sharia alert in Bauchi state, Nigeria, where Islamic law has been in force since 2000.
Six people convicted by Islamic sharia courts in a northern Nigerian state are awaiting death by stoning, while 46 others are waiting for amputation, the official N…

Muslims in the town of Yana, Bauchi state, Nigeria, went on a rampage earlier this month, as I blogged here, after a woman was accused of blasphemy. One person was killed, seven hospitalised, and five churches destroyed in the violence.  Also, 100…

The government of Muslim-majority Kano state in northern Nigeria has announced that four Christian churches are to be razed so that roads and a hospital can be built.  The decision was made unilaterally.  No compensation will be paid.
Two Pe…

Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS) reports that several Muslim militants have been arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks.  Those arrested are said to have connections with al-Qaeda and the Nigerian Taliban.
The group, acco…

Two men have been murdered in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, after an Islamic leader exhorted Muslims to engage in jihad against Christians.  Muslim militants beat Henry Emmanuel Objage, 24, to death with wooden clubs while a young man identified only …

A Christian father in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, has lost custody of his three daughters to relatives of his deceased Muslim ex-wife.
Allabe Kaku Chibok’s Muslim wife divorced him in 1996 after he became a Christian.  He maintained …