The tragic national security situation in Nigeria has been thrust into the international spotlight anew with a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump. On Oct. 31, Trump designated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” for “systematic violations of religious freedom” and threatened to cut all aid and take military action.

The killers, as they so often do, descended under cover of darkness, the sound of their arrival masked by falling rain. Most residents of Yelewata, a Christian farming village in central Nigeria’s Benue state,

Nigeria said Sunday the country would welcome American intervention against Islamic extremist groups behind the massacre and persecution of Christians in the African nation. Daniel Bwala, advisor to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu,

Armed Boko Haram militants kidnapped Murna Yusuf, then in her early 30s, in July 2021 as she rode on a bus from Kukar-Gadu, Yobe State, to Maiduguri,

Some frontline Nigerian soldiers fighting Boko Haram terrorists in Yobe and Borno states have accused the government-backed “repentant” insurgents of leaking critical military strategies, positions, and weapon details to their former commanders, SaharaReporters can confirm.

Troops of OPHK have repelled coordinated attacks by Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters on multiple locations across Borno and Yobe states.

Despite claims made by Trump, Nigeria said Christians are not being persecuted in their country. In fact, the data also

Three women freed from Boko Haram militants are sharing their harrowing stories. — -- Three women freed from Boko Haram militants are sharing their harrowing stories about their time in captivity. The women, all married to Boko Haram fighters, are ...

EVAN WILLIAMS, Correspondent: [voice-over] Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, divided between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. For the past five years, it’s been fighting a brutal Islamist insurgency. The radical group Boko ...

Nigeria said Sunday the country would welcome American intervention against Islamic extremist groups behind the massacre and persecution of Christians in the African nation. Daniel Bwala, advisor […]

Boko Haram’s ideology is rooted in the idea of Islamization through Jihad. The group believes that the only legitimate form of government is one based on Shariʿa (Islamic law) and that Western-style democracy is un-Islamic because it replaces divine law with human law.