In Kano State, a Muslim-majority state in northern Nigeria, strict blasphemy laws carry punishments as severe as the death penalty for insul...

The Islamic police in the northern Nigerian state of Kano have arrested Muslims seen eating and drinking publicly, as well as those selling ...

The National Secular Society has welcomed news that Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala has been  freed  from prison, after spending four years be...

A Nigerian Christian has been fully acquitted of any wrongdoing after spending 19 months in prison on blasphemy charges. Rhoda Jatau, a mot...

Father Thomas Oleghe, the oldest priest in Nigeria has passed away at the age of 104. Oleghe died in the early hours of Nov. 24, the Solemni...

Nigeria's military has said a new Islamist insurgent group from Niger and Mali, known as Lakurawa, was operating in the northwest and o...

On a warm Thursday afternoon in May, the ululation, drumming and singing of a choir of two-dozen women can be heard across Gan Gora, a villa...

Crowds gathered in Lafia town in central Nigeria to celebrate the Durbar Festival, a colorful religious and traditional fete that features...

Eid festivities have reached a climax in Nigeria with colourful events. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from northern Kano state. Al Jaze...

  Two missionary priests who were abducted from a parish rectory in Nigeria earlier this month have been released and admitted to the hospit...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has advanced a resolution to increase sanctions and pressure on the Nigerian government over the rampant...

A Nigerian pastor has been arrested over allegations he fraudulently got people to part with their money. Theo O Ebonyi, well-known in Benue...

  Before his death in 2021 at the age of 57, TB Joshua was one of Africa's most influential televangelists. The Christian preacher attr...

Heavily armed assailants suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents randomly shot at people on Monday. Authorities launched investigations into...

A judge in Bauchi State, Nigeria, has granted bail to Rhoda Jatau. Jatau, a Christian and mother of five, had been imprisoned since May 2022...

For sharing a message among her co-workers that criticised a mob action last May , Rhoda Ya’u Jatau has spent the last year in police detent...

A man was stoned to death after being accused of blasphemy in northwest Nigeria, authorities and activists said, sparking outrage on Monday ...

A magistrate’s court in Abuja, on Tuesday, rescheduled the trial of a pastor of the House on the Rock Refuge Church, Uche Aigbe , who faces ...

                    Whether he was running through defenders in the NFL or studying relentlessly for medical school exams, Dr. Samkon Gado,...

A Nigerian Shariah court has sentenced a prominent Sufi Muslim cleric to death for blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad in a rare capital ...