ABUJA, Nigeria (RNS) — When Fatima Isiaka, a religious Muslim teacher, asked the cab driver to drop her off at St. Kizito Catholic Church in Abuja, the driver thought she was lost.

Three seminarians were kidnapped in Nigeria’s Edo State on July 10, adding to the escalating crisis of abductions plaguing ...

ABUJA. Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen with explosives killed at least 38 persons including five children in an attack on a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, the Ondo State Catholic Diocese has ...

Religion in Nigeria despite coronavirus measures in depth. This article is part of the dossier: Corona Chronicles: 30 March – 3 April. By ‘Tofe Ayeni. Posted on April 3, 2020 10:56 Worshippers leave ...

Members of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom were dismayed by the state department's decision last month to remove Nigeria from a list of countries with "severe ...

All roads led to Abuja last weekend as Musa, son of former Nigerian president, the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, tied the knot with his bride, Maryam Shuaib, in a grand celebration that brought together ...

The Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) is working to defuse tensions between Christians and Muslims here, providing a forum since 1999 to enhance dialogue between the two groups. Through the ...

As speaker after speaker spoke, it became quite evident, like former YCE Chief Dr Kunle Olajide has said on many occasions, that no part of Nigeria is happy with Nigeria. For one, the terms of the ...

The Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, the archbishop of Abuja, ... According to Nigeria’s Company Income Tax Act, religious institutions are only taxed if they operate profitable trades or businesses.

After conceding that Nigeria’s insecurity is multidimensional, the article defaults to an overly simplistic explanation rooted in religious extremism. This is not only analytically inconsistent ...

Nigeria removed from religion violator list December 4, 2021 at 3:23 a.m. by Frank E. Lockwood ...