Nigeria’s legal system is imposing systematic restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, specifically with its use of ...

Islam and Christianity are two of the major religions in Nigeria, but there have been debates surrounding which religion came first. Historical evidence clearly shows that Islam was the first ...

An atheist stands against the sunset sky in a street in Kano, Nigeria Friday, July 14, 2023. Nonbelievers in Nigeria said they perennially have been treated as second-class citizens in the deeply ...

Nigeria's rotational presidency, often sugarcoated as a tool for national unity, is nothing but a cynical ploy-a Trojan horse smuggled into politics by elites who exploit the twin poisons of ...

Gradually, the whirlwind of religion is pushing Nigeria towards the point of no return. When the incumbent president, General Buhari, said in early 2015 that “if we don’t kill corruption ...

Those divisions carry over into opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many more of Nigeria’s Christians (47%) than Muslims (10%) say they favor Israel; many more Muslims than Christians say ...

Young Muslim boys wait for traditional Friday prayers to begin at a mosque near the Emir's palace a day prior to the start of the elections, in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Feb. 15, 2019.

Sokoto, Nigeria – A little over a year ago, Safiya Huseini’s crime wasn’t even on the books. Now, the 35-year-old divorcee from a poor village in northern Nigeria faces death by stoning.

It is remarkable that the late Dr. Bala Usman’s book, ‘The Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria: 1977-1987’, was published in April 1987. Yet, over two and a half decades after, ...

Islam: The First Major Religion in Nigeria. Islam was introduced into Nigeria as early as the 11th century, long before the arrival of European colonial powers.