Convener of the One people: One mission; One nation Movement (3-OM) and Chief Executive Officer of IPI Solutions, an ICT company on the continent, Adamu Garba, has said for the country to move ...

Nigeria is the biggest and largest country ... Or are we deliberately trying to de-market religion by showcasing it as a handy tool that promotes backwardness and stagnation?

Nigeria’s constitution provides for freedom of religion and expression, but activists say threats to religious freedom are common, especially in the north. Almost half of the countries in Africa ...

(RNS) — Last year, a Shariah court in northern Nigeria condemned Yahaya Sharif ... two years’ imprisonment for insulting a person’s religion. Blasphemy laws promote intolerance ...

Soyinka spoke at the launch of the book, Religion and the Making of Nigeria, in Abuja, yesterday. His words: “Religion in the history of this continent has been a disastrous venture, a disaster ...

Religion in Nigeria is a form of mental robbery and slavery. Our country has become a nation where the government is defined as coagulation of cult politicians and religious brigandage.

(A rundown of the three leading candidates) Nigeria’s population of some 140 million is divided nearly equally between Christians and Muslims. The importance of that divide is well illustrated by the ...

Religion’s inroads into politics in Nigeria aren’t new. Since the return to democratic governance, religion has influenced how state power is captured. This can be seen in the political ...

In Nigeria, religion is taken extremely seriously but has been used to cause divisions and prompt violence, especially at election time. The BBC's Nigeria correspondent Will Ross reports from Jos ...