Upwards of 150 people have been abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest, local residents said, pointing to dozens of armed men on motorcycles who stormed villages in Zamfara state for the punitive raid. The BBC reports the residents were kidnapped after the villages failed to pay a “tax” imposed on them by the gunmen, witnesses said.
Nigeria: Muslim Mob Beheads Woman in Public Market for Insulting Muhammad
June 4, 2016 by
A woman local reports have identified only as Bridget was beheaded by an angry Muslim mob in a busy market in Nigeria’s Kano state Thursday after she allegedly blasphemed against Muhammad during a dispute with a customer. Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper, one of the nation’s largest, provides few details on the incident, little more than the fact that […]
Boko Haram Jihadis Burn Children Alive, Slay Over 100 Villagers in Nigeria Massacre
February 1, 2016 by
In one of their most heinous massacres to date, militants from the radical Islamist Boko Haram group slaughtered over a hundred victims in a village in northeast Nigeria Saturday night, including a number of children whom they burned alive. The latest atrocity from the jihadi group allied to the Islamic State took place in the village […]