Killings in Nigeria: Pastor Adeboye reacts to recent protest at RCCG headquarters . There remained at least 1.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in the northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa; 39% lived in camps or similar settings and 61% in host communities. This highlights a significant upsurge in killings over the past few months. By. An Islamic State Christmas killing of 11 hostages in Nigeria threatens to flare up religious tensions. The Nigeria Army, Police and State Security Service continued to torture and ill-treat detainees. Ifreke Inyang. Why we must stop the killing in Northern Nigeria. July 11, 2019.

Heightened political tensions ahead of the 2019 elections in which President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking re-election defined Nigeria’s rights landscape in 2018. On February 6, 2019 4:50 pm In Viewpoint by Victor Ogunyinka. At least 3188 persons were killed in 2019 in Nigeria, a new report that tracked casualties in conflicts, violent clashes and extrajudicial killings across the country has said. The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E. A. Adeboye, has said that the fact that he is …

2019-06-09 Satiru, Sokoto State 18 Satiru village of Sokoto state was attacked by bandits, killing 18 people. According to the Nigeria Security Tracker, as downloaded on 19 March 2019, these are the recorded incidents of farmer-herder conflict-related violence between 1 February and 15 March 2019: Killings in Nigeria: ... July 11, 2019. The attack went on till morning, killing 25 people.

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo. Nigeria 2019 Annual Report; Nigeria; Back to Nigeria Nigeria 2019 Attacks by Boko Haram continued and resulted in hundreds of deaths, occasioned by security forces’ failure to protect civilians. Judicial convictions for extra-judicial killings in Nigeria are nevertheless rare and many other cases of human rights violations by law enforcement officers remain largely unpunished.

Since then conflict in Nigeria has included an insurgency in the Niger Delta which deescalated in 2009 as a result of an amnesty program for militants, periodic outbreaks of killing in the Middle Belt, and rising levels of violence in the Northeast. 2019 Burkina Faso: Africa 116 19,190,000 60.4 2018/9 From September 2018 … December 28, 2019. 2019-06-09 Shiroro, Niger State: 47 confirmed dead The UN said that 5.2 million people in the northeast remained in urgent need of food assistance; 450,000 children under five were in urgent need of nutrition. Nigeria ranks as the 12th worst in the world for Christian persecution, according to the Open Doors USA's 2019 World Watch List. Ifreke Inyang. According to these figures, from the beginning of 2019, there have been 262 civilian deaths. Communal violence continued in some parts of the country. An Islamic State Christmas killing of 11 hostages in Nigeria threatens to flare up religious tensions. The killings are said to have been revenge for the death of the Islamic ... 27 December 2019. 2019-06-08,09 Rabah, Sokoto State: 25 Kalhu, Tsage and Geeri villages in Rabah LGA were attacked by bandits during the night. The General Overseer of …

In April of 2011, hundreds were killed in post-election violence across the North. 9 months ago.

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo. December 28, 2019. The killings are said to have been revenge for the death of the Islamic State group leader in Syria.