"Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked four non-Muslim villages in central Nigeria on January 10 and 11, killing 18 and burning down a church and over a dozen houses. Soldiers reportedly collaborated in the attack.

For the last 10 years sexual orientation has been included in a list of discriminatory grounds for executions – gay rights activists say the vote to remove that listing is "dangerous and disturbing."

Machete-wielding rioters hacked at least 200 people to death yesterday in the latest wave of religious violence in Nigeria.

Reports suggest as many as 500 people were killed in pre-dawn assaults on three villages close to the city of Jos in the Nigerian state of Plateau on March 7. The area was the scene of similar intercommunal attacks in January.

JOS — In a hospital in Nigeria's central city of Jos, Chindum Yakubu recalls the moment her 18-month-old daughter was snatched from her back and hacked to death with a machete. "We were sleeping when we heard gun shots around 2 a.m.

''Six people convicted by Islamic sharia courts in a northern Nigerian state are awaiting death by stoning, while 46 others are waiting for amputation, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Friday.