Boko Haram “Lures, Traps” Young Nigerian Entrepreneurs With Business LoansApril 13, 2016 — ICC Note: Reports suggest Boko Haram is offering business loans to poor Nigerians and then forcing them to join if they fail to pay the terror group back. In a...
Boko Haram Crisis: ‘Huge Rise’ in Child Suicide BombersApril 12, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram has increased the number of child suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad reason by eleven times since 2014, according to reports. The dreadful...
Families of Schoolgirls Abducted by Boko Haram Struggling for SurvivalApril 11, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram abducted 279 young girls from a government school in Chibok, Nigeria in April 2014 and now nearly two years later, with more than 200 still missing,...
Boko Haram Fighters Surrendering in Droves, Reports SayApril 9, 2016 — ICC Note: The Nigerian military is reporting Boko Haram fighters surrendering in scores. President Muhammadu Buhari won the office on commitments to eradicate the Islamist insurgency in the north and...
Timeline of Benue, Nigeria Fulani MassacreApril 9, 2016 — ICC Note: Militant Islamist Fulani militias massacred more than 500 Christian farmers in Agatu, Benue State, Nigeria in late February and now the media are catching up to that reality....
Nigeria Boko Haram Militants Offered Olive Branch by ArmyApril 7, 2016 — ICC Note: Nigeria is offering amnesty and forgiveness for hundreds of Boko Haram fighters who surrender and are demonstrating remorse for evil acts they committed while joined up with the...
How Boko Haram Trains Abducted Women and Girls to Be Suicide BombersApril 7, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram notoriously devastates women. Christian women, in particular, face persecutions such as watching their husbands murdered, forced conversion and Islamic re-education, serial rape. But on of the...
Nigerian Catholics Oppose Controversial Religious Bill in Northern StateApril 5, 2016 — ICC Note: A northern Nigerian governor is pushing a bill to place restrictions on religious sermons in the state, according to reports. Catholic church leaders have spoken out forcefully against...
They Were Freed from Boko Haram’s Rape Camps, But Their Nightmare Isn’t Over.April 4, 2016 — ICC Note: When women get rescued from captivity under Boko Haram, their story of horror and maltreatment has only just began. The militant Islamist terror group has become notorious in...
One Kidnapped Pastor in Nigeria Dead, Two Others ReleasedApril 4, 2016 — ICC Note: One pastor has died, while two return home safely after kidnappers released to ministers from Kaduna, Nigeria in a saga that began with their abduction during Easter week....
The “Wives” of Boko HaramApril 2, 2016 — ICC Note: One of the most heinous way that Boko Haram persecutes the Church in northern Nigeria is through abduction and sexual violence. Countless women, many of them Christians can...
Nigerian Governor Predicts Worse Fate Coming Than Boko HaramApril 1, 2016 — ICC Note: A Nigerian governor from the northeastern state Boko Haram has ravaged the worst thinks that future threats like the extremist Muslim group exist around the corner, even if...
Human Rights Watch Slams Nigerian Gov’t Over Silence On 300 Abducted Damasak ChildrenMarch 30, 2016 — ICC Note: Three hundred children remain missing after Nigeria's largest Boko Haram school abduction to date, and human rights groups are beginning to decry the government's silence. The militant Islamist...
The Mass Boko Haram Kidnapping that You Never Heard AboutMarch 29, 2016 — ICC Note: Three hundred elementary school children remain missing among 400 Boko Haram hostages still captive since March 2015. The militant Islamist terror group abducted women and kids from Damasak,...
Village Massacres Strain Nigeria Further, as Traditional Nomads Slaughter ChristiansMarch 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Nigerian Christians in Benue State suffered hell on earth in February 2016, facing a massacre of 500 believers in villages across Agatu Local Government Area (LGA), Fulani herder...
Pastors Kidnapped in Kaduna State, NigeriaMarch 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Three masked gunmen interrupted preparations for Easter worship in Kaduna State, Nigeria Monday, March 21, dragging off three Christian pastors while firing their weapons into the air, Morning...