Category: massacres

Nigeria’s Buhari Steps Down as President Amid Religious Massacres and War Crimes Allegations

JOS—Global rights activists have called for the prosecution of Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari for his alleged role in allowing religious massacres to occur throughout his eight-year leadership of Africa’s most populous nation. Buhari stepped down as president on May 29, after being in office since 2015. Activists speaking to The Epoch Times say his…


Governor Points to Foreign-born Jihadists Behind Catholic Church Massacre

LAGOS—The subject was Pentecost, but the message was bullets that killed more than 40 people in a Catholic congregation in Nigeria’s relatively serene Ondo state. The priest was just giving the benediction at the end of a mass to celebrate Pentecost Sunday when at least four shooters detonated a bomb and began spraying bullets among trapped worshippers. The…