Across the world, some voices are deliberately painting Nigeria’s complex security challenges as a “religious war” between ...

In the early hours of Sunday, March 15 2015, a village in Nigeria’s middle belt state of Benue became the scene of ...

Opinion - Nigeria has reached a moral crossroads. The signs are subtle but unmistakable: the jokes that sting a little too sharply, the television panels that reduce whole peoples to caricature, the ...

AFA copy 39088019753557 is a gift from Janet Stanley. This essay explores the impact of global trends and flows of popular culture to Muslim Hausaland from 1935 to 2005 in three distinct areas: prose ...

Includes English translations of Hausa poems and texts. Reviewed by Clare A. Ignatowski in African studied review (New Brunswick, NJ) 49 (1) April 2006, pages 170-172. (DT1.A1 A26 AFA). The singers ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading Nigerian prelate has said that the very structure of the state in Africa’s most populous nation is “dysfunctional” and “not working,” including the division of the ...

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Sani Mu'azu holds out little hope that elections will bring peace to his central Nigerian home region, where sectarian violence has already killed scores of people this year.

Chief Press Secretary to former Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, Ismail Omipidan, yesterday enjoined Muslim Ummah in Nigeria to continue to propagate good virtues, promote love, tolerance and ...

YELWA, Nigeria -- Injured, hungry and grieving Muslims abandoned their central Nigerian town Friday amid stalled efforts to mediate a conflict that has left an estimated 500 dead in attacks by ...