The Kano State Government has rejected a ruling by the ECOWAS Court of Justice which declared aspects of its blasphemy laws as incompatible with international human...
A young man simply identified as Yunusa in Nasaru village of Ningi local government area of Bauchi State who was alleged to have committed blasphemy against...
A court in Indonesia on Wednesday, sentenced a woman to two years in prison with a heavy fine after she was found guilty of reciting an...
A secondary school student in the North Atlantic Ocean African country of Mauritius could be sentenced to death after she was arrested for allegedly insulting Prophet...
A group of Islamic extremists on Sunday killed a butcher, Usman Buda, for alleged blasphemy in Sokoto State. The spokesman for the state police command, Ahmad...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court 1 sitting in Bauchi on Tuesday, granted an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Idris Abdulaziz, bail in the sum of N1 million. Abdulaziz was...
A Pakistani court has sentenced a Muslim man to death for allegedly sharing blasphemous contents in a WhatsApp group. The convict identified as Syed Muhammad Zeeshan,...
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), otherwise known as Shiite Movement, has called for the immediate release of an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, who was...
The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, is prepared to sign the death warrant for the imprisoned Islamic cleric Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, according to the...
An Upper Sharia Court in Kano State on Thursday, sentenced a controversial Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, to death by hanging for alleged blasphemy against Prophet...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has teamed up with 12 other Muslim groups to demand justice against the killers of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states, has lamented the recent rise in cases of false allegations of blasphemy leading to violence...
The Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that six houses and seven shops were on Friday evening set ablaze by irate youths while scores of persons...
Barely one week after a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, was killed for alleged blasphemy, another Christian lady narrowly escaped jungle...
Captain Abdul Abubakar, the son of the former inspector general of police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar has released a statement to retract claims that he supports the...
The management of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State on Thursday ordered the indefinite closure of the institution over the killing of a female...
Former Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, along with 150 others, have been charged for blasphemy under the country’s new law, according to officials in a statement...
Justice Farouk Lawan of the Kano State High Court on Tuesday sentenced a self-confessed atheist, Mubarak Bala, to 24 years imprisonment for blasphemy. The state government...
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has stated that his administration would follow the blasphemy case involving Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara to a logical conclusion. He stated...
A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence handed to a Christian couple for alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammad and Islam, acquitting them for lack of...
Kano State High Court has set aside the death sentence slammed on a singer, Aminu Sharif, for alleged blasphemy. The court ordered a retrial of the...
Nigeria is an exceptionally intolerant country – religion-wise. In fact, the country is next to Iran on the religious intolerance threshold. You could get killed, threatened,...
Embattled Kannywood actress, Rahama Sadau has denied reports that she had been charged with blasphemy and will appear before a Sharia court for sharing what was...
Embattled Kannywood actress, Rahama Sadau, has been charged with blasphemy and will appear before a Sharia court in Kaduna, for sharing what was considered as raunchy...
The United Nations has demanded the release of Kano based singer, Sharif Yahaya Sharif who was sentenced to death over alleged blasphemy. The call was made...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Nigeria, Mr. Peter Hawkins, on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to reverse the conviction of a 13-year-old boy,...
Yahaya Shariff-Aminu, the man who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano State, has appealed his conviction at the State High Court. In the notice...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, said on Thursday he was ready to sign the death warrant of a 22-year-old musician, Aminu Yahaya Sharif. The musician was...
The Kano State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has reacted to the death sentence slammed on Kano based singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu after a...
The leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has reacted to the conviction of a Kano-based musician for blasphemy, a new report claims. The Upper...
The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, on Tuesday condemned the conviction of a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, for blasphemy by a sharia...
A blasphemy crackdown in Pakistan has witnessed the slamming of 30-year-old Taimoor Raza with the first-ever death sentence for insulting Prophet Muhammad on social media. According...
A court in Pakistan has charged eight suspects accused of killing a fellow university student over allegations of blasphemy. The eight suspects were charged with murder...
24-year-old engineering student Amir bin Said has been slammed with death penalty by a Saudi court for posting pictures of a snowman whose resemblance to prophet...
Governor Abdullaziz Yari of Zamfara State has said that the allegation of blasphemy against Islam and Prophet Mohammed that led to the killing of eight people...
It was a tragic day in Talata-Marafa community, Zamfara State, as about eight persons were killed in an orgy of violence occasioned by alleged blasphemy against...