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ISIS second in command Abu Bilal Al-Minuki killed in a joint US-Nigeria military operation, Trump announces on Truth Social

OpIndia Staff -
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the American forces and the Nigerian military, in a joint operation, have killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki (also...
News Reports

‘Civilisation will die’, ‘back to the Stone Age’, ‘a fate worse than Maduro’s’ and more: Understanding Trump’s penchant for using threats and coercion as...

Rukma Rathore -
Donald Trump wrote to Støre, "I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace," after his 2025 Nobel Prize rejection.
Opinions

Is it just Muslims Vs Christians in Nigeria? Beyond the rhetoric, there is a quiet resource war reshaping Africa

Divyansh Tiwari -
China was already years ahead on the ground when Western leaders started discussing mineral security in public. Western strategy has to be adjusted because of this fact rather than humanitarian concerns. 
News Reports

Nigeria: At least 7 killed as explosion rips through mosque during evening prayers in Maiduguri 

OpIndia Staff -
An anti-jihadist militia leader said the explosives were placed inside the mosque and detonated during prayers.
Crime

Nigeria: 227 students kidnapped by armed militia from a Catholic institution, govt orders closure of all boarding schools

OpIndia Staff -
On November 21, Thursday, armed terrorists in Nigeria's Papiri in the Northwestern region stormed into a Catholic school and kidnapped around 227 students, as...
Crime

Nigeria: 25 Schoolgirls kidnapped from a school in Kebbi state, Vice Principal shot dead

OpIndia Staff -
Gunmen attacked a girls’ boarding school in Kebbi State, Nigeria, killing the vice principal and kidnapping 25 students. One girl escaped, while security forces, led by the army, launched intense intelligence-based operations to rescue the others amid ongoing concerns about recurring school kidnappings in the region.
World

As Donald Trump warns US action against Islamist groups in Nigeria, read about the decade long anti-Christian violence in the country

Rukma Rathore -
Nigeria has refuted any claims of religious persecution against Christians following Trump's threat of military intervention.
News Reports

Donald Trump orders Pentagon to plan military intervention in Nigeria to ‘wipe out’ Islamist terrorists blamed for killing Christians

OpIndia Staff -
A day after naming Nigeria a “country of particular concern,” Donald Trump warned of direct U.S. intervention to eliminate Islamist terrorists, as Nigeria’s President Tinubu dismissed the allegations and defended the nation’s record on religious freedom.
World

Islamic Fulani Militia has been killing Christians for months in Nigeria, local politicians and media wash it off as local conflict between herders and...

Anurag -
Despite the scale and brutality of the killings of Christians in Benue, the government avoided naming the Islamic Fulani militia, instead portraying it as herders-farmers clash.
News Reports

Over 40 Christians shot dead by Islamic Fulani terrorists in Nigeria on Palm Sunday, hundreds of houses destroyed

OpIndia Staff -
"I have instructed security agencies to thoroughly investigate this crisis and identify those responsible for orchestrating these violent acts," Tinubu said.
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