ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Demonstrations for the release of a separatist leader in Nigeria's capital city turned violent on Monday as police fired tear gas and arrested dozens of protesters, as well as a journalist with French news agency Agence France ...

The Senior Pastor of Guiding Light Assembly, Abuja, Pastor Wale Adefarasin, has criticised the United States for its sudden display of concern over the plight of Christians in Nigeria, following recent comments by the U.S. President, Donald Trump, on alleged religious persecution in the country.

Pastor Wale Adefarasin questions the U.S.’s sudden concern for Nigerian Christians, dismissing genocide claims and hinting at hidden political motives.

President Trump announces that “Christians are facing an existential threat in Nigeria, Thousands of Christians are being killed.” and announced that he is making Nigeria a country of particular concern.

The Senior Pastor of Guiding Light Assembly, Wale Adefarasin has reacted to United States’ claims of genocide against Christians in Nigeria, describing them as exaggerated and questioning America’s sudden concern for Nigerian Christians.

At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria's presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week. Meanwhile, police in the northern state of Bauchi said at least 11 ...

Protesters said police had failed both to investigate the deaths by shooting and to make any arrests. Protesters angered by a string of unsolved murders threw up roadblocks and mobbed government offices in three days of riots in the restive gold-rich Ituri ...