![Bola Ahmed Tinubu waves to people after being sworn in as Nigeria's new president at a ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 29, 2023.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/134830.jpg?w=602)
Cyrus, Pharaoh, or Xerxes: Nigerian Christians Seek Parallels for New President They Opposed
Bola Tinubu spurned tradition to pick a fellow Muslim as his running mate. Believers wonder if he will champion greater Islamization, be the figure able to resist it, or listen to his evangelical wife.
![Election officials began counting ballots on July 16, 2022 after Nigeria's southwest Osun state went to the polls to elect a new governor in a final test for next year's presidential elections.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/130206.jpg?w=602)
Nigerian Christians Protest Muslim-Muslim Ticket as a ‘Declaration of War’
Major political parties try to maximize the northern Muslim vote to rule Africa’s most-populous nation. Will a third-party presidential candidate reap the benefit of Christian frustration?
![Ondo state governor Rotimi Akeredolu (third from left) points to the bloodstained floor after an attack by gunmen at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town, southwest Nigeria on June 5, 2022.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/129504.jpg?w=602)
Owo Church Attack Kills Dozens of Nigerian Catholics on Pentecost Sunday
(UPDATED) Terrorists target Mass in Ondo, a normally peaceful southwestern state which recently passed grazing restrictions affecting Fulani herdsmen.
![Nigerian Christians protest the death of Deborah Samuel, a Sokoto university student killed by a mob after being accused of blasphemy.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/129378.jpg?w=602)
Nigerian Christians Protest Deborah’s Death
Blasphemy killing of Sokoto student and ISWAP execution video are latest examples of sectarian tensions in Africa’s largest nation.
![A man opens the gate of Labour Party candidate Peter Obi offices in Abuja on February 23, 2023, ahead of the Nigerian presidential election scheduled for February 25, 2023.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/133537.jpg?w=602)
Nigerian Christians Explain High Stakes of 2023 Presidential Election
Facing persecution and economic decline, seven leaders share perspectives on a vote that will “make or mar” the future of a religiously divided nation.
![Parents are reunited with released students of Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Nigeria, on Sunday, July 25.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/124732.jpg?w=602)
28 Abducted Baptist School Students Freed in Nigeria
Parents reunite with sons and daughters at Bethel high school, yet more than 80 children remain with Kaduna kidnappers.
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Gleanings: October 2021
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Gleanings: June 2021
![Parents stand beside a signpost of Bethel Baptist High School where 140 boarding students were kidnapped by bandits in Kaduna, Nigeria, on July 5.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/124513.jpg?w=602)
140 Nigerian Baptist Students Kidnapped in Kaduna
(UPDATED) “This is a very, very sad situation for us,” says Bethel Baptist pastor and state CAN leader whose son narrowly escaped.
![A group of Nigerian schoolboys are escorted December 18 by military and officials in Katsina following their release after they were kidnapped last week.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/121175.jpg?w=602)
After 330 Schoolboys Freed from Kidnappers, Advocates Ask About Leah Sharibu
Good news from Katsina prompts questions about Nigerian Christians still held captive by jihadists.