{"id":6843,"date":"2026-01-12T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/nigeria-country-update\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:06:06","slug":"nigeria-country-update","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/nigeria-country-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Country Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Nigeria Country Update <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-18601\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>This report provides an update on freedom of religion or belief in Nigeria. Twelve state governments and the federal government enforce blasphemy laws, prosecuting and imprisoning individuals perceived to have insulted religion. There are currently four Muslims incarcerated under blasphemy laws including two religious leaders. Despite efforts to reduce violence by nonstate actors, the government is often unable to prevent or slow to react to violent attacks by Fulani herders, bandit gangs, and insurgent entities such as JAS\/Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-08\/2025%20Nigeria%20Country%20Update.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publications\/nigeria-country-update-0?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Country Update This report provides an update on freedom of religion or belief in Nigeria. Twelve state governments and the federal government enforce blasphemy laws, prosecuting and imprisoning individuals perceived to have insulted religion. There are currently four Muslims incarcerated under blasphemy laws including two religious leaders. Despite efforts to reduce violence by nonstate actors, the government is often&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":6844,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[544,830,513],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-6843","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-country","tag-nigeria","tag-update","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/Nigeria%20Country%20Update.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}