Below is the list of previously reported blasphemy cases that have occurred in Nigeria.

1. In 1995, A group of Muslims broke into the police station and dragged Gideon Akaluka out of his cell at Goron Dutse prison in the northern city of Kano and beheaded him for blasphemy. He was arrested after his wife allegedly used pages of the Quran as toilet paper for her baby. After the police locked him up, a group of Muslim fundamentalists broke into the police station cells, beheaded Akaluka, and paraded his bodiless head around the streets of Kano.

2. On 14 July 1999, in the village of Randali in Kebbi state, a Muslim mob beheaded Abdullahi Umaru. The mob accused Umaru of blasphemy against Mohammed. Abdullahi Ada and five others killed Abdullahi Alhaji Umaru of Randali village in Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area of Kebbi State on 14 July 1999. Their action was based on an allegation that the said victim was accused of insulting the Holy Prophet Mohammad (SAW). Abdullahi Ada and his co-accused got the man arrested and took him to a place on the outskirt of the village. There, one of the first struck him with a cutlass on the head. The man fell down and with a knife, one the accused persons slaughtered the man by cutting his throat while the others held him down and it was when they were sure that the man had died that they abandoned the corpse and dispersed. The Supreme Court in Lagos, Nigeria, confirmed the death sentence of Abdullahi Ada.

3. On 20 November 2002, Muslim and Christian mobs rampaged in the cities of Kaduna and Abuja. The rampage began after an article in a daily newspaper, Thisday, suggested that Mohammed would have approved of a Miss World pageant that was taking place in Abuja. Thisday columnist Isioma Daniel wrote that Mohammed would probably have taken a wife from among the contestants. Muslim mobs accused the newspaper of blasphemy and burned down its office building in Kaduna. Then the mobs attacked churches and properties owned by Christians. Christian mobs confronted the Muslim mobs. Soldiers and police intervened. About two hundred and fifty people died. Isioma Daniel fled Nigeria ahead of a fatwa that called upon Muslims to kill her.

4. In 2006, Florence Chuckwu, a school teacher in Bauchi was killed with other 20 Christians and two churches were destroyed in the town because she told her student to stop reading the Quran in the class while she was teaching the class English language.

5. In February 2006, Violence was ostensibly outrage at the publication in the Danish magazine Jyllands-Posten of cartoons that some Muslims consider blasphemous, Thousands of Muslim rioters went on rampages in different states. The rioters burned churches, torched Christian shops and homes, and killed Christians.

6. On 21 March 2007, a mob of Muslim students and neighborhood extremists lynched Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a mother of two and a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in the city of Gombe. Oluwasesin, a mother of two was assigned to supervise an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam. When one of the students wanted to enter the exam hall with his books, Oluwasesin collected them and threw them outside. The students claimed that one of the books was a copy of the Qur’an, This caught the attention of the popular thugs (Yan Kalare) who stabbed her to death. They then beat up the school principal, a Muslim,who luckily escape for offering refuge to her. They then burned down three classroom blocks, the school clinic, the administrative block, and the library.

7. On 28 September 2007, a Muslim mob rioted at Tudun Wada in Kano state. The Muslims complained that Christian students had drawn a picture of Mohammed. The mob killed nine Christians, burned several churches, and destroyed the homes and businesses of some non-Muslims. The Christians reported that the violence erupted after they had prevented one of their members from converting to Islam

8. In October 2007, A sharia court convicted Sani Kabili, a Christian and a father of six, in the town of Kano for blasphemy against Mohammed. The court sentenced Kabili to three years in prison. In February 2009, an appeal court overturned the conviction

9. On 4 February 2008, a Muslim mob besieged a police station and set it on fire in the city of Yano in Bauchi state. The police station was the refuge of a Christian woman whom the mob accused of desecrating the Quran. One report said that the woman had spurned an offer of marriage from a Muslim man and that he and his companions had seized the opportunity to riot.

10. On 9 February 2008, a Muslim mob rioted in the town of Sumaila in Kano state. The mob acted upon the alleged distribution of a leaflet that allegedly slandered Mohammed. The mob killed a Christian police inspector and two civilians and wounded twenty others. The mob set fire to vehicles and destroyed the police station.

11. On 20 April 2008, Muslim rioters in the city of Kano burned the shops and vehicles of Christian merchants after one allegedly disparaged Mohammed.

12. On 9 August 2008, a Muslim mob in Kano state beat to death a fifty-year-old Muslim man who blasphemed Mohammed

13. On 19 June 2009, a Muslim mob in the town of Sara in Jigawa state burned a police outpost and injured about twelve people over alleged blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Mohammed. The mob complained that someone was distributing blasphemous pamphlets, and it demanded that the police give up a mad man who had sought safety at the police outpost.

14. In 2016, 74 years old Bridget Agbahime was beheaded in Kano for refusing to allow the Muslims to spread their praying mats in front of her rented shop.

15. In 2016, Evangelist Eunice Olawale of Redeemed Christian Church of God was lynched by a group of Muslims in Abuja because she told them to accept Jesus Christ as their savior.

16. on 10th August 2020, Nigerian singer sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano state. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March. He has been sentenced to death by hanging.

Many Unreported, Such cases of needless deaths abound on a yearly basis.

it is time religious leaders and leaders of thoughts of both faiths should wake up and wade into these sporadic cases of wanton destruction of lives and property.

We urge all Nigerians to speak out against religiously motivated killings and embrace the values of unity, love, and peace. It is only through this we can be a giant of Africa.



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I envy who never tire for this country.


Always in the news for the wrong reasons...

I was told Islam is peace. Is it true or false?

This cannot be allowed to continue

Oh God of creation, direct our Noble cause, guide our leaders right....

God is Sovereign and mighty, let us allow Him be the judge. Stop fighting for or judging for Him

Tomorrow is Friday let us see if they will condemn the killings in their thread.

The most foolish people on earth are the Nigerian Muslims.

You southerners are the biggest hypocrites of then all i mean she knw where she is living nd the least she can do is respect their religion nd she didn’t... nd people are being burned alive by ur people for stealing nd they are not terrorist? Is really funny thou