Six soldiers were among seven persons killed when Boko Haram returned to Chibok in Borno State on Sunday.

The Atyap Community makes this press release with a heavy heart over the sad incidents that have bedeviled the land in the last few months.

(Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, Sunday, 13th Dec 2020): The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law is dedicating this 11-page special report on the new wave of anti-Christian butcheries in Africa’s Coastal Christian States and Nigeria, to all the victims of anti-Christian butcheries and other forms of violence against Christians in Nigeria and beyond the borders of the country.

I left Yola on the 24^th of December to celebrate Christmas in my sweet home, Garkida. Little did I know what awaited me.

Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, and with horrifying acceleration in recent years, verified reports of murders, rapes, mutilations, and kidnapping of Christians in Nigeria have persistently increased. These attacks are frequently accompanied by the torching of homes, churches, villages, and agricultural fields.

At least 333 students are still missing since the attack late Friday on the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Katsina State — hundreds of kilometres (miles) from Boko Haram’s stronghold in northeastern Nigeria.

“I am Abubakar Shekau and our brothers are behind the kidnapping in Katsina,” the leader of Boko Haram said in a voice message.