He also spoke about the roles of religious leaders, traditional leaders, and political leaders in modern Nigeria.

This is the land of Michael Cyprian Iwene Tansi, the Aguleri boy whose Beatification brought Pope John Paul II to Nigeria, in 1998. It was the Pontiff’s second visit to the country. Then Head of State ...

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo revealed how he survived an alleged assassination plot by General Sani Abacha targeting him, ...

played a crucial role in supporting chieftains of the National Democratic Coalition who fled Nigeria during the military regime of the late General Sani Abacha. Bamidele, who represents Ekiti ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, has been named the new pope of the Catholic Church, USA TODAY reports. The successor to Pope Francis, who will go by the name Leo XIV, goes down in ...

He later relocated to Benin. When the brutal General Sani Abacha, as Head of State, decided to pay an official visit to Edo State, Obayuwana and the activists in the state issued a statement ...

That was certainly the figure that Nigeria got after the coup in the shape of General Sani Abacha. But Akinola and his film subtly suggests that there could have been an alternative father of the ...

Mr. Gibson is the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. With the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, the College of Cardinals sent a clear message ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the new pope, set to succeed the late Pope Francis and mark the first time an American has served as pope. He took the name Leo XIV and emerged ...

The name a new pope chooses will "indicate a certain spirit and direction and vision of the new pope," said Dennis Doyle, a theologian and professor emeritus of religious studies at the University ...

Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's live coverage as Pope Leo XIV is named the first pope from the United States on Thursday, May 8. White smoke has signaled that a new pope has been selected to ...