Police in northern Nigeria are investigating the murder of a priest who was killed in an apparent roadside ambush. The murder of Father Opeyemi is the latest in a series of increasingly violent attacks against priests, religious and lay Catholics in the country. Four days after the priest's murder, seven gunmen entered the Church of St. Joseph in Enugu state in southeastern Nigeria during Sunday Mass, Fides reported. According to Aid to the Church in Need, Nigeria is the country with the largest number of kidnapped priests in the world. In March, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said the country was facing "a terrifying crisis of religious violence" and expressed concerns in its 2026 annual report.