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United States President Donald Trump has voiced strong outrage over the alleged Christian genocide taking place in Nigeria. In his latest comments on the issue, Trump stated that thousands of Christians are being killed in the West African country. The US President spoke on a conservative radio program on Friday, as captured by Fox News. […]
Continue ReadingProphetess Victoria Olufunke Fayose, who says she is the mother of former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on Nigerians to pray for her family while alleging that one of her grandsons is threatening to forcibly eject her from a property reportedly given to her by his father. In a viral video sighted on […]
Continue ReadingNiger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairman, Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, has confirmed that 227 people, including teachers and students, were abducted from St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State. Rev. Yohanna, who doubles as the Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, made this known in a […]
Continue ReadingAn unlikely coincidence of elections in over a period of 45 days period from the middle of September to the end of October 2025 has cast a new light on the state of democratic governance in Africa and now threatens to unscramble the ritual hollowness that has become the fate of elections on the continent […]
Continue ReadingIt was chaotic in Niger State, Nigeria, after terrorists launched a midnight assault on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in the Papiri Community of Agwara Local Government Area, abducting over 50 students and staff five days after Kebbi attack. In the early hours of Friday, terrorists stormed St. Mary’s Papiri Private Catholic Secondary School, […]
Continue ReadingOlusegun Awolowo, grandson of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, has passed away. The former Executive Director (EO) of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), died at the age of 62. His family announced his passing in a statement on Thursday. The statement read: “With extremely heavy hearts, we announce the passing of our beloved […]
Continue ReadingUnlike Professor Wole Soyinka’s Idi Amin caricature, my image of President Donald Trump is very much like Robert Holt’s portrayal of Henry V111, “who started with everything and squandered it all, who had the physical and mental fortitude to endure a lifetime of gratified greed. We recognise in him an archetype, one of the champions […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment. Kanu was sentenced to life imprisonment for Counts 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the seven-count charge instead of a death penalty, while he was handed a 20-year jail term for Count […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected a correspondence signed by the acting chairman of the Samuel Anyanwu faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it failed to meet the requirements of the law. Reports say Abdulrahaman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu had written to the commission seeking to postpone the Ekiti Governorship […]
Continue ReadingAmerican star singer, Nicki Minaj spoke at a United Nations event in New York, addressing reports of attacks on religious communities in Nigeria. She called for global attention and protection for all people to practice their faith safely, emphasizing unity and peace. Minaj who framed the Nigerian crisis as part of a global issue affecting […]
Continue Reading“You taught me language, and my profit on it / Is, I know how to curse” (William Shakespeare: ‘The Tempest’). The Nigerian government and the Nigerian Academy of Letters are fighting over which language to use in training our kids. In a recent decision, the government cancelled the language policy which said the first six […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District at the national assembly, Okey Ezea from the Labour Party (LP) has reportedly passed away. Senators Orji Uzor Kalu (APC – Abia North) and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP – Kogi Central) confirmed the report in separate statements in Abuja. Kalu in a condolence message to reporters said: “I […]
Continue ReadingA theatre of the absurd day for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday as Wadata Plaza, the party’s national secretariat, became a centre of chaos, factional power play, and intensified scheming by rival factions seeking control of the party and its head office. The crisis was sequel to the release of two separate […]
Continue ReadingA lot happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in their violation of common sense and morality, that even D.O. Fágúnwà’s magical adventures in Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbo Elegbeje pale beside them. Yet these are not tales from another […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu will today Wednesday embark on a two-nation visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Luanda, in Angola. “President Tinubu’s first stop is Johannesburg, where he will attend the 20th summit of the G20 Leaders. After the summit, he will proceed to Angola for the AU-EU summit,” the Special Adviser to the President on […]
Continue ReadingA super columnist whose words carried the weight of truth, a newsroom leader whose calm authority defined an era, and a founding editor who helped reshape investigative journalism, Chief Dan Agbese has passed away. Agbese died in Lagos at the age of 81, and his death has undoubtedly marked the end of an era. His […]
Continue ReadingA significant outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday disrupted several leading websites and big online platforms around the world, leaving millions of users unable to access services. Outage-tracking site DownDetector — which typically reports such disruptions — was also affected. Visitors to websites such as X, formerly known as Twitter, ChatGPT and film reviewing site Letterboxd […]
Continue ReadingThe crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came to a head over the weekend that just passed, 15 -16 November, when a group of PDP elders – they refuse to be called a faction but that is what they look like – decided against the background of fierce legal battles, to hold the party’s […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday sentenced Prof. Cyril Ndifon, suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), to five years’ imprisonment without an option of fine. In his judgment, Justice James Omotosho, held that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had been able to […]
Continue ReadingIt is Soyinka in his dreadful play, “Madmen and Specialists”, who insisted that “Even poison has its uses… You can use it either to kill or to cure.” In a sense, US President, Donald Trump, has fed Nigerians a big dose of Hemlock. It is now up to us to die or live by his […]
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