By AFP – Agence France Presse December 20, 2024 The foreign minister of junta-ruled Niger has summoned the charge d’affaires at the Nigerian embassy, accusing the neighbouring nation of “serving as a rear base” to “destabilise” the country, Niger state television said. Relations between Nigeria and its northern Sahel neighbour Niger have been tense since …
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18th December 2024 A non-partisan Christian organisation, International Christian Concern, has reported that no fewer than 50,000 Christians were killed between 2009 and 2023. The organisation had, in its report last year, included Nigeria among the most dangerous places for Christians in the world. In the 2023 report, ICC stated that since May 2011, Boko …
By Emmanuel Kwada December 18, 2024 A storm of controversy has erupted in Adamawa State, Nigeria, following inflammatory comments made by Sheikh Salihu A. A. Imam from Bauchi. The Mallam, Sheikh Salihu, launched a scathing attack on Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri’s administration, accusing it of demoting the Lamido of Adamawa by reducing the local government …
By Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD Part Eight I have read through another set of historical cacophony driven by paracosm of lies and ignorance laced in subjective ancestral arrogance by the duo of Charles Tabansi Udene and his uncle Augustine Tabansi Udene, and the question that readily comes to mind is why are the …
December 18, 2024 By Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD After reading the recent moronic lamentation by Augustine Tabansi Udene in which he arduously invoked his roguish ancestors, disused deities and wingless witches and wizards against the Odogwu of Ibusa, I wept for Agukwu-Ugbene. I wept for Agukwu-Ugbene not because there is any moral reason to sympathize …
December 16, 2024 By Ayobami Okerinde Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has stated that he did not ask anyone to plead with Afe Babalola (SAN), who took him to court for defamation. Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State following a petition by Babalola regarding his book, ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal …
ON PETER OBI’S PEACE MISSION: I didn’t send anybody to beg Afe Babalola — Farotimi Read More »
Published on December 16, 2024 By Abdul Babajide Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the once vibral Labour Party, LP, appears to be losing steam and membership strength across the country. DAILY POST reports that when the members-elect of the National Assembly were sworn in on 13 June, 2023, the LP had the third-largest caucus …
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Press Statement By Emmanuel Kwada, December 1, 2024 The Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Kaduna State Chapter, has expressed deep concern and consternation over the recent pardon granted to bandits by Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State. The MBF described the move as a “crude lack of empathy and sympathy” for the victims of the …
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Press Statement Editorial Team/By Samuel Luka 2 min read December 16, 2024 Zaar Development Association (ZDA) Worldwide has condemned the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) for opposing the creation of the Sayawa Chiefdom in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State. MURIC had described the proposed chiefdom as a “Christian Chiefdom,” a claim ZDA says is based on misinformation, …
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13 hours ago by Thomas Naadi, BBC News, Accra A man from Ghana has told the BBC how he was seized at gunpoint by jihadists in neighbouring Burkina Faso, before being taken to their vast desert camp where he gained a rare insight into their lives – from the children he believed were trained as …
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