Month: November 2025

Opinion

Of President Trump’s fast, vicious and sweet attack and Tinubu’s diplomatic blunders

For years, rivers of innocent blood have flowed across the valleys of Plateau, Benue, Kaduna, and Niger States. Christian communities have been burned out of existence; churches razed on Christmas Eve have become an annual tragedy in Northern Nigeria.

Year after year, the scenes repeat as worshippers are slaughtered, homes torched, and survivors left to pick through their ashes in silence. Yet, successive Nigerian governments have treated these horrors with the indifference of a spectator.

From the mass killings in Barkin Ladi and Bassa, to the razing of the village of the Yelewata community in the Guma Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State, including Rumji, Kurmin Masara, and Asha-Awuce, Kunkum Daji, all in Southern Kaduna, the story remains painfully the same. Attacks are announced in advance, no arrests afterward, and statements of “deep concern” that lead nowhere. What began as isolated incidents has grown into a sustained campaign of terror against defenseless citizens, particularly Christians.

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News

Pulling down Ogbuku will push Niger Delta backwards, ex-agitators, others warn

Nathan Tamarapreye, Yenagoa

Niger Delta ex-agitators and other critical stakeholders have warned that the ongoing pull-down campaign against the Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, will only take the region backwards.

Rising from their emergency meeting in Port Harcourt at the weekend, they called on traditional rulers and other stakeholders in the region to rally round Ogbuku and protect him from what they described as an orchestrated conspiracy to bring him down.

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Opinion

Debunking the myth of Ibibio hegemonic claim

#A critical analysis of attempt at cultural, territorial expansionism in A’Ibom State

In the intricate mosaic of Nigeria’s ethnic diversity, Akwa Ibom State stands as a microcosm of plural identity.

The state’s founding vision, rooted in equity and mutual respect among its constituent nations, notably the Oro-Obolo, Annang, Efik, and Ibibio, was to create a federation of equals, not a hierarchy of dominance.

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News

Yiaga Africa tasks A’Ibom citizens on constructive legislative engagement

Yiaga Africa has sensitised citizens of Akwa Ibom from the Ikot Ekpene federal constituency on proper ways to engage their representatives constructively to ensure the dividends of democracy get to the people.

Speaking during the sensitisation on Saturday in Ikot Ekpene, Mr Olaniyan Sanusi, Programme Officer, Yiaga Africa, said the people’s assembly was to promote public deliberations on what their representatives were doing in the National Assembly as it affects the constituents.

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News

EFCC probes Oladips’ allegation of ₦10m extortion by operatives

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched an investigation into allegations of extortion levelled against some of its operatives by Nigerian rapper, Oladipupo Olabode Oladimeji, popularly known as Oladips.

In a statement on Saturday, the Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said the artist had alleged that EFCC operatives extorted ₦10 million from him before securing his release after he was arrested alongside other suspected internet fraudsters.

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Metro

EFCC arraigns fake contractor for N111m fraud in Kaduna

EFCC arraigns fake contractor for N111m fraud in Kaduna
The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Bashir Bello Ibrahim, a former Kaduna State government contractor and Chief Executive Officer of Formal Act Legacy Limited, before Justice A. M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna, for fraud.

The Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Saturday, November 1, 2025, disclosed that Ibrahim was arraigned on seven counts of obtaining money under false pretences, advance fee fraud, and money laundering.

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