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Jacob McGee, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, has defended the designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, CPC, under the administration of President Donald Trump. McGee made the defence on Thursday during a public hearing of the US Congress on Nigeria’s CPC status. He cited the 2022 killing of Deborah …

Terrorists who abducted some 38 worshippers at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Eruku in the Ekiti local government area of Kwara State have placed N100m ransom on the head of each abductee.According to a report by EADERSHIP NEWS, it was gathered that the terrorists have started contacting the families of the victims who were abducted during a church service on …

US Congressman Bill Huizenga has accused Bola Tinubu’s administration of “sitting back” and failing to tackle the worsening security crisis in Nigeria. Huizenga made the remarks on Thursday while testifying before the US House Subcommittee on Africa during a review of Nigeria’s redesignation as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). He directly criticised the Nigerian delegation in Washington for downplaying …

The United States has strongly condemned the ongoing attacks against Christians in Nigeria, describing the violence as “tragic and unacceptable.” Speaking during a Security Council session on West Africa, U.S. Ambassador Waltz highlighted killings carried out by ethnic militias in the Middle Belt and terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and ISIS West Africa in the northern region. Churches have …

The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Wilfred Anagbe, has urged the United States to match its renewed designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) with concrete action. He made the appeal on Thursday while testifying before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, which is investigating Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a CPC. “On …

Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers have vowed to appeal his conviction, insisting that the judgment does not hold water. Addressing the press at the Federal High Court shortly after Justice James Omotosho delivered the judgment that sentenced Kanu to life imprisonment, his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, who was at the court as a consultant, said they were heading to the upper court. He …

The U.S. Congress is currently discussing Nigeria’s failing judiciary and the country’s declining respect for the rule of law. They are using the case of Nnamdi Kanu as a major example — a development that is not a good look for Nigeria’s judicial system. Here is what is being said right now in the ongoing U.S. Congressional session: The speaker …

On November 20, 2025, Nigeria sentenced a man to life in prison for words spoken from foreign soil—after illegally kidnapping him from Kenya, ignoring a UN ruling demanding his release, and prosecuting him under a law that no longer exists. Just two days earlier, on November 18, Boko Haram co-founder Mamman Nur—responsible for over 2,000 deaths—was sentenced to just five …

With the ” conviction” of Mazi Kanu, all South East Governors, their senators, Members of House of Reps, Ministers and other political appointees in their zone will have a “PEACEFUL NIGHT”, Most of the South East politicians and Tinubu’s political appointees from the zone played very silent but significant roles in Mazi Kanu’s Predicament out of cowardice, fear, greed and …

Following the judgment, Sowore maintained that what transpired was the fulfillment of a political directive rather than a judicial process. Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has described Thursday’s judgment in the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as a “political decision long taken by the government” before the court delivered its …