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Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said that the government is aware of who is responsible for killings in Nigeria. Cardinal Onaiyekan made the statement on Saturday in an interview on Arise Television He was reacting to the recent wave of killings and abductions in parts of the country. The Archbishop Emeritus stated that nobody can …

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the Federal Government has not prosecuted individuals suspected of financing terrorism because the process requires extensive and delicate investigations that cannot be rushed. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Idris explained that contrary to public perception, the matter was not as simple as having a list and immediately …

The Niger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has revised the number of abducted persons from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, Agwarra LGA, raising the figure from 227 to 315. The updated tally, released in a fresh statement on Friday by CAN Chairman and Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, Bulus Yohanna, followed what he …

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has slammed the United States President, Donald Trump, for threatening to invade Nigeria with the American military over the rising insecurity and alleged Christian genocide in the country. The US President had threatened that he had asked the Defence Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government “continues to allow the …

A member of the United States House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, has announced she will resign from Congress after a clash with President Donald Trump. The development is the climax of her disagreement with Trump and the Republicans, as she maintained a hardline stance during the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history. In a statement Friday …

The Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has reacted to the conviction and life imprisonment sentencing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu. In a post shared on his X handle on Saturday, Obi said the judgment comes at a time when Nigerians are battling severe economic hardship, worsening insecurity, and the consequences of poor governance. …

More details have emerged on how terrorists stormed St Mary Catholic Secondary and Primary School, Papiry, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, and abducted no fewer than 50 students. The bandits attacked the school, riding on over 100 motorcycles and shooting randomly. At the end of the attack, they abducted both students and staff of the school, located at …

Security has been tightened at the Sokoto Custodial Centre following the transfer of the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to the facility. Kanu was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja after being convicted on terrorism and related charges. In his ruling, Justice James Omotosho ordered that Kanu be …

The family of the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has raised an alarm, rejecting his relocation to Sokoto prison. In a statement on behalf of the family, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, who raised the alarm on Friday, said that when his legal team went to visit him at the Abuja headquarters of the Department of …

Sentencing a man to life imprisonment is not the end of his life. Some of us have been through life imprisonment and we survived it. I served my own life imprisonment in Aba Prisons,Abia state,after spending a year in Kiri Kiri and Port Harcourt prisons. The inmates and warders treated me well,except for some few tough guys.There is still room …