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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has again declared that Christian genocide is ongoing in Nigeria, calling on the federal government and the international community to act decisively to end the relentless killings and displacement of believers, particularly in the North and Middle Belt. CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, stated this on Tuesday during the opening ceremony of the association’s …

A Catholic missionary priest based in Brazil, Rev. Fr. Chinaka Justin Mbaeri, has criticised the Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, over comments he allegedly made about Igbo people. In a post on Facebook on Tuesday, Mbaeri described Ayodele as a “tribal bigot” and urged the Federal Government to hold him accountable for statements he said were …

Senator Okey Ezea, representing Enugu North senatorial District in Enugu State, is dead. Ezeah was elected under the Labour Party, and he is the only remaining member in the National Assembly from Enugu State. Findings indicate that Ezeah passed on Tuesday in the United Kingdom while receiving treatment. A popular on-air media personality, ‘Senator’ Chijinkem Ugwuanyi, broke the news on …

Renowned legal scholar and former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has ignited a firestorm of criticism after accusing the country’s top judiciary of formally aligning with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during President Bola Tinubu’s address at the 2025 All Nigerian Judges Conference. Odinkalu’s scathing X post, described the moment as “the moment… when …

I thank the thousands of loyalists, supporters and members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ila/Ifedayo/Boluwaduro Federal Constituency of the State of Osun who, on Tuesday, trooped out to receive me and the party hierarchy in the country as we visited the area to kick off the inauguration of party officials and structures across the nine federal constituencies of …

Amina Hassan, the distraught wife of the vice principal of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School Gada in Kebbi State, has recounted how the bandits killed her husband during the kidnapping of 25 schoolgirls from a nearby school. SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Kebbi State Police Command confirmed that no fewer than 25 students were abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive …

A major attempt to alter the Senate Standing Orders widely interpreted as a move to strengthen the eligibility of incumbent presiding officers to seamlessly return to the same office in the next Assembly suffered a dramatic setback on Tuesday after a pushback and procedural concerns raised on the floor. The proposed amendments, sponsored by Senate Leader Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti …

, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, has described the recent killings of Christians in Nigeria as a “genocide wearing the mask of chaos.” Fox News reports that Waltz made the comment on Tuesday at an event hosted by the United States Mission to the United Nations. “There is a body of evidence, and you are going …

The newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ini Ememobong, has condemned the police for firing tear gas canisters directly at party officials and journalists during Tuesday’s confrontation at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television, on Tuesday Ememobong said the party had anticipated resistance ahead of its planned inaugural National …

The presidency on Tuesday accused Tanimu Turaki, the new factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of committing “high treason” punishable by death for inviting American President Donald Trump to intervene in Nigerian democracy following the crisis rocking the opposition party. Bayo Onanuga, spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu, in a post on X on Tuesday, shared the video of …