December 16, 2020, Washington, DC The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new report on religious freedom conditions in Nigeria: Nigeria Country Update – This country update examines religious freedom conditions in Nigeria, which remained poor in 2020. Ongoing state violations include harsh convictions... Read more
A Member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation and Coordinator for the South-South zone of the body, Mr. Emmanuel Ibah, is dead. He was 61 years of age. Family sources confirmed to the NFF that Ibah, who was also Chairman of the Akwa Ibom Football Association,... Read more
A group, the Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN) with a former key 2014 National Conference member, Pastor Bosun Emmanuel as Executive Secretary, has called for what it called “a serious-minded Christian President” to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The CSMN position was contained in a... Read more
The family of Mrs Dalepel Collins, a middle-aged hypertensive woman, arrested and detained unlawfully by the Inspector-General of Police (IG) Monitoring Unit, since Nov. 25 in Port Harcourt, has appealed for justice. The family, through its Counsel, Cosmas Enweleuzo (SAN), also appealed to the I-G to cause the CSP... Read more
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, says his criticism of the National Working Committee (NWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should not be misunderstood to mean there is irredeemable crisis in the party. The governor has also maintained that since he lacks the capacity to decamp to another political... Read more
Some survivors of the Government Science School in Dankara, Katsina State, have explained how they survived the abduction carried out by gunmen. On Friday, gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School in Kankara late and engaged security forces in a gun battle, forcing hundreds of students to flee... Read more
A video showing the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), visiting his cows in Daura Katsina State, barely hours after hundreds of boys were abducted by bandits has elicited criticisms from several social media users. The pupils of Government Boys Science Secondary School in Kankara Local Government Area of... Read more
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III led Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has described the abduction of hundreds of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara’s students, as a slap on President Muhammadu Buhari’s face. The apex Islamic body in the North said that, the boldness of the bandits... Read more
**says President Buhari missed opportunity by refusing to honour Reps invitation Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has accused the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sowing seed of discord among PDP governors and jeopardising the party’s prospect to clinch the presidency in... Read more
As if to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to his Daura hometown in Katsina State, Friday, December 11, 2020, armed bandits prowling freely in the state stormed a secondary school in nearby Kankara community and abducted a yet to be determined number of students. President Buhari arrived Katsina and headed... Read more
