By ANDERSON (ANDY) CLIFF AT the Abuja Hilton on 14 October 2025, the usually placid conference hall crackled with unease. Cameras rolled, journalists leaned in, and a visiting American delegation led by former U.S. mayor Mike Arnold made an explosive declaration: “A Christian genocide is ongoing in Nigeria.” For years, Nigerians have lived with the […]
By JULIET EKANEM WHEN Hope Behind Bars Africa released its latest study on women on death row in Nigeria, it peeled back layers of a justice system many already suspect — one that punishes poverty, marginalisation, and womanhood itself. According to the study, launched in Abuja in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission and […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH Bauhaus Global’s rise in Benue symbolises a deeper national crisis — one where foreign contractors profit from public contracts while Nigerian workers pay the price in blood and silence. IN Benue State, where billion-naira contracts are meant to transform infrastructure and livelihoods, a Lebanese-owned construction firm, Bauhaus Global Investment Limited, is […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE WHEN U.S. Senator Ted Cruz stood before Congress last week to introduce the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025, his message was clear — and damning. He accused the Nigerian government of enabling what he described as the “systematic extermination of Christians.” The Texas senator’s speech, later echoed on his podcast […]
By TIMOTHY HAGGERTY-NWOKOLO IN international politics, nothing ever “just happens.” Every conflict, coup, and crisis often fits into a well-worn pattern — one that begins with a problem, escalates into chaos, and ends with a “solution” that benefits everyone except the people on the ground. Across Africa, that script appears to be replaying itself once […]
By TINA TOLUTOPE, Investigations Desk AS Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 general elections, a familiar drama is unfolding across the political landscape — and, once again, it could play directly into President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s hands. From Abuja to Awka, and Port Harcourt to Kano, opposition figures are plotting their comeback. Yet, beneath the surface […]
By AUGUSTUS ISICHEI AT 65, Nigeria’s sporting landscape tells a troubling story. Once the pride of Africa, the nation’s stadia now stand as decaying relics of past glory, symptomatic of a broader culture of neglect and short-term thinking. From Surulere to Abuja, the decline of facilities paints a grim picture of wasted opportunities and shrinking […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE An Economy of Desperation WHEN Temitope Afolabi’s husband faced imprisonment over a ₦48 million debt, she turned to surrogacy to save her family. Paid just over ₦2.2 million for carrying another couple’s child, she was promised transportation, accommodation, and medical support. But in reality, she was underpaid, overworked, and left with serious […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE THE courtroom in Abuja was tense on Friday as Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court paused proceedings to consider whether Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), should be allowed treatment at the National Hospital. What appears on the surface as a routine medical request […]
By ANITA KNIGHT NIGERIA’S Ministry of Education has disowned controversial posts on its website promoting Russia’s Alabuga Start Programme, saying hackers uploaded the content without approval. Federal Scholarship Board Director, Ndajiwo Asta, said the scheme—which recruits young women from developing countries—was never part of Nigeria’s bilateral education agreement with Russia. Investigations across Africa revealed Alabuga […]