MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has denied claims that he said Christians in Nigeria are not facing persecution. The bishop described the reports as false and said he was surprised that some people were still attributing such a statement to him despite the clarity of his position. In a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Comrade Auwal Musa Rafisanjani, on Tuesday averred that the prolonged battles with terrorism, banditry, and kidnappings in Nigeria have been compounded by deep-rooted corruption. Rafisanjani, who stated this via a statement issued to commemorate the 2025 UN Anti-Corruption Day, warned that corruption remains […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas A renewed clash has emerged between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and Periscope Consulting, the audit firm hired by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to examine an alleged under remittance of oil revenue totalling $42.37bn (about N12.91tn) to the Federation Account between 2011 and 2017. The dispute, revived by fresh submissions from […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Investigations revealed that Malami was actively searching for two serving permanent secretaries to stand as sureties, a critical requirement to fulfill the bail conditions for his release. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has once again taken Nigeria’s former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The United States delegation on a fact-finding mission into killings in Nigeria held a closed-door meeting with the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on Tuesday. The US team had previously met with the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and visited Benue State, where it engaged Catholic […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Mr Soyinka said he counted at least “15 or so heavily armed to the teeth” security officials who accompanied the president’s son at a hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos. Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday criticised the large number of armed security personnel that he saw accompanying Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas By ERNEST OSOGBUE The recent coup de’tat in Guinea Bissau should begin to get all lovers of good governance in Africa worried about the fate of democracy on the continent. It has now become the vogue in recent years for impatient military officers to turn their guns against democratically elected governments. These officers, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas “A nation is great not by its size alone, but by the justice it upholds and the ideals it serves”— Jean Juares There is a tendency in contemporary African discourse to reduce France to a set of political quarrels, historical grievances, and present-day misalignments. In the heated rhetoric of the Sahel, France is […] Read more
