Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has endorsed ‘Silent Slaughter’ a publication made on the killings going on in Nigeria. The compendium which captures in detail, the killings of genocidal proportion going on in the country was published by the International Foundation for Peace and Social Justice also known as PSJ in collaboration with The International Committee on Nigeria (ICON). Addressing […]
By Steven Kefas Popular Bauchi based Islamic Cleric and the Leader of the Tijaniyya Sect, Sheikh Usman Dahiru Bauchi has visited President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa Abuja. The purpose of the visit even though not yet known as at the time of filing this report, the Cleric had on Tuesday promised to meet with the President over the […]
By Steven Kefas On Sunday, in what exemplified the scriptural saying that “the church of God shall march on and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it”, members of the demolished EYN church Maduganari in Maiduguri congregated at the demolished site to worship God. The congregants who were seen siting on the rubbles held normal Sunday service, singing […]
By Steven Kefas Renown French Philosopher, Bernard Henri-Levy has called on the U.S Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken to intervene in the continuous massacre of Christians by Fulani jihadists in Nigeria. Henri-Levy who is also an activist made the call via his Twitter handle, @BHL on Tuesday. Levy tweeted: “Secretary #Blinken, help! I receive news everyday from my #Nigerian friends. […]
By Steven Kefas When my brother and friend, Beevan Magoni of Nigerian Info FM informed me of a planned media tour of the attacked communities in Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna state, I didn’t know what to tell him. Visiting communities under terrorrists attacks in Southern Kaduna is something I have been doing since 2017 but this time […]
Boko Haram, the jihadi insurrection associated with some 350,000 deaths since 2009 in northeast Nigeria, was characterized by factions—conflict among which was bloody—though at times they appear to have cooperated tactically. Now, the faction associated with the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), is claiming to have incorporated the followers of the rival faction led by Abubakar Shekau. (Two […]
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee in The House of Commons at Westminster recently launchedan Inquiry and called for submissions of evidence from organisations and individuals with expertiseand interest on Nigeria as it seeks to dive deeper on the Nigeria – UK relationship, particularly inlight of ‘The Integrated Review’. The newly merged Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has been set […]
A crowd of women and children protesters in Riyom Local Government Headquarters of Plateau State in North-Central Nigeria blocked major highways on Wednesday July 14th, 2021. The protest is to decry the killings of 2 natives namely, Mr. Titus John, 32 years and Mr Iliya Dalyop, 50 years characterizing part of the state of insecurity bedeviling Plateau State particularly, villages […]
For the 6th day running, armed gunmen, identified as Fulani herdsmen by victims, lay siege to several communities in Atyap land, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area (LGA) of Southern Kaduna and left no less than 33 people dead in an ongoing genocide and land grabbing in which 108 Southern Kaduna communities have been displaced and taken over by them since […]
Armed terrorists suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Friday, July 9th, invaded Warkan, a Christian community in Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna state. The terrorists shot at the villagers and burnt down over a dozen houses. By the time they were done, 9 persons, 4 girls (minors) and 5 adults have been killed with […]
