Akume Blasts Trump; Says His Comments Fuelled Renewed Attacks By Terrorists George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, says recent pronouncements by the United States President Donald Trump have inadvertently emboldened violent groups seeking to exploit international narratives to justify attacks on soft targets. Akume stated this in a press release on Wednesday, addressing the evolution of violent extremism, banditry and ongoing security challenges in the country. On October 31, Ibom Focus reported that Trump designated Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” over allegations of a Christian genocide. Trump warned that he might deploy American forces…
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BREAKING: Nigerian Army Sacks Dismisses Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram For ‘Disobeying Standing Order’ The Nigerian Army has dismissed four soldiers fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East part of the country. The frontline soldiers are Mukaila Mutari with service number 22NA/88/10253, Isah Emmanuel with service number 22NA/83/7262. Also dismissed by the army included Kolomo Alex and Ibrahim Musa, with service numbers 24NA/86/5151 and 24NA/86/0885 respectively. Pictures of the dismissed personnel wearing their desert camouflage uniforms were obtained on Wednesday. Their dismissal was dated Monday, 17th of November, 2025. In military, a standing order is a general instruction or prescribed procedure…
BREAKING: US Barred Nigerian Officials Over Christian Persecution Syndoph Endoni, chargé d’affaires at Nigeria’s United Nations (UN) mission, says US officials excluded them from attending Nicki Minaj’s address on the alleged Christian persecution in Nigeria. During her visit to the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Minaj said Christians in Nigeria “are being targeted, driven from their homes, and killed”. The rapper was invited by Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, “for an in-depth discussion about what our administration is doing to protect Christians’ freedoms all over the world”. Endoni said the decision to exclude Nigeria from…
Court Jails Terrorists Commander 20 Years After Confessing To Multiple Deadly Attacks A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a notorious commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Hussaini Ismaila, to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to multiple terrorism charges filed by the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice Emeka Nwite delivered the judgment on Tuesday, bringing an end to a case that had dragged for years due to multiple appeals and a trial-within-trial to determine the voluntariness of the defendant’s statements. Ismaila, popularly known as Mai Tangaran, was described by the prosecution as…
Tinubu Bows To Pressure, Makes U-turn Over Foreign Trips President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has postponed his scheduled trip to Johannesburg, South Africa and Luanda, Angola, as he awaits further security briefings on the kidnapped Kebbi schoolgirls and the attack on Christ Apostolic Church worshippers in Eruku, Kwara State. In response to the request by the governor of Kwara State, President Tinubu has ordered the deployment of more security men to Eruku and the entire Ekiti Local Government Area of the state, and directed the police to go after the bandits who attacked worshippers. President Tinubu was scheduled to leave Abuja…
Global Coalition Urges Trump To Hasten Military Action On Terrorists In Nigeria The Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria has issued a strongly worded appeal to the White House, calling on the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to take urgent military and diplomatic action in response to what it describes as a “Christian genocide” unfolding in Nigeria. In an open letter addressed to the U.S. President and signed by the coalition’s Global Coordinator, Comrade Frederick Odorige, the group said its organisation, “registered in the US by Nigerians in diaspora for the support and promotion of security…
Trump Right To Call Nigeria “Now Disgraced Nation”; Says Peter Obi On Wednesday, Peter Obi, The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, said the United States President, Donald Trump’s recent description of Nigeria as a “now disgraced nation” reflects the grim reality of worsening insecurity and political instability across the country. In a statement posted on his verified X (formerly Twitter) account, Obi recalled that a few weeks ago, when Trump described Nigeria as a “now disgraced nation”, many Nigerians were outraged. “A few weeks ago, when President Trump described our country as “now disgraced,” many…
#TinubuMustGo: Tinubu’s Only Interest Is Landgrabbing, Taking Loans, Using Minister Wike To Cause Confusion Omoyele Sowore, Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has slammed President Bola Tinubu for governing Nigeria with misplaced priorities. Sowore, convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, said that instead of addressing Nigeria’s mounting social and economic crises, especially the worsening insecurity, President Tinubu’s major interest and focus is on landgrabbing, accumulating loans, allegedly stealing the borrowed funds, and using the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to cause confusion ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a post on his verified X…
EXPOSED: Tinubu’s Minister Maintains Contact With Bandit Leaders, Provide “36 Brand New Hilux Vehicles” To Them, Ordered Them To Compel Communities To Vote For APC A former senior aide to Nigeria’s Defence Minister and former Zamfara governor, Bello Matawalle, has accused him of continuing to maintain direct contact with notorious terrorist commanders whom he allegedly funded, equipped, and politically mobilised during his time as governor. The “mobilisation” had included providing “36 brand new Hilux vehicles” and buying stolen livestock from bandit groups. The whistleblower, whose identity is withholding for security reasons, spoke in an exclusive interview on Wednesday, detailing a…
Nigerian Doctor Kills Patient Over Failure To Respond To Treatment A doctor based in Uyo Dr. kalu has been arrested for killing a patient under his care in his private hospital. Reports say Dr. Kalu had been attending to the patient for over a week without recording any success as she didn’t respond to treatment. Kalu is a graduate of one of the first generation universities in calabar and was the best graduating student in his set. He went into private practice immediately after graduating about one decades ago and is renowned for hard work and success in his work…