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Apparently not done with re-designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), which is an official US designation for nations accused of severe violations of religious freedom, the US establishment is processing further action --this time legislative --to sanction specific individuals it accuses of allegedly playing a role in persecution of Nigerian Christians and/or hindering the country's constitutional secularity. Posting on his Truth Social, weekend, President Donald Trump had condemned what he described as widespread attacks on Christians in Nigeria and directed key Congressional leaders such as Congressman Riley Moore and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole—to investigate urgently.…

By our reporter Kaduna-based investigative reporter and multiple Award-winning journalist, Mr. Idibia Gabriel, who is in court with a hotelier over the latter's alleged threat to his life, has appealed to the State police command to urgently retrieve from telecoms service provider, MTN, the vital audio threat evidence in the matter ahead of the court's next sitting on 24 November, 2025. The appeal was contained in a statement to the Command's spokesman, Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Mansir Hassan, on Sunday, 3 November, and shared on journalists' social media chat forum as well as the State Council of the umbrella Nigeria Union…

*Relief Coming To Middle Belt By Trump's Nigeria CPC Designation -IPOB *Group Demands Probe Into Financiers, Enablers of South-East Killings *Many Leaders Lawless, Rely On Thugs -Binance Boss Alleges Amid President Donald Trump's threat of American military invasion of Nigeria to root out Islamic terrorists killing Christians, the Presidency today declared that President Bola Tinubu will soon meet Trump over the claim. The said meeting, it further disclosed, is billed to hold “in the coming days.” The development came as Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hailed Trump for designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to the…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Sat Guru Maharaj Ji has condemned the recent statement credited to activist, Omoyele Sowore, in which the latter allegedly made unprintable comments against President Bola Tinubu. The popular religious leader, in a statement he personally signed and released to journalists at the weekend, described Sowore’s tirade against the president as “politically childish.” He also advised him to learn the right lessons about Nigeria’s politics. “Sowore’s latest arrest by the police is yet another opportunity for him to learn the right lesson about Nigeria’s political and general leadership situation. “It is absolutely wrong to call the Head…

*Expulsion Looms For Suspended Persons -Anyanwu Hints Is the former largest political party in Africa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the throes of death? That is the question on the lips of many as existential threats continue to rock the ranks of the once very powerful party which produced Nigeria's successive Presidents from the dawn of the Fourth Republic in 1999 till 2015 when the currently ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) swept it off power. The latest in the different episodes of crises besetting the party occurred today, 1 November, when the Samuel Anyanwu faction of the party, in…