The government of the Benin Republic says its armed forces have foiled a military coup attempt after a group of soldiers briefly appeared on national television on Sunday, December 7, 2025, claiming to have seized power and dissolved state institutions. Mutiny Suppressed Speaking later on national television, Interior Minister Alassane Seidou described the […]
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Nigeria’s Defence Minister, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned from office with immediate effect in a development that has added fresh uncertainty to a nation battling an escalating wave of kidnappings. In a letter dated Monday, December 1, 2025, and addressed to President Bola Tinubu, the former Jigawa State governor said he was stepping down […]
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Nigeria’s greatest tragedy is not just corruption, it is the near-total absence of consequence, especially for those insulated by wealth or significant political influence. The higher one climbs in the country’s political or economic hierarchy, the further accountability recedes, until the very idea of consequences becomes negotiable, reversible, or simply irrelevant. From presidential pardons for […]
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On Wednesday, November 26, 2025, Guinea-Bissau witnessed the latest in a string of military takeovers in Africa when soldiers seized power just a day before provisional presidential results were due. This marks the tenth uncontested coup on the continent in five years, beginning with the first Malian coup in August 2020, when the military […]
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Following the successful execution of a coup on Wednesday, November 26, soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced General Horta N’Ta as the leader of the new military junta. This comes one day after the military announced the disposition of President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and halted the general election process, and formed what was called the […]
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A high-profile congressional hearing in Washington, DC, United States (US), on Thursday, November 20, 2025, examined allegations of Christian persecution in Nigeria, coming in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s redesignation of the country as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) and his threat of unilateral military action. The hearing, led by the […]
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A day before South Africa becomes the first African country to host world leaders at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, women and members of the LGBTQI+ community in the country are set for a national demonstration to protest the country’s alarming rates of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). The demonstration, spearheaded by Women For […]
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American rap superstar Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, has joined a growing international conversation on violence in Nigeria, using a United Nations (UN) platform to call for the protection of religious freedom and an end to attacks on civilians. Minaj delivered a keynote address at a United States (US) Mission to […]
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When Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) recently secured supermajorities in both chambers of the National Assembly, it reignited debate about whether the country is slowly sliding toward a one-party state. With the defections of several opposition lawmakers swelling in numbers, the APC now commands the kind of legislative control that allows it to pass […]
United States President, Donald Trump, has renewed threats of military action against Nigeria, saying there would be “hell to pay” if Nigerian authorities do not halt what he described as the targeted killing of Christians. In a short video delivered behind a lectern bearing the presidential seal, released on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, Trump […]
When United States (US) President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform last Friday, October 31, 2025, to announce that he had redesignated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) over claims of “Christian genocide,” he kicked off a political firestorm in the country. In the post, Trump claimed that Christianity faced an […]
Nigeria has come a long way since the 2003 general election, when voter turnout reached a high of 69.1%, up from 52.3% in the 1999 elections that ushered in the current era of democratic rule. Since that record high, turnout has declined steadily: 57.4% in 2007, 53.7% in 2011, 43.6% in 2015, 34.8% in 2019, […]
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