A coalition of 2027 governorship aspirants from the Kunav extraction of Vandeikya Local Government Area has faulted Governor Hyacinth Alia’s recent claim that there is “no religious genocide in Benue State,” describing the remark as dangerous and inconsistent with years of documented violence. Alia had at a forum on the protection of the rights of […]
Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, has reacted to comments made by United States President Donald Trump over the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Trump had asked the US Department of Defence to prepare for “possible action” in Nigeria while “warning” the Nigerian government to act swiftly to end the “killing of Christians” in the […]
Bolaji Akinyemi, former minister of foreign affairs, says the claim of Christian genocide in Nigeria is unjustified and could lead to travel restrictions on Nigerians. Akinyemi was reacting to statements by some United States officials and public figures accusing Nigeria of persecuting Christians. US senator Ted Cruz recently introduced a bill to protect “persecuted” Christians […]
Brussels – A Belgian court has for the first time found a Rwandan man guilty of acts of genocide in relation to the 1994 conflict in the central African country, the Belga news agency reports. Fabien Neretse was accused of acts of genocide and war crimes for having participated in the murder of several people […]
The Ukraine Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Valerii Aleksandruk, has urged the National Assembly to pass a resolution recognising Holodomor as genocide. The Ambassador said his government has written the executive arm of government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria’s recognition of the day. The envoy made the disclosure Saturday at the occasion of […]
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, warned that the country is at the risk of Genocide if the Federal Government fails to put an end to these killings. He also asked the Federal Government to take a decisive action to end what he describes as the ongoing ethnic cleansing in some parts of the country. Professor […]
Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has urged the United Nations (UN), Special Rapporteur on genocide to investigate what it called the alleged ethnic cleansing by herdsmen in Nigeria. The call followed allegations of a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Theophelus Yakubu Danjuma, retd, who had at the weekend told Nigerians to defend themselves against […]
The Middle Belt Forum has called on Nigeria’s government and concerned organisations to, as a matter of urgency, stop the incessant killings and the deliberate attempt to wipe out tribes in the region. The organisation in a press statement signed by its president, Bala J. Takaya and Isuwa B. Dogo, publicity secretery, said that the […]
Hundreds of Christian clerics under the auspices of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Sunday staged a peaceful protest to the Government House, Port Harcourt, demanding an end to the Southern Kaduna killings. The protesters were received at the Government House gate, Port Harcourt, by the representative of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and Chief of […]
A coalition of human rights and pro-democracy organization has alleged that there has been silent genocide in Nigeria in the last 17- year old second republic, in which about 101, 500 defenceless Nigerians were killed extra-judicially. The South East based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs) made this allegation yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra state during a briefing to mark this year’s 68th […]
Rwanda wants to know how the French government will go about releasing declassified documents relating to the 1994 genocide that left about 800,000 — mostly minority Tutsi — dead in a hundred-day massacre. Rwandan Attorney General Busingye Johnston said his government has asked its diplomatic representative in France to find out more about […]