Twelve persons have reportedly been killed, while three others were abducted in an attack on miners in Fan community, Barkin Ladi Local GovernmentArea of Plateau state. According to reports, the attack occurred on Tuesday at while they were engaged in mining activities. The incident also left five other miners injured. The assailants were said to have…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman The nomination of a deceased Nigerian, the late Senator Adamu Talba, as an ambassador, is not a routine administrative oversight that can be brushed aside with bureaucratic excuses. It is a glaring indictment of a system that has grown disturbingly casual with power and careless with consequence. When governance descends to…
President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Tuesday signed a new Proclamation imposing further restrictions on entry into the United States by foreign nationals from countries classified as high risk over what Washington described as serious failures in screening vetting and information sharing that threaten national security and public safety. Nigeria is among 15…
Majalisah returns with another hard-hitting political conversation examining Nigeria’s deepening security crisis and the growing distrust between citizens and the state. Hosted by Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum, this episode features Honourable Abubakar Chika Adamu—former Member of the House of Representatives, former Niger State Commissioner, and former lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic—offering one of his most uncompromising assessments…
Full text of a speech by Kingsley O. Chinda, Minority Leader, House of Representatives, at the Law Dinner of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Nyanya – Karu Branch, FCT, on Friday, December 12, 2025. It is an honour to stand before this distinguished gathering of lawyers, and my colleagues at the Bar. A law dinner…
In this powerful episode of Majalisa, host Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum sits down with political scientist Dr. Joel kemie, speaking from Portugal, to unpack the dramatic attempted coup in the Benin Republic – and what Nigeria’s “swift response” reveals about power, insecurity, and geopolitics in West Africa. On 7 December, a faction of Benin’s National Guard…
