With the U.S. administration threatening to take military action and cut aid over violence against Christians in Nigeria, researchers and rights advocates on Thursday (Nov. 20) provided a U.S. congressional panel with insights on ways forward amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

Nigeria goes by the sobriquet “Giant of Africa”, principally because of its size. But the best metaphorical description of the country

BY LEKAN OLAYIWOLA The hidden story beneath political party defections, factional chairmen, parallel conventions and court orders

Three mass kidnappings have occurred in a single week – including the abduction of more than 300 students from a Christian school – as Nigeria faces mounting calls from Washington to safeguard religious freedom.

The timing and nature of the attack placed the fate of Nigerian Christians in stark relief. On Monday, in the early hours of the morning, a group of gunmen attacked a girl’s boarding school

Donald Trump’s November 2025 threat to cut over $1 billion in US aid and hint at military intervention over an alleged “Christian genocide” in Nigeria was not diplomacy. It was a rude shock wrapped in the tattered cloak of American moral panic.

The agency urged politicians to stop spreading false information about routine administrative matters, saying Nigeria’s tax system is too important to be damaged by unnecessary controversy

When Nigerian President Bola Tinubu marked the halfway point of his four-year term on May 29, it was also an important milestone for the ruling All Progressives’ Congress, or APC. Including the two preceding terms of former President Muhammadu Buhari ...

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Sunday, November 23, raised alarm over what he described as an unprecedented wave of kidnappings, killings and institutional decay across the country,

Former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Olusegun Aganga has identified Nigeria’s leadership problem as a of lack of competent political leaders.

The U.S. cannot heal Nigeria because it has not yet healed itself. The loudest champions of freedom abroad have allowed fear and resentment to corrode freedom at home.