Month: December 2025

Indigenous contractors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have accused the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, of using armed security operatives to suppress a peaceful protest over allegedly unpaid contract debts exceeding N5.2 billion. In a strongly worded statement signed by its Chairman, Benson Ehuwa, the Association of Indigenous Contractors of the FCT said it was “shocked and deeply displeased” by…

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has called for an urgent National Assembly–led investigation into allegations linking the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, to notorious bandit leaders operating in Zamfara State and the wider North-West. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi, the coalition said it was deeply troubled by what it described as “grave…

13 December 2025 Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have successfully repelled a coordinated overnight assault by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters on a Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Mairari, Borno State, killing several terrorists and forcing the rest to flee. The attack, which began late on Friday, December 12, 2025, and stretched into the early hours of Saturday, was…

A community leader from Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udeme Eyosukwa, has raised alarm over what he described as years of systematic land grabbing, police intimidation, extortion and repeated assassination attempts allegedly carried out by powerful village heads and their allies in the Ikot Abasi axis of the state. Eyosukwa, who hails from Green Sugara Fort village, accused two traditional leaders—Ememde…

The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has confirmed the mysterious disappearance of one of its cadets, Stephen Kubuma Gani, insisting that all internal procedures were followed after he went missing, even as his family says it has been left in anguish for more than seven months without clear answers. In a statement signed by the Academy’s Public Relations Officer, Major…

Bishop David Oyedepo, the presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners’ Chapel), declared on Saturday, December 13, 2025, that not even $1 billion could entice him into partisan politics. Oyedepo made the remarks during the Impartation Service of the church’s annual spiritual convocation, Shiloh 2025, held at the Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State.  He emphasised that politics is outside his God-given calling and urged…