Uchechi Okwu-Kanu has criticised her husband’s lawyers for failing to inform her about Nnamdi Kanu’s transfer to a Sokoto correctional facility, describing their behaviour as unprofessional.
The United States Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has confirmed meeting Nigeria’s National Security Adviser to address rising violence against Christians.
U.S. President Donald Trump has set a November 27 deadline for Ukraine to accept a 28-point peace plan that Kyiv says is overly favorable to Russia.
A survivor of the Yelwata massacre in Benue State emotionally recounted before the U.S. Congress how armed attackers killed her five children, intensifying scrutiny of Nigeria’s security crisis and its return to the U.S. CPC list.
US Congressman Bill Huizenga has accused the Tinubu administration of failing to act against escalating attacks on Christians in Nigeria.
The US House Subcommittee on Africa reviewed Nigeria’s redesignation as a Country of Particular Concern due to escalating attacks on Christians.
A senior US official has defended Nigeria’s designation as a Country of Particular Concern, citing rampant religious violence and failure to protect Christians.
Two Nigerians, Olumide Olorunfunmi and Emmanuel Unuigbe, have been sentenced in the United States to 30 months in prison each and ordered to pay over $4.6 million in restitution for laundering proceeds from romance scams and business email compromise schemes affecting more than 125 victims.
United States Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, has described the killings of Christians in Nigeria as a “genocide wearing the mask of chaos.”
Christians make up roughly half of Nigeria’s population, but attacks explicitly directed against them account for about 5% of total reported violent incidents.