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Attacks by armed extremists on two villages in western Nigeria have killed 162 people, one of the deadliest attacks in recent months, lawmakers said Wednesday. The villages of Wolo and Nuku in Kwara state were targeted in the attack on Tuesday night, Mohammed Omar Bio, a member of parliament who represents the area, told The Associated Press. He said the attack was carried out by the Islamic State-linked militant group Raqlawa. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Ayodeji Emmanuel Babaomo, Kwara state Red Cross secretary, said the organization was unable to reach the area where “a large number…

The City of Cape Town has said it has no immediate plans to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) traffic cameras on a large scale, despite the initial success of a pilot project using AI-powered cameras to detect drivers who commit violations such as driving without a seatbelt, using a mobile phone behind the wheel or crossing solid white lines. Following the pilot, the city sought guidance from South Africa’s top prosecutor, the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), on whether evidence collected through AI-equipped cameras is admissible and legally enforceable. “We have no plans to deploy AI traffic cameras on a…

Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior admitted he lost his cool ahead of Tuesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final second leg over what he believed was a lack of “respect” towards his Arsenal players.Sky Sports cameras captured the Blues manager getting into a heated exchange with the home side on the Emirates Stadium pitch before kick-off, accusing him of invading Chelsea’s half.Teams usually take half of the pitch each to warm up, but Rosenior unleashed a side of his character previously unseen in his time as manager and criticized the Gunners’ lack of “etiquette”.”When you warm up, you have half of yourself and…

Justice Anthony Onovo of the Enugu High Court on Thursday ordered the British government to pay £20 million each to the families of 21 coal miners killed in Enugu state by colonial masters in 1949. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the massacre took place on November 18, 1949 at Iba Valley Colliery in Enugu, then the administrative capital of the British-ruled Eastern Region of Nigeria. Miners have been protesting harsh working conditions, racial wage disparities, and unpaid wages, and have taken over mines using a “go-slow” protest technique to prevent management lockouts if their demands are not…

A large portion of Nigeria’s workforce currently works without financial records. To approach them, authorities are introducing a controversial tool: presumptive tax. Governments charge informal businesses fixed or estimated fees based on observable indicators such as the nature of the transaction, location, and size of the business, rather than audited accounts or formal records. Olufemi Olarinde, Head of Fiscal and Tax Reform Implementation at the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), said the traditional tax framework is not suitable for the informal sector. “Roadside vulcanizers, barbers and grocery stores make money and spend it without keeping track of it,” Olarinde said. “So…

WHO IS THE GENOCIDE CULPRIT IN NIGERIA? A Critical Examination of the Claim That “Muslims Are Also Killed” as a Response to the Genocide of Christians and Indigenes/Natives of NigeriabyBarr. John Apollos Maton20th December 2025INTRODUCTION: THE DANGEROUS SIMPLICITY OF FALSE BALANCEIn every conflict marked by sustained violence against a particular group, there emerges a predictable rhetorical maneuver: false equivalence. When the subject of mass killings of Christians is raised, especially in locations plagued by sectarian violence, a familiar refrain is deployed; “Muslims are also killed.” This statement is often presented not as a call for universal justice, but as a rhetorical…

ZAmina Mina. Waka, waka, hehe. By the end of this awful, bruising, deep-tissue experience of a football game, it felt as if the first 96 minutes had been staged as an extended tease for a surprisingly light-hearted final 30 seconds.Up until that point, Arsenal and Chelsea were producing the footballing equivalent of removing the scales from your eyes with a wire brush. This was a dense, gruesome kind of physical ballet. Johan Cruyff once said that the clock is never your friend in football. You’re either moving too fast or too slow. The clock didn’t seem to be running or…

Sheikh Gumi, Usman Yusuf, and the dangerous politics of sympathy for terrorism in NigeriaWritten by Nasir IM JagabaDecember 21, 2025jagabanasiru@gmail.comFor more than a decade, Nigeria has endured a relentless wave of terrorism and large-scale banditry that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, displaced millions and left entire regions in ruins. From the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok to mass murders and bombings in the Middle Belt.The vast majority of victims on the Abuja-Kaduna passenger train were unarmed civilians.The root cause of Nigeria’s tragedy is not a lack of military strength. The country has a trained military, intelligence assets, and…

The bomb that had to be dropped: America’s Christmas Day attack on a jihadist camp in Sokoto, the home of the caliphate In the early hours of December 26, 2024, when most Nigerians were asleep after Christmas festivities, the roar of precision air strikes rang out over Tangaza Local Government Area of ​​Sokoto State. For 45 minutes, from 11:45 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 25, U.S. military aircraft launched what President Donald Trump described as “a powerful and deadly strike against the remnants of ISIS terrorists in northwestern Nigeria.”The operation, which experts estimate to cost between $1 million and…

The fear of detention at ports of entry and sudden cancellation of visas have forced some Nigerians in the United States to shelve planned trips for Detty December. This was after US President Donald Trump imposed fresh travel restrictions on Nigerians. Detty December is a term in Nigeria referring to the festive season often marked with parties, concerts, family reunion, homecomings and celebrations. Detty, a Pidgin twist of ‘dirty,’ implies loose and wild fun. Findings by Saturday PUNCH indicate that Nigerians with valid US visas have cancelled their trips, worried that they may be denied re-entry or even removed upon…