A Nigerian mother of 4 who gave birth to a baby girl three months into her doctoral studies, including the miracle of having twin boys towards the end of her four-year lifecycle of postgraduate studies, has defied all odds by successfully defending her Ph.D. from the UK.
Delivering his homily at the opening Mass of the First Plenary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), which held at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, St. Gabriel’s Chaplaincy, on 22 February 2026, Archbishop Kaigama disclosed that “The Church in Nigeria stands not on political favour or social or public approval, but on the superabundance of God’s grace.”
Following recent legislation that introduced significant reforms—such as making manual collation the primary legal standard in Nigeria’s electoral framework ahead of the 2027 general elections—various stakeholders, including prominent religious leaders, like the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, have expressed their opposition.
When the news of the Tuesday, 3 February 2026, attacks on the Woro-Nuku communities in Kwara State by suspected Jihadists, which resulted in the death of about 200 people, broke, little did anyone know that at least 5000 of those victims were Plateau State indigenes who had migrated to the community for farming purposes.
A rowdy session erupted Thursday, 17 February 2026, during the House of Representatives deliberations on the Electoral Reform Bill, deepening the political crisis surrounding recent amendments to the electronic transmission of election results.
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has clarified that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) operates offline on election day, addressing lingering concerns about network failures during elections.
Fresh controversy has erupted over Nigeria’s electoral reforms following an emergency plenary session of the Senate on Monday, 10 February 2026, which commenced at about 12:50 p.m., amid sustained public backlash over the rejection of mandatory electronic transmission of election results.
The truth about Northern Nigeria is uncomfortable, and that is exactly why it is constantly denied. Christians are being deliberately targeted, humiliated, kidnapped, displaced, and killed, yet the same society that looks away turns around to lecture survivors about patriotism. This hypocrisy is not accidental. It is sustained by lies, propaganda, and a deliberate refusal to name ideology for what it is.
Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has come under criticism from Nigerians for publicly defending the National Assembly’s decision to remove the provision mandating electronic transmission of election results from Nigeria’s amended Electoral Act.
Moved by what they describe as prayerful reflection “on the social, economic, and moral realities confronting our nation,” the Catholic Bishops of northern Nigeria have spoken truth to power, demanding urgent steps to save lives and property in the region amid the growing killing of innocent people across the country.
