Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) on Friday accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of victimising her because she refused his sexual advances.
Akpoti-Uduaghan recently clashed with Akpabio during plenary about seating arrangements.
She has been referred to the Senate Ethics Committee for probe.
However, the Kogi lawmaker said in an interview on Arise Television’s Morning Show that her altercation with Akpabio began with his request for a sexual relationship between them.
“The Senate President made a mistake by not allowing me to speak on that Order 10,” she said.
“The Senate President has the right to allocate seats, and senators should adhere, but for a senator to invoke Order 10, it means their privileges have been trampled upon, and that can be raised anywhere at any time.
“So, once a senator shouts Order 10, even if they are being dragged on the floor, they are supposed to be heard.
Once I raised Order 10, the Senate President ought to have allowed me to speak. He could have used his discretion to move that complaint to the Ethics and Privileges Committee or overrule it, but he failed to do that. Instead, he ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove me from the chambers and prepare for my suspension.
“I did mention that in the Senate, I have been dehumanised, maligned, and all that, and I believe that this situation was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
“Many people do not know what I’m about to say, and I’m going to speak my truth while the Senate President is allowed to counter it.
“It all started on December 8, 2023, a day before my birthday and his. We were all in Akwa Ibom, and he held my hand, saying he wanted to show me around his house. My husband was walking behind us.
I noticed that he hastened his pace while still holding my hand, and then he got to a particular sitting room and said, ‘Do you like my house?’ I said, ‘Of course, sir, every room is beautiful.’ He then said, ‘Now that you are a senator, I’m going to create time for us to come and spend quality moments here—you will enjoy it.’
“When I turned to look at my husband to see if he had heard that or not, the Senate President also turned and said, ‘Let me show you my chapel as well.’
“That evening, we left his house at about 11 pm and my husband asked what the Senate President told me. I wondered whether I should tell him what the Senate President said about bringing me there to ‘have a good time’ or if I should just let it go because I knew how much my husband adored him.
“In February, I wanted to move a motion for the investigation of anti-corruption practices at Ajaokuta Steel Company. I listed that motion five times, but it was only on the sixth attempt that it was approved. Many senators can testify to that. Each time the motion was listed, he would say, ‘Senator Natasha, we can’t take this motion because the good of the Senate does not accommodate it.’
“He kept doing that, so I went to his office and said, ‘You know how important the Ajaokuta Steel Company is to me and my people. I’ve noticed that you have repeatedly stepped down this motion.’ He replied, ‘Natasha, I’m the Chief Presiding Officer of the Senate. You can enjoy a whole lot if you take care of me and make me happy.’
“At that point, I said I would pretend I didn’t hear that. He then said, ‘The ball is in your court.’ When I got home, I told my husband to speak to the Senate President to allow my motion to go through.
“You know when a student keeps failing because they refuse to sleep with a lecturer? That is exactly what I have been facing, in simple terms.
“Regarding the nightclub incident, I believe that was not a slip of the tongue. He had told me that there are a number of ways we can have fun if we travel.”
The Abia State Government, through the Ministry of Budget and Planning, has announced the commencement of the registration of all Abia citizens and other residents in the state.
According to the state government, the registration will involve the issuance of the Abia State Social Identification Number, ABSSIN, which is an important step towards building a database that will enable the state to implement more objective socio-economic planning and intervention programmes.
The Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Kingsley Anosike, disclosed this on Monday in a special government announcement. He explained that ABSSIN is a unique identity system designed to provide every Abia resident with a verifiable identity.
He added that the initiative aims to create a comprehensive database linking citizens to essential services and benefits, including social welfare programmes, healthcare services, student scholarships, and other social intervention opportunities.
“Trained enumerators will be coming to your houses, offices, shops, markets, motor parks, schools, churches, and communities to register and generate your unique ABSSIN number,” Anosike stated.
He emphasised that the registration is free of charge and is open to everyone from birth to old age. He also noted that residents can complete their registration via Abiapay.com and urged them to report anyone attempting to extort money from them during the process.
The Supreme Court, on Friday, nullified the outcome of the Local Government Elections that were held in Rivers State on October 5, 2024.
The apex court upheld an appeal that was brought before it by the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, the court vacated the November 21, 2024, judgement of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which validated the elections.
In its lead judgement that was delivered by Justice Jamilu Tukur, the Supreme Court held that there was no evidence to establish that the condition of precedents stipulated by section 150(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010, was met before the election was conducted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commissioners, RSIEC.
The Supreme Court restored an earlier verdict of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from releasing voters’ register to the RSIEC for the conduct of the LG polls.
It will be recalled that a special panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Onyekachi Otisi held that the high court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain suit against the Rivers State LG elections.
The appellate court equally faulted the trial court for barring security agencies from providing security during the elections.
According to the appellate court, section 28 of the Electoral Act does not cover elections conducted by states but only federal elections, governorship and Area Council Elections in the Federal Capital Territory.
It held that Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who had on the strength of a suit that was filed by the APC, stopped the conduct of the Rivers State LG elections, acted outside his jurisdiction.
Justice Lifu had based his judgement on the fact that the RSIEC erred by fixing date for the conduct of polls in the 23 local government areas of the state without strict compliance with relevant laws guiding such election.
Justice Lifu held that the RSIEC failed to publish the 90-day mandatory notice before it scheduled the election.
More so, he held that the update and revision of voters’ register to be used for the election ought to have been concluded before any valid date could be fixed for the polls.
Consequently, he ordered INEC not to make the certified voters’ register available to RSIEC, pending when the relevant laws were complied with.
He further barred RSIEC from accepting any voter register from INEC or using same for the purpose of the LG polls, a decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE REDUCTION IN EX-DEPOT PRICE OF PMS BY N65
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced a reduction in the ex-depot (gantry) price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly referred to as petrol, by N65.00, from N890 to N825 per litre, effective from 27th February 2025.
This strategic price adjustment is designed to provide essential relief to Nigerians in anticipation of the upcoming Ramadan season, while also supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic recovery policy by alleviating the financial burden on the Nigerian populace.
It is important to note that Dangote Petroleum Refinery has consistently lowered the prices of petrol and other refined petroleum products to the benefit of Nigerians. This marks the second price reduction of PMS in February 2025, following a previous decrease of N60.00 earlier in the month.
Additionally, in December 2024, during the yuletide period, the refinery reduced the price of PMS by N70.50, from N970 to N899.50 per litre, as part of its commitment to easing the cost of living and providing relief to Nigerians during the holiday season. This reduction has positively impacted the overall cost of living, benefiting various sectors of the economy, and has also ensured that Nigerians did not experience the perennial fuel scarcity and price hikes typically associated with the yuletide season.
Nigerians will be able to purchase the high-quality Dangote petrol at the following prices in all our partners’ retail outlets. For MRS Holdings stations, it will sell for N860 per litre in Lagos, N870 per litre in the South-West, N880 per litre in the North, and N890 per litre in the South-South and South-East respectively.
The same product will also be available at the following prices in AP (Ardova Petroleum) and Heyden stations:
N865 per litre in Lagos, N875 per litre in the South-West, N885 per litre in the North, and N895 per litre in the South-South and South-East.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery assures the public of a consistent supply of petroleum products, with sufficient reserves to meet domestic demand, as well as a surplus for export to enhance the country’s foreign exchange earnings. The company calls on marketers to support this initiative, ensuring that Nigerians remain the primary beneficiaries of this effort. This collective action will contribute to the broader economic recovery plan led by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is committed to making Nigeria self-sufficient in refined petroleum products and establishing the country as a leading oil export hub.
Popular Anambra Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Emma Obimma aka Ebube muonso is in a dog/cat relationship with his governor, Charles Soludo.
On the face of this apparently non cordial relationship are issues bordering on the security of the state. But there seems to be more to their rift that gestures at ego.
Doubtlessly, the two personalities have some elevated sense of their own importance. Soludo, a professor, a former CBN governor, a first class graduate of Economics and now a governor of a sophisticated state like Anambra has every reason to be haughty.
Ebube muonso on the other hand is a Catholic priest, very well respected if not adored by many of his congregants. His name alone, the aura of the holy spirit suggest the prowess he has been able to achieve in his vocation of proselytizing. Not a few of his admirers believe that he has the powers to pray with some efficacy, listen to both old and young confess their shadows, recommend absolution and cure different languors. The Padre himself has openly avowed that he is a servant of God who hears regularly from Him. In what language he does that is still not decipherable. But suffice it to say that political candidates aside wanting to tap from the sheer multitude he controls also troop to him to ascertain the mind of God regarding their ambition or simply for him to bless them.
Soludo was once a beneficiary of such spiritual largesse.
So, in ways big and small, the Padre has become powerful. For such a man with these multi-dimensional attributes, real or imagined, arrogance is not likely to be a rare vice in and about him.
So, when few weeks into the Soludo administration, the Padre went upon this communion with the heavens, something dastardly was revealed to him. What was that?
A bunch of blood sucking persons who looked like the Fulani had attacked the governor’s convoy and there was so much blood everywhere resulting from the massacre.
It seems upon hindsight now that Ebube muonso must have miscalculated what was to be Soludo’s response to that dream or call it prophecy. But the response did come with a mischievous and deflating bite.
Soludo simply dismissed what looked a prophecy of doom by reminding the Padre that the power that revealed it to him should as well have revealed where the potential assailants were to aid their easy capture. Keen observers strongly believe that Padre Obimma did not forgive the governor for that seeming assault on the integrity of prophecy that spewed forth from a man of God said to have the ears of God on the affairs of men.
When therefore the government allowed the security situation to slide almost to the point of bedlam and a number of priests became victims of kidnap and occasional death, the ground was set to remind the government of her insufficiency.
That job, beautifully timed was spear headed by Fr. Ebube Muonso. His torrents of criticism against the apparently poor handling of security were very well appreciated and received by the Anambra populace. The aptness of the criticism heightened the hollowness in government attempt to put up a defense or even attack the Padre.
In a twist of pleasurable coincidence, the determination by government to give insecurity a good chase matched with the crescendo of Ebube Muonso’s harangue on the Soludo administration.
Thus far it’s been a win win situation for the two very popular sons of Anambra State. What is left is usually not taught in schools namely a sense of moderation and emotional intelligence. For the Padre, the aggressive criticism which many believe helped to usher in the new security efforts should now be mellowed to enable the citizens distinguish the part of his call that is altruism, vendetta and politics.
For the governor, he must be reminded of the thoughts of a leader in our profession, Joseph Pulitzer who once said: ‘the only position a person can successfully occupy without any form of training is the position of an idiot’. While for now the Agu na eche mba security may be making some progress, the level of training of the members is still of concern. Yes, when one is down, the only place to go is up. Anambra was indeed down, so anything was better than nothing. Usually in situations where a thief is set to catch a thief, if eventually the thief is caught, what happens to the predator thief? The Bakassi experience are still fresh for good lessons on the absence of effective monitoring and supervision.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has filed a def+mation lawsuit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio over remarks allegedly made about her appearance and legislative competence.
The suit, filed at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, also names Akpabio’s aide, Mfon Patrick, as a defendant.
Akpoti-Uduaghan’s lawyer, Victor Giwa, argues that a statement published by Patrick on Facebook-insinuating that the senator focuses more on makeup and transparent outfits than legislative duties-was def+matory and d+maging to her reputation.
She is seeking a court declaration that the statement was def+matory, an injunction preventing further such publications, and A100 billion in d+mages along with N300 million in litigation costs.
This legal action follows a recent dispute in the Senate, where Akpoti-Uduaghan resisted a seat reassignment after a chamber reshuffle, leading to a cl+sh with Akpabio. The Kogi senator has since been referred to the Senate Disciplinary Committee over the incident.
The United States has released the list of countries eligible for its 2025 Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
Notably, the United Kingdom is excluded from the program but remains eligible under specific conditions. The list also does not include any African countries, such as Nigeria, Ghana, or South Africa.
While most of the VWP list remains unchanged, Romania has been newly added. The U.S. has also emphasized enhanced security checks and prioritizing countries with strong diplomatic ties and border security standards.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs, the Visa Waiver Program allows citizens of participating countries to visit the U.S. for tourism or business for up to 90 days without requiring a visa.
A coalition group known as INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA (ICAC-GEN) has written a letter to American Government appealing for intervention in the ongoing onslaught against Christian majority trapped in Nigeria . In the letter released to BVI Channel 1,the President of the Coalition- Dr. Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD, thanked President Donald Trump for the singular humane concern he has shown over time towards the plight of persecuted Christians in Nigeria and globally in general. The letter reads in full:
” Dear Rt. Hon. Marco Rubio,
DECLARE NIGERIA A CHRISTIAN MAJORITY NATION UNDER SIEGE BY A GOVERNMENT OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS IMPOSED BY PRESIDENTS BARACK OBAMA, AND JOE BIDEN
International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN) is a United States registered non-profit 501(c) advocacy group. In accordance with the mission, aims, and objectives of our organization, we wish to bring to your urgent attention our earlier protest to President Joe Biden administration through the Secretary of State Rt. Hon. Antony Blinken over the persecution of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim leaders and their jihad agents and the failure of the Government of the United States of America to accord official recognition of the situation.
The protest letter dated January 18, 2024, was in response to the decision of the United States of America to exclude Nigeria from the global list of countries where Christians are grossly persecuted. Titled, “Non-Inclusion of Nigeria among the “2023 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern” and addressed to the immediate-past Secretary of State Rt. Hon. Antony Blinken, we posited that the decision of the United States Government to exclude Nigeria from such list clearly defined the United States of America under President Joe Biden administration as an accomplice in such Genocide against Nigerian Christians. The protest letter is attached herewith as appendix one.
However, before proceeding further, we can not stop expressing our unqualified gratitude to President Donald Trump for the singular humane concern he has shown over time towards the plight of persecuted Christians in Nigeria and globally in general. A man of his words, President Trump has shown that he has both the moral capacity and undaunted political will to put the United States of America back on the track of her greatness as God’s Own Country. Indeed, much of President Trump’s Executive Orders appear to invoke 2 Chronicles Chapter 7, verse 14, which states inter alia:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
It should be recalled that President Donald Trump had in 2018 in his Oval Office confronted the then visiting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on this matter of persecution of Nigerian Christians in the following words:
“Also, we’ve had very serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed in Nigeria. We‘re going to be working on that problem very, very hard, because we can’t allow that to happen.”
President Trump was also humanely amazing for hosting in his Oval Office on July 6, 2017. Miss Joy Bukhara and Miss Lydia Pogu in the company of his enviable daughter Ivanka Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu were among the fifty Christian students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State Nigeria, who were fortunate to escape from Boko Haram captivity out of the more than two hundred Christian students kidnapped by the Islamist insurgents.
Unfortunately, this unsurpassed visionary concern of President Trump for the plight of Nigerian Christians could not be fulfilled at the time because of the evil machinations of the American Philistines and Amalekites But today, we are delighted that God has answered our prayers and restored him to his rightful position as the 47th President of the United States of America. We have the unqualified reason therefore to celebrate the Goodness of Our God Almighty through the Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ that President Donald Trump has risen again in spite of the all the evil machinations of the enemy. For us, the election of President Trump was reminiscent of the Book of Acts of the Apostles Chapter 16 verses 25 and 26, which state:
“And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. Suddenly, there was a great earthquake, so the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bands were loosed.”
Like Paul and Silas praying and singing praises under the bondage of oppressive Roman Empire, Nigerian Christians continued to pray unceasingly with praises and worship to Almighty God for the victory of President Donald Trump. We prayed right from the point he declared his interest to re-contest his stolen mandate through all the persecutions that confronted him in the manner of the Saints departed to Election Day. And like the Walls of Biblical Jericho falling before the marching Israelites, we saw the doors of oppression against Christians in Nigeria and all over the world broken open with the consequent election of President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.
We wish to inform the Rt. Hon. Secretary of State that the same old order of oppression, persecution, kidnapping, maiming and mass killing of Nigerian Christians by the roguish Nigerian Muslim leadership through their armed Bandit, Armed Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram and ISWAP still exists with unimaginable impunity. Appendix One, which was our Protest letter to your predecessor Rt. Hon Antony Blinken will reveal more on this issue of persecution and slaughtering of Christians like animals by Muslim bandits, herdsmen, and insurgents under the protection of the federal government.
It will interest the Rt. Hon. Secretary of State that since the inception of these acts of Muslim terrorism in Nigeria which involved mass killings, kidnapping for ransom, and displacement of indigenous people from their ancestral homes, no single terrorist has been brought before the court of law for trial. And since there has been no trial, there has also not been any conviction for terrorism against all the terrorists captured by government troops.
It is ridiculous that while these Islamic terrorists continue to rake havoc against Christians, the same Government that claims to be fighting them tells us that they are at the same time rehabilitating the captured terrorists, most who eventual returned to their old base of terrorism. There is, therefore, no better way to describe this program of rehabilitation of murderers than an obnoxious government policy of collaboration with the same terrorists. Why should the same terrorists not be emboldened to continue their heinous crimes against the Nigeria Christian population with unbridled impunity if it has been made clear to them that capture means freedom from prosecution for their crimes?
Coupled with the unimaginable Islamic terrorism tormenting Nigerian Christians, the present Muslim President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has dramatically turned Nigerian Christians into inconsequential minorities in a country they are numerically in majority against Muslims through alienation in political appointments. Appendix two presents the list of the high points of this alienation of Christians by the current federal government under Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Here, Christians were allotted only 7 positions and Muslims 17 positions from President Bola Tinubu, a Muslim and Vice President Kashim Shettima, a Muslim to 22 Heads ff Nigerian Security Agencies.
Furthermore, Appendix Three, which is the list of the Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, presents another stark evidence of gross discrimination against Christians, with only 15 Christians out of a total of 48 Ministers This same pattern is observed in other lower federal government agencies.
The Rt. Hon Secretary of State Sir, we wish to state that Nigeria is a Christian-majority nation supported both statistically and demographically in practical political terms. Unfortunately, this has over the years incredibly manipulated in favor of Muslims through the devious pro-Islamic policies of false population estimates without official population census and the unflinching support of the Islamic World through mandated false population estimation by Pew Research Center with the backing of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
We are therefore by the same token protesting against the United States of America State Department 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom with reference to Nigeria in which the percentage of Christian population was put at 48.1% and that of Muslims at 50%, based on the outdated 2015 Pew Research Center Report. We wish to emphasize that the stated population ratio between Christians and ☪️ Muslims has neither empirical nor accurate estimated basis.
The reasons are obvious.
First, apart from the 1951/53 National Census conducted by British Colonial administration, Nigeria, as an independent nation, has never conducted a credible national census up till this moment. The first national population census conducted by Nigeria as an independent nation was the 1962 Census, which was later canceled because of incidents of fraud. The 1963 Census, which followed shortly, was again embroiled in the same allegation of fraud leading to its rejection by Eastern and Midwestern Regions. It was, however, upheld by the Supreme Court.
The 1973 Census, which was the first to be conducted by a military government, showed that Christians were more in population in Nigeria than Muslims. It was for that reason that the Northern Muslim apex organization Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) protested against the census result and consequently compelled the Head of State General Yakubu Gowon to cancel the census result.
It was in order to perpetually cover up this fact of Christian majority that the 1991 Census conducted by the Federal Military Government of General Ibrahim Babangida excluded religious and ethnic identities, including State of origin from the enumeration forms. This exclusion was further carried forward in the 2006 National Census conducted under President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In August 2013 when the then Chairman of National Population Commission (NPC) Chief Festus Odimegwu played host to the Director General of International Organization on Migration (IOM), Ambassador William Lacy Swing, he emphatically affirmed the case of lack of accurate population figures for Nigeria. In his words:
“We do not really know our population; that is the truth of the matter because all the census ever conducted in this country ended in controversy. “We do our work, but politicians interfere, and at the end, you do not really know what population or census figures are.”
Chief Odimegwu even went further in August the same year to reconfirm the situation when he stated:
“No census has been credible in Nigeria since 1816. Even the one conducted in 2006 is not credible. I have the records and evidence produced by scholars and professors of repute; this is not my report. If the current laws are not amended, the planned 2016 census will not succeed.”
This later statement subsequently earned him his sack from the position. Alarmed, immediately after the statement, the Northern Muslim oligarchy who criminally clings to this spurious population census as the basis of their manipulation of both election results and delineation of national political constituencies sent the Governor of Kano State Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso to demand from President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Festus Odimegwu’s sack. The politically malleable Jonathan eventually caved in to their request and fired Chief Odimegwu immediately.
There is therefore no official statistics of the population ratio between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. Moreover, Nigeria is a nation where there are no official records of birth and death. So, the said 2015 Pew Research Center report on the population ratio between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is not founded on verifiable evidence.
On the other hand, the demographic picture of the Nigerian nation evidently tilts in favor of the Christian majority against Muslims. Concerning this demographic picture, even the same United States 2023 State Department Report on International Religious Freedom states inter alia concerning Nigeria:
Islam is the dominant religion in the North West and North East Regions, although significant Christian populations reside there as well. Christians and Muslims reside in approximately equal numbers in the North Central Region. Christianity is the dominant religion in the South West, including Lagos, which is also home to significant Muslim populations. In the South East Region, Christian groups, including Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists, constitute the majority. In the South South, Christians form a substantial majority.
To break down the above demographic scenario to basic understanding, we will use the religious affiliations of elected State Governors and their Deputies as the point of our comparative reference. In the present political dispensation, Christians hold the positions of elected State Governors in twenty States out of the thirty-six States of the Federation, leaving Muslims with sixteen States. Similarly, Christians occupy twenty positions of Deputy Governors out of the thirty-six States of the Federation, with Muslims again holding sixteen slots.
Baring the presence of other minority religions, when we, therefore, algebraically calculate the above ratio, we arrive at Christians, constituting 55.6 percent of Nigeria’s approximate population, while Muslims constitute 44.4 percent. This is however without prejudice to the fact that Christians constitute between twenty and sixty percent of the population of such States as Kaduna, Niger, Kebbi, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno where Muslims continue to fraudulently produce both the Governors and Deputy Governors.
For example, Kaduna State is approximately made up of sixty percent of the Christian population. Even such States as Adamawa, Gombe, Nasarawa and Kogi are made up of Christian majority population but Muslim leaders continue to manipulate themselves into the Governorship positions through election rigging and partly because of the political naivety of their Christian population.
Given the foregoing evidence which established the incontrovertible fact that Christians make up the majority population of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we humbly request a review of the official State Department classification of the Christian-Muslim population ratio as contained in the State Department 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom based on the outdated 2015 Pew Research Center Report. Against the 48.1% Christian population ratio and 50% Muslims population ratio presented by the above 2023 State Department Report, therefore, we request that the correct version should be in the following order: Christians 55.6%; Muslims 44.4%.
The Rt. Hon Secretary of State Sir, the outlandish height of Muslim impunity in rigging elections in Nigeria against Christians is not only limited to positioning their cronies in strategic judicial and executive positions that specifically deal with the rigging of elections, but included the brazen recruitment of grossly underage children between five and fifteen years to vote as adults in Presidential elections, as shown by appendix four which represents the case of Kano State.
This brazen impunity is further revealed by the jihadist tirades of the current Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Kashim Shettima in which he boasted that Islam must conquer Nigeria and that they must test the objective with the imposition of a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President on Nigerian Christians. This is contained in the attached video clip of his speech as appendix five.
We are therefore pleading with the Rt. Hon Secretary of State and our divine-inspired President Donald Trump to take a strong stance against the persecution of Nigerian Christians by the current administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Fulani Muslim jihadist allies. Indeed it will not be out place if we request the President to appoint a Special Envoy on the persecution of Nigerian Christians, given the strategic importance of Nigeria to American Africa policy and the fight against terrorism in Africa.
We make this special request bearing in mind that a Muslim President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will never work in accord with the international policy objectives of the United States of America. As the most populous African country, a pro-America Nigeria can only be properly and objectively defined by a Christian President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Respectfully Yours,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he was “ready” to resign as leader if it meant it brought peace to his country, suggesting he could swap it for NATO membership.
Asked at a press conference if he was ready to quit if it ensures peace for Ukraine, Zelensky said: “If [it guarantees] peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to resign, I am ready. I can exchange it for NATO.”
The Ukrainian president previously said his country’s army will need to double in size if NATO denies it membership to the alliance. Earlier this month, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that Kyiv joining NATO was unrealistic.
Zelensky’s comments follow an escalating spat between Zelensky and Donald Trump after the US president falsely accused Ukraine of starting the conflict. Trump later admitted “Russia attacked” but blamed predecessor Joe Biden and Zelensky for not stopping the fighting sooner.
When Zelensky hit back – accusing the US president of being in a “disinformation space” – Trump called Zelensky a “dictator,” straining ties at a pivotal moment in the conflict. US and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia last week for “exploratory” talks about how to end the war but left Kyiv to watch from afar, sparking panic from European allies.
Overnight, Russia launched a record 267 drones at Ukraine, killing at least one person, in an unprecedented attack on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s war in the country, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday.
“Every day, our people are resisting aerial terror,” Zelensky said Sunday, adding that the overnight attack was “the largest attack since Iranian drones started hitting Ukrainian cities and villages.”
“We need to do our best to bring a lasting and just peace to Ukraine. This is possible in the unity of all partners – we need the strength of all of Europe, the strength of America, the strength of everyone who wants a lasting peace,” Zelensky said on X.
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate, called the overnight attack “purely a means of intimidation, a terrorist act.”
Federal employees have been advised to disregard an email from Elon Musk demanding they submit weekly accomplishment reports.
Musk, recently appointed by former President Donald Trump to oversee government job cuts and spending, sent the email Saturday via the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
However, multiple agencies, including the FBI, FEMA, IRS, NOAA, CDC, and the Department of Energy, have instructed staff to ignore it while awaiting further guidance.
FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in an email as quoted by The Mirror US: “FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The FBI… will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. For now, please pause any responses.”
Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy reassured State Department employees: “No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their department chain of command.”
NOAA’s Rear Adm. Chad Cary stated the email “came as a surprise,” and the agency is seeking clarification. The IRS and CDC are also awaiting instructions.
Many agencies remain uncertain about how to respond, with some employees told to wait until further guidance is issued next week.
The Trump administration, on Saturday, sent a stern warning to federal government employees, demanding they detail their work accomplishments from the previous week by Monday night or risk losing their jobs.
The directive came via email sent on Saturday evening, which was backed by Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, who stated on social media platform X that failure to respond would be viewed as a resignation.
Musk’s post was preceded by President Donald Trump’s own social media post, urging more aggressive efforts to downsize and reshape the federal workforce.
“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk tweeted on Saturday. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
He added: “A large number of good responses have been received already. These are the people who should be considered for promotion,” Musk said in another X post on Sunday.
The emails sent to employees across various federal agencies, according to Reuters, included the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, request a five-point summary of accomplishments from the previous week, with a deadline of 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday.
However, questions remain about the legal basis for terminating federal workers who fail to respond to this request, as well as the implications for employees handling confidential work.
Meanwhile, the email asks employees to reply with five bullet points summarizing “what you accomplished at work last week,” and to copy their managers.
